bennyk

Hi all been a member of the club for a couple weeks now and have realised I haven't posted anything about my vr6 build, so here goes!
 
I've bought a 1997 mk3 golf vr6 for £550 so a bit of a bargain, when the shell is pretty solid apart from a couple rust patches, however it came with next to no interior a set of bucket seats rear brace and some sparco harnesses! 
 
So as you can imagine for someone who has never owned a VW before it was a bit of a daunting task but I like a challenge! 
 
So when getting the car I knew very little about it more off a punt if you like 19 year old car with 120k on the clock with no paperwork..... great! So here comes the guess work! From what I've been told the fuel pump has been tweaked to allow more fuel to flow however don't know if the pump has actually been changed. It revs very hard and flys through the gears making me think maybe some uprated/high-rise cams maybe? If this is the case I can probably assume it's had a remap as well. It's pretty lively! The car has been lowered on coilovers with some 16" bbs alloys and had a home spray job in army green! The exhaust has been made into a side outlet and is loud straight through pipe, I haven't looked closely enough to see if the manifold is standard or not and if it's been de-catted. It's loud! 
 
So onto what I've managed to do so far, I've ripped out the bucket seats and the harnesses sourced a full interior (seats, plastics, seatbelts front and rear and even a headliner allbeit without the sunroof cut out out but I'm sure I can make it work! ?) A new central locking pump and extra door looms (present ones had been snipped ?) got all that for £60 and a couple hours work down at the scrappies. 
Ive also decided to go for a front big brake upgrade so on the way i have got 312mm carriers and callipers painted red with kinetix grooved and dotted discs, HEL braided hoses (all 6 gotta help out the rears as well! ) and to finish it off brembo brake pads. So I got all this however thought I'd better concentrate on the inside before anything else! 
I took one look at the interior and got to admit I thought to myself what have I got myself into! Like I said the bucket seats and harnesses came out and I've fitted two normal seats, had to do a bit of fettling to get them in as the rails had been a bit chewed from previous owner fitting the bucket seats "/. Finally two seats in secured and ready to rock! Then go in the front seatbelts, all sorted and fully functioning! Not gunna lie I was quite proud of myself as I was crapping it trying not to set off the airbag inertia bar whilst fitting! So now I can drive it even if it is a shell! Now onto the central locking and electric windows. So previous owner thought it more than acceptable to snip the whole loom at drivers side rear door so that got pulled out and replaced from the one I pulled from the scrappies, I then plumbed in the central locking vacuum pipes along with the pump fitted in the boot and connected it all up and BOOM success! However I've managed to snap the connection for the vacuum chamber inside the door so got to come up with a repair for that! But I'm happy in knowing it all works! Here comes the slightly embarrassing part I got the electric windows all connected up and ready to go put the ignition on try the switch....nothing.... change the switch......still nothing......change the switch a third time..... still nothing! I'm about to burst at this point! The brother in law comes over and I explain to him and he laughs presses the window lock button on the centre console guess what starts working -.- I'm not living that one down for a while! ??
Next job was then to look at the floor below the rear seats the two grommet holes were badly rusted so had to chop all that out with a grinder felt a bit sketchy being so close to the fuel tank but hey I'm still here writing this so all good! Made some square plates with 23mm holes in the middle, welded down and grommets and cables refitted nice and snug and no rust! Going to treat the metal and spray with shutz to protect. On doing this I've notice for whatever bizarre reason the front seat mount has been grinded completely out and also the rear seat mounts, now I'm started to think the guy before was a complete imbisile!! He hasn't even treated the metal so there starting to get surface rust which I've sanded away now and I'm going to find a way of either fabricating my own front and rear mounts for the seats on find a donor car and grind the same portion out and weld back into the vr6! Pissed off isn't the word! The final bit that I've done is removed a makeshift metal plate with two switches attached the switches controlled a high power LED internal light which I've adapted the original light to hold and works a treat, and the other switch is for a second fan that is fitted to the car. Those switches have been relocated next to the OBD port where they fit nicely pull what remaining cables are behind there and find that unnecessarily again previous owner has chopped the whole loom for the radio! By this point I want to find the guy and just ask why lol and maybe several other things! Sourced a loom from an original mk3 head unit and re-wired the whole loom and hey presto I now have a working radio and a tidy looking centre console! Well that's what I've managed to do in about a weeks worth of work I need to take more pictures but and upload more but here is some for now and i shall endouver to carry on and share with you guys my progress!
 
hope you liked what you've read and any tips you can give me would be much appreciated! 
 
Many thanks 
 
Aaron

Clean up and larger injector time

New member to the forum here! Here's the last picture I took of my vr...

Tucked up in the new garage!!

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This weeks errr progress or more me tinkering I suppose I've decided to revert back to the original bumpers so I can fit the full Votex kit as the rear bumper doesn't fit US bumpers at all and the front doesn't fit properly as shown on the previous page, so I thought that I'd have a play with the plate recess on the front bumper to match my shortened rear one.@donnyboy kindly donated his old front bumper for me to cut bits out of, so I could try the following;
Trimmed about;
Holes cut into bumper, no going back at this point;
All hot stapled and plastic welded in;
A skim of filler and some primer;
I then trimmed up the rear bumper to fit the Votex rear skirt;
Then for the first time since painting the car nearly 3 years ago I ordered some of the exact paint the car was painted in and put a coat over the 2 bumpers that I'll hopefully get fitted over the weekend if I get a spare hour or 2!

