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Today's sillyness. Here you can see just how much material gets removed to build WRC front tubs and turrets. The offside shows just how little of the OEM piece is retained. New pieces placed in that accept the WRC oil cooler setup. Surface rust comes as standard. :D

Now with added ventilation. #BecauseWRC :D

Go big or go home eh lads. ;)

Nowhere near finished but the 1st door gets some epoxy and high build primer on it. Before anyone asks. It's not supposed to be smoothed to the door as that's how the S7/8 cars were. Only the S11 onwards had a blended door. Door now in battleship grey epoxy. Bloody love the flat grey...

Handmade WRC rear doors. This is how Prodrive did it and this is exactly how the real works cars are. I'll let the photos do the talking.

Cheers boys. Yes lots and lots of effort going in. ;)

Massive thanks to Damien Bradley and Steven Darley for helping me source probably one o the rarest WRC parts out there for a bugeye. Genuine Prodrive S8 Tarmac splitter/skid pan in autoclave carbon. This is the real deal and will suit the car perfectly as it fits right up to the underside of...

Wedding in under 4 months. The clever amongst you will realise that it's the ideal time to build a WRC car. It's too late in the day for her to back out now. :D

Today Dave started on the drivers side rear qtr. All made by hand to Prodrives original S8 pattern.

All functional as per WRC.

Cheers gents. Although this is literally the beginning. Keep checking back for updates. ;)

Okay, so I've been keeping this plan on the down low. I'll let the photos do the talking. Basically all genuine panels with steel rear qtrs and doors, carbon sills and kevlar wings. WRC S8 coming soon.

All sorts of odds and sods jobs being done still. Screen gusset is in progress, I think Daves still playing with the design of this. Also painstakingly spot welded in heaps of tiny little 20mm straps for all the wiring, brake lines and fuel lines. Little details like these take ages.

Yeah paint has been purchased. But you'll have to wait and see. Unfortunately wedding this year and house has halted any competition plans with it. But something in future to consider.

It's already being built to regs should I fancy detuning it for rally. It would be a Tarmac car should I ever feel that way. It will have all the right bits as far as the bodyshell is concerned. I'd need to drop turbo size quite considerably though.

Nope. It will be an ornament I'll never drive :D

Dash bar and sill tubes in.

Cheers Craig. Getting there.

WRC spares.

Exactly that Matt

Further gusset work inside. The interior fabrication is nearing completion now.

Either way works :D

570 mile round trip to see Dave at DM Motorsport today and catch up with the fabrication work on my old shed. I have to say, the photos really don't do his work justice. In the metal it looks even more bonkers than I knew it would be. Also picked up my carbon doorcards and discussed the rest of...

Dunno mate. It's done when it's done. Told Dave to do whatever it needs.

Haha. No chance of that yet Rob.

Mines a whole 3 years younger than me. I'm marrying her in September. She actually encourages me and loves the car. Hence I put a diamond on her hand haha.

It's all being painted before it comes home. It will come home a new car.

I don't care when it looks that sexy. Haha.

Here they are. S12B WRC items, and yes they're all made from one piece of metal. The most beautiful a pillar gussets you'll ever see, they wrap around the tube as well as run back and forth.

The wheels will look a lot different after a colour change. ;)