It Begins: The S3 1.8T into my '85 Mk2 GTI

[tommymac]

Wade SDB my provide your tuner some sound advice the guy seems like he knows whats going on and is the offical distributer of MBE in the Uk. Just incase you need them,.

[MattyT]

man just spend the $200 and get a bosch 044 motorsport pump, that should give you all the fuel you need

Word to this.

[GOLFBALLS]

man just spend the $200 and get a bosch 044 motorsport pump, that should give you all the fuel you need

so where would i find one of these?

[peedman]

cheaper to buy a walbro inline from ctsturbo for $129usd!

[tommymac]

Fuk walbro go with a 040 from eBay just make sure it's genuine. It's true mate I never have any issues with mine
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[dubsquad]

Hey Wade, check this out. cheapest on ebay and do free overnight shipping.

BOSCH 044 0580254044 100% GENUINE PERFORMANCE FUEL PUMP (eBay item 370449901809 end time 25-Nov-10 16:39:55 AEDST) : Cars, Bikes, Boats

Cheers
Leigh

[GOLFBALLS]

Hmm cool thanks chaps.
Any info on voltage/wiring required to fit these? ie: can i just solder up a terminal from the existing pump harness and run it with whatever voltage supply the mk2 has??
Sorry for all the questions!

[Volksee77]

yeah mate just wire her up with the existing wiring harness, this is going in my kr race engine and supplies more fuel than you'll ever need so won't be on it's limits all the time

[GOLFBALLS]

Bosch are sold out Australia wide atm. 400 coming this month. I might grab that one on ebay me thinks.

Also got the spare AMK parts from that dude in the uk thanks Gareth for the hot tip. $800 delivered for a spare cyl head, cams, lifters, conrods, injectors, K04 and associated feed/return lines, charge pipe, intake manifold and intake trunking incl a forge DV.

[tommymac]

Wade do you want me to look at ure map? Not that I'm an expert but might not hurt?

[GOLFBALLS]

cool thnx for the offer mate. I'll hook up that 044 and see how she goes first. Just gotta find the time and a spare car to use while im effing around mounting it...
cheers

[GOLFBALLS]

Righto so a little update.
Got this:



Bosch 044 fuel pump. Mounted it up and the car felt the same so i then stuck on a hose and ran it direct from the fuel tank so it was sucking straight out of there to the injectors.
It felt good but not that different really. It's booked in for the dyno on the 11th so the truth will be revealed then.

I found out that the mk2 GTI fuel lines are the same size as the S3 ones so no drama's there.

I've also put four new BREMI coilpacks in for good measure and tried a couple of different N75's. No change noticed.

Tommymac runs his setup basically the same as mine (the 044 sucking straight thru the in-tank pump) & he has no fuel delivery issues at all, so it's looking like the map again.

So, we'll see what happens on the 11th!!

In other news, I put some new Lemfoerder strut top mounts in to try and stop the knocking rattle in the drivers front suspension. It didn't fix the issue, but it was just as well i changed them anyway!!! Old Febi ones were totally collapsed...





And these are about to go in the front.



Also polished up the RS001's tonight ready for DOTVW

[Jarred]

Awesome, glad to see you're still heaps stuck in!

Even though you're still having issues with fuel. Is it possible to run tommymacs file, and see if that works?

[GOLFBALLS]

Awesome, glad to see you're still heaps stuck in!

Even though you're still having issues with fuel. Is it possible to run tommymacs file, and see if that works?

Yep, but last resort.

[GOLFBALLS]

Got the car in at golfwagen and had this put in;



Hopefully that oughta stop the engine movement!! It's the extra stiff mount.

And some crappy night pics of the tidied bay after I extended the air filter using bunnings pvc pipe and crackle paint!!!:




I also got joe to put in the greenstuff front pads. They are actually so thick that they make the BBS hit against the calipers now, so he's had to put the BMW BBS (the painted ones) on the front as they are able to clear the calipers.

Has anyone else on here had this problem using these pads with regular mk3 calipers? It's a bit odd considering they are a direct OE replacement.

Anyway, I get the car back tomorrow and i'll see how the brakes feel...