Author Topic: VR6_Wherry - Burgundy VR6 (Read 36661 times)

VR6_Wherry · « **Reply #1 on:** 15 July 2010, 15:30 »

Cheers JV!

Right, where do i start! been on this forum for a while now, thought i best start a project thread.

Heres my old GTi i used to have:

With the GTi sold and me looking for a VR6, i stumbled upon a cheap VR6 with slight rear damage, unfortunately it had been declared a CAT C write off. I figured i would go take a look anyways as i wanted to do a conversion into a Mk2 at some stage. Turned out the damage wasn't as bad as i first thought, Channel Island garage charges are stupidly high, this being an old car, meant it wasn't feasable for the insurance company to fix it! It was bought back and in the end, ended up in my hands. I'm hoping to restore it to it's former glorey

Any way here is when i picked her up!

Looking a little worse for wear, expansion tank look like it exploeded! I've checked it over and it's all fine now thankfully.

Alot more pics to follow!

Hope you enjoy reading it!!!

VR6_Wherry · « **Reply #2 on:** 15 July 2010, 17:40 »

Okay 1st thing i did was to give it some lows and painted the badges white!

SPAX PSX kit 60mm drop all round:

Can you see the size difference?

Sitting on it's new suspension with the badges white.

VR6_Wherry · « **Reply #3 on:** 16 July 2010, 09:40 »

The damage was behind the bumper, replaced the bumper and you couldn't really notice it. There was a slight crack where the Golf VR6 bagde was and there's about an 3mm bigger gap between the light and the boot.

Heres what it should look like:

Sorry the pictrues won't flip!!

I took the bumper off and this is the damage:

That's pretty much it apart from the slight crack above that.

VR6_Wherry · « **Reply #4 on:** 16 July 2010, 09:41 »

Next came the DIY rust repair, never done anything like this before!

Area in question:

Treated the rust and filled:

Then painted, sanded, painted and laquered:

Not a bad result if you ask me!

This is only a temp measure until i can afford to get all rust patches cut and welded up, ready for it's respray

VR6_Wherry · « **Reply #5 on:** 16 July 2010, 09:43 »

Didn't like the way the engine bay looked, quick clean later and an engine cover we have this:

Before:

After:

VR6_Wherry · « **Reply #6 on:** 16 July 2010, 09:44 »

The head unit was pants so i fitted my Sony DVD player with a flip out 7" screen

(Screen doesn't come out now automatically, you have to pull it

)

Ditched the sh!tty momo gear knob for this:

Cut down the gear shaft by about 2" with a grinder, changing gears is soo much nicer now!

VR6_Wherry · « **Reply #7 on:** 16 July 2010, 09:45 »

After doing the diy jobby on the rust i thought i would try spraying my debadged grille i had from my white GTi.

Spraying it:

On the car:

I like it with the badge on

VR6_Wherry · « **Reply #8 on:** 16 July 2010, 12:24 »

Next i decided that i didn't like the orangey in the lights and that i wanted either just clear or red! I'm going with a white and burgundy theme

New side repeaters:

New front fogs with built in tow eye blank and new indicators:

And lastly, not to everyones taste but the clear and red rear lights:

VR6_Wherry · « **Reply #9 on:** 16 July 2010, 14:23 »

Sorry for the double posting!! but i like to keep up with everything in this thread where i can keep it clean

Right not much more to add now!

My balls grew so i decided to do some more diy spraying!

Black bumpers annoyed the sh!t out of me, so i did a test to see if i could/would like a colour coded car!

I did use etch primer as i was too cheap to buy plastic primer but this is only a trial and i know it will/has started to peel and crack

Didn't like the black bumper and arch trim colour, but i liked the look and texture. So instead of going down the dearch route. I decided to give it a colour code myself

i had previously done the grille (which was the 1st thing i sprayed) and it came out okay, then i did the spoiler which also came out okay.

Bit the bullet and £50 later i had:

couple of sheets of 400 grit paper
2 1/2 cans of made up paint to match the paintwork (spot on match as well!)
2 BIG rolls of masking tape
3 whole news papers lol

Well it started off by being masked and then lightly sanded to remove any small imperfections. didn't take the trim off as this will be happening when i tackle the arch work which i'm hoping is fine!!