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Rebirth of a GTI (TIME FOR "RACECAR")
doaburnout:
--- Quote from: th3_f15t on November 13, 2015, 04:00:45 pm ---While you have so much space, dropping the front subframe out will be proper easy so may as well upgrade some components while you're there as it'll save hours of labour later on.
Question for you... Because you're repairing this yourself, does this mean your car isn't going to be listed as a Cat D/C write off (thus preserving value)?
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Aye plan is to fit all the sh*t I need to fit to stop it floating around when I go bigger power. It's off the road for long enough for me to get my hands on those parts and get them fitted! Aye it does mean that more or less, the car is going full racecar at some point so most likely it won't be able to be sold with value retained anyway so I'm not too bothered by that!
th3_f15t:
Fair enough, I was thinking from insurance point of view you have to declare a write off when taking a policy out but if it's becoming a track toy then it's a moot point. I ran full poly bushes, anti roll bars and coilovers on my GTI and the setup was a monster on the twisty roads. Throw in some lightweight hubs, wishbones and some other little tweaks and you'll have a killer of a track car.
Oh, and on the subject of hubs, most people get the S3 alloy ones... But Passat ones are the same part numbers and cost lots less! If you need more info I'll pass on what I know (info not sourced by myself so I take no credit).
doaburnout:
--- Quote from: th3_f15t on November 13, 2015, 06:36:32 pm ---Fair enough, I was thinking from insurance point of view you have to declare a write off when taking a policy out but if it's becoming a track toy then it's a moot point. I ran full poly bushes, anti roll bars and coilovers on my GTI and the setup was a monster on the twisty roads. Throw in some lightweight hubs, wishbones and some other little tweaks and you'll have a killer of a track car.
Oh, and on the subject of hubs, most people get the S3 alloy ones... But Passat ones are the same part numbers and cost lots less! If you need more info I'll pass on what I know (info not sourced by myself so I take no credit).
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Think I'll do some looking in to that and see what the deal is, don't wanna be paying out my ass for something that's been sorted!
Hubs!! Fantastic I did not know that! As much weight saving as I can do is the plan!
doaburnout:
UPDATE
So this weekend I went on a massive parts run, got more or less everything ready and stripped more of the car apart. Which revealed I needed a few more parts sorting but nothing major.
Got my hands on a bonnet, passenger wing, aircon condenser, radiator support and slam bar, and some rather special stuff arrived for me which I'll go on to later. But this is the current state of the car having taken everything apart.
Looks a bit of a state but at least everything lines up and should be straight fit back once I have everything together!
Bonnet and wing
And now the special bits...
MISHIMOTO RADIATOR AND MISHIMOTO J-LINE FMIC!!! TIME TO GET ICY :jumping:
Paradox1:
Im loving this
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