Interior and Inters - SRS 2.0 CR TDI DQ500 4-Motion Caddy Build - Part 4

Once the Chassis was done, we moved on to the interior, and got all the cage painted!

With the cage painted and all dry, on to the fiddly and time consuming interior refit! I wanted to fit as much as possible with it being my daily driver, so we cut some Touran door cards around the cage and flocked the top to match the dash. I also fitted a rear view camera on an ignition live to use as a rear view mirror. Andy Forrest does this on his Time Attack Subaru so thought I'd give it a try.
To keep the underside looking as factory as possible we used an A3 Quattro fuel tank, but had to move the filler neck (A3 fills on the drivers side, Caddy fills on the passenger) so the best option we had was to come up behind the passenger seat & fill through the side door as there was no room to take it to the original Caddy filler location.

Even though the Caddy wasn’t 100% finished (will it ever be), GTI International 2018 was upon us. This was the Caddy's 1st proper outing outer than me driving to and from work in traffic, so the idea was to get some chassis testing done before going crazy with the engine. I went out on a sighting lap in my MK2 track car and asked Chris to swap the Caddy from road to track wheels, but for some reason my brother told him to go out in it instead?

Bad idea! What we didn't know was that there was an issue with the ABS, which caused the rear wheels to lock up under hard braking, sending him straight into the gravel. Luckily no real damage was done and the 200 hours spent on the underside wasn't massively ruined either, just some scratches to the black coated parts. We fixed what we thought had caused the issue (a broken wire to the drivers rear sensor) then I took it out on the Sunday.

After 3 laps it did the same thing again, but I managed to keep it on the tarmac so it was then parked up for the rest of the day. When we got back and looked further into it, the pipes on the ABS pump had been put in the wrong positions, so now this was sorted it's been fine ever since. Thank god something so silly didn't cause lots more damage, on another track or a different corner with less runoff, things could have been a lot worse.