Hello Everyone,

I recently aquired new VW Poject. I always wanted to take a great platform and try to make it better and at the same time add my own flavor to it and share it with other enthusiasts. So here it is. The car is a 2004 VW .:R32 and it came with an HPA "Black Jack" turbo kit installed. The clutch had been upgraded but it was shot. For suspension it had Bilstein Sports and Neuspeed Springs and some Porsche "Lobster Fork" Wheels and stock size brakes. The front and rear seats had been swapped for some 20th Recaros but will be installing custom Recaro Sportster CS's. I have already installed KW Coilovers, Brembo 6 pot fronts, drilled rear rotors and hawk pads and SS lines and H&R sway bars front and rear. I will start posting some pictures tomorrow when I can. For now here are a few.

The first few weeks of the project I replaced the factory head gaskets but retained the HPA Head Spacer, and replaced the OEM Head Studs with Raceware Head Studs as we found some coolant and oil mixture and some oil leaks down the side of the motor all the way down the skid plate. I always had a billet ECS tuning crack pipe installed while we had the head off. The VF Engineering dog bone mount bushings were shot so I replaced the entire mount and the transmission, and side engine mount with VF Mounts. While we were installing the Brembos and the KW V3 Coilovers I replaced both tie rod ends and all 4 wheel bearings as well.

Below is the beginning of the wide body project/color change and installing upgraded front and rear differentials so first things first was to remove the engine/transmission and gut the engine bay. as well as remove the rear diff housing.

 

Part of this project is that I am also replacing the entire interior with a combo of leather and suede. I had the air bag cover removed as part of the process of getting this wrapped as well as the dash seats center console etc....

 

Here are some of the interior samples we will be working with once the body work is complete.
















List of Interior Upgrades
Recaro Sportster CS Seats
Recaro Seat Inserts Diamond Yellow Suede
Recaro Seat Bolsters Diamond Yellow Leather
Suede Black Headliner, A pillers, B Pillers and C pillars
Suede Rear Tray and surrounding plastic tray frame
Trunk floor, left and right trunk walls and the back seat trunk walls are getting done in leather with diamond yellow stitching.
Entire floor board diamond yellow leather stitching.
All door panels and rear quarter panels getting seude with diamond yellow inserts


Pictures Updated 9/16/11

Now you see it.



Now you dont.




Dash is completely out along with the steering wheel, shifter and boot, and E-Brake Handle and boot.

 

Laying the head liner down (sun roof end)



Gauge Cluster Dash Board Surround




Passenger side of the dash. We are running stitching along the dash seam from where the smooth leather dash meets the pourus section.

 

Engine is out. Engine bay was gutted of remaining hardware and cables and washed up ready for paint. Drive shaft is also out and the rear differential getting ready for the Peloquin front and rear diffs to go in as the chassis goes back to paint.

 

This is also a little more than a wide body project. Previous owner for some reason I have yet to figure out why, but he put 20th anniversary seats in the front and back so those are coming out. OEM R32 rears will be going back in and I've ordered Recaro Sportser CS Seats and the whole interior is getting replaced such as the floor carpet and headliner, everything is getting re-upholstered to follow this theme from this X6m.

 

The welding and fabricating has begun.

 

 

Who wants to see some paint!

These are shots of the second of the three stage Porsche White Pearl. Last stage is being applied as we speakers and should be ready for final inspection next week. From there its back to the shop to get it up and running again with the dash installed. Then the dynamat is getting installed with new speaks and head unit. Then its off to the interior shop to get the new diamond stitched leather floor put in along with all the door panels seats and headliner. All in time before Southern Worthersee!

 

Lobsters are not staying that's for sure.......


We have a set of these on order. ADV5.2TF in 18's

Brushed Centers, High Luster Polished Step Lips, Matte Black Inner Barrels

 

 

 

 

Brand new custom made fire wall because the old one was falling apart into crumbs. Now its looking nice and pretty against the new paint.









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Reinstalled the turbo and heat shield after being sent out to HPA to be rebuilt. We also replaced the coverings for the oxygen sensor wires to make them also look nice and new.











Replacement















Misc engine items, evap hoses, fuel lines, coolant lines, water meth and etc..









Another wiring mess we needed to clean up from the previous installer.

 

Wowww. I've been looking at those R32's lately and now I don't think I could ever get one if it didn't look like that