The Twin! VR6 No.2

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Keep your eye out for a car for sale with them. Like an average set of 2nd hand roofracks are worth 100 tops. SO if you offer a bloke 170 for ones on his mk3 chances are he'll think thats a great deal and take it. My opinion anyway...

[Smeeeb]

The Twin! VR6 No.2

Wheels first. I keep getting my priority mixed.

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Gearbox fun



Finally got the box out today! Local bloke did as Jimmy is in such high demand!. Luckily it appears that it was just the input shaft seal. Rear main and oil cooler seals are getting done at the same time. Anyone have anything I should look out for? Clutch seems fine and dont think i can see any cracks and he seems confident too. New CV boot going on as well. Might finally be able to give it a real run when I get it back hehe.

[Ben J]

Re: The Twin! VR6 No.2

guess you won't be needing my gearbox then? Let me know how it turns out, I'll list it for sale if you don't need it.

How many kms does it have again? Might make sence to do the clutch as preventative maintenance while it's all out, to save some money on labour later down the track if it hasn't been changed before and has a fair few km on it

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Not at this stage Ben ahaha. Kinda glad I dont have to sort out a new one but fingers crossed it doesnt happen some time in the future.

Clutch was only done 5000km ago so its got plenty of meat left on it. Hence why im kinda reluctant to replace it.

[Ben J]

Re: The Twin! VR6 No.2

Ah well if it's already been done there's no point at all in replacing it haha.

Good to hear it's all getting sorted out

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[Mk3 AAA]

Insert LSD here.

[anthony--t]

The Twin! VR6 No.2

And shorten ratio whilst at it.

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If I had the money

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Car came home today . Oil leak hopefully fixed :S and seems dry at the moment. Turns out the box had some bolts missing and a starter motor bolt was stripped. All were replaced along with two new cv boots (and a rebuild of the drivers side shaft), oil cooler o-rings and a new rear main seal. Engine is smooth as silk now. And changes beautifully too so hopefully all is well!!

Don't want to talk about how much it cost but I guess its all part of what we do for our cars!

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So after driving around in a ghetto golf (if golfs can be ghetto...) without a hoodlining, I finally got sick of looking up and seeing wires hanging everywhere:



and got onto the annoying job of fixing it all up. As some may know, the sunroofs here in Oz were often done when the cars got here, by the dealers, so the old hood lining card gets butchered and you're left with a mess of falling down fabric and foam and weird cardboard everywhere.



I forgot to get some good shots of the process by basically I decided to go with a lateral thinking approach and instead of just glueing it all up there again, I went the risky option and separated all the pieces of card I had left and covered each of them (a front, two side bits and a rear one). I then replaced the foam that was used to cover up the sunroof mechanism (was a B**tch to clean it all off) and glued on a large piece of new fabric (with lots of aligning help from the father). So it ended up covering the centre piece and then I fitted each of the separate pieces around it to help hold it up and also make it look a little classier. The end result:







I would highly recommend this to those with sunroofs that have buggered up hood lining cards. It will make it easier to repair, it almost looks like its OEM and it makes sure the forces on the fabric are actually holding all the bits up rather than angled down and pulling it off. You will need two people to fit the foam and the centre piece up, otherwise you can do the rest yourself I think I may have been a bit light on with the contact adhesive so make sure you really pile that on and also be careful with the various trim clips. I found that my front ones were brittle and fell to bits when I pulled the pillar trims off... So time to head to the wreckers!!

To come:

Finish off sunroof hoodlining (didnt have time to get the glass out)
Chip
Fairing
Panel Beating on Monday
Skirting and mudflaps

[Mk3 AAA]

Looks great, something you'd see in a French car .

Are those seats really stock VR? Or retrim/from something else, never seen a VR with map pockets. Maybe they're those really tight fitting fitted covers?? OR I'm just a tripper.

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Like the sunroof, I think they were done here in Oz when the car came from Germany. They are actually out of the wreck and I even have the original 1997 brochure that outlines how to care for them so they are definitely showroom seats but not factory leather i'd say. Personally I prefer having the pockets haha. Plus the leather seems to be really high quality and wasin far better condition than the ones originally in the twin.

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So I stupidly went and bough 6 inch speakers which won't fit my 6.5inch speaker holes... Can't return them as I got them off gumtree cheap. Any ideas on how to adapt them? Can't find any adapter rings for 6.5 to 6 inch holes.

[Ben J]

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could probably make some out of mdf, wouldn't be too hard I would think, if you have a jigsaw and such, just cut some rings out of like 12mm mdf, drill holes, ? ????, profit!

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