Passion Garage MK3 Coupe

[PassionGarage]

So my Bora blew up and i needed a new car and thought id go backwards rather than find something new.
Nick and James had recently bought a mk3 cl and done a vr6 manual swap on it and i thought id grab it off them for a good price

So here is the mod list and a future mod list ( i will do a check list and add things and remove things as i get new parts and that )

Body
- Vr6 Tail lights
- Hella Dual Headlights
- Hella Clear front fogs and indicators ( we found them in japan )

Future Body
- New close door Respray in same colour - MK3 hot chilli red
- Voomeran Wide Body Flares/ Front lip/ Wing straight from Japan
- Votex Side Skirts
- Pop out rear windows if possible
- Rear USDM Tailgate
- Hella Clear twilights
- Rear Euro Votex Valance
- Painted Rub Strips
- Clear Front Quarter Indicators
- Small Mirrors
- Bonrath mono Wiper

Engine
- AAA - 12v VR6 / recently Rebuilt
- VR6 5speed box
- Full Magnaflow exhaust

Future Engine
- Turbo -

GT2860R

- Cams
- highflow fuel pump
- all supporting mods for the turbo kit

Suspension
- Koni Coilovers

future suspension
- KW Coilovers
- sway bars
- Strut braces front and rear

Interior
- Stock standard

Future Interior
- MK4 bora seats or Recaro buckets
- Short shifter
- boost gauges
- digital Dash
- Cage
- whole rear false floor with back seat delete

Wheels and Tires
- 4x100 Some type of race wheels got no idea what the brand is
- semi slicks

Future Wheels and Tires
- TSW venoms 17x8 4x100
- RPF1's 16x8
and well wheels will always come and go no matter what so that'll always be changing

there is some things im probably missing but yea

on with the photos


When James first bought it




How it sits today



















So hopefully i will try to update this every time i do something new

Anyone heading down for VITS i will hopefully bring the golf down

[Alfred]

I'm looking forward to seeing your work!

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[PassionGarage]

I'm looking forward to seeing your work!

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Thanks brother hopefully i can work some magic and with some help from friends and through my job

[feenix74]

Looking good and nice plans for the future. I like how it is a "sleeper" with the stock CL badge still in place

[PassionGarage]

Looking good and nice plans for the future. I like how it is a "sleeper" with the stock CL badge still in place

hahaha i forgot that was still on there
i recently just got a mk3 GTI and vr6 badge from a bloke in the states so i might but the got badge on once the car is painted and finished

but yea defiantly a little sleeperish, with the CL badge still on there

[HaydEn]

Welcome

[browntown42]

Very clean, Where did you visit in Japan for parts? Heading back over again this year and keen for some MK3 goodies.
Also thought about going VR 5 stud upgrade?

[dylan8]

Keen to see some work on this.
I helped with the head a few owners ago.
Does rear muffler still fall off the hanger?

[PassionGarage]

Welcome

cheers man !!

Very clean, Where did you visit in Japan for parts? Heading back over again this year and keen for some MK3 goodies.
Also thought about going VR 5 stud upgrade?

Hey dude, we visited euromagic/voomeran in osaka and we got really lucky with finding some more little bits n pieces at Upgarage
but you never know man you could find stuff we missed lol
and yes i have thought about going 5x100 but i will see how i go, lots of cool wheels in 4x100 but if i do a brake upgrade il move over to 5x100 hubs

Keen to see some work on this.
I helped with the head a few owners ago.
Does rear muffler still fall off the hanger?

Thanks dude
i think you might be mistaken with who's car this was
james and nick bought the CL from a guy in Sydney for cheap with a 1.8l auto in it ( bloke didnt know what he had ) james and nick bought a VR in the same colour and 4 door as a parts car for the vr6 and the box motor had been rebuilt as well, james and nick also did the swap on the motor and trans and was finished off by Matt at camden for the immo delete and driveshafts. so the car hasnt even been rego'd or driven properly since the swap was done and even since I've bought it, I've driven it twice and hopefully should rego it this week in time for vits, you coming dylan ?

