alexbmx 0 Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Ive had this old girl since 2010 and loved every minute of it but 192k later shes getting a bit tired and the tin worm is setting in so i decided i wanted a new motor, i'd been looking for a while but never found something i really liked and then i spotted this little beauty a few texts later and i was off to south wales to view her, i knew straight away i had to buy it so three days later i returned with the cash and brought it home.How she looked when i brought herAlthough it was a nice looking motor, it was too high for me so this weekend coilovers and mk4 style headlights went on and gave it another washHow it looks nowHavent had it a week yet but its soon taking shape Link to post Share on other sites
VR6Nat 9 Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Very nice any other plans? Link to post Share on other sites
bungy 2 Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Looks very straight... Link to post Share on other sites
alexbmx 0 Posted January 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 well i'll be fitting 6 branch and my exhaust if the manifold ever arrives (i ordered it december last year). and possibly new wheels when funds allow. Link to post Share on other sites
dan_a 1 Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Very nice! :-) Link to post Share on other sites
nivag27 5 Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Nice looking vr and the other one looks sweet to. What have you done with that. If you are breaking it stick the wheels on ya new one they look sweet as Link to post Share on other sites
alexbmx 0 Posted January 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 its just sitting on the drive at the minute, ive got plans to do all the work it needs and then put the turbo lump im slowly building in it for a bit of weekend fun Link to post Share on other sites
alexbmx 0 Posted February 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 spent a few hours on the car again today, it sailed through its mot on tuesday but the tester informed me that i had a cracked spring that i would need to changei think it was a little bit more than cracked lolnext job was to get rid of the rear wiperbeforeand afterafter that gave it a real good wash, went for lunch and then a ride out to take a few photo's Link to post Share on other sites
oldmandon 1 Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Thats STILL a sweet motor.......nice job Link to post Share on other sites
alexbmx 0 Posted February 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 shes in good hands mate Link to post Share on other sites
allsmiles 0 Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 some pretty sweet details there, may steal a few of these ideas hehehe Link to post Share on other sites
alexbmx 0 Posted February 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 haha go for it fella Link to post Share on other sites
allsmiles 0 Posted February 21, 2012 Report Share Posted February 21, 2012 have you got any more plans for it? Link to post Share on other sites
alexbmx 0 Posted February 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Im thinking some pressed plates next and then going to do the timing chains to be safe cause theres no history of them being done, which should be a fun job. And then some wheels eventually Link to post Share on other sites
alexbmx 0 Posted February 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 collected a u.s centre console today off one of my mates so loosely fitted it this evening just need to work out a way of securing it tomorrow as it mounts differently to the original Link to post Share on other sites
alexbmx 0 Posted January 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 well its been a long time since ive updated this thread down to one thing and another but im gonna try and keep it up to date now.Unfortunately in october I manged to get myself disqualified from driving for 12 months so its been sheeted up since then! a couple of weeks ago I talked the lorry driver at work into picking it up for me so i could get some work done whilst its off the road.collection dayAs soon as i got it back to work i set to stripping all the interior as i knew i had a few little rot issues that needed attention, once id got all the interior out this is what i found......reminded me a lot of my last mk3 (spent a lot of time welding new floor into that one)so i set about cutting all of the infected metal out and got left with thisnow it was time to weld a new piece in (welding bodywork isnt my strongest point so you'll haveo excuse the poor welds).and thats the finished article just had to underseal it after but i never took a photo.A random picture from when i was welding itI fitted some mk4 rear calipers during the week and bled them up quite a lot but the pedal still feels quite spongey, anyone got any ideas why this is or experienced it? Link to post Share on other sites
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