JakeP

Hi guys, Im Jake im from Swansea and Im 20.
I know its a little late to be posting here but better late than never I suppose!

I started out having a corsa as my 1st car and god alive I had about 40000 problems so moved onto a 2.0L Passat and while driving through an industrial estate near me, what sounded like thunder was a silver MK3 golf and as you've guessed it, It was a VR6 and ever since that point I fell in love and set out to get one myself, I ended up buying a shitty little dragon green VR6 with barely anything working and restored it over about a year to working order and now I'm hopefully starting a VR6 Turbo build if I can get an engine of somebody I know on Sunday
 
Nice to meet you all !
 
Heres the trouble maker that has drained my bank account
 

Hi Chaps.
 
As Mike Brewer would say ''I've got a right dilemma'.
 
There's a video of my car doing over 120, the police were involved, it was even on the radio.
 
Should I put it up on line or keep it to myself, what do you think?
 

Good read.. Awesome build mate

Hey my mothers english  And its just so far for me to go  Need one soon for my turbo build which Im keen to start getting under way"

I hope your not being racist to us English jake

Hey my mothers english  And its just so far for me to go  Need one soon for my turbo build which Im keen to start getting under way"

Thought I'd put this Group Buy together for you.
 
Lot's of knock-off's about on the market but these are genuine items, direct from SPA Turbo themselves, can be big discount's if I buy ten at least from them or a sizeable order value, so see if any of you lot are interested on any VAG engines.
 
List includes:
 
1.8/2.0 8V
1.8/2.0 16V
1.8 20V
VR6 12V
VR6 24V
1.9 TDI
2.5 20V
2.0 20V
2.5 TDI
aircooled
 
Here's how import taxes work;
 
Price of unit, plus postage then VAT and import duty - usually 5-6% to add, then it's either pick up from Manchester or postage to you.
 
So - £100 unit price, say £45 postage from Brazil to here = £145 -  x 1.26 = £182.70
 
They do say the import charges on their ebay below so take a look but you get the idea.
 
Full catalogue here and info and I was asked to tell you they will have a new top mount 20vt turbo exhaust manifold available soon similar to their new underslung if you want to pass on the word to any 20vt owners.
 
http://www.youblisher.com/p/1117744-SPA-TURBO-catalog-2015/
 
Unit price I can do if ten of each is purchased is below, I will haggle if we get numbers up and see what we can get. They do all sorts of VAG so it's not just model specific, bigger orders equal bigger discounts so pass the word.
 
All prices will be fully sorted
 
R32 Exhaust manifold - TMW32 - £110 - ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SPA-Turbo-T3-Manifold-for-VW-R32-engines-TMW32-/181809104160
 

 
VR6 12V Cast inlet mani - TIN2800 - £155 - decent discount: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SPA-Turbo-Short-intake-manifold-VR6-OBDI-TIN2800-/171851580014

 

 
VR6 12V Turbo exhaust manifold T3  TMW03 - £120 - £400+ with some UK sellers!
 
Some close ups of a customers one:
 

 

 

 

 
You get the idea, as it's from them directly, find out anyone else who's interested on any of the engines and add 'em up here! 

Welcome to my build thread
 
bought my vr6 from Liam Hooper in coventry,
At the time it was hard to find a 3 door dragon green vr obd2 haha, was in abit of a state....
 
150k 
calibre vintage 17"
fk street coilovers
r32 shallow sump and pickup
milltek full decat
remote hatch smoothed
smooth front bumper
clifford full closure alarm
anni indicators
m3 rear lights mk4 front lights
recaro front cloth, corrado steering wheel, suede roof lining
wierd induction kit
work in progress
 
pictures to follow
 

 
jet engine on the intake!
 

 
least it had these going for it
 

 
as i got it to mine
 

 
So the things that i found
 
Aux belt and tensioner making a supercharger noise
Front coilovers siezed and front drivers had serious camber!
Rear coilovers leaking,
Front anti roll bar missing
steering rack on its last legs
steering pump ran dry due to faulty steering rack ^
starter motor sticking
Alternator not charging
Halfrauds battery was terrible
rad Fans not working
Funny smell on the inside (should have noticed the 20 air freshners the guy had in it)
 
First thing strip the interior out and give it a wash and clean
 

 
Good thing it was a hot day because i went all out and gave the carpets a full hose down
 

 
About this time i found out it used to be a pretty sorted golf in Glen Harris's hands and also George Russell (they didnt like what happened to it haha)
 

 
I had some l.e.d rsr replicas from my old tdi so got them on as the m3 style are my pet hate. At the time i liked it, i see it was a mistake now lol i also spend 10 minutes treating the rust on the badly smoothed boot !
 

 
It was then onto the calibre vintage bbs replica's. Two had been badly sanded down with i would hate to think maybe 40 grit hah
 
I stripped both of them of the fake studs and the laquer ready for plasti dip (at the time it was a new product so wanted to try!
 

