Project #11 From Jason: MK3 AWD 3.4L Twin Turbo Jetta
So awhile back I posted a picture of a rotisserie that a friend, his dad and I built. In the pictures was a white 94 Jetta that was mounted. The car has been a project of mine for some time and will continue to be one. I can't tell you how much time it has or will take but I can tell you that I have spent a couple days worth of time working on it to get to where it is. I would estimate that I have spent between 70 and 100 hours on it so far which included stripping the car, removing floor sections, cleaning the sound deadening and protection from the floor, removing parcel shelf and strut towers, removing glass and well everything to make it to the point in the pics. Most of this work was done on my own to this point. A friend helped tear down the R32 donor and another friend helped a little bit with stripping the car. Tools used so far that I can think of is sockets, wrenches, screw drivers, drill, spot-weld drill bits, panel knife, hammer, grinder, saw-zaw, putty knife, scrapper, mineral spirits, piano wire, and I am sure that I am missing some. I have tons and tons of pictures and will probably post them slowly over time rather than making this thread like 100 pages right off the bat. I will also plan to skip over many pictures. I have over 350 pictures of it already at this point so I will try to cut that way down.. There is no labor cost in this project and I can tell you still is not cheap.. I have ~15K into this entire project however I have almost everything that I need. Factor in the time I have already spent on it and the total is 20K+ at this stage so there is probably not many people who will want to pay that. I know someone who is having a shop do this same build but into a MK1 Rabbit and they currently have ~450 hours into it but I think for me to be at the point they are, it will only take me maybe another 100 hrs if even close to that much. I wouldn't expect it to be more than maybe 40 more hours but there has to be a reason why it has taken them so many. The reason for this build is because I have always liked this body style the best and when the 04 Golf R32 was introduced I wanted that drive train. I decided I had to have the 2 of them merged together to build a car of my taste. Enough Rambling....
The car as it starts out as
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The Dash will be that of a MK4 Jetta when I am done and I plan to get R32 seats down the road to fit in.
Jetta dash, R32 cluster
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The climate control in that pic will be sold or stored for later. Current replacement is the climatronic that the R has
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With the power goal in mind of at least 550AWHP I decided the 11.3" single piston brakes are not going to fit the bill of my taste. These are the replacesments..
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13.2" with 4 Piston Porsche calipers.
The rear brakes are upgraded to the ones that come stock on a R32.
So the tear down started.. Me here
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The friend who helped take off the decklid, doors, seats, fenders and pulled the wiring from the trunk.
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And then more tear down from me.
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