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    Story of a 7G VR4 Build

    Welcome to my new thread, here I will post pics of my build in order

    Here is a pic from the first day I got my vr4, I bought it for 1000$ nzd but no warrant or rego,
    At this stage nothing had broken yet lol
    Mods were frontmount boost tap turbo timer super low king springs on the front and 17” rims all round

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    Next up was better rims of course, they are a limited edition 17”s diesel rims, info online is almost non existent so message me if you could help with that

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    Looking pretty cool,
    Have thought about capping off the cuts on the bumper where u've made provisions for the intercooler.
    I have a mate who made the same mods and it looked much better to the eye.
    ps, loving the wheels
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    Next up was better rims of course, they are a limited edition 17”s diesel rims, info online is almost non existent so message me if you could help with that


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    Solid advice bro but that bumper is long gone lol

    As you will see from the next pick things took a turn for the worst, my car got broken into with heaps of stuff stolen and the also smashed my windscreen, to make things worse my car got impounded when I was driving it back home

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    My next step was to try restore some pride to the ol girl by getting another bonnet and generally tidy her up a bit, as she was impounded she was kept outside in the wind and rain for a mount so you could imagine what the interior looked like

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    Finally saved and managed to get a new windscreen installed on her

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    Then I focused on tidying up the engine bay a lil bit

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    Then I had the joy of learning how to replace cv joints

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    I also found out how cold has to get to freeze your sunroof

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    So this was as good as I got her before I actually Started to build her properly

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    Here the real build starts, I got her in my old mans garage so she wasn’t out in the weather

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    The first step was to rip out the front mount, bumper, jack it up to replace another cv join plus shaft , and install a new bonnet

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    At the same time I was really starting to enjoy working on her so I thought it was time to swap out the suspension, she had king springs super lows which were a pain for me so I went and got new shocks and new king springs lows to raise her up a little bit

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    Then I thought hey if I’m going this far I may as well give her some fresh wheel bearings as well

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    Also a new blowoff valve never hurt anyone

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    I went shopping for a intercooler that was a lot smaller so I could fit it without chopping a massive hole in my front bumper, I also picked up some nice sparco windscreen wipers which are aerodynamic! Haha and as HKS is my favourite brand I got a nice oil filter from them

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    Then I temporarily put the old intercooler back on so I could give her a run and change the oil

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    This is when disaster struck, our garage leaked water start though a open window and practically filled up my interior whith water, I had to rip out everything, seats plastics the whole lot and found there was rust I had to get rid of too

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    As my interior was drying out I started to replace the exterior panels to lift her appearance

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    Here you can see she was starting to look pretty sexy

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