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    Hi everyone, I'm 15 and bought my first car last March. Yes, i was 15, but i saved 3 years of chinese new year red pocket to bring her home. She wasn't that clean when she came home, bent fenders, tie-rod problems, clear-coat peeling of the santa monicas, but got all for $6200CDN. Just replaced tierod, and installed Magnaflow Cat-back system by myself, painted the grille black, painted the brake calipers yellow ( Porsche style!), restored the headlights with turtle wax kit ( amazing results), changed the tires on the monicas Kumho Ecsta LE sport 225/45/17 Y.

    1. pictures of the car after 11.8 months at the end of this post.

    2. Detailed pictures of the 3m brushed aluminum wrapped interior trim on next.

    Pictures with spacers coming soon
    VW GLI VR6 24V 6-Speed 50year anniversairy edition Reflex Silver.
    With trunk lid from 2004+ Jetta, because a mail truck crashed into the old one:facepalm:
    Anyways, here she is.
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    11.8 months later:
    Minor modification: 3m aluminum wrapped trim not as shiny as real ones but you can't go wrong with $30

    hand polished 17x7 santa monica wheels, took forever and still not finished, use an orbit sander to remove clearcoat!

    stickerbombed intake manifold, i know i know, but kids love stickers right?

    yellow brake calipers, porsche style, and B6 passat wheel nut cover OEM+.

    B6 passat cargo hook, upload later, basically just drill two holes in the trunk and bolts right in, mom loves it.
    NEW Major modification: Unitronic stage 1 tune, R32 short shifter, Solo-werks coilover, Magnaflow cat-back, R32 control arm bushings( took forever to replace), proper stickers!

    NOW!





    BONUS!
    Our MK2 GTX in China, you won't believe it has a 1.6 20valve engine.

    Our Euopean B6 Passat 3.2FSI 4Motion DSG in China. This is where my cargo hook and 3m aluminum trim idea came from.
    Current Fleet
    #ProjectICreate Jetta GLI32
    2001 Cobra #88/3786
    1989 Jetta Trophy 1 of 500
    2004 Audi A2 FSI Colour Storm RHD
    2015 B8.5 S4 Sepang/Technik/6MT/SD/AAD/CF

    Motorsport Engineer

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    Detailed pictures of the 3m aluminum wrpped interior

    Detail pictures of the 3M wrapped interior.
    Not as glossy as the GLI, but pretty close to the brush aluminum panels on the European Passat B6.
    3M wrap bought from ecstuning, it's got a distinct brushed texture.
    I removed the dash to apply the vinyl, also used an ordinary hair dryer to keep it flexible.









    Current Fleet
    #ProjectICreate Jetta GLI32
    2001 Cobra #88/3786
    1989 Jetta Trophy 1 of 500
    2004 Audi A2 FSI Colour Storm RHD
    2015 B8.5 S4 Sepang/Technik/6MT/SD/AAD/CF

    Motorsport Engineer

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    • #3
      Re: From China with Love

      Next week, DIY on how to install factory wheel bolt covers on extended wheel bolts, and picture with spacers.
      Current Fleet
      #ProjectICreate Jetta GLI32
      2001 Cobra #88/3786
      1989 Jetta Trophy 1 of 500
      2004 Audi A2 FSI Colour Storm RHD
      2015 B8.5 S4 Sepang/Technik/6MT/SD/AAD/CF

      Motorsport Engineer

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      • #4
        Re: From China with Love

        Thanks to btimbit and BolideVW for bringing here from vortex
        Last edited by kujiwara; 03-10-2013, 11:52 PM.
        Current Fleet
        #ProjectICreate Jetta GLI32
        2001 Cobra #88/3786
        1989 Jetta Trophy 1 of 500
        2004 Audi A2 FSI Colour Storm RHD
        2015 B8.5 S4 Sepang/Technik/6MT/SD/AAD/CF

        Motorsport Engineer

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        • #5
          Re: From China with Love

          Nice lookin car. For being 15 i'd say you're doing quite well. I like the look of the polished Santa Monica's!
          Patryk
          Instagram: @parkus08

          91 BMW 340is ///M-Tech II - Under construction
          08 VW .:R32
          04 Audi A4 Avant 1.8TQ

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          • #6
            Re: From China with Love

            Need to take off some of the stickers and go a little bit lower.

