[blue]

The head is almost off the VW...too bad I just broke my crappy Torx socket.

I'm going to party if the cylinder bore is 81mm instead of 83mm as the shop that installed it claims. Get mah goddamned munney back...

edit: Um. Yeah. Looking to be stock pistons in an 81mm cylinder. SUBPOENAS!!111

 

[BMXman]

lol...good luck with that....I'm currently in negotiations for this....D

http://victoria.craigslist.org/car/372339005.html

 

[bean]

I'm about halfway through pulling the VR out of the Mk3 right now to do some head work and the clutch. God, I hate the previous owners of this car...they had it resprayed after a dumpster rolled into it. Whoever resprayed it was a fvcking moron...half the radiator and anything near the front bumper is red! It's like they didn't mask anything. Anyway, after working with a 2 ton shop crane in a cramped 1 car garage, I had an entrepreneurial idea...

Buy something like a 4 bay shop. Put 4 car lifts in, and have a few other items of heavy equipment, cranes, compressors, etc. Buy insurance. Then, rent out each bay by the day. Maybe hire a guy to oversee people lifting their cars and such. Bring your own tools, parts, and labor. I think something of that nature could be successful in an urban area where many people don't have adequate facilities out their back door...

Click and Clack started out doing something similar, but ended up doing nearly all the work themselves because the customers were incompetent. Lots of military bases have a pretty similar setup as well.

 

[jimmydean]

lol...good luck with that....I'm currently in negotiations for this....D

http://victoria.craigslist.org/car/372339005.html

That's pure sex right there. Basic black and very understated, I love it. I can't shift with my left, so I couldn't do that car justice.

 

[blue]

It is bored to 83, so it's what it should be, however, there are no words to describe my anger after discovering this:

They even had the balls to charge me $90 for head studs.

 

[DCRAC3R]

Half the people here probably have cars still under warranty. That being said, 90% of the people here know absolutely nothing when it comes down to auto repair aside from oil changes and flat repair, and when their cars have issues they just throw money at the problem in the form of a mechanic. It took one bad experience with a shop on my Jetta to decide that I should just learn to work on my own car and fvck 'em all. Plus, it's a helluva lot more fun. I like solving problems, and old German cars like to present a lot of those.

75% of the cost of maintaining a Eurotrash car is labor. Once you get that out of the way, they're not much more than an older Japanese car to own.

Of course, if you really wanted to be thrifty and practical (like all here seem to claim to be) you could buy an older American car, but that wouldn't be Ridemonkey chic, would it?

Not to mention all I own are Metric tools...

Euro cars FTW!

 

[Red Rabbit]

Buy something like a 4 bay shop. Put 4 car lifts in, and have a few other items of heavy equipment, cranes, compressors, etc. Buy insurance. Then, rent out each bay by the day. Maybe hire a guy to oversee people lifting their cars and such. Bring your own tools, parts, and labor. I think something of that nature could be successful in an urban area where many people don't have adequate facilities out their back door...

Awesome Idea, I would love that. Make sure to get added area for people to park their unfinished project cars. Use one as a “reserved Garage” for people to be able to reserve a strait week of time.

Isn't it great that in a country like the u.s. allows you to profit from your Ideas, unlike that of a communist gov't

 

[SkaredShtles]

<snip>

75% of the cost of maintaining a Eurotrash car is labor.

The rub is that 75% of your life will be spent maintaining them.

 

[SkaredShtles]

<snip>
Isn't it great that in a country like the u.s. allows you to profit from your Ideas, unlike that of a communist gov't

Dude... STFU.

 

[Red Rabbit]

Dude... STFU.

Wait what?

 

[SkaredShtles]

Wait what?

Harping on the political crap. We get it. You don't need to spell it out.

 

[James]

lol...good luck with that....I'm currently in negotiations for this....D

http://victoria.craigslist.org/car/372339005.html

Posting expired, what was it???

 

[jimmydean]

Posting expired, what was it???

Skyline, very nice basic black too.

 

[blue]

Skyline, very nice basic black too.

 

[stevew]

 

[SkaredShtles]

Wow... that car is really...

blue.

 

[blue]

034 kit? That's a bigass snail, GT35R? I assume your bros car?...Mmm...tasty.

I'm about to do the sensible thing and buy a Mk4 Golf 1.8t 4 door. Hooray. I want an A4

Also, shop says that the motor is fine with that bolt and brazed together block. Great. Really don't want to sue.

 

[stevew]

^
Nope.

He's not into fast sh!t anymore.

Have a grand time in the MKIV forums.

I will probably be picking up a 64,000 mile 87 Wolfsburg Coupe tomorrow. Creme puff.

