they look like fun cars, 4wd and 200+ hp/tq should equal lots of fun to drive.

 

always one of my favorite cars. jealous I love it

 

Jealous!

 

Beautiful car and looks in great condition . Congrats!

 

my buddy used to have a golf vr6....that thing was insane!!! i can just imagine what this is like. jaw hit the floor when the pics loaded. nice find!!

 

Very nice. Always liked this gen r32 more

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I've always wanted one!!!
Looks great!!

 

Why pull the chrome off? Plasti-dip the chrome Black or get some Red and do that? Great car though I bet you will love it!

 

Could possibly get away with that on the grill. but the piece on the hatch is clearly stuck on. I don't like how it's not a flush piece with the hatch.. Rather it just be gone and body color. Grill will be red for now and eventually black when I crack the lights open and paint those black too.

Now that's a car I could actually not modify and be completely satisfied (minus the chrome removal of course

Holy crap that's a beautiful car! Any plans for it besides the chrome removal? It looks amazing stock, I can't imagine doing much else to it.

It's not getting much. Already has the exhaust flapper mod (sounds awesome). May eventually do a res delete because I've been youtubing like crazy and it sounds damn good flapper open, but I'm a little reserved on how it'll sound closed. It needed new shocks so some Koni Yellows are on order. and May eventually go for the ground control coil over conversion as well.

Also have a complete sound system on order since I want some nice tunes in the daily

R32 is one of my absolute favorite exhaust notes!

Between this car at the G35 with full exhaust I have the 2 best sounding 6 cyl motors imo

very nice skyline!

Thanks... although you can't really see it in any of those pictures lol

 

Now that's a car I could actually not modify and be completely satisfied (minus the chrome removal of course

 

Holy crap that's a beautiful car! Any plans for it besides the chrome removal? It looks amazing stock, I can't imagine doing much else to it.

 

R32 is one of my absolute favorite exhaust notes!

 

very nice skyline!

 

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ughhh i envy you! i almost got one with 74k for like $13k not so long ago! ived always loved that r32, hate the newer ones

 

Very yummy, I love the r32s

 

Yayayayayayayayaya! This makes me happy. Lou was showing me the pics last night but I had no idea what member it was.

VR6's are definitely one of my favorite sounding engines. Top 3 easily. I think you're going to enjoy it. Make sure the sunroof tubing and drains have been replaced. Common problem with all mk4's.

And if you ever decide to sell the Aristos.. let me know. :thumb:

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Definitely one sweet ride. I use to drive a VR6 a long time ago and I miss the VW feel. That R32 has always been on my top fav list as well.

Enjoy your ride and love the red.

Ray

 

So this already happened...

Need to wait for the rest of the suspension refresh stuff to show up then they'll go on... and replace a wheel bearing while I'm at it.

 

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Nice purchase. Red R32's have always looked amazing. Don't see too many of them in that color.

And I agree with wiscogti

 

Only 500 of the 5000 US Market MK4 R32's were Red


Also thanks.

 

I might be a little bias, but the VR6 is one of my favorite sounding engines, it sounds like you're riding chewbacca down the fast lane. I'm pretty sure the exhaust flapper "mod" is factory on the .:R, since my friends MKIV has the same thing and he said it was factory. He took the resonator off and it sounds incredible, he never drives with the flapper closed. I've never driven the 3.2L VR6, but my MK3 2.8L pulls pretty nicely. And don't even get me started on the .:R front seats, they are probably the most comfortable seats I've ever sat in. Nice find, you're gonna enjoy it for sure.

 

Thanks.

Flapper mod is already done. It's nice to leave closed in the morning on the way to work when I'm still half asleep. I've been tossing the res delete idea back and forth but I'm a little reserved on the raspy-ness with the flapper still closed. I know open it sounds angry as hell.

edit: Once I fix my gopro case I'll get some driving videos of the exhaust in stock mode and in flapper open mode.

 

Weekend Updates..

So Friday night I started the work to install the Konis on the .:R32 and pretty quickly hit a gigantic road block. First of all I'm dumb and took the PO's word for it when he said shocks were bad... they aren't... but w/e have Koni's already so keeping them cuz I like. 2nd. Had I bothered to actually read the quote from the local dealer that he had on things that were broke and needed replacing and all that I would have noticed that both front springs were already broken....

And it was doing this to the bottom of the shock tower.

I'll be doing that Ground Control coil-over conversion a lot sooner than I had originally expected. Fortunately tax return couldn't have come at a better time!!


So instead I moved onto other things that I wanted done to that car.

Step 1 was remove all the ugly chrome [][][][][][]* off the grill / rear hatch

I was still a little pissed when I started the removal of the chrome on the grill so I kinda just attacked it with a screwdriver... there are paint scratchs and small gouges anywhere so i'm just going to proceed directly with the black p-dip grill. Eventually the headlights will get cracked open the housings painted black as well.

I also started work on installing the Pioneer AVH-X5500BHS unit and my old sub/amp from the focus. So far I'll I've done is run the co-ax cables, run the mic wire and soldered together the adapter wire harness to the radio wire harness (only pic I took)

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So this is how she sits until new springs show up.

 

Minor update.

Called Ground Control on Monday... they don't make a coil-over conversion kit for the R32's. (just the base jetta/golfs / non awd stuff. And no Audi TT kit either to try and work around it that way.

Got a buddy locally who has a set of euro sped R32 springs made by H&R that I'll be picking up Sat.

 

Side note, whatever you do, don't run the .:R32 low on fuel. Their fuel pumps are notorious for breaking if you run it to low, as my friend just found out.

 

Probably why the PO had to replace it just before I picked it up!

 

I've never seen springs break before. That's...impressive.

 

Got the new springs on Sat

Stock on left, Euro spec R32's on right

And assemble!

Ran into some issues with the rear springs.. mainly the fact that my spring compressor can't compress them enough to remove and I was by myself and had not chances of prying the knuckle down far enough to get them out. So currently still running stock rears. I have an appointment tomorrow to get my wheel bearing done and they'll toss the rears in for me as well.

But here she is finally out of the garage!

Also Grill = Black now (shitty pic)

Also radio install finished.

And one last pic of a good rainy stare down