            Love the polished SM's though!

            Face-lifted mk2's are gross.
            Calgary Autoworks

            2004.5 Jetta GLI
            2005 Audi Allroad

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            • #7
              Re: From China with Love

              Originally posted by BaggedGLI View Post
              Need to take off some of the stickers and go a little bit lower.

              Love the polished SM's though!

              Face-lifted mk2's are gross.
              Lol thanks! I went about 2cm lower since I installed the spacers yesterday removed a few stickers too
              The face lifted certainly dont look good but does have pretty good internals, like ABS, 5 speed, 20V and sagging rear end, the car literally scrapes the ground when there's 100kg in the trunk lol.
              Current Fleet
              #ProjectICreate Jetta GLI32
              2001 Cobra #88/3786
              1989 Jetta Trophy 1 of 500
              2004 Audi A2 FSI Colour Storm RHD
              2015 B8.5 S4 Sepang/Technik/6MT/SD/AAD/CF

              Motorsport Engineer

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              • #8
                Re: From China with Love

                Welcome!
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                • #9
                  Re: From China with Love

                  Originally posted by kujiwara View Post
                  Thanks to btimbit and BolideVW for bringing here from vortex
                  Ftfy
                  Dylan

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                  • #10
                    Re: From China with Love

                    Nice lookin car. For being 15 i'd say you're doing quite well. I like the look of the polished Santa Monica's!
                    Thanks mate, just can't get away with the stickers lol
                    Last edited by kujiwara; 03-10-2013, 11:54 PM.
                    Current Fleet
                    #ProjectICreate Jetta GLI32
                    2001 Cobra #88/3786
                    1989 Jetta Trophy 1 of 500
                    2004 Audi A2 FSI Colour Storm RHD
                    2015 B8.5 S4 Sepang/Technik/6MT/SD/AAD/CF

                    Motorsport Engineer

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                    • #11
                      Re: From China with Love

                      Originally posted by BolideVW View Post
                      Ftfy
                      Sorry lol
                      Current Fleet
                      #ProjectICreate Jetta GLI32
                      2001 Cobra #88/3786
                      1989 Jetta Trophy 1 of 500
                      2004 Audi A2 FSI Colour Storm RHD
                      2015 B8.5 S4 Sepang/Technik/6MT/SD/AAD/CF

                      Motorsport Engineer

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                      • #12
                        Re: From China with Love

                        I reinstalled my summer wheels and semi slicks three hours before the snow storm warning came.... So.... SWAG....
                        Current Fleet
                        #ProjectICreate Jetta GLI32
                        2001 Cobra #88/3786
                        1989 Jetta Trophy 1 of 500
                        2004 Audi A2 FSI Colour Storm RHD
                        2015 B8.5 S4 Sepang/Technik/6MT/SD/AAD/CF

                        Motorsport Engineer

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                        • #13
                          Re: From China with Love

                          nice car man, welcome. ive never like sm's, but those look good. pics of being lower please :P.

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                          • #14
                            Re: From China with Love

                            Originally posted by danaldson View Post
                            nice car man, welcome. ive never like sm's, but those look good. pics of being lower please :P.
                            Thanks mate, I'll upload the picture whenever it's sunny outside.
                            Current Fleet
                            #ProjectICreate Jetta GLI32
                            2001 Cobra #88/3786
                            1989 Jetta Trophy 1 of 500
                            2004 Audi A2 FSI Colour Storm RHD
                            2015 B8.5 S4 Sepang/Technik/6MT/SD/AAD/CF

                            Motorsport Engineer

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                            • #15
                              Re: From China with Love

                              Nice progress on the car, keep us posted on how it evolves from here!
                              Blair
                              Former Cars: '12 Fiat 500, '10 VW GTI, '05 Smart Fortwo, '96 VW Jetta GLX, '02 VW GTI 337.........

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