 

[bean]

How is buying a VW doing the sensible thing?

 

[stevew]

^
It builds character.

 

[Larson TT y0!]

How is buying a VW doing the sensible thing?

Because you buy into the hype from idiots that drive cars and don't maintain them. VW (newer) are great cars, its the people in the scene that ruin it...they like to call themselves "Enthusiast's" but they're far from it.

I have a 337 (mildly and tastfully upgraded) and have had ZERO problems because I've done ALL scheduled maintenance. None of it is hard either, you can save alot of money by doing it all yourself.

 

[splat]

Also, shop says that the motor is fine with that bolt and brazed together block. Great. Really don't want to sue.

Your going to trust an engine Block that has cracked and been brazed back together ?

 

[MTB_Rob_NC]

Your going to trust an engine Block that has cracked and been brazed back together ?

You can fix anything with JB Weld.

 

[V-Dub GTI]

You can fix anything with JB Weld.

No thats duct tape.....

 

[Westy]

If I were searching for approval on Retardmonkey, I'd buy a boring ass Subaru wagon with no soul.

Cars have souls? Hate to break it to you but Herbie was just a make believe movie.

 

[blue]

Your going to trust an engine Block that has cracked and been brazed back together ?

I don't...I'm gathering affidavits from a couple local machine shops and VW shops. They're effectively screwed unless they refund my money when I have my crap together.

 

[James]

I don't...I'm gathering affidavits from a couple local machine shops and VW shops. They're effectively screwed unless they refund my money when I have my crap together.

Not to mention all that money for pain and suffering, inconvenience, etc.
Sue their ass!

 

[blue]

Not to mention all that money for pain and suffering, inconvenience, etc.
Sue their ass!

TEH PAINZ OF THE BROEK ENGIEN!

I will sue if they don't cough up my ducets on my first demand.

 

[dirtydirtysouf]

i vote POS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[loco-gringo]

Cars have souls? Hate to break it to you but Herbie was just a make believe movie.

You can not think that blue is sensible.

 

[blue]

Btw, the Porsche runs spiffily. Just need to get a couple copper gaskets in from Pelican and it's GTG.

 

[blue]

^I meant the motor ran.

Now it actually runs.

Oh. My. God. What a ****ing RIOT to drive. Who knew 150hp could be such a blast? <3 oversteer.

 

[jimmydean]

Who knew 150hp could be such a blast?

You should try it in a 390# package.

 

[blue]

UPDATEZ!

JD, you're so...dare I say...Nostradamussy?

I'm hedging right now.

Option A): Put VW VR6 engine in Porsche. Turbocharge. 300whp of German love. Depending on a couple things, could be really easy, could be hellish. Stock Porsche 2.5L Engine is a piece. All-aluminum, weighs as much as a house, needs a (gigantic pain in the ass) timing belt every 30k miles, and makes crap for power.

Option B) Sell Porsche at massive profit after fixing DME relay, buy motorcycle.

Of course, option A would require major coercion on the part of the minister of finance.

 

[SkaredShtles]

 

[Westy]

300whp of German love.

So it will poop on you?

I vote option C. Forget this nonsense for a few years, go to class and study. Graduate and get a real job so you can afford to buy something other than the turds that sink to the bottom of the tank.

 

[zahgurim]

A supercharged VR6 in a 924/44 would be fun. How easy to pop in?


I'd like to put a VR6/syncro setup into one of those old Rabbit trucks... fun, fast, and able to haul bikeys around.

 

[blue]

A supercharged VR6 in a 924/44 would be fun. How easy to pop in?


I'd like to put a VR6/syncro setup into one of those old Rabbit trucks... fun, fast, and able to haul bikeys around.

That's where the difficulty comes in.

IF the Porsche tranny bellhousing uses the same mounting points, I'm pretty much gold, no reason not to do it (have the engine sitting around anyway), wire it up with MS and a fleabay turbo, you have the car VW was always supposed to build.. If not...probably not.

A VR in a caddy...I dunno. I think it would require lots of welding so the front end didn't twist off the chassis...I've never actually seen a VR in a Mk1 because of the weight.

So it will poop on you?

I vote option C. Forget this nonsense for a few years, go to class and study. Graduate and get a real job so you can afford to buy something other than the turds that sink to the bottom of the tank.

But but sir Westy...my other car isn't a turd... *sniff*

 

[stevew]

I've never actually seen a VR in a Mk1 because of the weight.

Search the MKI forums in the kotex. They have been done long before you could drive grasshopper.

 

[Westy]

But but sir Westy...my other car isn't a turd... *sniff*

But it seems your grades are.