R32 Turbo on Carsales

[JVLR32]

for a bloody start turbo of, exhaust gone...get it back where it need to be!....stick to N/A and run decent head work....

This could be a decent car,....wat number R is it

[OEM G60]

Been covered a million times before but:
- Not Well Looked After (previous owner thrashed the crap out of it destroying clutches etc). Don't know about current owner but he hasn't had it that long.
- Stupid canons
- This is the second car that the turbo kit has been fitted too. The first owner pulled it out after sinking something in the order of 30k into the kit and still not getting it right (specifically the tune).
- Don't know if the current owner has done a custom tune but the previous tune was rubbish due to the Australian R32s having different ECU coding to everyone else and therefore the US and Euro spec flashes not working for it.
- Power figure is optimistic at best.

Why if it's so good is it for sale again? The previous owner tried to sell it for something like a year starting at a stupid priced of $64k (what the car was new) and then sold it for around this price anyway.

The owner isn't a member on here. From what I here he doesn't care about VWs, just as long as it's a full sik turbo yo.

Shame really sums it up nicely.

Cheers,
Trent

Digging up an old thread here, but this car is still for sale on carsales.

I've been trying to find more threads about it but can't find much, i'm wondering how you came to find out about it Trent?

I had a read of the HPA website and the info on the FT400 kit, http://www.hpamotorsport.com/ft400.htm - it sounds like a pretty good kit, not cheap!!, capable of 400bhp so i'm wondering why its optomistic that its 'only' got 350bhp?! They do an FT360 kit that uses the stock intake and no intercooler that should get 360bhp. Is it all ECU related?

This one also has a FMIC set-up instead of the side mounted one that comes with the kit which i thought would probably help things out.

I'd like to know what ECU its using now? Anyone know? Anymore info about it would be great. That exhaust is shocking, looks terrible but could be sorted easy enough.

[evorobin]

Person that originally bought this turbo set-up wished he's just bought a 911 instead given how much it cost...

[OEM G60]

Sounds like its caused alot of grief!

Would be nice to think that it runs well and all the niggles are sorted now, but i get a bad feeling about it. Its alot of car for the money, its got H&R Coilovers, Haldex upgrade, VF Mounts, HPA Short Shifter, nice 19" CH's and only 60K on the clock, the car would probably be worth $35K without the Turbo kit on it!

I don't know whether to try and find out more or leave it alone tbh.

[Nathan_B]

interested to see if any members can get some facts on this..

i was very close to making a commitment dec 08, although ended up flying to sydney instead and driving home in my MKV

[Oli]

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Its like dating that girl that your mum warned you about

mmm....I like it