Dark Arrow (tmavá šipka) - an evolution.

[Weekend-Warrior]

Neat! I like it!

Has provided much inspiration.

[dArK5HaD0w]

Has provided much inspiration.

......and jealousy!!

hehehhehe

[sir_camel]

Am secretly hoping a a black pre-FL wagon turns up somewhere too after reading through this thread. Looks unreal.

[Weekend-Warrior]

......and jealousy!!

hehehhehe

Not so much.

Todd, keen to do a comparison of ride heights. Would you be able to measure from the centre of the wheel to guard for all four corners and post or pm me the measurements? Also how much height adjustment do you have left on the rear.

The info would be would be much appreciated!

[Lemonskin]

"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny." - Yoda.









ok time for a bit of a story .. here goes:

Well, previously not having had much to do with anything but stock cars, the most fun car that I'd had in the past was a Peugeot 206 GTI (even attended a cruise or two in it!).

Fast forward ten years or so and the missus wanted to ditch her current Pug 308 1.6 Turbo for something a little more fun. I spotted an article talking about the upcoming Golf 35, so I promptly sent wifey to test drive the GTI and R to see where the middle-ground was and hopefully get an idea of what the 35 might be like. Turned out the sales guy had no idea about the 35 and refused any kind of deposit for one - wtf!? Anyway it didn't matter - she now had nothing but the Golf R in her sights, hehe :> :>

It took quite a few phone calls to track down a car with the specs we wanted, but eventually found one waiting at the docks - woot! One week after delivery the car had an APR remap and carbonio installed. Then in August 2011 I decided to start an event thread for a cruise - and Dave brought along his yellow beast of a pre-facelift Octavia vRS .. and with it, the beginning of the end for my family SUV.

Attended my first Garage Cafe meet shortly after, where I completed two crash courses in the one evening: non-resonated exhaust appreciation, and advanced wheel whoring (Fab was the lead instructor I seem to recall).

After a month or two of nothing but craving another drive of the wife's R (which had turned into a monster post-tune imo), I decided to ditch the boring Holden V6 SUV kiddy taxi in favour of a significantly more spirited (and VAG!) kiddy taxi .. cue the Skoda Octavia vRS 2.0 TSI/K03 - a mk6 GTI in all but name (and looks), albeit with more room, and for less $$$

So, without much dealer stock around I put a deposit on a car that was just about to leave the factory, and only had to wait a couple of months to get my hands on her. In the meantime Stefan and Simon got writing over at VWG about their 600HP revo monster Golf R's, which eventually led me to James and Raymond at Audvolks who in December 2011 threw a set of KW V3's on my new beastie and gave her a remap - happy days!

With her newfound stance, sexy wheels, and some vinyl wrapping .. the visual transformation was complete. As for the rest .. the story continues.







mods so far are:

- kiddy seats x 2
- Final Inspection detail and paint protection
- full window tint
- 12" sub and amp
- black carbon wrapping
- front splitter
- 18x8 Volk Racing G2's in matt black
- 235/40R18 Nitto NT05's
- KW V3 coilovers + drop
- stage 1 revo tune
- Milltek cat-back
- ITG Maxogen intake
- ECS torque arm insert / engine mount
- ECS/Porsche 993TT Calipers in red
- 13.2" drilled/slotted rotors
- Hawk HPS Brake Pads


and to be installed asap:

- Supaloy control arms & caster bushings kit
- 18x9 et45 VR G2 wheels











and then:

- Milltek DP
- intercooler
- recaros



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.. and previously as a blank canvas







(ps. I think my previous free image hosting has fallen off a cliff, so some of the pics that I've posted throughout this thread aren't showing btw )

Wow... Just... Wow. I know I'm replying to this a while after its been posted but this car looks freaking incredible. Love it. Congrats!

[bluefrog]

Neat! I like it!

Has provided much inspiration.

......and jealousy!!

hehehhehe

Am secretly hoping a a black pre-FL wagon turns up somewhere too after reading through this thread. Looks unreal.

Not so much.

Todd, keen to do a comparison of ride heights. Would you be able to measure from the centre of the wheel to guard for all four corners and post or pm me the measurements? Also how much height adjustment do you have left on the rear.

The info would be would be much appreciated!

Wow... Just... Wow. I know I'm replying to this a while after its been posted but this car looks freaking incredible. Love it. Congrats!

thanks gents

oh and happy to provide any inspiration I can

@weekend-warrior, I think that the fronts have been raised slightly at last adjustment instead of lowered ... so after the next re-adjustment I'll let you know some measurements.


.. thought the new year would be a good time to pen a brand new cleaned-up build thread without tons of missing photos, here it is: http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...-ii-80832.html

[rob_e]

Rob!! Thanks mate - welcome to Oz! I had a read of your blog over the xmas break and it's awesome btw .. big fan here

Just curious, how easy/difficult were your GTI side skirts to install? I'm thinking about ordering some, however I might have to get them painted for a little bit of contrast.

The ride on the V3's is just brilliant compared to stock (the damping is excellent - you really get to feel the road, but the annoying repetitive bumps get ironed out nicely). It's a good point you make about the height and subsequent spring compression and I'm going to ask my revo tech if I'd possibly see much difference at 5mm higher.

Ahh the Rays .. I'm still loving them to bits. The steering is very responsive and agile (much more so than our Golf R with heavy stock 19" wheels), but I probably didn't drive on the neptunes quite long enough to do a serious comparison.

I actually haven't seen the neuspeed's before .. they wouldn't look too bad at all on your beastie though.



Wish I could jump in my Octy and just drive off to France like you've been able to, oh how that would be fun, hehe. Sadly my missus and I will have to put up with two under 6yo for 24 hours in a flying metal tube, but at least I'll get to drive a Renault Megane Sport 2.0 diesel when we get there in August.

Looking forward to chatting with you more Rob, thanks for calling in to watercooled.

Hi chaps - resurrecting an old thread i know, but thought you might like to see this.

Pic above is Todd's photoshop of what my 2010 car might look like on a set of neuspeeds.. well, time moves on and that car is sold, replacement is a 2012 vRS wagon also in candy white and i went ahead a bought a set of neuspeed wheels for it, however graphite grey rather than black so it's not 100% as Todd made it, but pretty close!

Quick pic of the car taken yesterday, on h&r monotubes plus a few other little tweaks:

First pic on H&R monotubes by lotus-gt, on Flickr

More info on the blog: My PistonHeads : Show Car - PistonHeads

cheers
Rob

ps sorry for hi-jacking your thread Todd!

[Weekend-Warrior]

Nice car and equally nice highjack

[Mi16 Man]

Todd....you are going viral!

[roshea]

Todd....you are going viral!

Tunedvag is tuned!