The car is completely naked now and looking a bit rough round the edges, Im having trouble getting hold of new floor pans to replace my holey mess, so it look like some patching may be the way forward.
Up on axel stands
After some gentle persuasion which involved the use of blow torch we managed to get the clutch plate off of the VR6 and get the engine on to the engine stand.
Started to clean the engine up and have also purchased a VR6 book so have a bit more of an idea of how the monster works.
We have also started to clean up the body panels that we have. (still on the look out for a drivers side front wing if any one has one going cheap? – colour doesnt matter).
re wings.. I think they’re about £20 new from Avenue Panels (midlands) – actually fit ok too
Avenue panels: +441933313945
hope that helps 
Rust in all the usual places have cleaned up the rear arches and cut out a couple of other really bad patches.
This had to go, (weird that the rest of the engine bay looks like new)
Cleaned up (just needs a plate welding in)
Whats the best thing to do with rusty sills (drivers side is pretty bad)?
Thanks Rob
arg don’t get me started on sills… sills and bloody engine bays is all i ever seem to get to weld/paint!
If it’s a small damaged bit repairing it might be in order but doing a couple of smaller repairs can be as much work as fitting a whole new outer sill. Looks like another call to avenue panels for a sill (£25 ish) 
I repaired the one side of the syncro, am replacing the other side completely (after seeing how much work repairing was) and have just repaired the gti sill for the MOT… drop me a mail if you want to talk sills and bays in detail: syncronauts@googlemail.com.
There’s an ace book you might want to get hold of called “How to restore classic car bodywork” – http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/026-7705230-6297208?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=classic+car+bodywork
It’s *well* worth a read – they focus on triumphs and MGs mostly so a VW should be a walk in the park compared to those rustbuckets There’s some photos of my sill repairs which might be of use here:
hope that helps
B
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Ive just been offered an imaculate Mark 2 Golf Driver for £250 so im considering buying it as a donor for body panels etc and selling off whats left.
Only problems is I dont really have the room, am I the only person that finds them self wishing they had more room to store parts and cars???
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Once you own a Syncro there is never enough room, every yes every syncro owner that I have ever met has had greatest difficulty trying to walk round in their garage/shed without falling over some VW or Syncro related part or other, in some extreem cases its difficult to close the door without moving something out of the way [
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not really feeling the driver idea –
small portable generator and an angle grinder/elec saw and you should be able to get all the bits you need at the scrappy without having a car’s skeleton to dispose of after. Just a thought