yogiontour 0 Posted November 27, 2007 Good source for a new engine. My VR6 decided to die the other day...Water streaming from somewhere with a seperate pool of oil....:( It sounds like its going to be expensive, I was just wondering whats a good price / source for a new ish VR6...Do vw still supply them? I say this as im going to need to balance this price against a rebuild..... Its all very sad :( Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dr_mat 0 Posted November 27, 2007 Good source for a new engine. My VR6 decided to die the other day...Water streaming from somewhere with a seperate pool of oil....:( It sounds like its going to be expensive, I was just wondering whats a good price / source for a new ish VR6...Do vw still supply them? I say this as im going to need to balance this price against a rebuild..... Spot the glass-half-empty person! VR6s rarely die so badly that they're written off! It just sounds like you probably blew up the oil cooler or something .. ! Iff it's *that* dead, you might be lucky on getting a complete engine from VW for a reasonable price, but it will be a rebored 2.8, the only full block 2.9s left are hugely expensive. I've heard a number of tales of woe around VW refurbed engines too, but at least the warranty on them is unbreakable (you just have to keep going back).. Other than that a VEGE refurbed engine will cost a couple of grand fitted, and a full rebuild will cost £2-3k too. TBH a lot of people are finding that the 2.8 24v transplant is a good way to go for about the same cost. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yogiontour 0 Posted November 27, 2007 I do have a habbit of being very pesamistic, I'm going to spend my lunch hour trying to find the fault...but at the moment its nothing obvious....The HG seems fine though...hmmmmness.... I would love a 24v turbo engine....it all seems very complicated though... I'll go check at lunch what the fault is before i jump the gun 8) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yogiontour 0 Posted November 27, 2007 Thank god, my engine is fine....Water in the electrics....from a leaky water pump :) Thank god! Now to find that oil leak... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigpants baby 0 Posted November 28, 2007 I do have a habbit of being very pesamistic, I'm going to spend my lunch hour trying to find the fault...but at the moment its nothing obvious....The HG seems fine though...hmmmmness.... I would love a 24v turbo engine....it all seems very complicated though... I'll go check at lunch what the fault is before i jump the gun 8) I have several 2.9 corrado vr engines,one still in the car running,so you can try bedore you buy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
