VeeDub VR6

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Come on dude, dig out some pics of your VR6 project and post them up here. You'll find it motivating.
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ok. but it'll take me a little time. there all "old school" film camra pics, so i'll have to scan them in
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FYI...
About 3 years ago, I flipped a '94 Passat VR6. Paid $200. BP saw it when he was at Classic VW... It had 160k, and knocked when first started. Needed half-shafts too. It cleaned up real nice, and got $1700 for it. It wasn't a bad driver.
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300hp - a bit much for FWD!
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The car Dave's talking about is a southern body 89 GTI with a corrado VR6 transplanted into it. I'll give more details and will probably start a project thread when I finally get restarted on it (I have no garage right now, I live in an apartment). MKII's (1985 ~ 1992) only had 1.8L and 2.0L four bangers in them..so with a 2.8 V6, the car does O.K in the acceleration department, nothing like the cars you guys have but will still get the blood flowing.
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Hahaha ..thats great! I have never seen that commercial.

UPDATE. I'm officialy moving out of the apartment (Aug is my, last month) and into a big two car garage with a small ranch house attached, in chesterland. The wrenchin will start soon!! :P
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Here's one of it freshly painted.
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With some trim installed
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VeeDub wrote:Hahaha ..thats great! I have never seen that commercial.
I remembered seeing that commercial as a kid back in the day. I wonder what they're singing in German.

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So which pic is newer?
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The bottom picture is. I don't know why the color is different in the photos . The color is Audi TT Nimbus grey (Dupont chroma base) it has a nice pearl effect that the pictures don't show.
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I like the color selection. It makes the car look a lot newer than it is. What's funny is VW hasn't changed the basic style of that car since the we saw the Rabbit in the late 70's. I can't remember when the first Rabbit was made, was it '76?

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I like the color selection. It makes the car look a lot newer than it is.
Thankyou. The MkI Golf started in '74 (Rabbit in N.A.) but You might be correct about the '76 debut in the states, I'm not sure
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OK I can't get that song out of my head now
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it runs

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It runs. Sorta. :) This is the first time the engine has been run in several years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlXN3HmoZbo

(i also moved this thread to the projects forum)
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