Progress: VW Rallyegolf

[alpina]

An update, finally. I did lots of work on the body to get it right. I started the mods on the bumpers. I could have bought me a set of fat golf bumpers, but thet would have to be modded to the fujimi body and rallye model, and shipping them costs a fortune, so i'm taking the original ones from the kit and modify those with styrene sheet an putty.
Further, doing some work on the chassis, where the rear axle and drive shafts will be. I also shortened the floor plate at the front and extended it at the back, so there will be room for the exhaust and fuel pump from the revell golf.

And yes, after a very long time of waiting patiently, I recieved a resin copy of the G60 engine from Revell's Corrado in the mail today along with a set of wheels.
I immedeatly started cleaning up the parts and did a mock up to see how it will look like.

















Please let me know what you think!

[bigfrit]

I think this will be one of the most anticipated threads for me now, I love the modifying, and although it doesn't show (your work is excellently clean) there is really a lot of modifying going on.

Superb subject, and good that you have the balls to go fully detail!

Olivier

[Orion37170]

oh yeah...
great work so far!
Julian told me about this and i was very kind.... still am i so i will follow this thread

[MkIIboi]

Nice work so far. I love this car already. Keep up the work

[aN4rK1]

Woah nice stuff there. Should be awesome. Btw, a treverse mounted transmission with with AWD? i dont think ive ever seen this in real life or if its even possible? Are you going to me fixing that?

[MidMazar]

looking good i wanna see this one done, one thing i would do is extend the hood so it goes over the headlights and grill a little bit.

[alpina]

Originally Posted by MidMazar

...one thing i would do is extend the hood so it goes over the headlights and grill a little bit.

NO!, this one will be as it came right from the factory, so no weird lips, spoilers and exhausts, i'm gonna make it as original as possible.

[Wheelin75r]

Oh man, I would kill for that Ralley-kit!! Keep it commin' !!

[alpina]

Yesterday was Queen's day. I was going to celebrate that in Amsterdam , but the trip was cancelled, so now i could do some more work on the engine.

I glued the parts together and painted them. Next thing is plumbing the intercooler, cooling and oillines from copper electicity wire. also te intercooler itself needed to be made.
















And for aN4rK1 a pic of how the syncro system works. It's not a particular pic of the Rallye, but that doesn't matter:

[DasWiesel]

Nice progress here!
Makes me a bit proud to see my copies as a part of your project. I see you did some nice improvements on the engine, are you satisfied with the parts? I even didn´t get a mail from you, that you recieved them

What about the VR6 exhaust? Are you going to use it?

[alpina]

Hey Julian, sorry fot not sending you an email, i think i was just a bit enthoustiastic so i forgot to say thanks.
The VR6 exhaust looks great, ithink i'm going to use the rear silencer with the endtips.

About the improvements on the engine: there was no cambelt or a drive belt for the G lader, so i took it from my revell mk2 donor and modified it a bit. It looks alright to me, but there's still no drive for the alternator, and i think i have to make a tensioner for it as well.

[swollen]

Its coming along very nicely.

[Corradog60]

I sure love to make one for myself. But how did you do the body? Resin?

[CplHicks]

Thread revival.
Hey this is looking good there. This has got to be one of my all time favourite cars. Wheres the Rallye kit from mate?