My Mystic Blue MK3 VR6

[The Duke 27]

I wanted stretch but there seems to be nothing in between its all or nothing. I'm just about to buy 195/40/16 Yoko S Drives, at a pretty good price too

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[daveyboy 897]

Mine are the same profile but 17's

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[richierich37 236]

Looks good man!

[The Duke 27]

Thanks Richierich37.

 

I've Just realized I said the rims were 7.5 wide there not there 7 inch wide.

 

I started working on the VR on Saturday but had one of them days where everything didn't want to go my way so I left before smashing something and latter regretting lol. I started to spray the rims too but they looked nasty so I'm gonna get them powder coated, I can't have the rims looking rough with them being such a focal point on the car.  

[The Duke 27]

I've been chatting to Bogg Brothers and they can do the throttle bodies for me but as they've never done one before they want the car and couldn't give me to much info which is understandable. I know from other companies (these wanted to make me a manifold from a gasket even after I explained about alternator issue's) I've spoken to said to use Triumph Speed Triple throttle bodies and megasquirt and the rad to be moved down for more clearance but it's all pretty basic stuff at the moment. I've also been chatting to someone else at Ace Cafe meet and they said they can do it, which would be a lot easier as I've way of getting the car to North Yorkshire as wherever the car goes will be on a trailer but still in early talks and am hoping to get them on in February.

Also been chatting to a few more companies about getting the car wrapped and what I want done is looking to be difficult to wrap a lot of people have said there'll be issues with banding, they also suggested to wrap it blue and add the primer marks on later but from a distance it'll look good but when your close to the car it'll be noticeable and I'm not in to that. So looks like it may be getting just the one colour    

[The Duke 27]

Got a bit more work done on the Golf, sprayed the sunroof motor cover and light/sunroof switch black and fitted a black seal for the sunroof.



Wired up the amp and speakers. Tried to bolt the (Cobra) subframes in but they don't fit as the hole at the front for the pin to through isn't lower enough so looks like I'll have to drill it larger. Finally got the side moulding all on and sat right.
Hopefully Tuesday I'll get the wing and front bumper to the bodyshop and get the wheels powered coated next week to. Once there back and bolted on it'll be off to be wrapped


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Edited April 21, 2014 by Yann

[The Duke 27]

Lovely jobbly Christmas has come early at the Guevelou house!!! TT 312mm front disks and pads VR rear disks and pads mk4 rear calipers Braided brake lines Spacers Still waiting on a few more bit he he

 

Edited April 21, 2014 by Yann

[The Duke 27]

Cleaned and sprayed the mk4 rear calipers and the front calipers and fitted the braided brake lines. I would have fitted them but l like a div I forget to buy wheel bearings!!

 

 

And I've just come home and these have been delivered

 

 

Which is good timing as I pick up my wing, bumper and rims that have all been resprayed tomorrow Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Edited April 21, 2014 by Yann

[The Duke 27]

Finally got round to fitting the mk4 rear brakes

 

Disks on

 

mk4 calliper

 

I was on the understanding there a straight swop but you'll need to mk3 carriers as the mk4's are to big 

 

 

Also get the wing and front bumper back from the body shop

 

US side repeaters

 

Front wing smoothed 

 

Here's one of the rims hopefully should look good with the white cage against the blue

Edited April 21, 2014 by Yann

[The Duke 27]

Had these recently delivered 

 

 

 

I also got an insurance quote, not realizing if you've not had insurance for two years or more you lose all your no claims bonus so as you can imagine living in  South London and all mods declared I was shocked with the price and not willing to pay anything like what I was quoted. So I'm looking for a daily, something like a mk3 tdi estate to bring my insurance down and to get around as I've had no car while doing this but that'll be once I get myself straight as I was made redundant last December and have only just started working again last week. So my plans have changed AGAIN lol, as I've got a few years to keep building this. I'm thinking more of a stripped out, so just the cage (i was thinking of getting a weld in cage rather the my costum cage), seats and dash perspex windows and I want to keep with the throttle bodies but instead of bike bodies as I've mentioned before I've been looking into Jenvey's, some big cams and a few other bits but who knows as you can tell my ideas change all the time lol

[The Duke 27]

If you remember I wanted to get the car wrapped to look something like this.

