Day 15 ~ Clean up

  A short night for G3F building, but not really a short night in the garage . . . I spent a good deal of time with a bucket of soapy water and a rag cleaning up all the surfaces I could see and easily get to. The engine compartment was a bit nasty, the dash trough dusty, and the rest of the car needed a good wipe-down too. A few parts still need some serious degreasing, but I'll wait until I can roll it outside and hit it with some good degreaser and hose it down.
  Other than cleanup, I moved the engine mounts from front to rear and took a good look at the remaining parts I received on the pallet. Mainly the fuel cell and framework. I don't have the hardware to assemble it (nuts and bolts) unless he's reusing donor parts, but from the pictures, I don't think so. I plan to call Mr. Smith tomorrow to check on those, the shifter extension kit, and some advice on whether or not I should use VR6 front hardware (spindles, calipers, rotors) in the rear or not. From what I've seen, they're using 2.0/1.9 model front stuff as it's less beefy than the VR6 equivalent. My problem is that I have like 3 sets of VR6 spare hardware, and if we have to go with TDI, then I'm going to look into converting my TDI daily driver with a VR6 front package upgrade. That's more work than I want to get into right now, but if it's best, then that's what we're gonna do.
  It seems I've spent quite a few hours planning the next few days out. I wasn't feeling too good today, and  friend needs some help tomorrow getting his car back on the road, so we'll have to see if I can manage it all. Not posting goals this time, but I'll let y'all know if it all got done or not. Stay tuned, if all goes well, there's going to be a lot more pics to upload Saturday.