[Christ]

Pics added at the top, and here is the Jetta from which I'll be taking the suspension components. It's a GLX VR6 that I paid $650 for hoping it would work for a beater... well, the day I registered it [after driving it 500ish miles on random trips down back roads], it decided to eat the timing chains, which are on the back of the engine between the block and transmission - No, thanks, not for a beater car.



Depends on what I actually end up doing as to whether this car will ever see road time again... If I end up using the VR6 Passat I'm getting as a parts car, this one may yet be restored, either using an IDI engine or by putting the 150k mile Passat VR6 engine against the Jetta's 5 speed [after some turbo and maintenance related goodies] for a 'fun' beater car. 300ish HP on boost may not be /this/ forum's forte - but man, a man's gotta have some fun.