Post #24
Update!!
So while the forum was offline there has been a lot of work carried out on my new 6. The car is now running and also passed the MOT without a single problem, which is very good for an old french car from 1997 that has standed nearly 2 years outside.
SO where to start, after preparing the shell of the black one to drop in the parts from my diabolo we sat about breaking my brothers blaze 6 for anything that could be still of use after he had binned it the same weekend i got mine written off.
WARNING! THE FOLLOWING PICTURES MAY CONTAIN PAINFUL IMAGES FOR GTI6 & RALLYE ENTHUSIASTS
My brother now being part of the dark side and driving a Golf MK3 GT TDI EDITION 110 bhp, he and the Mate where the car had stood who also is a VAG fool (Audi RS4, Golf VR6 etc.) were delighted to rip apart what was left from the once so nice looking blaze 6. All i could do was look and feel sorry for the old 6
This is how the car looked when we got there, obviously it had already served as some sort of anger management item to someone as the hood was not open after the crash
broken brake disk
I took the engine out with gearbox, the rear beam, 2 cyclones with neaarly new winter tyres and some other smal pieces
Freshly rebuilt rear beam by Carl (Aka MechRepairs) I drove the whole way to Folkstone to get this and my Recaro recliners just so my little twat of brother could demolish it a few weeks later.
We had to replace this trailing arm with one from the old beam that was on the black 6 as it was too much bent.
After those parts were retrieved and put aside both of the VAG twats started to abuse the remains of the 6. I insist on telling you people that i did not find this funny or cool but that i watched this with a certain pain. So here goes...
What a dickhead
After this sad day, we then got my diabolo 6 on the....... Hebebühne (sorry Fellas don't remember the the English name for this) to extract the engine and gearbox from it to put it in the black one.
Notice how bad the rear beam has been hit
And someone come tell me that she was driving 50km/h
Me and my mechanic/nurse mate
Engine out ready to be dropped in
Black 6 ready for transplant
Unfortunately I have no more pictures of the engine transplant, but it was a b*tch of a Job in general as I had to swap all the locks as well as the ignition from my diablo to the black one because of just having 1 key from the black one. We also swapped my brakes and suspension, the new rear beam of my brothers blaze after changing the knackered trailing arm, I also changed the drivers side window motor as when i pushed the buttons they always worked the other way around so when pushing down the window went up and vice versa. It turned out the motor had already been changed at some point as the connector was not the same as the one on my blaze. Furthermore I dyed the ceiling black and put some PH3 black A,B,C pillars together with my Recaros.
For the rest we put new mounts all around (GBmount, lower engine mount, engine mount, and i made a mount choke out of a Powerflex thingi that are used to put inside the rear beam mounts after the cradle had been repaired. I'll get a pic of this later. New oils and filters, waterpump, cambelt and tensioners, no more A/C which i allreday regret as this summer was quite warm but maybe i'll get a new one when funds alow to. And a new Nissens Rad which was a pain in the Ass to sort out ass we ordered 4 different ones and none seemed to fit. In the end we simply swaped the lower hose with the one that was on my brother's 6 which was one of the quick fit ones and used the first rad that had been send to us.
Basicly i think we did a good job, specially when i keep in mind that the budget was very tight as i still haven't heard anything from the insurance company who ought to give me 3 k.
Here some pictures of my finished black GTI6. Finished might be a tad too optimistic as there still so much things to do and improve but at least it's back on the road right. I'll keep updating this as time goes. Once i get my job i'll update this thread with the new set of wheels i'm aiming at, some nice Megane sport Brembo's with Ash's 310mm kit and who knows a cheeky Low boost setup by Lynx
Comment are welcome and thank you for reading this
Oops ..... that's not my car just a polo we broke for a mate who's engine exploded.... bloody 1.0 engines
marco gti6
Posted 27th Jun 2011 at 22:38
After a quick search on the net i found some pics of this car in it's former glory and i noticed that he had put an aftermarket steering wheel with one of those snap off systems which explains the fuse. 
As one of them got ripped out and broken by some other morron of mate 
