My 16V Scirocco is starting to have those nice sheet metal cracking
problems up front.  I have found a couple of possible solutions.  One
involving cutting part of the front sheet metal/motor mount out and
replacing it with some 10-12 gauge metal, welding nuts on the back, etc,
etc..  

The other solution, which will most likely be a good complement to the
above solution, is to design a bar that goes from the motor mount to
each of the bumper brackets/frame rails.

My question is, does anyone have specs or a model for the bar idea?  I
already have some pvc pipe to make a model, but I would rather not have
to screw around with designing one, if some else has already done it and
is willing to share

This is a really sad issue, my car engine wise (for right now) is
basically stock.  The fact that I have to worry about sheet tearing on a
car that has 112,000 miles on it is ridiculous.  This issue is really
getting to me right now, because I have to deal with it.  From various
people I talk to, Scirocco 16Vs are the biggest problem children.  If it
were a heavily modified car, I could understand, but the fact that is a
pretty much stock really makes me mad…anyway, I will stop ranting and
raving for now…