Hi mate welcome to the club! Definitely the best mk5 R32 colour that!!

This weeks errr progress or more me tinkering I suppose I've decided to revert back to the original bumpers so I can fit the full Votex kit as the rear bumper doesn't fit US bumpers at all and the front doesn't fit properly as shown on the previous page, so I thought that I'd have a play with the plate recess on the front bumper to match my shortened rear one.@donnyboy kindly donated his old front bumper for me to cut bits out of, so I could try the following;
Trimmed about;
Holes cut into bumper, no going back at this point;
All hot stapled and plastic welded in;
A skim of filler and some primer;
I then trimmed up the rear bumper to fit the Votex rear skirt;
Then for the first time since painting the car nearly 3 years ago I ordered some of the exact paint the car was painted in and put a coat over the 2 bumpers that I'll hopefully get fitted over the weekend if I get a spare hour or 2!

Hey all, new member to this forum but I've been a member on the R32oc for around a year and a half since I got my mk5 R32. Here's a pic.

I was surprised as well, got an agreed value on it obviously, it may help that one of their office's is a the bottom of my road though!

Looks good this mate. Can I ask where have you run your air lines for the 4 corners?

I'm with HIC really good with mods, mines about £300 with all mods, (which is a lot!) declared but I am old now at 34

I'm with HIC really good with mods, mines about £300 with all mods, (which is a lot!) declared but I am old now at 34

Hi, just purchased a supercharged vr6 mk2 - im 20. Can anybody recommend an insurer worth trying?
 
Here's a pic of the car to introduce myself 

So due to having a 1 year old further progress has been slow and I can't completely leave the car alone or say that's it's finished as that just doesn't happen with me! I did manage to turn this;Into this though; Hopefully my little one will now make it to a couple of shows with me next year in his own car!emoji16]
So back to the main subject I managed to acquire a Votex body kit from Wayne as part of the deal with the Mystic blue VR6 I sold him a little while back, so I now plan to fit the full kit next year along with a set of Euro bumpers with a couple of little bits I want to do to them, here's a few pics; The kit will be finished in a textured black finish to give it a factoryish look Had to do a couple of repairs to the kit;
Also managed to get these from Christian Wolf over in Germany Super rare smoked ZKW long fogs . Also bought a Porsche Boxster front calliper set up to fit 312mm discs for a good price off of Ebay Decided to paint them black as I have quite a bit of red already! Then confuse people by letting them think I've fitted TT RS or S3 calipers to a Mk3 Also got the side skirts removed ready for the Votex ones to go on,
Not liking the non side skirt look!
And apart from pulling my interior apart to fit a DAB Alpine head unit and roof aerial that's about it for now!

So due to having a 1 year old further progress has been slow and I can't completely leave the car alone or say that's it's finished as that just doesn't happen with me! I did manage to turn this;Into this though; Hopefully my little one will now make it to a couple of shows with me next year in his own car!emoji16]
So back to the main subject I managed to acquire a Votex body kit from Wayne as part of the deal with the Mystic blue VR6 I sold him a little while back, so I now plan to fit the full kit next year along with a set of Euro bumpers with a couple of little bits I want to do to them, here's a few pics; The kit will be finished in a textured black finish to give it a factoryish look Had to do a couple of repairs to the kit;
Also managed to get these from Christian Wolf over in Germany Super rare smoked ZKW long fogs . Also bought a Porsche Boxster front calliper set up to fit 312mm discs for a good price off of Ebay Decided to paint them black as I have quite a bit of red already! Then confuse people by letting them think I've fitted TT RS or S3 calipers to a Mk3 Also got the side skirts removed ready for the Votex ones to go on,
Not liking the non side skirt look!
And apart from pulling my interior apart to fit a DAB Alpine head unit and roof aerial that's about it for now!

Hopefully that's the plan! now with the extra power it should be a lot more fun!

Ok thanks 

You're probably better off starting a new thread mate, I'm sure someone on here should be able to help you

I'd go for it if we could get a group buy at that rate, otherwise it is ridiculous postage money for us.

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Welcome to the club and VR ownership! No better noise out there!! Oh apart from a Supercharged VR6 . You got anything else planned for it?

Hi all, 
 
Picked up a mk2 vr6 this week as a show car build for next year. 
My first vr6 and first classic car. Loving it so far. 
 
Car has already had some pretty extensive work but quite a lot I'll be changing for myself. 
 
Spec is,
 
'91 Mk2 Golf GTI 
VR6 Swap
Ported+Polished Head
Cams (unsure of spec as of yet)
Raceland manifold
BMC intake 
Shaved Bay
Straight Through exhaust 
 
Half show cage
Bassmechanix boot build 
Genesis Amps
Rockford fosgate sub
 
Few issues with some electric gremlins but other than that it's a solid fun car. 
First mod so far is some lovely BBS Ra's
Some serious plans in the work for this one, I'll get round to a build thread at some point