 
Literally 20 minutes and 2 cans of anthricite metallic and i had this result
 

 
This is where i didnt even think but the two i did was different side treads where as the front could have been both.
 
heres a picture from All types 2014 vw show at boddlewydden castle in wales.
My mate kept on messing with me that its rwd drift jap ? lol ok it was bad
Also fitted the fogs off my old tdi as the vr had the loom but not fitted haha
 

 
Still had the turbine intake!
 

 
Gave the engine a first valet after fitting the corrado vr6 engine cover and removing all the blue halfrauds coolant and putting lovely pink stuff in
 

 
Colour coded smooth rear bumper fitted for £40 cant complain as the standard one it had was cracked and falling off!
 

 
The old silicone hoses on the intake connected to the bonrath pipe were looking bad so while working for a online motorsport sales company i made use of the stock (for a reduced price :-))
 

 
Fitted the dash panels from the tdi real fake carbon wrap!!
also replaced the dodgey sony speakers and sterio for the tdi stuff
 

 
The inteior headliner needed something to break it up so i replaced the badly sprayed grab handles and broken black visors for white / cream from the tdi so make a two tone suede thing
 

 
 
This is a picture happy thread as i am just using my album as the story i hope your still awake lol
 
Heres my two sitting outside the tdi is the blue one that i still miss 2 years later it was a blast (floor dissapeared - t4 cov then scrapped)
white one is my mums 1.6 its a dub family
 

 
So as the weather was looking good i decided it was time to joey mod my mk4 replica headlights as i always liked the look.
 
This is the truth: i had the car for 3 weeks and didnt realize they were mk4 lights till my mate pointed it out. The glass was normal twin chamber as you can see haha oh dear
 

 
lights fitted also bought vr6 front badge from ebay due to a friend asking me is it a gti
 

 
I finally got new tyres and so put the original silver one side and gray the other
 


winning
 
After saving up i finally got the money for a power steering pump - before i knew the rack was mullered 
 

 
After a few months off the wrapping i had to do it! genuine fake sticker bomb wrap! was 12pm at the time i finished!
 

yay

 
So on the outside i didnt like the look of the plastic side strips so through a make i found some blue smooth strips and got on to painting them! halfrauds paint did the job
 


 
I had a serious problem of misfiring just all of a sudden so i had a look at the usual spark plugs leads coilpack, i went for the option of new magnecore coil leads reccomended by a few vr owners 8mm so still fit in guides! fitted them and it sorted it out woop

 
update on the interior i found a 280mm momo team wheel for £50 picked up on the way to work and wrapped after!
 

 
Now MOT time....
 
finally saved up for the steering rack. coilovers and eibach lower arbs fitted myself saved serious money
also found it was polly bushed on the front wishbone which was nice...
 

 
better than what was on it!
 
 

 
had a go at diy outside painting and it turned out ok on the boot!
 

 
found someone who would swap my calibre vintage for d90 porsche wheels and h&r stud adaptors !
 


 
While fitting new rocker gasket i had a good look around.. would look better with 268 schrick cams but meh
 

 
heres where it was at, lowered and smooth

 
big winter gap.
after winter i got a vento front forgive the corrado speedlines
 

 
Then spent money on new toyo tyres and one of the winter projects was polishing the porkas and got all black hella rear lights for it
 

 
Few last pictures before i hit the limit.
 
lowered it again out of winter mode and found a phase one grill from ireland and votex ducts for the front end
 

 
fitted cool plasma dials and heater both green glow from moman.pl

 
on show at vw nw with the club

 
3 days before vw action i decided to take the front off and change the wings i found in telford colour coded and smoothed !
 

 
At vw action i found something i have been wanting for ages (all comes to those who waits) at the auto jumble!
Eibach front strutbrace!!!
 

 
had to make a bracket for the coolant bottle as the brace wouldnt fit with the bottle in the correct place. The metal i used was from my old wings so already painted green haha
 

 
 
 
Here's where it is now and more to come
 

 
 
164k miles used daily for 1.5 years and still going strong
 
cheers guys
 
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Wow! That's a seriously nice looking VR6 ! Nice work pal.

Is the Garret gt3582r good ? I was following one of the turbo builds on a corrado and he upgraded to that and said it was brilliant, Thank you for any info and advice as I am obviously a newbie but looking to try and get my head around everything I can !

They're the Same wings fella, only difference is square or oval side repeater holes.
Just don't buy cabriolet ones!

And I know how it feels bealie, I told the missus I'd pick her up at half 7 , I was still looking for this god damn screw at half 8 she wasn't too pleased at the least

Well, Ive fitted 2 patterned wings, right and left and the right one is perfect, the left one has a slight gap between the bonnet but that's all, other than that they went on easy , which surprised me!