Mk3 VR6 - The d!ck bonnet vr - broke my sump virginity

[Seanl]

Bloody hell! Least its all sorted now though bud. 

[leigh_harty]

Bloody hell! Least its all sorted now though bud. 

Oh it gets worse before it gets better 

[leigh_harty]

Some more updating.... 

After i rebuilt the head more than i wanted too  it was back on the road, drove better than before... but it still smoked 

Drove around like this for about 2weeks until i started to lose my mid range, and pretty quickly too, a compression test soon soon comfirmed my suspicions - i should have done this to begin with but hey ho you live and learn.

Soooooooo time to strip again and this time alittle deeper



After i had everything apart, gave the bores a rough down, new rings into place i was ready to re-install... Soon learnt that a standard ring compressor wont work with the vr, the block face is angled different from the bored (hence the V) and broke a ring.... managed to get 2 pistons in by finger  and was painfully tedius and hurt alot, soon broke more this way.

Gave up in a mood and literally threw everything in the boot in an anger rage, was in a garage sunday so had to be towed home. And it stood for a fortnight engine emptied and looking sorry for itself 

[leigh_harty]

Sadly i also learnt that each piston and cap have to be matched perfectly 

In the fortnight it was abandonned i got a set of Mahle rings from germany £60 cheaper than i got some from the UK

This is when i purchased every set of bottom end bearings - crank and rod, oil pump and pick up and other bits and bobs

Got a vr ring compressor of a mate at Awesome

Got some Mr Muscle on the pistons and and spent some good hours on them



After working out which cap goes with which piston (choose wrong and crank would lock up when tightened)

Thankfully runs like a dream - over 200k but a near enough rebuilt engine and i can say i did it. Engine will outlast the car so it will either be in a mk2 or i really want a vento vr so who knows... but for now i just continue to kick its head in 

[leigh_harty]

Since then its been buffed by myself



colour coded joey headlights (thanks to mr wherry for this one  )



Drove home from inters with a sausage on my car



Got my drooping scorpion box lifted by getting a custom mid box delete  all i have now is a backbox haha

from this:



to this:

[leigh_harty]

In the last couple of weeks ive had to ditch the vr splitter because its just too close to the floor, broke 2 genuines and dont get me started on the fakes, so im currently running a passat duckbill which has given me the clearence i need - sits higher than a cl splitter!! and i can still scrape it on a daily basis  no pics of this yet, lost all my pics of my iphone and have a galaxy s3 now

And a set of these caught my eye down in the clasified's and roughly 10miles from mine down a dual carriage way so was easy to pick up 




and that brings me to today... after having the bonnet key'd im thinking of buying a spray gun and oing matt red/burgundy

[F17BAD]

really like this car and the decent updates (not just crap like "look at my new sticker" etc )

[leigh_harty]

really like this car and the decent updates (not just crap like "look at my new sticker" etc )

Thank you   

I dont do stickers fortunately, also there is nothing left to fix: and it will never scrub up like yours 

I think it's paint time next, chuck some rims on and play with the engine

[SoundillusioN]

really like this car and the decent updates (not just crap like "look at my new sticker" etc )

Have to mirror this... Great work, especially love the sausage! 

[VR6_Wherry]

Love this thread, take out the good bits (Engine build) and it looks just like mine!

Lights (Front and rear), wheels, backbox.. it all seems familiar!