golf gt 0 Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 had my mk1 for a few years now, tinkered with everything on it and is now pretty much complete bar the interior! its had a full respray with a few sneaky body mods, 13x9 powertech wheels with 195/45's on, every sort of uprated/renewed suspension component and over a year ago i dropped in a polo 6n 16v lump on gsxr carbs with full stainless exhaust, last year was mainly spent tweeking it and i joined some of you lot at santa pod the other week getting a 14.7 1/4 mile all went well until on the way to vw action 12,000 rpm did this....haha, now fitted with a rev limiter, and 10,000 rpm rev counter which it regularly fills cabby progress to followCheersChris Link to post Share on other sites
cabrioman 6 Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 well done mate .... thats a nice valve lol Link to post Share on other sites
Dave Lea 4 Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 b good to see u in the vr soon mate Link to post Share on other sites
golf gt 0 Posted March 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 had this as a winter smoker for abit... TD power now owned my mk2vrdreamer and even lower! Link to post Share on other sites
golf gt 0 Posted March 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 then droped on a mint black 1.8 8v cabrio not to far from here, it had a snapped cambelt so i collected it on the recovery truck from work and stuck a new belt on it... sorted, well kind of until i left it running with the fan unplugged (due to some previous pikey wiring!) and cooked the head gasket, i liked driving the car and after hearing a few at pod the vr had to be done!after some head scratching i worked out it was best to buy a full car so i bought a complete (with spares!) vento vr6 with black leathers, smoothed bodywork, full system and 6 branch in stainless and new coilovers drove it to work on friday and at 6 me and liam set about stripping in of every last nut and boltsaturday we droped the engine out the vento and finished off the shell with some artistic mods with a sledge hammer and contractors paint the airbags were carefully desposed of with a rocket ship style launch!then the serious graft began, removing the axles and engine from the cabrio, changing the pedal box over, wiring, clutch hydrolics and fitting the all important vr6 running gear after 25 hours of work it was back on its wheels with everything ready to go bar the immobiser wiring... luckily jimson had a fresh clear head, some wiring diagrams and a car to compare, after a couple of hours it fired up first flick of the key Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Seabrook 4 Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 the mk1 looks very, very nice mate and I am sure the cabby will follow suit that looks like the infamous rat look mk3 behind the passat there ?? Link to post Share on other sites
Bobtrude 0 Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 Nice! Link to post Share on other sites
sivdubgti 0 Posted August 19, 2013 Report Share Posted August 19, 2013 Looks good you still got this Link to post Share on other sites
VR6Pete 1,455 Posted August 19, 2013 Report Share Posted August 19, 2013 Updates needed Link to post Share on other sites
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