golf vr6 track toy

lolek · Post by **lolek** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:01 pm

Well here goes chaps and chapesses, a little project a mate and myself have been working on. Having decided that i really enjoy doing track days i decided that it would be best to dedicate my car to it, but thought it was worth too much so a friend and my self went halfs on a golf vr6

. Though when i went to look at it the engine had a bad knock to it

though the body work was good and a few nice parts on it we decided to take a chance.
When we got it back we had a good look round and found it had coilovers, poly bushed wishbones, remus catback exhaust, 2.9 inlet manifold and throttle body been told its been chipped but no proof, and i believe the rear arm my be poly bushed aswell, but as for the engine we hoped it was the head/lifters that were faulty but after giving it a service and changing them it didnt help so i droped the sump and oil pump and started checking the shells only to find it had spun one :? having priced up the cost of repairing it we decided to replace the engine. So with a hunt round (good ole ebay) we found one, I've changed the chain guides and checked the clutch, ive also striped out the inside of the car (which becomes addictive) its just waiting for a weekend to change the engines over. with any luck it will be at marham on the sunday

the 2 shells squashed together

will try and get more pics up soon[/img]

Post by **Stuart** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:16 pm

Keep it up (both the updates and the work for Marham)

Ian200sx · Post by **Ian200sx** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:11 pm

You can't really see from the pic but it had spun a shell into its other half, so only was on half a shell. Didn't really knock to much. All good fun stuff as I've not done much on fwd cars so everything's in the wrong place. :lol: Loleks done most of the work so fare........ then I fix it

Will make a good track toy. Will need some tips on weight saving.

steveVR6 · Post by **steveVR6** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:08 pm

Good luck guys, hopefully see you all at Marham

Ian200sx · Post by **Ian200sx** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:46 pm

:-D

AdrianP · Post by **AdrianP** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:26 pm

I'm not to technically minded but I think there might be something missing :-k

Sounds like it will be a good project

Ady

lolek · Post by **lolek** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:55 pm

managed to resize the pic, yesterday ian came round and took the engine out and dropped the other one in, today I managed to wire up and plump in the new one, thankfully i had one to copy as ive never done this before and when you've got 2 of the same wire it doesnt help matters :? any way i turned the key and it fired up

Ian200sx · Post by **Ian200sx** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:21 pm

The old wheels were audi some things and didn't clear anything, no idea why they were on.

Bargin new 17's with ok tyres and a tart

And the new engine, which works!!! :-D :-D :-D

good old english weather helped today :roll:

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:30 pm

Great progress Ian, I bet you two can't wait to get that finished.

lolek · Post by **lolek** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:30 pm

really lookng forward to getting this on the track, managed to have a drive of it around my uncles farm and its noticable lighter and runs well, got the harnesses in now and just got to get the brakes sorted. :?