Swapping a MK6 GTI to 3.6 VR6 | Owner Spotlight 

This has got to be one of the best looking, best overall MK6 GTI i have ever seen. The fact this owner did all the work himself (mostly) and has no experience just winged It and came out with this as a final result? One word folks... Amazing 👍👍👍👍

Love this dude’s attitude

Woke up to hearing this Wookies sound every morning!! One of my favorite cars in the parking lot and the RHD Corrado 👍🏾❤️👊🏾🍻

Great dude to talk to on the forums, great to see him getting more attention!

Awesome! Love how he talks about trial and error. 🙂 Car looks and sounds GREAT!

Hey Matt, Great GTI!!! Congratulations. I admire your hard work, intelligence, and perseverance in completing the project. Happy motoring.

I like this guy, honest and likes to drive his car. Awesome video

Damn! This guy went all out with this build! And it’s all so subtle! Nothing crazy over the top until you really look! Did you guys catch all the polished trans linkage in the engine compartment? Amazing! But I wanna know where he got those interior parts! The cf center arm rest, cf e brake boot, and how did he do or get done the alcantara all over the dash?! Speechless!

Beautiful build!!! These shots show it off so well

Great series of videos, let's keep them coming, I want more.

Honest and humble guy 👍🏻

Love the bay on your vw ! Great & clean job man !

I’m stilling trying to change my own breaks and this guy is swapping engines. Hats off

Rad! Motor swap and interior upgrades look dope man!

VR6s sound amazing. I had a mk4 Jetta GLX with a VR6 and put an after market exhaust on it. Gotta a lot of looks man!

Epic build and something unique. Thumbs up for the content

Awesome build! I had no idea how much you changed.

Beautiful car!! Lovely build. I don’t really ever make comment but had to for this! Well done

Please do more Cars and Cocktails podcasts! They are my favourite podcast to listen to at work

Craaaazy build! Very cool car, nice guy, love the honesty about the trial & error. Hope he is able to fine tune the things he wants to work on. Kinda scary build too. Haha

Great build, I wish my B6 Passat VR 4mo wagon sounded like that.

Amazing home build and character in this car!

This exact MK6 GTI Reminds me of one by these guys at LuftTechnik in Coral Springs FL

Here in Brazil we would have thrown away the stock ecu asap and installed an fueltech module to run and tune that engine!

Sweet I was thinking of putting a 2013 r 14 direct injection in my mk5 r32 but I scrapped the idea because too much work involved. This is gr8 tho 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Luft Technik is the best shop in South Florida. I’m so happy to see Matt get a proper highlight! If you see this bro! Congratulations!

Love this build. So sweet and epic.💥💯💥

Im shaving my enginebay too. vw rabbit mk5 with R36 engine and manual transmission too. This mk6 is insane

Simply put. It's fantastic and clean

I just was thinking of doing a vr6 in a 2012 Jetta S..this car is Amazing!!🔥🔥

This is so sick! 🔥🔥

Very nice set up

I wish I had that 3.6 swap in my MK2 Jetta. That thing is awesome 👍🏾

There’s a guy here in the UK fitting a turbo R36 to a Mk6R, the setup was previously in a Mk4 R32.

Nice build. I own an MK5 GTI that has a swapped MK6 Golf R engine with a Precision 5858 big turbo kit from CTS custom tuned. Hence it's called Half R MK5 😁😁. Would love a VR6 or 2.5 engine and BT it.

Ironically enough im in the process of swapping a 12v 2.8L Vr6 into my mk5 Rabbit for a track only build. This is an interesting parallel

Sound track must be amazing!!!

listening to him listing out the problems after the swap got me overwhelmed and anxiety build up lol

Very cool! Love these engines.

I asolutely love this build!

Awesome build!

Uhh 🤤 she's beautiful. That bay is so NEAT and clean.

Wow, finally a MK6 with sound.

I love how he said it’s just a car and to have fun with it! Especially when he said he beats on it XD

Man that interior is 👌👌

Im not really a big fan of that kinda drop...but the car overall looks really good...engine bay done very well...and the engine and trans 😎 well done mate

Dope good job!

That radiator fan thing is a MkV platform bug in general, happened on my 2009 Jetta and baffled me.

really great build with that vr6 swap

What exhaust set up is this?? It sounds amazing and I’m stuck on what route to go with my Passat gt. Beautiful swap man😮‍💨👍🏽Thank you!!

my BLV swapped MK4 will be done tomorrow!

Standalone like syvecs would solve all your ecu problems only they are stupid expensive. R36 engines are pretty rare even here in Belgium where i live, i used to work for a vag parts dismantlement firm, we bought containers from wolfsburg with almost new parts from rejected cars and they had 1 3.6 vr6 in stock ,problem is they only came in the regular passats R36 and the CC R36, always wanted to put that engine into a a3 8p 3.2 but due to taxes for high displacement engines beeing high and strict modification regulations in belgium( we can't even but on bigger brakes, we got annual car inspections here) i ended up buying a 05 2.0tfsi quattro manual a3 8p (3doors you guys in the us didn't get the 3d if i am not mistaken, only the sportback which i don't like) and s3/ed30 swapped it(cdl/byd) in the end pretty happy with the ea113 2.0 it's making 414hp at the crank with a tte420 and 545nm, goes well but car is still pretty heavy for a a3 even after weight reduction like removing the aircon, recaro pole positions, rear seat delete, lighter suspension like coilovers, passat 3c front alu control arms, and lighter exhaust, it's still around 1540kg wet with me in it.But great to see this mk6 with a 3.6 in it, the sound on it's one is truelly amazing.👍✌️👉

