Hakan's Golf Vr6

[Hakan]

[B]From the day I bought her till Present UPDATED

STOCK AS ROCK

STOCK VR6 ENGINE


Two weeks Later Everything was going smooth until a very hot day and abit of thrashing from RED light to RED light , a big Steam of Coolant came out of the engine bay where I popped the heater core return hose and engine over heated .Got it home and This is what I found out >
Blown Head gasket turns out I bought it like that .

COOLANT LEAKING INTO CYLINDERS

ANOTHER WEIRD THING WAS I VACUUMED THE COOLANT CHANNELS OUT AND ALMOST 2 kilos of RED PEPPER CAME OUT WHICH WAS USED TO TEMPORARYLY BLOCK ANY COOLANT LEAKS INTO OIL CHANNELS UNTIL THE CAR GOT SOLD.

Head gets machined nice and shiny




Around A Month later the parts that I ordered FINALY decided to come to my door from Germany and America so I started putting everything back together .


COMPLETE !! WHOOHOO


After that it took me around 5 hours to fit it all back in and start the engine.

[rayray086]

Good to see a VR6 being revived Welcome to the forums!

[ryana89]

Crikey! You don't muck around!
Is this your first Vdub?

Top work

[GeorgeMK1]

Weeeeeeeee haks when are we re-building my engine

Good to see you finally making a thread bro, looks good !

[Hakan]

YEA this is my first and only vdub vr6
george anyday you want .just get the parts ready the rest is easy

[Hakan]

A few weeks ago my Coil pack decided to Blow up so I decided to Replace it with 3x8224 MSD's, Which was very easy to do.
Feel free to ask any questions .

[dylan8]

Good work on keeping a vr6 alive
might be a silly question but im sure others will ask, whats the reason/advatages to swapping to the msd ignition conversion?

[Hakan]

thanks ,
My reason was because it was cheaper than a brand new coil.i guess its more reliable after having 2 cracked coil packs before.its better on fuel economy my car was doing 6.8 ltrs/100km/h on the freeway by grannying it .and 8-10 normal driving i think.engines much more responsive but if you dont have any electrical experience many things can go wrong . ive heard people burning out there icm aswell as there ecu's but nothings gone wrong on mine yet and hope it doesnt . ohh and it looks good and stands out in the engine bay .

[Ben J]

Did you go with a mk4 headgasket and upgrade anything while you where in there?

Looks nice. Reminds me of mine when I got it, sitting a foot off the ground

Nice colour too

[Mk3 AAA]

Did you lose your handle at the person you bought it off??? Awesome car. Good work with the work.