damian8588

Welcome to my build thread
 
bought my vr6 from Liam Hooper in coventry,
At the time it was hard to find a 3 door dragon green vr obd2 haha, was in abit of a state....
 
150k 
calibre vintage 17"
fk street coilovers
r32 shallow sump and pickup
milltek full decat
remote hatch smoothed
smooth front bumper
clifford full closure alarm
anni indicators
m3 rear lights mk4 front lights
recaro front cloth, corrado steering wheel, suede roof lining
wierd induction kit
work in progress
 
pictures to follow
 

 
jet engine on the intake!
 

 
least it had these going for it
 

 
as i got it to mine
 

 
So the things that i found
 
Aux belt and tensioner making a supercharger noise
Front coilovers siezed and front drivers had serious camber!
Rear coilovers leaking,
Front anti roll bar missing
steering rack on its last legs
steering pump ran dry due to faulty steering rack ^
starter motor sticking
Alternator not charging
Halfrauds battery was terrible
rad Fans not working
Funny smell on the inside (should have noticed the 20 air freshners the guy had in it)
 
First thing strip the interior out and give it a wash and clean
 

 
Good thing it was a hot day because i went all out and gave the carpets a full hose down
 

 
About this time i found out it used to be a pretty sorted golf in Glen Harris's hands and also George Russell (they didnt like what happened to it haha)
 

 
I had some l.e.d rsr replicas from my old tdi so got them on as the m3 style are my pet hate. At the time i liked it, i see it was a mistake now lol i also spend 10 minutes treating the rust on the badly smoothed boot !
 

 
It was then onto the calibre vintage bbs replica's. Two had been badly sanded down with i would hate to think maybe 40 grit hah
 
I stripped both of them of the fake studs and the laquer ready for plasti dip (at the time it was a new product so wanted to try!
 

 
Literally 20 minutes and 2 cans of anthricite metallic and i had this result
 

 
This is where i didnt even think but the two i did was different side treads where as the front could have been both.
 
heres a picture from All types 2014 vw show at boddlewydden castle in wales.
My mate kept on messing with me that its rwd drift jap ? lol ok it was bad
Also fitted the fogs off my old tdi as the vr had the loom but not fitted haha
 

 
Still had the turbine intake!
 

 
Gave the engine a first valet after fitting the corrado vr6 engine cover and removing all the blue halfrauds coolant and putting lovely pink stuff in
 

 
Colour coded smooth rear bumper fitted for £40 cant complain as the standard one it had was cracked and falling off!
 

 
The old silicone hoses on the intake connected to the bonrath pipe were looking bad so while working for a online motorsport sales company i made use of the stock (for a reduced price :-))
 

 
Fitted the dash panels from the tdi real fake carbon wrap!!
also replaced the dodgey sony speakers and sterio for the tdi stuff
 

 
The inteior headliner needed something to break it up so i replaced the badly sprayed grab handles and broken black visors for white / cream from the tdi so make a two tone suede thing
 

 
 
This is a picture happy thread as i am just using my album as the story i hope your still awake lol
 
Heres my two sitting outside the tdi is the blue one that i still miss 2 years later it was a blast (floor dissapeared - t4 cov then scrapped)
white one is my mums 1.6 its a dub family
 

 
So as the weather was looking good i decided it was time to joey mod my mk4 replica headlights as i always liked the look.
 
This is the truth: i had the car for 3 weeks and didnt realize they were mk4 lights till my mate pointed it out. The glass was normal twin chamber as you can see haha oh dear
 

 
lights fitted also bought vr6 front badge from ebay due to a friend asking me is it a gti
 

 
I finally got new tyres and so put the original silver one side and gray the other
 


winning
 
After saving up i finally got the money for a power steering pump - before i knew the rack was mullered 
 

 
After a few months off the wrapping i had to do it! genuine fake sticker bomb wrap! was 12pm at the time i finished!
 

yay

 
So on the outside i didnt like the look of the plastic side strips so through a make i found some blue smooth strips and got on to painting them! halfrauds paint did the job
 


 
I had a serious problem of misfiring just all of a sudden so i had a look at the usual spark plugs leads coilpack, i went for the option of new magnecore coil leads reccomended by a few vr owners 8mm so still fit in guides! fitted them and it sorted it out woop

 
update on the interior i found a 280mm momo team wheel for £50 picked up on the way to work and wrapped after!
 

 
Now MOT time....
 
finally saved up for the steering rack. coilovers and eibach lower arbs fitted myself saved serious money
also found it was polly bushed on the front wishbone which was nice...
 

 
better than what was on it!
 
 

 
had a go at diy outside painting and it turned out ok on the boot!
 

 
found someone who would swap my calibre vintage for d90 porsche wheels and h&r stud adaptors !
 