Awesome to see another person who does a build right and isn’t scared to drive it !!!! Why do all that to your car and be scared to drive it!! I drive the crap out of my tuned 2016 MK7 GTI

Awesome build 👍

Great built And it suits his personality Funny as hell😂

This car is so sick. It deserves a full pump gas N/A engine build. If it's making around 280 now then you should have no problem making 400 with the right compression ratio, cams, and porting the head with a nice intake manifold and equal length header. Could also convert it to awd with a MK6 Golf R drivetrain and custom trans plate with a DQ500 or DQ250 DSG trans. The MK5 R32 drivetrain may possibly work as well, something worth looking into for cheaper cost and better parts car availability. Then put Motec on it for engine management and call it a day. That'd be a really unique set up.

This Is a sick swap 🔥🔥🔥🔥

nice build :) one thing, when you installed Porsche logos on your wheels, make sure the Arrow targets the tirevalve... every one in Germany, if it comes to people who knows porsche will look at that at.

This really makes me wanna VR6 swap my MK6 Stg II GTI lol, sounds so good and is a base 280hp w/ more torque? Yes please!

Amazing work. I need a 3.6L replacement for my CC, where to source ?

Love these owner spotlight videos! Thanks!

DUUUUDDDEEEEE MY SET SCREW DID THE SAME THING FOR MY BOOST TAP. Had to rebuild it and shave down that piston a bit lmao

I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR A BUILD LIKE THIS FOR MONTHS!

what an awesome dude ! and a great car man ! wow

Matt is being modest. This car gave him a shit ton of grief. Sucks I didn't know then what I knew now with my 3.2 when he asked me a bunch of questions about the swap. Could have saved him a ton of grief.

😢😊gained a super fan 👏 🙌 👌 for that build ❤️ my favorite car

Sounds epic, just needs a turbo now! :D

Awesome build love the VR6 engine. Had a Deep Blue Pearl MK4 R32. To bad VW won't/ didn't at least offer the VR6 engine not every one likes the four banger fart maker's. Again nice build and enjoy it 👍. Oh one more thing I would like to add/ask , wouldn't it been easier if you swapped out for the MK5 R32 engine? I believe the computer ECU would be more compatible plus there are more tuner part's for the 3.2 VR6 than the 3.6 VR6.

I came back to this video just to give it a like!

Incredible build. Funny thing for me is, I have a 2.0T CC R-Line with a manual, and I would absolutely LOVE to do a 3.6 swap WITH a manual. Now knowing the CC 3.6 ECU causes fits is very helpful.

That's sweet!!!

Wow, what a car!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🙌🏾

I would like a mild build list for the swap. Wanting to vr6 swap the ol’mk5

Looks and sounds amazing 🎼👌

That is sick!

Finally someone did this

Dayummmmmm I’m holding on to getting the 3.6 in my Tiguan shit it can be done!!!!!!!💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

Omg... So hot... Had a 2010. Always wanted a vr6. Great job!

This guy is really down to earth.

That's looks so good. How can the engine bay look so empty like that? Battery? Coolant reservoir? Etc?

this is simply correct.

I’ll admit, this is a cool build. Especially all the non VW parts, or not mk6 parts on it. I’d still love to do a MK7 VR6 swap, and maybe make it AWD as well. But I’m dreaming.

Hey brother, I just swapped a BLV 3.6 into my MK5 GTI. How did you get around the coding for the ECU? Seems the automatics are hard coded. Was there any driveability issues when you got it running?

I have a 2009 cc vr6 4motion dsg. Thinking about what I should do to the exhaust. Any tips?

Does anyone actually make internal parts for a 3.6? Like forged parts and a bigger cam?

Looking into doing a r32 swap into a mk6 Jetta, any advice or tips to make the process go smoothly?

Where did you get your fog lights gloss black cover ?! 👀

All that work looks nice bro. But from what I can see it ant fast unless you where only part throttle ??

Cool! I’d like a Mk7 2-door+sunroof+2.5T+4Motion+ClubSport S parts

any tips on how to get that interor on the dash done?

that interior is fucking heaven 😫

Awesome build. Did you say it's AWD?

3.6!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The engine bay clean

Sick car! Please come to UK and convert my 6!

Okay someone please answer this question for me. Why doesn't he just get a Haltec elite standalone to manage this instead of trying to crack the ecu?

Does the Mk7.5 GTI have a different oil pump than the Mk7 GTI? I'm asking because of the 0w-20 oil spec when it used to be 5w-40. I have put a 5w-30 in my 7.5 because I live in Arizona and like to drive it hard.

Hi, I been gifted a wonderful mark 6 vw TSI 1.4 with a knackered seized engine. I’m thinking about doing an engine swap possibly with the S3. What would be the easiest engine swap for this car, preferably with the same mounts and bolts. Please advise

I have a 2.0l and want to make it fast any suggestions besides sell it!!??? I love it and willing too drop like 3grand by 2023 summer help

That is an amazing car. Kinda wonder why he didn't bother getting and running a standalone ECU, at least as of this video. Cost, I guess.