P1NDLESK1N
Ready to race!
Hi I'm P1NDLESK1N, I'm always online and I never post anything. :iono:
I've always meant to start a build thread but I never got around to it. Thousands of dollars in aftermarket shit later, I figure its better late then never. Maybe I'll clean this up thread up with a mod list and pictures that don't suck, but for now its a messy list of things that probably came in chronological order. Maybe.
I picked up my car September 8, 2010.
A 2011 VW GTI packaged with DSG transmission, xenons, sunroof, and cloth seats. I didn't give a fuck about the sunroof, but I think this was the first year where everything was packaged together instead of choosing separate options.
Here's a sweet picture I took with my cellphone after I picked it up and drove it to work. Believe it or not, I'm not a photographer.
Sometime in 2011 I lowered it with a set of H&R Super Sports, along with some 10/15mm spacers to make the stock Detroits look super cool. I think I had installed the LED tail lights, intake, and downpipe by then too.
Then I swung by Elite Motorsports to get my APR Stage 2 tune. Big improvement over the stock power I was used to. After picking my car up they offered me a booth spot for Waterfest 17. Initially I was on the fence about going, but having free passes and prime parking I couldn't say no.
I also Installed the Golf R front bumper, grills, headlights, and DRLs. Which was quickly overshadowed by ECS Tuning and their full Golf R conversion a mere 20 feet from our booth.
In January 2012 I was able to snag a hood with the notch already filled from Euro89 when he parted his car out. I've seen so many uneven and just plain shitty notch fills so finding one done so well was sweet. Really, he did a fuckin awesome job on this hood.
Then I bagged it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/62790175@N03/sets/72157644337577392/
In October 2012 I contacted Rat4Life from VWVortex, one of the best and reasonably priced air ride installers in the tri state area. He does everything on jack stands in his two car garage in NJ. Dude has thousands of photos of the installs he does on his Flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rat4life/
In July 2013 I decided to go APR Stage3+.
I ordered APR's turbo kit, intercooler, and turbo back exhaust along with Integrated Engineering's connecting rods.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/62790175@N03/with/14048931033
While my car was getting its big boy turbo installed, my 3SDM 0.06's arrived. 18x9.5 -40 all around. I needed ~5mm spacers to clear the sway bar brackets on my front airlift struts, but I just reused the 10mm's I already had up front for my stock Detroits and Sparcos.
That's almost everything I've had done up until recently. I left out a few different exhausts I've gone through like Mandrel Bending Solutions' turboback, Magnaflow's catback and a Raceland downpipe, but lets just pretend that I wrote about them.
I'll be updating this thread as I continue to dump money into this car, at least until I total it, or it explodes, or both.
I've always meant to start a build thread but I never got around to it. Thousands of dollars in aftermarket shit later, I figure its better late then never. Maybe I'll clean this up thread up with a mod list and pictures that don't suck, but for now its a messy list of things that probably came in chronological order. Maybe.
I picked up my car September 8, 2010.
A 2011 VW GTI packaged with DSG transmission, xenons, sunroof, and cloth seats. I didn't give a fuck about the sunroof, but I think this was the first year where everything was packaged together instead of choosing separate options.
Here's a sweet picture I took with my cellphone after I picked it up and drove it to work. Believe it or not, I'm not a photographer.
Sometime in 2011 I lowered it with a set of H&R Super Sports, along with some 10/15mm spacers to make the stock Detroits look super cool. I think I had installed the LED tail lights, intake, and downpipe by then too.
Then I swung by Elite Motorsports to get my APR Stage 2 tune. Big improvement over the stock power I was used to. After picking my car up they offered me a booth spot for Waterfest 17. Initially I was on the fence about going, but having free passes and prime parking I couldn't say no.
I also Installed the Golf R front bumper, grills, headlights, and DRLs. Which was quickly overshadowed by ECS Tuning and their full Golf R conversion a mere 20 feet from our booth.
In January 2012 I was able to snag a hood with the notch already filled from Euro89 when he parted his car out. I've seen so many uneven and just plain shitty notch fills so finding one done so well was sweet. Really, he did a fuckin awesome job on this hood.
Then I bagged it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/62790175@N03/sets/72157644337577392/
In October 2012 I contacted Rat4Life from VWVortex, one of the best and reasonably priced air ride installers in the tri state area. He does everything on jack stands in his two car garage in NJ. Dude has thousands of photos of the installs he does on his Flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rat4life/
In July 2013 I decided to go APR Stage3+.
I ordered APR's turbo kit, intercooler, and turbo back exhaust along with Integrated Engineering's connecting rods.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/62790175@N03/with/14048931033
While my car was getting its big boy turbo installed, my 3SDM 0.06's arrived. 18x9.5 -40 all around. I needed ~5mm spacers to clear the sway bar brackets on my front airlift struts, but I just reused the 10mm's I already had up front for my stock Detroits and Sparcos.
That's almost everything I've had done up until recently. I left out a few different exhausts I've gone through like Mandrel Bending Solutions' turboback, Magnaflow's catback and a Raceland downpipe, but lets just pretend that I wrote about them.
I'll be updating this thread as I continue to dump money into this car, at least until I total it, or it explodes, or both.