Watch out Brad!

[Dan_GTi8v]

you would cry if you saw my engine bay then 

Its not a show car though so why bother with making the engine look pretty, its an engine its supposed to be dirty 

[Wayne]

With respect all this nit picking / ocd is a little harsh the guy has after all got a R32 in a mk3 Golf. 

mate it makes no odds which engine people choose, and nobody is disrespecting the engine..

point is, theirs no harm in making everything tidy thats in the bay while its all in bits..just makes it that bit better IMO

and I FOOKING HATE ANGEL EYE HEADLIGHTS 

I am with you to a degree but it all depends on do you build a car to use or park up with the bonnet up 

You do have a point about the little details however.

[Seanl]

Fair enough with regard to the bay, but bodywork and interior are absolutely mint. Looks like it had been entered in Show and Shine comps when it had the VR in it going by the pics. I understand where your coming from though Brad, but I suppose thats why yours came in so expensive in the end as the little bits (new mounts, reservoirs, bolts, etc etc) are things that add up which not everyone takes into account when doing a build of this magnitude.

[F17BAD]

Yeah those little bits do add up, but if your gonna do a job, may swell do it all. guess many people don't think like me

wayne, built my car to be driven every day rain, shine, snow.. i use it to go to all my DJ gigs, basically everything.. and its still kept minter than a new car.. and a lot cleaner than most if all i saw at the show and shine at VW festival.. and some of those are not driven daily

[Wayne]

wayne, built my car to be driven every day rain, shine, snow.. i use it to go to all my DJ gigs, basically everything.. and its still kept minter than a new car.. and a lot cleaner than most if all i saw at the show and shine at VW festival.. and some of those are not driven daily

  I know yours is used

[F17BAD]

one of the many reasons i chose the engine i did is because it was built to be used, i do quite a fair bit of driving and the car lives outside (my swift lives in the garage) it has more power than you could ever believe, when you plant your foot it is just lethal.

All this and it is still about the same to run as my old 8v lump was surprisingly  should have converted it years ago TBH.

No point having these cars and locking them away for nobody to appreciate, everyone in the VW community likes to ridicule the MK3.. but mine and others out their (the one in this thread included) help show they can be a force to be reckoned with

[tdi_blu]

Saw this at the local meet yesterday. Absolute minter, meticulously done, with a full respray in original Dragon Green, Heated leather that was immaculate with DVD screens in headrests etc. This is the only pic though which was taken from the SWDubs website. Will have a look for a few more. Oh and its a more door too!

I think that bay looks the nutz regardless of all the bits people have pointed out and its something a little different to a 1.8t so gets my thumbs up...

[Jack3559]

Nah... Not a fan.

Chav chariot with a nice engine.

[Seanl]

Nah... Not a fan.

Chav chariot with a nice engine.

the owner is like forty years old!

[thai-wronghorse]

Nah... Not a fan.

Chav chariot with a nice engine.

I'm with you on that one mate. Not digging all that red sh!te on the engine either.