Nosmonkey 10 Posted May 27, 2012 Bought a VR6 today Got 34mpg on some pretty brisk motorway driving. Mod list is as follows - SuperSprint stainless steel exhaust rear section, cat-rear silencer section custom made by AB Motorsport - Heatwrapped 6 branch tubular manifold - Schrick 263 fast road cams - Bilstein Streetline Shocks front, Weitec rear - Uprated headlight loom - Bern HT lead set - Vibratechnics competition engine mounts - Vibratechnics fast road gearbox mounts - Aluminium "crack" water pipe fitted from Gruvin America - Mocal oil cooler w/ thermostatic sandwich plate - Crystal clear indicators - Red tinted rear lights - Lupo GTI wiper conversion - Passat rear door handles (de-locked) - De-wipered rear - Cylinder heads rebuilt with all new parts, 3 degree angle valve seats, port matched and polished inlet and exhaust ports by Stealth racing 25k miles ago at a cost of £1350 excluding new parts fitted. - Audi 17" wheels with the original Speedline centres This excludes all new OEM parts fitted to it, had around 5-6k spent on it in the last 4-5 years alone Everything works on it including the speed activated spoiler, heated leather etc. all good.Some tiny bits of bubbling and the rear arches have some rust streaking. Dad has taken it out for ANOTHER "quick spin" he's absolutely loving it! Very comfy and pretty rapid aswell. You really cannot tell this car has done 180k! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Portent 0 Posted May 27, 2012 Welcome. That looks a keeper! Welcome to an addiction that never leaves you :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KADVR6 0 Posted May 27, 2012 some nice mods there, will look very nice after some good paint correction. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nosmonkey 10 Posted May 27, 2012 Cheers guys, for some reason the bootlid looks a different colour in the photos? Weird.... As for addiction wise, my dad is a VAG nut and this was his present :D Got a Mk2 Gti 16V sitting next to the 'rado in the garage right now and i'm fixing up his old mk1 '81 golf gti, so it looks like we are already fully certified! I've got a pipercross viper induction kit I will be fitting to her though :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nosmonkey 10 Posted June 6, 2012 Been having some immobiliser problems with this. Took the dash off to find a mess of wires, they've obviously tried to fiddle with it and made it worse! Took the front shocks off and raised them about an inch as the car was riding too low and smacking the splitter at any opportunity! Gave them a quick blast of paint too. Sorted out the tracking as it was 1 degree out. Also replaced some jubilee clips in the engine bay, a few were leaking, all sorted now and car runs much better! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nosmonkey 10 Posted April 10, 2014 Been a while since this was updated but long story short apart from a radiator and a new thermostat it's needed nothing to be replaced after 15k, even manage to average 38mpg from London to Coventry (according to the MFA anyways lol). Gave the bay a quick clean after fitting the new radiator, still comes up pretty nice imo. Before After Next on the list is the paintwork, rear O/S has been blown over in the past and is closer to a mystic blue rather then moonlight blue (You can make this out below), plus there is some minor rust under the spoiler and edges of the doors so might as well get that all sorted. Will get some more pics up soon! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
