This is not a new thread, but I finally got around to making a single post that shows all the pics will all captions along with it. Enjoy.
--------------------------------------------------------------Here is the super-mega-ultra picture edition of my R32 Jetta Wagon build:
Here is what I started with. A stock 02 Jetta GLX 5spd with the rims that I had from my original R32. This picture was taken October of 07, right after I got home. I bought it in Pennsylvania from a guy on VWVortex. I ended up using it as-is for about 6~7 months before I finally started my project.
This is the donor R32 that I purchased being loaded on the truck in Florida. It took three months from when I paid to when it shipped out, but I was still glad to see it get loaded finally.
Another shipping pic from Florida.
At long last, it is at my house. This is a close-up of the rear, sitting in my driveway after a long wait.
Another delivered pic.
Here we see the doors and hatch pulled off and I am about ready to pull it into the garage to rip it apart.
A second shot just before going into the garage.
Well, it really is an R32 engine, GOOD!. This was shipped with the engine/tranny just placed in the driver floor section. Not tied down at all or secured at all. 
Boxes and bundles of misc parts. Oh the joy of unpacking
Engine coming out after ripping the roof off.
Cleared out bottom half of the shell
Front end is cleared.
Firewall is chopped off
Front end and exhaust removed
Upside-down scrap of firewall
It is getting shorter and smaller.
Gas tank removed
Front end next to rear end
Whittling down the rear end
A bit less, but a lot to go
And so the Jetta finally goes into the garage to be taken apart. This was an interesting time, because it is the point of no going back. Once I started taking it apart, I was ready for the first cut. And I will say for sure, that I savored the moment for a while.
Interior beginning to be taken out.
Most of the interior out.
The interior, on the exterior.
Dropping down the rear end.
Original rear end on the floor
Intact original floor pan, but not for long.
And here it is. The VERY first cut. THe first point at which there really is no going back. Now of course, I COULD have stopped here. I COULD have gone back with this little cut. But it was symbolic. And once this got going, there was no stopping.
More pan cutting.
Need a spare?
Pan mostly gone. This is looking from the hatch in towards the dash.
Looking out from the front seats (if there were any)
Wheel well, getting stripped down.
I love this pic. It is probably my favorite. You can see both wheel wells and NO rear floor pan. When I was doing this, I would roll around on my stool and go in and out via the wheel wells. It was like a fort. (yes, I am a dork)
This is also a major pic. This shows the one "splice" that has to happen. The frame rail of the Jetta is straight on the bottom, but as you can see, the one here has a large notch out of it. Since the rail goes up much further, it is not easy to change out. So it is cut into here and replaced. This was the most difficult part of the pan swap I think because I used the original stuff and I had to extract it without damaging it. I also had to find a way to put it all back together.
Welding the above piece in.
New piece welded (opposite side as original pic, but same idea)
This is where the new pan got put into place. It went in a lot easier than I had originally thought. I had one other person helping me and we did it in about 20 minutes. We used to spare jacks to put tension and then just tapped the pan with a rubber mallet. It moved easily into place and then we tack welded it.
Inside view of the new pan being pushed into place
Underside view of new pan rough-in
Pan in final position
Lined up and looking good.
This is looking down to where the driver side rear seat would be. It shows how I had to smash back the upper area to get the pan in place. It is thin, and not hard to do, but it looks bad now. It all works out just fine though.
Here we see the new rear piece I made. The reason I made this is to stabilize the rear floor rails. They are about 9" short for the wagon. And on the wagon, they are not as tall by about 2". I wanted to make sure it was rigid to the rail end, so I made this piece. It is 1/8" steel. I drilled holes through it to the actual R32 mount points and then did a "drill and fill" style welding. That is, I filled up the drilled holes via welding and it becomes a single weld. If done right, it is quite strong. Then I also did a bead weld along the floor pan just for fun.
Another pic of the new piece
And again from another angle
Here is where I start to fabricate a new pan extension. You can see the original Jetta frame rail coming off the back side of the new piece.
Here is my little cubby hole all roughed in. I wanted some storage, and this is about exactly what the old one was like in size and shape.
Roughed in #2
Here is the R32 rear end being put up in place. I already had the gas tank on by this point, but I kind of skipped that.
Underside view of the new rear end and the H&R springs. The springs are the only thing that is not R32 stock (and tires/rims, but those don't count)
At long last, it is back on the ground again with the new rear end and rear pan. Now I just have to flip it around to start in on the front.........
Here it is turned around with the front bumper off.
And the rest of the front off with A/C off to the side
And, BING!, the old engine is gone!
Side by side, old engine (left) and new engine (right, duh).
barren engine bay ready for new life.
Pile of parts outside the garage are growing
This one is interesting. This is the new harness (left) and old harness (right, duh!). I have to pull out the rear door hook-ups as there is no such thing on the R32. This turned out to be a LOT easier than I had thought, but not knowing before hand, I just laid everything out.
This is the dash, without a dash, or harness, or anything really except for climatronic.
POOF! New engine in place
Second angle of new engine
All buttoned up and ready to head out.
Moved out into the driveway and ready to be loaded to be taken down to SCI (local shop) to actually get it running and get it re-keyed.
So at long last, it is running. I got it back and here it is after driving home:
Looks just like when I started huh? Except lower of course. By about 3" or something silly.
Another view
Wheel clearance? Barely, but yes.
New headlights. Cheap and effective. I like the black background.
more views
My new custom plates 
yes, more views
The interior. It is drivable, but it is missing a lot of trim. That is now resolved as of this writing though.
More interior shots, sans carpet. I kept all the stock GLX trim, except the shifter.
This is one thing that is still not done, the exhaust. Right now, it is 100% factory. The rear tips are just pointed down. But eventually it will be two down-turned pipes ending just beyond the bumper
exhaust #2
your wagon and i dont usually 
Chads brother Ben came and picked up my stock downpipe for your car. I would love to see it sometime. You gonna be at Volksport this weekend or Eurowerks next weekend?
You made this swap seem as easy as doing an intake install 
- Kabit - 
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Wow that's a lot of work... Sweet project
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