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Finally got the engine back few more bits and it can go in :-)

Boost pipes are all cut and made ready to go on not much left now :-)

I'll throw a few pics up of what has been done :-) And that is how it's sits waiting for paint :-)

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Now you mention that mate no cat but a bit of a discovery today I was driving along when I blew the gasket out on the down pipe loud as but I'm now making 16-17 psi and it's running smoothly again think I found a blocked exhaust issue

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Well ant updated in a while the shell was a gonna bent roof :-/ before forever the opportunist it gave me a chance for a more in depth engine rebuild and mod what parts I wasn't happy with also purchased a newly build gearbox with LSD etc

Updates will follow :-)

So you have the car back from insurance company?

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So the shell of the mk3 is officially a cat b write off

Soooo

I began collecting parts for my new project a mk2 vr6 turbo track car

Here's some pics

Neatly arranged bolts ahhah

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Shiny new gearbox with lsd etc

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Subframe cleaned and being put back together

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Some new callipers

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Some painting for the new colour :-)

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A living room full of car stuff lol

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And some bushes :-0

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More will follow as the build goes on

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Got my bottom end back ready for the head to be rebuilt now :-)

All oe shells bearing and seals new arp hardware re hone and balanced crank

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Also had the flywheel lightened to 5.1kg :-)

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And I got a new shell already being stripped ready for track ;-)

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Inside stripped with all the cables tidied away in trunking

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Next cylinder head and peping the shell

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