Managed to get a few hours out the garage today so cracked on with the front crossmember and trying to mount the RS16i aluminium cross member section.
If anyone out there with an S1 RST wants to loose a few kg's from the car, get an RS1600i front set up, the differnce in weight is unreal.

Here's the pics,

Mk3 cross member


modified to suit the front panel better and so that i could move the member forward as far as possible


offered up in place and tacked inplace



with the RS cross member bolted on





I left the end of the original cross member that connects to the inner wing inplace and seemed around it to add strenght



To add some more strenght to the corner i fitted a triangle section of the original cross member


after that i was left with a horrible gap between the inner leg and the front panel that look shit, so i add a section to it to tidy it up, plus it should add strenght at the same time






Well i'm well chuffed so far, plus with the cross member that far forward if i do decide to boot mount the rad i can fit my ProAlloy RS500 intercooler in the front