So that's how you create a short wheelbase quattro

I'd never reaslised quite how the more vertical screen pillars were done, but reading this eBay auction, it says

It's a cut/shut job, big style, and I'm guessing this 2-door is a 2-door Audi 80 front end, like this...



, plus the usual quattro back end? Anyone know any different?

Pic from auction:

 

The Dialnyx ones were a normal Coupe with about 10 inches taken out weren't they?

 

For a step by step guide click here.

 

Ah, but that one is just a shortened Quattro (a huge project in itself). The screen rake is wrong still, as the SWB version has more vertical screen and the doors are different.

The one on eBay is presumably the correct method? But I've never seen it.

 

It says he has to ask his mother before he sells it yet hes been told to sell it so he says at the start

 

yes chris, i have a few friends who have shorty's, two of them are dialynx shortened coupe's one is a shortened coupe of unknown origin they all have the shallow screen rake, and then Roger Galvins genuine Audi Sport.

I know a guy up north that is building one, using the front of a 2 door audi 80 (imported from germany) and the rear of a coupe quattro, this gives the correct screen rake

 

there is a polish company or somewhere out there company that will build you one if you supply the two cars and engine, just cant find the link..

the panels can be had from Ker Innovatec in germany, Dialynx also have a supply

 

when i worked at dialynx i helped make one, it was a coupe that had 30 cm removed from the cars roof and floor and so on, this was done just behind the doors then joddled(sp) edges for welding up and sealent, and an audi 80 screen and a pillars to create the correct screen angle was an option.

 

The guys at MAT who rebuilt/restoerd the ex Hannu Mikkola Quattro had to buy a spare road going UR to rob parts from.

http://www.mat.fi/n_index.php?nav=gallery_view&gallery=project1983audiquattroa2.xml&g=13

 

My bad

Amazing fabrication/welding skills all the same.

 

seen that before, just look at the state of the sills, cracked floors just a mess! looks stunning when its complete!

 

Awesome projects, I love the SWB.

And I've been in a real one, at full chat, up a rather long hill. So there.

 

Cheers fella, thats my car............

 

those MAT guys are great, love the paint and grain on teh Model A wheels

 

the SWB is a funny looking car, that said the looks are growing on me. i like this one tho!



Seen in PVW recently, will have a new home soon


EDIT: I know it has the wrong screen rake but its still cool!

 

Cheers fella. The SWB quattro will far outshine the Rallye! Hoping for cica 600bhp. It would be rude not to with the work thats in the shell!

 

dont the shorties have a smaller wheelbase than a metro or something silly?

 

yeah something like that, the problem the rally cars had was the turning circle was ****! some drivers had to 3 point turn them on road sections instead of chucking them around a hairpin

 

More down to a locked 4WD system without handbrake release for the rear drive?