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Hi all, i thought it was high time i shared my G60 build with you . This car is now completed so the thread updates aren't in real time so its a copy and paste exercise for the most part but i will try to keep to thread updated in the future . Thanks for reading . Okay so back in 2020 i already had a G60 in black as a project bought on a bit of a whim and which needed quite a bit of work ! Always on the hunt for parts for it i had bought a few random parts off a uk ebay seller , by chance i spotted in one of his pictures the faintest outline of a what looked like a fairly complete car in red. enquired what the story with it and i turned out that this was the car he was breaking the parts for sale off !! Turns out he had owned the car since 2001 and had embarked on a semi refresh of the underside of the car not long after purchasing it ,the usual jobs ,subframe ,rear beam ,wishbones blasted and powdercoated ,new supsension etc. only it seems like he had bitten off more than he could chew ,along with a very small workspace ( see below )it just seemed to have gotten the better of him and he lost interest in it . Years later he starting selling of bits of the car gradually on ebay where i came across him. He was willing to sell off the remains of the car so a deal was done , i bought the whole lot sight unseen ,i was taking a bit of a chance on it but the cost of the new spare parts that came with it alone was worth the asking price.

So bringing this thread up to date here is the car as more or less is at present. ITs fully legal now and ended up being only 214 euro VRT due to being over 30 years old .Result!! I've also got these VW Sebring 16" wheels made by Bstar for that oem+ look .Have got around to fitting them as of yet !

I generally like my cars oem or oem plus ,at least visually but one thing i had to improve on was the intercooler setup.The oe system is pretty poor and barely adequate for a standard engine . They mounted the small IC behind the ps bumper in front of the wheel arch and plumbed it up with a convoluted series of narrow bore piping so the chances of lowering the intake temperatures are pretty slim and the number of pipes and joints makes it difficult to have a non leaking setup. I wanted a front mount IC on the car but didn't want to go hacking and chopping bits out of the slam panel and move the battery away to the boot .Frontal space is minimal on these due to the odd position of the rad in relation the slam panel . I ended up steping back the rad off the crossmember on the DS to gain more clearance of an IC . I also got rid of the original rad fan as the motor on there are massive and replaced it with a Spal fan that fitted perfectly on the fan housing . After much trial and error, buying intercoolers the didn't fit properly etc ,mocking up ,making brackets /remaking brackets i ended up with this ! [url= With front slam panel fitted ,very happy with the way it turned out and i didn't have to fettle and of the slam panel with the grinder! (almost lol) i also installed a setrab remote oil cooler with AN fittings and hoses and got rid of the factory water cooled setup . These G60,s run very hot so this is a must have mod .

Front Crossmember built up with powerflex bushes Got a set of H+R ARB,s 23mm front +25mm rear. I had these on a previous mk2 golf gti and loved them ! Fitted on the front The koni dampers and springs came with the car but needed to be built up with new bumpstops and top mounts

So as I said I already had this complete black G60 ,in fairness it was quite a ropey old thing that needed extensive work in every dept , had at least two poor resprays in its life , got a major repair to the rear quarter at some stage with was also poorly repaired and significant rust had set in , Main engine pulley bolt had loosened and damaged the crank nose and key way so a engine strip down was required , indeed I had already pulled the engine and box and was in the process of rebuilding it when I obtained the red one ..

Hi. No problem, better late than never 😉. So this car tinkering time you speak of, do you have enough to share around ? Looking forward to more updates 🫡

been really slack on the corrado lately , picked up a boot lid to refurb over the winter and almost lost the will with sanding them damn alloys! got a few done and looks pretty damn good! still need to finish them off but im in no rush, in the mean time iv had an itch for a mk4 golf v6 4motion for ages and finally brought one last weekend, already getting stuck in and getting the crap done out the way! have a couple of electrical issues to sort which is lighting up the traction control light despite that there lovely to drive! very smooth and quiet, with the standard exhaust upon start up you can hear the VR pur and accelerating its just a refined quiet vr noise but very subtle!

Sounds like you've a sticky piston. Maybe the handbrake adjustment ? Worth checking them all.