mike.gamble
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HI,
Although not an owner yet, I should hopefully be if things pan out in the next week or so.
I have my eye on a S3 Safari needing love which will hopefully come to fruition.
I'll apologise now to the purists but, it's my intention to 'modernise' is to make it 100% usable as a daily hack with a modern engine/drive-train/suspension.
Basically the plan is to get a 300tdi to scrounge all the mechanicals from and any other parts needed.
At the end, the ideal is to have a vehicle that looks completely standard but with a more modern-ish heart.
In an ideal world, it would be a 300tdi engine, auto box and the leaf springs gone. The auto box is only to have a lazy drive and if the consensus is that the autobox available is naff, I'll go manual.
With regards to the suspension, is it easy enough to remove the leaf springs and mount the coil suspension set-up. I must also mention that fabrication is not a problem, even if it needs to be bespoke, that is no issue but, are there any issues I should be aware of with a project like this and if possible, could someone direct me in the direction of relevant topics/threads, please?
Cheers,
Mike
Although not an owner yet, I should hopefully be if things pan out in the next week or so.
I have my eye on a S3 Safari needing love which will hopefully come to fruition.
I'll apologise now to the purists but, it's my intention to 'modernise' is to make it 100% usable as a daily hack with a modern engine/drive-train/suspension.
Basically the plan is to get a 300tdi to scrounge all the mechanicals from and any other parts needed.
At the end, the ideal is to have a vehicle that looks completely standard but with a more modern-ish heart.
In an ideal world, it would be a 300tdi engine, auto box and the leaf springs gone. The auto box is only to have a lazy drive and if the consensus is that the autobox available is naff, I'll go manual.
With regards to the suspension, is it easy enough to remove the leaf springs and mount the coil suspension set-up. I must also mention that fabrication is not a problem, even if it needs to be bespoke, that is no issue but, are there any issues I should be aware of with a project like this and if possible, could someone direct me in the direction of relevant topics/threads, please?
Cheers,
Mike