Duracell 4 Posted October 27, 2013 Report Share Posted October 27, 2013 Okay so a lot of you will probably know the car and have seen it it on the cover of Golf+ a couple of years ago. I bought it at the start of this year from an Edition38 crew member with the intentions of keeping it how it was and showing it, but unfortunately the car wasn't half of what it was talked up to be, being a typical "show car" nice on the outside not so pretty underneath.Anyway here's a few photos since ownership at a few of the shows We have made it too this year:Coombe action day:Ultimate dubs:Players classic:Edition 38:Since owning the car I have thrown a fair old whack at it finishing bits off and spent hundreds of hours on it already, incuding re lacquering the roof, adding anniversary and R32 detailing inside, replacing anything that was damaged or missing with new parts from TPS, sorting out the all the shocking wiring, fitting Airlift V2 suspension etc etc.Anyway I was never 100% happy with the car even after doing all this "rectification" so at the end of this season I decided to go balls deep and do a full rebuild, as it's the only way I will be 100% happy with it.With show season coming to an end Firstly I removed the wheels and slapped a set of standard VR6 alloys on as it was going to be used as my daily for a couple of days.Then I started on the interior, removing all the ABC pillars, Seats, and all other Trim and panels and putting them safely in storage in the spare room, much to my old mans discust!Then a few days later all the rest came out, everything is gone apart from the Dash now, that will be out in due course too to make things easier in the coming months.With the interior almost gutted I could start prodding around the floorpan to see what tinworm we will be dealing with. Unfortunately there was a generous layer of tar sound proofing all over the rear footwells, and when building my Daily this was a key contributor to Rust, so I donned the hammer and chisel and some hours later was back to just metal!And the almost finished result, will be bare metalled soon. As you can see two of rear bungs have rotten away and will need cutting out, but the others were showing signs of surface rust so to avoid it ever happening again every one will be cut out, replaced with a repair panel and finished so you wouldn't know there was ever any there Needing a well earned break from scraping, and eager to see the condition of what lies beneath i made space in the garage and took the front end off, and started to move things about in the engine bay to get my head around it all.Then a few goodies arrived from Germany. a rather "rare" front lip and a Left RSR Hella as my set wasn't perfect. I was like a kid at Christmas opening this package! Oh and look what else has just turned up .... #becauseracecar is all I'm saying at the moment It's been a Busy few weeks for me at work, but I've been getting the hours in on the car when I can, gathering information from various sources for the build and trying to hunt down obselete parts seems to be the time killer at the moment! Last week the engine Came out leaving a rather sorry for itself Two tone engine bayAnd one very ugly and neglected 12v engine and gearbox, soon to be given a new lease of life The engine bay piled with all the oem crap That will be ditched or hidden: And then all the crap removed and given the stern finger:http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y480/aaron1492/null_zps1bed5543.jpgMild steel exhaust system on a vr6?http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y480/aaron1492/null_zps1866bfe6.jpgWith the engine on the floor and everything accounted for and boxed and labelled Up I moved onto removing the dash, heater box and steering column from the car. After removing the column I noticed the bottom half is welded to the mk3 pedal box, as it's running a mk4 column. I am going to have to fabricate a lower column mount in replacement of the pedal box because this is being ditched. Still in two minds as to fit EPAS or not.The dashboard removed and also heater box. spaghetti junction awaits behind!http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y480/aaron1492/null_zps7ef6eb76.jpghttp://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y480/aaron1492/null_zps01ed9142.jpgThen I got out the diagram for the CEL2 fuse box, working through the looms on the inside of the car labelling every one and removing which ones I will not need to tidy things up, and left what I do need in a orderly pile in the passenger footwell http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y480/aaron1492/null_zps4bbe4ae3.jpgThe old man was nagging me as he couldn't use the ramp, so we found new Temp wheels for the car and test fitted them, needs a tad more camber to tuck fully on the rear.http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y480/aaron1492/null_zps5b29ce0c.jpga few days later armed with a grinder saftey glasses and a good covering of clothing I set about de studding the engine bay, removing all the securing tabs and grinding flush. Forgot to wear ear plugs and could hear church bells for 24 hours after!http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y480/aaron1492/null_zps473056fa.jpghttp://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y480/aaron1492/null_zps60d64ba0.jpgThen I went on to removing all of the seam sealer from the joins in the engine bay, some areas had to be almost half an Inch thick! Behind the turrets was near impossible to reach, but a heat gun and long screwdriver did the trick http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y480/aaron1492/null_zps615738d5.jpggrinding disks don't last atall at over a pound each!http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y480/aaron1492/null_zps859ba9ab.jpgWith the bay making such good progress and metal sourced from friends for a rollover jig the old man and myself fabricated one up today using the original mk3 bumper support bars as we're lazy, works surprisingly well! http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y480/aaron1492/null_zpsdc433ff7.jpgPicked up some goodies from kent on Thursday too, struck a bargain with a guy that races for team hard and had a round in the BTCC this year. Just need to get my Red interior sold now! http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y480/aaron1492/null_zps963c16e0.jpg VR6Pete and Daverse 2 Link to post Share on other sites
brummy_h 4 Posted October 27, 2013 Report Share Posted October 27, 2013 keep up the hard work mate looks good what you have done so far Link to post Share on other sites