[dylan8]

When the motor was in the 4 door.
Talking before Nick and James and before Dean who had it before them.
Even know the two owners of the vr before that
Yeah will be at Vits, hopefully you can bring the two door

[PassionGarage]

When the motor was in the 4 door.
Talking before Nick and James and before Dean who had it before them.
Even know the two owners of the vr before that
Yeah will be at Vits, hopefully you can bring the two door

ahhhhhhh right i get what you mean now dylan haha, sorry for the confusion haha and yea il be bringing it down if i can rego it this week haha

[PassionGarage]

big update

wow so a lot has happened in almost 8 months, and i completely forgot i had a thread for this car

so here we go


so i went to its and met up with some pretty rad people






then after Vits i decided to change over the bumpers and wing and few other trim bits as well, i polished up the good side of the car as best as possible and tried repairing the outer door trims back to black as well but i ended up pulling them off

















anyways Fitted Friday came around ( farking terrible ) so good ol raymond let me borrow some wheels for the event i ended up liking them so much i bought them off him with his help and now i have a set of BBS RM001's in original 4x100
but before then the boys test fitted nicks RS's on the golf and it looked awesome !!!











Specs follow - BBS RM001 4x100 15x8.5" +0 on the fronts and 15x9"-6 on the rears, so they poke a bit but nothing that cant be fixed some rear camber shims and front camber plates




















i got sick of looking at the **** side trims so then i pulled them off and i plan on either painting them to the same colour as the car or just redoing them in gloss black

[PassionGarage]

i also picked up a genuine heckeblnde, which really looks awesome and blends really well with the vr6 tails and the colour of the car





















So life goes on i ended up putting a deposit down for the voomeran kit which includes flares, wing and front lip
but still haven't gotten around to paying the rest of it so it can be shipped
but then one saturday arvo I'm leaving work and driving a bit too fast someone pulls out infront of me and i serve and hit a nice big hole in the road and slam the car into the ground


then my oil pressure light comes on and then my motor goes boom....












as you can see the sump never cracked it just pushed up so far that it bent and shattered the oil pick up !!







so i put a new sump and oil pick up on for testing purposes

















So life goes on i ended up putting a deposit down for the voomeran kit which includes flares, wing and front lip
but still haven't gotten around to paying the rest of it so it can be shipped
but then one saturday arvo I'm leaving work and driving a bit too fast someone pulls out infront of me and i serve and hit a nice big hole in the road and slam the car into the ground


then my oil pressure light comes on and then my motor goes boom....












as you can see the sump never cracked it just pushed up so far that it bent and shattered the oil pick up !!







so i put a new sump and oil pick up on for testing purposes








i also cleaned out the rain tray and that whilst the car wasn't going anywhere anytime soon haha and in goes a new scented cabin filter, lol even tho i don't have aircon !!

[PassionGarage]

so after replacing the oil pick up and realising the bearings are defiantly gone i strip the motor and find that my bearings were completley cooked




so i started to rebuild the motor
lots of time and money
and i rebuilt it all my hand all by myself ( perks of being a mechanic I'm able to use my skills haha ) it was my first ever motor build so I'm pretty proud for how it turned out
and it runs as well haha runs really well !!




so I'm back to work on the 15th of jan and ill be able to finish off a few things then VDUBBN.3 will be back on the road









So during the motor build

i got a spare block and head off stu
i ended up using the crank from the spare block and all the pistons from the spare block as well

all new piston rings
all new main bearings
all new big end bearings
all the new main cap bolts
all new Piston cap bolts
all new headbolts
I stayed with the standard mk3 head gasket as i was getting pinging with the mk4 one installed originally
brand new water pump
brand new oil pump

Brand new timing chains and guides

lots of other stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting































































and so after all of that i was able to turn the key and she runs !!

so not long now til I'm ripping around in it again

[PassionGarage]

So as the story goes on I'm going to be Repainting the BBS White

i also was able to pick myself up a very very nice BBS Steering wheel for the low price of $450 haha and a boss kit off ray again ( bloody legend )

the BBS should be able make the interior look a bit nicer as well and will replace my bora steering wheel
I've also got a new shift knob GTI golf Ball haha





I've also got a badgeless grille coming from ray as well which should hopefully look pretty sweet
also got some free roof racks coming as well ( if i do ever decide to put them on I've got a travel pod that i would use for work and i would actually use the racks for when i head to the beach and what not )


as for the paint I'm watching my Crypto currency make some nice free money so once I've got some more moneys coming through there that will pay for my paint and the rest of the voomeran wide body as well !!