 
While fitting new rocker gasket i had a good look around.. would look better with 268 schrick cams but meh
 

 
heres where it was at, lowered and smooth

 
big winter gap.
after winter i got a vento front forgive the corrado speedlines
 

 
Then spent money on new toyo tyres and one of the winter projects was polishing the porkas and got all black hella rear lights for it
 

 
Few last pictures before i hit the limit.
 
lowered it again out of winter mode and found a phase one grill from ireland and votex ducts for the front end
 

 
fitted cool plasma dials and heater both green glow from moman.pl

 
on show at vw nw with the club

 
3 days before vw action i decided to take the front off and change the wings i found in telford colour coded and smoothed !
 

 
At vw action i found something i have been wanting for ages (all comes to those who waits) at the auto jumble!
Eibach front strutbrace!!!
 

 
had to make a bracket for the coolant bottle as the brace wouldnt fit with the bottle in the correct place. The metal i used was from my old wings so already painted green haha
 

 
 
 
Here's where it is now and more to come
 

 
 
164k miles used daily for 1.5 years and still going strong
 
cheers guys
 
B)

Sick of let downs so I bought myself a welding kit this could be fun, going to have enough equipment to open a garage at the rate this is going!

Ok so today I am stripping and looking for rust and anything suspicious!!! Also draining off the engine removing the charger and all pipes and intercooler, going to replace the coolant system.

Your list of skills are endless, you never cease to amaze me with the work you have done on this car.

I will keep you all updated, but like I said I will pester you all at the same time for answers when I get stuck.

My personal opinion is 17's are the best wheel size. That what I and fair few others run

who would be up for a group buy of used OE wings from the USA? i have a contact over there who may be able to source them and just wanted to put some feelers out here. no idea of cost just gauging interest.
peace out.
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Where's the dislike button?!

Cheers I'll have a look.
I did look for brake disc protectors and some cam up but not for vw.

It's been a while since I done mine but if remember correctly it goes nut and washer on over the first rubber to hold it together. Then the big curved washer sits in a cup inside the car then the other rubber with smaller curved washer sits in top with a nut. Was over a year ago I could be wrong tho but that sounds about right to me.

That install looks dodgy to me....... Lol

Decided the vr is staying, just waiting on a price to get the welding done, going to sell the bmw and buy a van simples

Good to see you have changed your mind will be worth it when it's all done.

And very surprisingly no oil, fuel or exhaust leaks to sort out! Though it hasn't moved yet since having the charger, injectors, fuel pressure reg, supersprint manifold, Ecu, steering column, short shift gear linkage and cables, front 312mm brakes, braided hoses, dot5.1 fluid, plugs, leads, oil, sump, suspension top mounts, wheels and more! So quite a lot to go wrong! Fingers crossed for the first drive next week!

The sp 263 cams were originally designed for use in turbo applications. People started fitting them to naturally aspirated engines and found they were great there also. I had sp 263 cams n/a and produced 206 bhp with map. The engine felt more Torquay and revved up much quicker. Was a great mod. I have recently gone turbo and can confirm they perform excellently now also. 263's are the ones to go for.

hello guys i'm new to the forum front west Sussex iv got a k reg vr6 corrado with a few mods looking forward to speaking to some of you guys. 

I think Rados were all obd1, the early ones had distributor and the later ones had a coil pack, there may have been other minor differences but it beyond my puny knowledge if there were.
Engine code will be abv and most parts would be generic between early and late.

How about one of my customers cars.....
The genuine article as well.

I'd f**kin love a shelby mustang

You should get your own thread started. Looks good interesting that you have it all turbo'd up but so few posts have you any history of the making of it?

So this has happened over the last two weeks:
• I became a father to a beautiful baby girl
• I became the proud owner of a mk2 Golf GTi
So let's skip the baby part and get onto the part you guys want to know about, the 1991 Golf GTi.
Got a text from my pal Matt asking me if I was serious about turbo'ing the mk3, I said yeah course but can't afford to part with £4k at Stealths to do it.
He then said how about a mk2 Golf VR6 with T4 turbo for £1200.
I immediately gave him my money and asked him to get it bought. Luckily for me Matt helped with getting the car brought down etc as I was sitting in the labour ward with my wife for 26hrs so didn't have a chance to do anything lol.
Two weeks and a lot of swearing, fixing, £2k in parts and we have the following:
https://vimeo.com/124336109
That's no exhaust, no lambda sensors, no anything really connected, just enough to get it running. There is still a fair bet left to do, a lot of suspect wiring etc.
I'm going to have a shed load of stuff in the for sale section soon too as I need to make some money back on all this lol!
Hopefully have a better (faster) update for you all soon!!

Congratulations on both mate

My apologise to every one . Over the delay in dates here the secretary is being a err how do you say it oh yeah KNOB on emailing me . He assured me on Tuesday that he would email me on Friday at the latest ref dates and availability . This isn't the first time he's been like this ? Saying that every time he's like that . Once I know I will post up . My apologise again

Always wanted to do this when club GTI hold there sprint day there. Never get time off tho, is be up for it depending on when tho