Project 504

[DubSteve]

Didn't gt much done today was hung over from last night and cbf.



Cleaned the engine a little and what I had done came out pretty good.



Exhaust manifolds are done and I will be taking the heat shied off to show them look quite good I think.



And the engine bay which is clean and I am happy with it now.

But this is why I have taken the engine out to do timing chains cause someone had ****ed it up previously..

[Mrk_Mickey]

Oh god, that looks a right mess!!

Sorry I couldn't make it mate, only got back into Sydney an hour ago! I'll help you when I can though Nice progress!!

[Preen59]

Hahaha someone's silasticed the cover back on! Use a proper gasket or don't attempt it yourself. It's that simple.

Gees you're anal, Steve. Looking gooooood.

[Mrk_Mickey]

Hahaha someone's silasticed the cover back on! Use a proper gasket or don't attempt it yourself. It's that simple.

Gees you're anal, Steve. Looking gooooood.

We didn't actually use a gasket for mine, as it doesn't have one. The instructions I followed said just to line the edges with new oil

[DubSteve]

I'm pretty sure your meant to use a compound for that but obviously not here.

[Tim]

isnt that part where the head gasket is sandwiched between the two sections of the timing chain cover? To fix that properly you might be up for a new head gasket? Its a silly design really

[thepowercosmic]

Hey Steve,

Have a look at these threads.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3202075

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=125374

Looks like they replaced the head gasket at the same time they did the chains.

The guy that did your chains was probably trying to save you money, cause changing the head gasket isn't cheap on a VR6.

[DubSteve]

Cheers Stan thanks for that mate proved to be pretty good

I know where its from I'm just not going to name people who did it

[DubSteve]

[DubSteve]

Subframe repainted.


Condensor blackened.



Power steering pump, no one is going to see it but I'm not leaving things half arsed!







Rear bumper done just needs high fill and off to the painters it goes!

[Golf Houso]

Looking good Steve, what type of paint did you use on the bits you painted?

[Jarred]

good work Steve!

So you'll be having this all up and running for Nats?!?

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[DubSteve]

Looking good Steve, what type of paint did you use on the bits you painted?

Engine was a basecoat of satin black caliper/ brake spray, and then engine manifold gloss black spray. Due to the caliper spray being a igher temp we applied that first.

good work Steve!

So you'll be having this all up and running for Nats?!?

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Cheers homie! Nats? No idea I'd like to but if it comes to close to get it done, attn will be put on the mk1 to get it complete which it pretty much is haha.

[Mrk_Mickey]

What the engine out of car?? I didn't know that, gearbox off is easy now!!

Good work mate. I hope you didn't paint the bolts though

[malteser]

I'm loving the attention to detail Steve, great work!
I spose if you're going to do something you may as well do it right

By the way, what engine mounts are you using?