mwg
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Was out in my mates Golf with him last night. When he first got it it ran very badly and was a bit hesitant with loads of flat spots. Was quite slow too 
The heads been rebuilt and its been serviced and its like a different car.
Couple of poor pics of his new wheels...
Its got electric Recaros out of a G60. They are really comfy, they are getting retrimmed as the pattern at the moment is a bit dodgy and the drivers side bolster has torn. Had a MK3 Golf dash fitted too as the MK2 Golf dash looks crap.
After that the next thing he's going to do is to get the bottom end rebuilt and bored out to 3.0 with uprated pistons and some other goodies 
Other things to do are to fit the smoked crystal rear lights instead of just the crystal ones on there now and get the drivers side rear panel and quarter panel sprayed up as he came home one night after giving it a bit of stick put the handbrake on and went in the house. A bit later heard a smash and his car had rolled back down the road into a wall cos the rear discs must of cooled down and shrunk... bit of a pain as the rear quarter panel has been smoothed into the rear panel below the boot!
Its fairly quick as it is now. It just keeps pulling and pulling, ran out of road before it stopped pulling in 5th 
[Edited on 15-08-2006 by Matty G]
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mwg
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and the engine noise is addictive
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3CorsaMeal
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what did it cost to buy? how much he spent getting it fixed?
tell him to get it supercharged aswell 
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mwg
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He bought it like this for £1200
engine had only just been put in, wasn't running right, all the wires were untidy. but its been tidied up now with new leads, engine cover been put on etc. came with coilovers, electric Recaros wired in and working, MK3 Golf speedo, rev counter but not MK3 dash.
Think he has only spent a couple of hundred on the engine getting that sorted as his mate runs a company that specialises in tuning VW's. Porting and polishing was done for free. Polished Porsche wheels were £200 as the same mate had them lying round at his unit and wanted rid.
He wanted to Turbo it but once he's had the uprated pistons etc. done he is getting an emerald ECU and NOS instead. Its fast enough as it is IMO
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Jambo
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Dude you have some cool mates 
I like that very much
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SXi_Tim
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very nice, i love mk2s 
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mwg
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
Dude you have some cool mates
Yeah and then theres me in my 1.2 Corsa FFS  
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dannymccann
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Mk1 and 2 golf's always will be classic shapes...
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Tom
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That's cool as fuck bargain basement aswell
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jr
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My mate froms works brother has one, imprssive car, and all plug in and play conversion of you use a late mk2 GTI
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mwg
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I really like it. For me it would be fast enough as it is. I'd just get everything extremely tidy on it, have the seats retrimmed in leather and enjoy it.
But he wants more as usual 
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BYRON
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A mate has done the VR6 conversion in his Mk2 GTi, and has turbo'd it too.
He is running emerald management.
It fucking flys.
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mwg
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The lad that does all the engine work for him and runs his own tuning company has this as his demo car
hes aiming for somewhere around 500bhp once its all run in and set up
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Tom
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Thought people favoured s/c the vr6 lump?
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mwg
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Had one of them in his girlfriends old Golf
Had this engine in before the VR Turbo went in
they are nutters when it comes to VWs
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Jason Iles
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Matt get a VAG car next  you know you want to
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mwg
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I am going to have some sort of VAG of the Turbo diesel variety next 
Can't get a VR6, wouldn't be able to afford to put the petrol in with the miles I currently do
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Jason Iles
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The TDI engines are great anyways so happy days all round
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Tom
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I'm getting a vag rs4 convertible one day
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Jason Iles
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quote:
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I'm getting a vag rs4 convertible one day
Me too one day
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3CorsaMeal
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i should start taking pics of my neighbours cars, you'll wet your panties
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mwg
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does he work for an Audi dealer? sure you've said something about him bringing nice cars home before. Hide in a tree in your garden and take pics
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mwg
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£769 FC for me on a Mk3 VR6 Seems cheap 
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Dean_W
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That's so you can afford to put fuel in it.
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mwg
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