QUOTE(stormlcc @ Oct 12 2011, 04:49 PM)
just to be clear, that's NOT my car....haha

and i don't have THAT kind of cash to spend on a car. FYI, ALL the parts, ALL of them including the engine, gearbox, shafts, suspension parts (the ENTIRE suspension), bush, rubbers, interior parts, carpets, seats, doors, hood, even the glove box was IMPORTED DIRECTLY FROM GERMANY by container. basically the whole car is NEW made in Malaysia by parts from Germany. It took years of planning and months of preparation to rebuild. The entire process of rebuilding took almost half a year.
And I don't mean to be misleading (sorry), i'm just answering the question of how much that car cost for rebuilding.
well, it's great to know that there're such enthusiast in m'sia still.
and definitely good to know the price to do such crazy things, obviously i would want to do the same thing too if i have the cash, it's crazy, but it's not stupid, as what it pays lasts for a life time. i salute the owner for doing it. Hope that the local mechanic did also a superb job to par the parts imported. i often heard that m'sian mech are too ego with their limited knowledge, as u know, as we are able to gather all information from internet nowadays, most of the time the hobbyist is much more knowledgeable than the mech in the sense of knowing what can pair with what and how it can perform, ofcourse it still need the mechanic knowledge to do the physical tuning, so when the particular hobbyist inquire some mechanic, the mechanic who don't know, simply don't want to know more and say that can't be done and say whatever on the net is bull shit. that's so saddening for our country, as well as for the VW scene.
so if an owner is rich and he found a mechanic who're keen enough to dig the net together with the owner to upgrade the car, by all means, i feel the cash to pay for that is worth it.