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Posted this on simply clean, but i figured I'd put it here too.
Alright, so I didn't document most of the work done until now since its been over such a long period of time, and when I first got this car I wasn't to enthused about it. But, it ended up growing on me and I started getting more "serious" with the mods. I had to dig back into my myspace page (holy fuck do you even remember that shit?) for most of these pics.
No stock pictures, but... it was stock so it looks like every other Passat in the world. Lucky for me I bought an essentially base model (that's sarcasm, this shit is basically a radio on wheels). Anyway this is what you get when VW hands you the keys in all its monster truck steelie glory.
Didn't touch the car for a few years, then randomly surfing eBay I came across a deal on a set of wheels that I couldn't pass up. And this is when I fell into this bottomless, useless pit that is modifying cars.
Carlsson 3/6, 18x8.5 et 35 fronts and 18x10 et 14 rears. Came with big ass tires. Being the noob that I was I mounted them on the car as is.
Monster trucking that bitch with 265 rears :banghead: After a few months I bought some coilovers. No pics but I splurged on KW V2's and some smaller tires, 235/40's and 215/40's. Fought with the suspension for a few hours until I finally got it installed and went through a mission to get someone to mount stretched tires for me, and it ended up looking like this.
OMG wheel gap! I thought that was crazy stretch too :
Dropped it some more after these photos and took it to a meet. This is the best pic I ever got on these wheels, which is a terrible photograph.
The stance was awful, especially by todays standards, as you can see in this pic.
The day after i took that pic, disaster struck in the form of our notoriously terrible Miami drivers.
Wheels were destroyed, so I sold them. While it was at the shop i got a a free manual transmission out of a 99' Audi A4, so I said fuck it, lets convert this bitch to stick. No progress shots as I was way too green to attempt this kind of install so I had a shop do it.
It hasn't blow up yet so I guess they did a decent job.
Sent it off to a body shop and got it back, they did a horrific job, fixed some shit but its still not perfect which is why i want a respray in the near future. Rockin steelies yo! Oh yea and since the headlight needed replacing I went ahead and upgraded to OEM euro HID's with leveling motors. Thank you State Farm! Also got a Forge sidemount intercooler.
Bought this because I'm super fuckin cool and in the scene yo!, but I got sidetracked and never installed it. More on that later.
Got bored with it while I waited to save up for new wheels and decided to max out the coilovers which resulted in...
Popped the pan.
Alright, so I didn't document most of the work done until now since its been over such a long period of time, and when I first got this car I wasn't to enthused about it. But, it ended up growing on me and I started getting more "serious" with the mods. I had to dig back into my myspace page (holy fuck do you even remember that shit?) for most of these pics.
No stock pictures, but... it was stock so it looks like every other Passat in the world. Lucky for me I bought an essentially base model (that's sarcasm, this shit is basically a radio on wheels). Anyway this is what you get when VW hands you the keys in all its monster truck steelie glory.
Didn't touch the car for a few years, then randomly surfing eBay I came across a deal on a set of wheels that I couldn't pass up. And this is when I fell into this bottomless, useless pit that is modifying cars.
Carlsson 3/6, 18x8.5 et 35 fronts and 18x10 et 14 rears. Came with big ass tires. Being the noob that I was I mounted them on the car as is.
Monster trucking that bitch with 265 rears :banghead: After a few months I bought some coilovers. No pics but I splurged on KW V2's and some smaller tires, 235/40's and 215/40's. Fought with the suspension for a few hours until I finally got it installed and went through a mission to get someone to mount stretched tires for me, and it ended up looking like this.
OMG wheel gap! I thought that was crazy stretch too :
Dropped it some more after these photos and took it to a meet. This is the best pic I ever got on these wheels, which is a terrible photograph.The stance was awful, especially by todays standards, as you can see in this pic.
The day after i took that pic, disaster struck in the form of our notoriously terrible Miami drivers.
Wheels were destroyed, so I sold them. While it was at the shop i got a a free manual transmission out of a 99' Audi A4, so I said fuck it, lets convert this bitch to stick. No progress shots as I was way too green to attempt this kind of install so I had a shop do it.
It hasn't blow up yet so I guess they did a decent job.
Sent it off to a body shop and got it back, they did a horrific job, fixed some shit but its still not perfect which is why i want a respray in the near future. Rockin steelies yo! Oh yea and since the headlight needed replacing I went ahead and upgraded to OEM euro HID's with leveling motors. Thank you State Farm! Also got a Forge sidemount intercooler.
Bought this because I'm super fuckin cool and in the scene yo!, but I got sidetracked and never installed it. More on that later.
Got bored with it while I waited to save up for new wheels and decided to max out the coilovers which resulted in...
Popped the pan.
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