Passion's MK3 VR6

[PassionGarage]

So my Bora blew up and i needed a new car and thought id go backwards rather than find something new.
Nick and James had recently bought a mk3 cl and done a vr6 manual swap on it and i thought id grab it off them for a good price

So here is the mod list and a future mod list ( i will do a check list and add things and remove things as i get new parts and that )

Body
- Vr6 Tail lights
- Hella Dual Headlights
- Hella Clear front fogs and indicators ( we found them in japan )

Future Body
- New close door Respray in same colour - MK3 hot chilli red
- Voomeran Wide Body Flares/ Front lip/ Wing straight from Japan
- Votex Side Skirts
- Pop out rear windows if possible
- Rear USDM Tailgate
- Hella Clear twilights
- Rear Euro Votex Valance
- Painted Rub Strips
- Clear Front Quarter Indicators
- Small Mirrors
- Bonrath mono Wiper

Engine
- AAA - 12v VR6 / recently Rebuilt
- VR6 5speed box
- Full Magnaflow exhaust

Future Engine
- Turbo - GT2860R
- Cams
- highflow fuel pump
- all supporting mods for the turbo kit

Suspension
- Koni Coilovers

future suspension
- KW Coilovers
- sway bars
- Strut braces front and rear

Interior
- Stock standard

Future Interior
- MK4 bora seats or Recaro buckets
- Short shifter
- boost gauges
- digital Dash
- Cage
- whole rear false floor with back seat delete

Wheels and Tires
- 4x100 Some type of race wheels got no idea what the brand is
- semi slicks

Future Wheels and Tires
- TSW venoms 17x8 4x100
- RPF1's 16x8
and well wheels will always come and go no matter what so that'll always be changing

there is some things im probably missing but yea

on with the photos


When James first bought it




How it sits today



















So hopefully i will try to update this every time i do something new

Anyone heading down for VITS i will hopefully bring the golf down

[PassionGarage]

wow so a lot has happened in almost 8 months, and i completely forgot i had a thread for this car

so here we go


so i went to its and met up with some pretty rad people

Mk3 by brad edwards, on Flickr




anyways Fitted Friday came around ( farking terrible ) so good ol raymond let me borrow some wheels for the event i ended up liking them so much i bought them off him with his help and now i have a set of BBS RM001's in original 4x100
but before then the boys test fitted nicks RS's on the golf and it looked awesome !!!

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Specs follow - BBS RM001 4x100 15x8.5" +0 on the fronts and 15x9"-6 on the rears, so they poke a bit but nothing that cant be fixed some rear camber shims and front camber plates


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i also picked up a genuine heckeblnde, which really looks awesome and blends really well with the vr6 tails and the colour of the car


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So life goes on


then my oil pressure light comes on and then my motor goes boom....



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as you can see the sump never cracked it just pushed up so far that it bent and shattered the oil pick up !!






so i put a new sump and oil pick up on for testing purposes


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so after replacing the oil pick up and realising the bearings are defiantly gone i strip the motor and find that my bearings were completley cooked



so i started to rebuild the motor
lots of time and money
and i rebuilt it all my hand all by myself ( perks of being a mechanic I'm able to use my skills haha ) it was my first ever motor build so I'm pretty proud for how it turned out
and it runs as well haha runs really well !!


so I'm back to work on the 15th of jan 2018 and ill be able to finish off a few things then VDUBBN.3 will be back on the road


So during the motor build

i got a spare block and head off stu
i ended up using the crank from the spare block and all the pistons from the spare block as well

all new piston rings
all new main bearings
all new big end bearings
all the new main cap bolts
all new Piston cap bolts
all new headbolts
I stayed with the standard mk3 head gasket as i was getting pinging with the mk4 one installed originally
brand new water pump
brand new oil pump

Brand new timing chains and guides

lots of other stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting


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and so after all of that i was able to turn the key and she runs !!

so not long now til I'm ripping around in it again

So as the story goes on I'm going to be Repainting the BBS White

i also was able to pick myself up a very very nice BBS Steering wheel for the low price of $450 haha and a boss kit off ray again ( bloody legend )

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the BBS should be able make the interior look a bit nicer as well and will replace my bora steering wheel
I've also got a new shift knob GTI golf Ball haha

[DUTCHswift]

None of those photos work.

[Benwalsh91]

pissed! must have taken a while to write that last post for all the photos to not work.

[PassionGarage]

fuaaark are you kidding me !!!

on my computer i can see all the photos !!!

[jotemha]

unfortunately not

[Benjaholic]

I was intrigued, so I google searched for your thread on vwwatercooled.com

Here's the link if anybody wants to look,

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/f47/passion-garage-mk3-coupe-118147-2.html

Loving the way this is going. SUBBED

[PassionGarage]

Update - all photos fixed
update coming shortly

[PassionGarage]

so since i last updated this thread a lot has happened

until i have some good time to put more effort into this thread here is what i have for you

i am now the proud owner of the first EuroMagic/Voomeran Car in Australia and the first "widebody" ( fender flares same s h i t who gives a f u c k )

( CLICK ON VIDEO TO WATCH ME CHOPPING GAURDS )

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The car/body kit is far from being done there is still lots to do !!

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Fitment still isn't dialled in haha

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i have 225/50/15 tires coming tomorrow that are being fitted to my now white BBS RM001's

lots an lots more as well, i will keep this thread updated more and more as i will have some more spare time these days !!

[hinrichs]

Cant wait to see more pics, love that color on the mk3.

[PassionGarage]

Cant wait to see more pics, love that color on the mk3.

Thanks mate, she's coming together, will hopefully respray this thing in a few months, same colour with some gold fleck to give it that extra pop

[Back_in_Black]

VR6 Golf 3 are just the best.
Keep up the work. Can't wait to see the fitment

[jotemha]

Please go real low <3

Nice choice of color - I'm really curious how it looks when its finished!
Also liked your other cars!

[PassionGarage]

VR6 Golf 3 are just the best.
Keep up the work. Can't wait to see the fitment

yea its been an awesome car/ starting its life as a 1.8L auto owned by a grandma since new, then to what it is today, a VR6 Built and swapped wide body beast haha

Please go real low <3

Nice choice of color - I'm really curious how it looks when its finished!
Also liked your other cars!

Unfortunately i miss judged my tire sizes and i will only be able to go so low without tires rubbing very bad on the guards without lots and lots of work.
knowing me i will find a way to still get great fitment for the look I'm aiming for, i can reassure you this car is going to have a few stages of the build, I'm pushing it for time as I'm trying to get stage 1 of the build finished before friday as i have to drive it 6 hours south of Sydney to the Victorian Border for its first show of the year.

thank you also for mentioning my old car, i wish the motor had never gone in that one too but i am grateful for the opportunity it gave me to buy the golf and what not/ i still have my old car sitting out the back of my workshop with a new motor, just need the time to put the other motor in now haha

[PassionGarage]

i will do my best to try and update this every night this week as i come close to finishing the 1 stage of this build !!