Originally posted by JamesB@Jan 11 2006, 09:51 AM
Ok, well at my school I rolled over the scales and came out 80lbs under min weight. Given that I am actually doing well at loosing my holiday weight and possibly a little more, I am preparing to mount ballast per the ITCS. So here is what I am looking to find out. per ITCS the ballast has to be mounted in the passanger footwell in front of the seat mount and before the bend to the firewall. Now reinforcment of this area is allowed if I interpet this correctly.

So the car is an 87 VW gti in ITB, its the original floorpan with a small patch for rush repair near the kick panel. Would your do any reinforcement of this area before mounting the weight? If so what would you suggest is the proper amount of legal reinforcement.
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Hopefully Kirk or Bill (or insert VW expert) but I would suggest the following:

REPAIR the rust spot by the kickpanel. Do this using factory repair methods. I would think that you would want to place your ballast as far back as possible - so that would be snug up against your forward seat mount. Some like to also snug up against the tranny tunnel to minimize pendulum-type effects.

Reinforce as needed.

AB