Craig's Sport quattro build

85oceanic · Post by **85oceanic** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:44 pm

Good lord that looks freakin fantastic! Makes my want to build a SQ replica in a baaaaad way.

Post by **EDIGREG** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 2:09 pm

Craig - will it be done for Carlisle? Better get to work

chaloux · Post by **chaloux** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 3:26 pm

Yeah I just saw that you registered! GET TO WORK BUDDY!!!

highlander69 · Post by **highlander69** » Sun May 05, 2013 7:41 pm

Another piece of the puzzle completed. :beer:

Just have to fnish the other side and weld them on to the car. :drive:

Cheers,

Craig

1wheelpeel · Post by **1wheelpeel** » Sun May 05, 2013 10:48 pm

Looks good Craig. How did you flange that outer contour? I wanted to build a tipping die for the bead roller but i haven't had to build anything like this yet. It looks very challenging to fabricate. Keep up the good work!

quattro87 · Post by **quattro87** » Mon May 06, 2013 1:30 am

Nice work Craig. I get tired just going through your project. I really am amazed at all the good work on some of these great project. Keep us posted.

glibobbo21 · Post by **glibobbo21** » Mon May 06, 2013 5:32 pm

Yessss

highlander69 · Post by **highlander69** » Wed May 08, 2013 8:16 am

Thanks for the kind words guys

John I don't have a tipping die for my bead roller, but I would really like one.

I basically marked out the flange area and carefully bent up the lip with vice grips and then
hammer and dollied out the rest. Turned out pretty well me thinks. This will give me a nice bonding surface
for the carbon rear quarter. I'm going to have to re-make my rockers :mad:

It turns out one of the angles is a few degrees out. I could make it work, but I wouldn't be happy with it.

Cheers,

Craig

Audiurq · Post by **Audiurq** » Sat May 11, 2013 7:49 am

Are you taking it to Carlisle?

Seriously though Craig, I like :beer:

glibobbo21 · Post by **glibobbo21** » Sat May 11, 2013 8:19 am

He towed 1/2 a 5+5 from NH to home, why not!!!???

highlander69 · Post by **highlander69** » Sat May 11, 2013 7:04 pm

glibobbo21 wrote:He towed 1/2 a 5+5 from NH to home, why not!!!???

That was a crazy trip for sure Jim

highlander69 · Post by **highlander69** » Sat May 11, 2013 7:16 pm

Finally I got around to making my rockers version 2.0

The first set turned out okay, but I wasn't happy with one off the bend angles.

I managed to get access to a really nice long sheet metal brake. This way I could bend the rockers
in one go. These are tricky buggers to get just right. Luckily I managed to get a cross section of a factory
urq rocker (thanks Mike) and changed some of the angles from vesion 1.0 and began bending away.

I'm really happy with the results, just need to get time to get them welded in. Now the carbon rear fender sits just the way I wanted it to. :drive:

A few pics.

Cheers,

Craig

highlander69 · Post by **highlander69** » Sat May 11, 2013 7:20 pm

A few more.

chaloux · Post by **chaloux** » Sat May 11, 2013 9:11 pm

wow, those look great!

highlander69 · Post by **highlander69** » Sun May 12, 2013 9:59 am

Wheel group buy getting there :drool:

9X16 Compromotives ET plus 5..............

Cheers,

Craig

PRA4WX · Post by **PRA4WX** » Sun May 12, 2013 1:32 pm

highlander69 wrote:Wheel group buy getting there

9X16 Compromotives ET plus 5..............

Cheers,

Craig

Awesome!

highlander69 · Post by **highlander69** » Tue May 14, 2013 7:21 am

ralleyquattro · Post by **ralleyquattro** » Tue May 14, 2013 7:50 am

Dibs on the first row..

1wheelpeel · Post by **1wheelpeel** » Tue May 21, 2013 10:03 pm

You know you and Martin are always welcome to my metal working tools. I'll try and finish up with them very soon so you could keep them for as long as you need. However, if you're in a rush, you can always finish my UrQ shell for me.

Like you said, there isn't much sense is us both buying all these tools. Especially since it's not something I normally need.

John

loxxrider · Post by **loxxrider** » Wed May 22, 2013 9:08 am

Some of my favorite wheels ever right there. Good seeing you guys at Carlisle! If I'm honest, I'd comment in here more, but these projects are so complicated I honestly have no idea what I'm looking at most of the time lol. I just can't wrap my mind around how you guys know what the heck to do when building these things.

jretal · Post by **jretal** » Wed May 22, 2013 9:58 am

It's a mix of creativity and mad scientist, honestly... all about trial and error and you start to get a nack for what to do in certain situations.

These crazy (scottish) canadians are a little ahead of me in the creative/mad scientistry, but that's my take

Craig, great meeting you this past weekend! Keep up the killer work my man! Look forward to seeing this at Carlisle next year

haha

highlander69 · Post by **highlander69** » Fri May 24, 2013 5:29 am

1wheelpeel wrote:You know you and Martin are always welcome to my metal working tools. I'll try and finish up with them very soon so you could keep them for as long as you need. However, if you're in a rush, you can always finish my UrQ shell for me. Like you said, there isn't much sense is us both buying all these tools. Especially since it's not something I normally need.

John

Thanks John.

Like we said before. In a group we can achieve so much more. Looking forward to your updates.

Cheers,

Craig

highlander69 · Post by **highlander69** » Fri May 24, 2013 5:34 am

loxxrider wrote::drool:

Some of my favorite wheels ever right there. Good seeing you guys at Carlisle! If I'm honest, I'd comment in here more, but these projects are so complicated I honestly have no idea what I'm looking at most of the time lol. I just can't wrap my mind around how you guys know what the heck to do when building these things.

Hey Chris,

Yes I'm super exited on getting those wheels. A big thanks to Tim Mascus on that one. Like Justin said, it just takes time and patience and alot of work. Once you have the parts in front of ,and you wrap your head around how the car was put together, it really isn't all that difficult.

It was nice talking about your 200 build. I hope we have updates soon.

Cheers,

Craig

themagellan · Post by **themagellan** » Sun May 26, 2013 10:16 am

Awesome build, and nice job lining up those rockers. They look OEM the way you have welded them back in.

Also what is the story with the wheels - do you work for a certain company? Sorry if I missed it in your thread - but I think I spied a set of TH's?!

highlander69 · Post by **highlander69** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:07 am

themagellan wrote:Awesome build, and nice job lining up those rockers. They look OEM the way you have welded them back in.

Also what is the story with the wheels - do you work for a certain company? Sorry if I missed it in your thread - but I think I spied a set of TH's?!

The wheels were a group buy from Compromotive UK. A huge thanks to Tim Maskus on that one.

Cheers,

Craig

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