Ph1 Diablo D-turbo - Being Broken Up!

[Flynn]

Well some more updates and yet another fix done today. despite thinking i had found a 306 with decent arches it turns out that that wasnt the case. when i first got the car despite getting my hand into the arches i started cleaning the inside up to find rust coloured water marks near the boot floor. at this point i knew full well what was the problem. so i investigated to discover this



Doesnt look that bad phewwwwww
So took it up to Ripps place for him to work his magic thinking it wont be a huge problem. Then he got his hammer out...... :o



Ooppps that whole area wasnt very good! So Ripp marked out the areas to remove and i got cutting with the grinder to leave it looking like this



So Ripp made a new plate up out of stainless made it to have bends where original creases were and this was the finished result



His freind tugged on the seat fixing point and revealed the it was very thin rotten around that area so this was rectified too with the plate just below it.

Nice work by Rippthrough there. Now you want to get a wheel arch liner off a GTi or S16 and fit it. It will need trimming a bit but that is easily done with a Stanley knife to mark it and then cut with a hacksaw.

I don't think that tiny intercooler will provide much more cooling than the topmount, however.