We have had some busy times lately with Showoff Imports daily job: Selling Tuning Parts. So we haven’t seen much time for the DC5 recently. But now we started again. Continue welding the cage, dismantle the rear suspension, customizing the brake kit, etc.

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Because there was nothing more to strip from the car we finally decided it was time to start fiddling with the roll cage. We started with a prefabbed full weld-in cage. You can imagine it was a giant puzzle to find out witch part goes where, but it seems like we got the hang of it after some higher level discussions. Some piping needed some adjustments but that should be no problem for our team. After two days of struggling with the pipes, shot down knees and some good burn-marks this is where we ended up.

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Taking out the engine went so smooth that we continued with all other parts on the car that were left: front suspension, steering house, wipers, doors, trunk, clutchcables, tank, rear suspension, etc…

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This saturday we took out the complete engine… Peter and Ronald started at 9.30 and about 90 minutes later the car went from 220HP to 0 HP….

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Gone with the airco and other cooling parts…

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Now let’s take that dashboard out, unplugged about 1 million cables and connectors

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We continue taking off everything we find on this DC5:

No, not what your dirty mind is thinking of, we are talking about stripping the DC5.
First the interior:

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