Trickygti 3 Posted October 27, 2013 Report Share Posted October 27, 2013 Good to see someone doing a proper job, these so called "show cars" are always the same, all fur coat and no knickers! Looking forward to seeing the outcome of this VR6Pete 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Poriordan 97 Posted October 27, 2013 Report Share Posted October 27, 2013 Looks good Link to post Share on other sites
VR6Pete 1,455 Posted October 27, 2013 Report Share Posted October 27, 2013 Good to see someone doing a proper job, these so called "show cars" are always the same, all fur coat and no knickers! Looking forward to seeing the outcome of thisHaha, no knickers, just the way I like em. Club Chairman Link to post Share on other sites
shawy 3 Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Excellent love the full hog projects Link to post Share on other sites
The Duke 27 Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Looks good, should be an interesting build Link to post Share on other sites
Duracell 4 Posted October 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Thanks for the positive comments guys gives me that little bit more motivation to get this one nailed to a T Link to post Share on other sites
Duracell 4 Posted October 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Not much of an update but the car is 100% stripped now to a bare shell. every wire and clip has been removed and accounted for inside and out I was going to leave the interior looms in situ but as the rear light loom has had a trailer loom hardwired into it in the past I wanted to replace it with a unbutchered version. I'm also not happy with the Splicing of the indicator stalks and clock looms, so a Kufatec clock loom will be ordered, and the stalks re wired with new sections of loom sourced from my breakers. Also all of the heater control Sections of the loom and old Mk3 plugs will be removed from the wiring loom properly, not just cut and taped up.I know this may seem pointless to some but only having what you need, and more importantly it all being tidy helps out with problem solving in future, and keeps cabin rattles down As you can see, an unsightly bunch of scotchloks on the current loom compared to my replacement item More wiring fun, mega blurry photo!Also built up my engine stand ready to slap the 12v on for some serious TLC Link to post Share on other sites
SNH 11 Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Nice to see a full write up thread dude:)I'll keep an eye on this and follow it's progress Link to post Share on other sites
Therusterman 59 Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Really like the way this is heading. Know what you mean about 'show' cars that have the nice bits hurled onto a tired shell, keep it up. Link to post Share on other sites
BADOIR 2 Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Both hands up mate , to take this car (knowing the dollar it was asking ) and totally ripping it apart, to truly make it yours has took very large balls dude. good luck with the rebuild and can,t wait to see the end product .. fair play. VR6Pete 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Duracell 4 Posted October 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 Nice to see a full write up thread dude:)I'll keep an eye on this and follow it's progressThanks Simon, glad to see your on here too SNH 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Duracell 4 Posted October 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 Really like the way this is heading. Know what you mean about 'show' cars that have the nice bits hurled onto a tired shell, keep it up.Haha you can say that again. This is the first and last time I never buy a car modified by someone else.Both hands up mate , to take this car (knowing the dollar it was asking ) and totally ripping it apart, to truly make it yours has took very large balls dude. good luck with the rebuild and can,t wait to see the end product .. fair play.Cheers mate means alot, i was pretty damn close to selling it on but as I've fitted V2 it wouldn't have seen what i would have been looking for price wise, So thought sod it lets do things properly, cut my losses and have some fun building what I hope to be a really good car, that's fun to drive, work on and take to shows Link to post Share on other sites
SNH 11 Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 Thanks Simon, glad to see your on here tooI'm everywhere dude lol, love seeing builds like this and looking at what others have done to theirs. Keep up the good work Link to post Share on other sites
c00k 435 Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 looking good buddy,fair play to you effor! you should get an eletric heat matrix as well to go with pedal box and are you deleting the rain tray aswell? Link to post Share on other sites
Duracell 4 Posted October 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 looking good buddy,fair play to you effor! you should get an eletric heat matrix as well to go with pedal box ;)and are you deleting the rain tray aswell?Heater matrix is going full stop and not being replaced, being a fair weather car I don't see any point in running a heater, all it did before was piss me off on hot days Rain tray is still undecided mate due to legality issues Link to post Share on other sites
Duracell 4 Posted October 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Being on late shifts this week I have had the mornings to work on the car, despite getting up early the time just goes too quickly, I can't see this build being competed by UD that's for sure which was what I initially hoped. nothing has seen a welder and I don't have a sprayer lined up yet haha, good things come to those who wait hey, quality doesn't come from rushing This morning I split the Gearbox from the engine, all ancillaries and brackets off the block, labelling and clippy bagging all Bolts and other bits to make my life a ton easier. The VR6 engine looks so lost on its own, its so narrow it doesn't even deserve to be called a V! Gearbox off, and relaxing on the sandy dune. Just the life for a VR:Fitted up onto the stand, this was suprisingly awkward until I realised how ass backwards my method of working was And the finished results, Bare engine with everything stripped ready for cleaning and tarting up:Less is more Link to post Share on other sites
palmer 17 Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Lookin good fella certainly a good read :-) I know how you feel about time going to quick lol :-( If u need a hand with anything at wknds or summit im fairly local to you :-) Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk Link to post Share on other sites
richierich37 236 Posted November 2, 2013 Report Share Posted November 2, 2013 Good effort dude, love how show cars have rotten floors etc, keep up the great work! Link to post Share on other sites
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