My New VR6 *Little Update Thread*

[HaydEn]

Might be worth it to keep your eye out for a full vr6 wreck from the salvage auctions and use the motor from one of those. If you then have enough money i would at least freshen up the motor with new bearings, rings and timing chains so you are guaranteed it will last a while.

Conversions are fun but not when you have to pay a mechanic to do it as the labour costs are just $$$$.

I've been searching a little for 2.8's and only found a handful with 220xxx+km for $2500~ which I thought was a rip off considering the price and kilometres of R32's.

I will do the conversion by myself, I have my cousin who owes me from the engine swap we did on his car.

[peedman]

A few years back salvage vr6's were going for $1500, now they are going for less but the downside is that they dont come up as often.

If you are itching for a conversion and dont mind spending some money i.e. >10k then dont discount a 1.8T conversion as there are plenty of mk4 gti's, a3, s3, TT's comparatively than vr6's.

[HaydEn]

A few years back salvage vr6's were going for $1500, now they are going for less but the downside is that they dont come up as often.

If you are itching for a conversion and dont mind spending some money i.e. >10k then dont discount a 1.8T conversion as there are plenty of mk4 gti's, a3, s3, TT's comparatively than vr6's.

That was a serious possibility at the start. I've seen a few 1.8's making good power. But in the end I'm still p's and a turbo is more obvious than .4L increase in displacement.
However the 1.8 doesn't have a VR growl.

[HaydEn]

Due to arising circumstances this may be for sale as a whole or in parts in the next two weeks.

[HaydEn]

First part to arrive.

A 90mm throttle body from a Nissan Q45.

[HaydEn]

Second item to arrive, Peloquin LSD thanks to Chris from TPR Engineering.

[HaydEn]

So today i went around to the mechanics to sort out somethings, and to my shock, There was my car sitting on the side of the road with the hood open... Now to my understanding it has been there the whole 6 months instead of inside where i was told it would be. So my rotors are all rusted, everything faded, hopefully no cracks in the interior!

So my question is, If i were to by a 2.slow, am i able to take the engine mounts from my VR and put them in that to put the R32 engine in?

Or is there some differences to the bays?

[rayray086]

No differences in the engine bay, but does the R32 mount up in the same locations?

[HaydEn]

No differences in the engine bay, but does the R32 mount up in the same locations?

It does as the 12v yes.

[Cookie28]

If you're going to buy another I'd try and buy a cabby!!! An R32 cabby would be a LOT of fun haha