Shaved, Tucked, Customized Engine Bays - Pics, Theory, Discussion

[Elvir]

Purpose: The objective of this thread is to get basic inspiration, ideas, and just plain help on shaving the engine bay. If you have performed any shaving job, big or small, and have interest in showing DIY/How to's to help the community, please feel free to post.

Rules: I would like to keep this thread open, helpful and useful. Questions on How to do a certain job can be posted along with solutions. KEEP IT clean

Some Inspirations

Some Basic Ideas
-Relocation of Fluid Bottles
-Wires/Harness
-fuse Box's
-Battery Relocation
-Shaved wipers/ wiper Motors
-etc, etc...

Shaved Pictures
Shaved 1
Shaved 2
Shaved 3

Battery Stuff
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Battery Choices

Vacuum Reservoir
Vacuum Reservoir Relocation 1
Vaccume reservoir Relocation 2
Vaccume reservoir Relocation 3

DV Relocation Kit

SAI, N249, PCV, EVAP
Removing SAI, N249, PCV, EVAP

Polishing
Polishing tips by The ministah1

Elvir

Modified by Elvir at 9:17 AM 10-11-2007

[Gixxie]

thats awesome ... good luck with it

[03one8T]

i'd def. like to see some of these guys put out some ideas

[skatingzooyork]

Nice idea Elvir! Hopefully it will stay on topic and there will be some useful info in here!

[ftratrny]

Great idea Elvir, I vote for this to be added intot he DIYs!

[klg0143]

Great Idea, not sure how hard this stuff is to do so lets hear about it.

[skatingzooyork]

Here are a few more pictures of a shaved bay:
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3323423

Here are a couple more:

Quote, originally posted by j. Kush »

QFT, this isn't a "How-to" / "DIY" kind of project.

Here is a shot of Trevis before he was finished:

Quote, originally posted by ForVWLife »

wait til h2o thats all i can say...... trevis ps this pic does the car no justice as it sits not with new intake mani....ic piping etc

And even though these aren't mkiv's, they are still 1.8t motors.

Quote, originally posted by The Hulk »

[papa]

[e.xo.cet]

pure sex

[vrubbadub]

G/L with the thread, hopefullly we can learn alot....

[rice X eater]

tracked... for future plans

[Elvir]

I found some basic information.

It would be great if we could have Travy and Drew shed some insight.

Anything/Everything that gets posted, will be updated for viewing on the first page

Elvir

[tattoo24v]

nice. i was planning on doing this this winter.

[moacur]

Great thread... A twin city locals MKII with a shaved R32T bay

Modified by moacur at 8:57 AM 10-6-2007

[tchristemac]

Elvir, great thread and good luck......

[dashrendar]

very nice thread, could turn out very well, and I will help keep this on topic for you.

-Dash

[Rawas]

Subscribed, this could be very interesting

[Ubel GLI]

Quote, originally posted by lama_daboul »

Subscribed, this could be very interesting

x2

[irishdubr]

Quote, originally posted by lama_daboul »

Subscribed, this could be very interesting

x3

[Clean PG]

Quote, originally posted by klg0143 »

Great Idea, not sure how hard this stuff is to do so lets hear about it.

i myself have never done any work in shaving a bay, but from what ive heard the work required is no joke and it takes a LOT of time. but hopefully this thread turns out

[Hoxmarch]

I've seen alot of people painting their fluid bottles, I would definitely like to, is there anything I need to know before hand?
Like, special paints, or what NOT to paint, or not to paint something at all?

[audi666]

wow i want

[skatingzooyork]

Quote, originally posted by Hoxmarch »

I've seen alot of people painting their fluid bottles, I would definitely like to, is there anything I need to know before hand? Like, special paints, or what NOT to paint, or not to paint something at all?

Please keep this on topic and to answer your ? search for paint prep.

Bump this back for Elvir!

I searched for a while last night and there definitely isn't much information on this. Hopefully a veteran can step up w/ some helpful tips!!

[Elvir]

I thought about it a little..

Savwko did a complete DIY on how to Removing SAI, N249, PCV, EVAP.

The Picture Follows like this:

If you take a good look at this picture..there is a significant amount of work done here. The engine does look much cleaner.

Now, Look up instructions on how to relocate the battery. This will yield a lot of room where the battery was. There is information on how to tuck the wires as well.

On the left side, if you want you can remove the wiper fluid. Its a BIG bottle. You dont necessarily need it. Since he removed all the emission stuff, he managed to remove the three balls from under the left fender. You can take the Freon Bottle and hide it there with some minor fabrication. Two noticeable things that are left are the are the i believe are fuse boxes in between the two fluid bottles, and above the intake filter. Those can be also tucked under the dash..This will results in a very clean engine bay..

Elvir

[dymer]

I put in an external oil cooler today. Only thing left to do is really get the bay repainted. Slow work in progress.... And not exactly the smartest thing to do to a daily as reliability isn't exactly 100%. It's been fun messing around with it though

Quick mock-up before mounting the cooler itself

[Elvir]

dang, that is a pretty good job. You could definitely polish the alternator and get a polished short ram pipe for the filter.

What all did you remove, and what did you relocate, and where did you put it?

Elvir

[dymer]

Yeah, there's lot of little bits I still want to do at some point or another... Wiring is a pain, eventually I'll do a better job of tucking away where it comes thru the rain tray

Battery is in the trunk, power steering below the passenger side headlight, got rid of the stock fuel rail to clean things up, coolant reservoir deleted, most of the electrical has been run beneath the driver side frame rail and what not. That's the bulk of it... Everything is more or less still there, the only trick is finding ways to re-route things and tuck them away. I left the intake the way it is for the time-being 'cause the little heat shield beheind it kind of hides the ABS module.

I'll post up more things Ive done as they come to mind. Beers all day in the garage is messing with me right now

[akoehler]

Quote, originally posted by dymer »

Is that a 2.0?

[j. Kush]

Let's not forget about one of the first shaved engine bays to ever hit the forum people....

[anybody know who i'm talking about]


Modified by j. Kush at 12:29 AM 10-7-2007

[dashrendar]

Quote, originally posted by j. Kush »

Let's not forget about one of the first shaved engine bays to ever hit the forum people.... [anybody know who i'm talking about]

ventodan wasnt it?

[Swizz!!]

thought i'd share a pic i took of Lag's car.

[AKDiVo]

We need explanations on how to do it, I guess most don't want to share to be "original" although it has been obvoiusly done a few times now.
P.s. subscribed

[FAIL]

Quote, originally posted by dashrendar »

ventodan wasnt it?

i believe you are correct.

[j. Kush]

Quote, originally posted by dashrendar »

ventodan wasnt it?

[jakanapapa]

Quote, originally posted by AKDiVo »

We need explanations on how to do it, I guess most don't want to share to be "original" although it has been obvoiusly done a few times now. P.s. subscribed

first post has most of what your looking for.
i myself plan on relocating the battery