What I've been doing on the darkside.

[tjmonsen5]

Has the head been milled down to an extreme level of high compression? I dont see any domes!! Thats pretty cool, i like the army colors that you painted the manifolds.

I want to see some videos of the finished product!

[equate975]

No, its within spec, there wasn't any domes to begin with. Just looks like it from the circular carbon buildup in the before pics.

all the CR changes were done with the pistons and HG.

[Huff]

Great idea on the rock polisher..

[equate975]

Ok well, I ended up getting the cam sprocket off a while ago. I had to blow torch the thing and melt the trigger wheel, and put a 9 foot breaker bar on it, lift up my entire work bench weight on the bolt, and jump up and down, but it came off!

So I dropped another $170 at the stealer on misk things I forgot including a new wheel.

Brought the engine back to school and have been working on it. Timing was a bitch, took forever to get it to line up right with the slack in the right place. I spent a lot of time on stupid crap so I haven't gotten a ton done, but progress none the less.

I'm currently battling a stripped exhaust nut I put on when I was hanging the manifolds. First damn nut I put on just spins when I got it up to the proper torque... Weak.

Basically got the timing done, covers on and sealer, oil system in, misk accessories, a motor mount, and fixed the bolt I busted the head off on the oil drive shaft cover. (The one right under the exhaust, didn't put a graded bolt in it and snapped the head off by accident)


















Took some rather bad pics of the front suspension. I dropped the sub frame a while ago and ground off the little surface rust it had, degreased it, and gave it a fresh coat of paint. Including new control arms, sway bar end links, tie rod ends (inner and outer), and brakes.





That is all.

As long as I don't run into stupid shit, I'm shooting to have the engine in the bay fri/mon somehow I bet I will be wasting a lot of time on something retarded though.

[delatlanta1281]

I bet I will be wasting a lot of time on something retarded though.

Like an MKIII for instance?

[e30polak]

Like an MKIII for instance?

Seriously, what kind of power do you expect?

[Tree18is]

I guess im the only one that has never seen a 6cyl VW and has his fuckn mind blown..
I guess thats where they get there unique sound. really crazy thanks for sharing.

[Holland]

I love 12v VR6's for some reason. I'm jealous over your clean engine. Very nice though.
Btw, I never seen the cylinder configuration to a VR, so it was really cool to see that, now I know what a narrow block motor looks like.

[Brandon12V]

in the words of the teres guy, "Bitch, I love you!" lol

The 12v VR is such a sweet motor. by far, probably VW's "greatest mistake" as it was originally designed to be a turbo diesel motor. Hence, why it is such a narrow v6. also the reason why it has such an enviable torque band! VW really effed up by not making a RWD Corrado VR6. Even tho corrado's were overpriced back then(which is why they discontinued them.... nobody bought them), I bet things would have been EXTREMELY different if they had.

Anyways, excellent build bud! Im very envious as I never got to finish my 12v build since it got totalled. :( Be a man, take the extra step and get USRT's ITB kit when it comes out!!! I think the entire kit will be somewhere in the range of 7-900.
Nothin like the sound of a VR on ITB's... Truely unique.


Props.

[N2MYE30]

+1 (holland). I love a minty engine. How much $ do you now have tied up in it? Prolly makes you sick thinking of it. :)

[ubernasty]

props to you. i love me my purdy vw motors... especially the vr6. i'm feelin the cleanliness and attention to detail that your taking into consideration as you progress so far as well.

keep this thread goin :)

[equate975]

Well I was right, spent 3 hours today trying to dig a pintle cap off the top of my valve when it fell in the intake when I was putting the injectors on. Tried everything to get it out, ended up pulling some tack off a door card and sticking it to a screw driver. Just hard to get it into a position so I could see it and not move it when I was trying to stick to it.

Of course it had to fall in the back side of the intake, so I had to reach through the width of the head to get it.

Also this car is going to be sold, I'm maxed on cash for it so I can't afford the ITB's. I never got to do the headwork I wanted for this reason. I have way to much into the car and can't afford it lol. Probably going to take a $2k hit on it or so.

I think I said this somewhere. I bought the car to flip with a buddy, then school was starting and I had to find a project engine to rebuild, I was broke (wanted to do my s52) and this was a perfect car to do. My father originally was going to take the car as a DD when I was done, but backed out about $1500 into the build.

So my $2k hit or so will count as tuition for me. I'm just going to keep the car until july or so, going to enter it into EuroWerkes this summer (june 27th if your in MN). I'm far from expecting to win anything, just doing it for fun.

It was a fun build, but its not going to be uber fast or anything.

[equate975]

Well shitty day, I knew my pressure plate bolts wouldn't be in until today, and I was planning on dropping the engine in tomorrow. I just found out that class is canceled tomorrow. Hopefully someone will be around the shop thursday to give me a hand putting it in.

[skota]

nice work man, it'll be a beast.

[Cha Ching]

Yeah I noticed that right after I posted, I was hoping no one else would.

btw, it worked mediocre. Probably some cleaner / more gritty media would have made it better.

that's a brass tumbler for polishign metal bits, jewelry & more commonly, cartridge cases for ammunition :D !

Load it with polishing media (like walnut shells) & some polishing compound (don't use 'Brasso') & whatever you put in should come out mirror-polished. Get the specific stuff (polishing media/compund) at any gun store/Bass Pro Shops that sells reloading equipment.

And you don't need to run it all night, 2-4 hours should do. You'll find you will get better results when you change the media after each use.