 

 

I've chatted to a lot of companies and I'm not impressed with what they said, the problem being the primer marks won't come out very well if printed onto the colour something they called banding but it all went over my head to honest so they said I could lay the colour I wanted down first and have the primer marks added later but up close I think this will look rough as it'll look like I've randomly added stickers to the car, so I think it'll get resprayed it's original colour 

[The Duke 27]

As you will have read I'm wanting throttle bodies. A couple of weeks ago these popped up on a site on Facebook

As you can imagine I was like a kid in a sweet shop. I've been chatting to the company who makes them and they've been very helpful but I'm not sure I can justify the price after speaking to a friend who said I'd probably see 20 bhp extra and now I feel gutted not sure what to do with the engine now but I've got plenty time to think about it.

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[Lukey. 381]

BUT THE SOUND!!!!!

[The Duke 27]

I know, there's a video on YouTube of a VR on throttle bodies and it sounds the nuts, I'm gonna speak to the fella who's gonna build the engine and see what he says cuz I do really want to do it.

Hopefully this link works

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[lloydjenks 4]

That does sound the nuts! Would be tempted myself but I bet its a lot of £££'S for 20 bhp.

[The Duke 27]

It is ££££'s but I do want to do so might have to look at bike throttle bodies again, I've got plenty time to sort something anyway

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[The Duke 27]

After reading this pretty much all day, I'm swaying towards forced induction, it's so expensive to tune the VR and to spend a bit more I could get another 200 bhp but read the link I found it very interesting and learnt a lot from it.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?2616140

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[VR6Pete 1,455]

Steady progress mate good work

Club Chairman

[The Duke 27]

Plans have all changed again!! I'm hoping to build a track day car now, I want to have a bit more fun. So I've started to stripping the interior, the custom cage has gone along with the roof lining abc pillars and door cards and I will be looking for a weld in cage and swapping to laxen windows. Not sure what I'm going to do with tuning the engine yet but that'll be last. I wouldn't mind a bit of power so I can do the odd quarter mile run but not a stupid amount it's a mare on the track

[The Duke 27]

I haven't done much to the VR lately there's been so much going on but I have ordered or picked up some parts. Hopefully once Christmas and New Year are out the way I can get going again.

Eibach anti roll bars

R-Spec oil pressure, oil temp and water temp gauges and pod

Lockable bonnet pins

Snap off steering wheel boss

And a set of 16" steelies which will be banded to 9" all round

I've got a few more parts on order which will hopefully turn up this week. Still got to order the fibreglass wings, bonnet and sunroof blank, send the wheels away for banding, fit the TT brakes to the front, remove all the sound deadening, remove the glass and replace with perspex and loads of other little jobs oh and have it fully resprayed.

Edited November 17, 2014 by Yann

[DanChave 98]

Interested project so far dude! Keep it up

[The Duke 27]

Few more parts ordered.

Wiechers front and rear strut braces

Poly bushes next buy and this thing should be handling pretty good.

Also received my front indicators not sure if I'm going to run both or just the outer ones

I didn't go for crystal ones as I want to keep it looking more from the 90's.

US side repeaters

And a omp boss

I'm not the best at taking pics so some of these have been half inched off the internet haha.

Steelies get picked up Wednesday to be banded by Banded Wheels Essex, I'll post up some pics once I get them back.

[Bealieboy 1,625]

Are you essex based yann?

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[The Duke 27]

Na Croydon so not to far

[Bealieboy 1,625]

Na Croydon so not to far

Thats not too far then.

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