The mk3 1.9L TD power-quest

[Greg Roles]

Bet the guy in the GTI was suprised, nice work mate! Give those gassers hell!

[Preen59]

Sounds good dude. Aslong as you keep good oil in the engine and keep changing it at regular intervals i'd expect that the engine would be showing little signs of wear.


Looks like i better organise a BBQ one weekend when i'm free and you guys are too so i can sample the new improved HP..

[gldgti]

Sounds good dude. Aslong as you keep good oil in the engine and keep changing it at regular intervals i'd expect that the engine would be showing little signs of wear.


Looks like i better organise a BBQ one weekend when i'm free and you guys are too so i can sample the new improved HP..

wooo! VWW GTG at aydans house!

it seems to happen more and more... mollins and i are always playing golf together, but i've had Mickey with his vr and preeny... i guess any house with 2 mk1's out the front and 2 golfs in hte car port is going to be a bit of a nuthouse

[gldgti]

Update

so i fitted a larger intercooler today.... basically just a deeper vesion of the one i had.... and extra 2.5" on the bottom. its a lot more obvious that theres and intercooler there now, but i dont care. im after power and efficiency, and i get enough people trying to race me anyway, i don;t think it'll make much difference to that.

i havnt really noticed any more lag... but i'm hopeful that the extra bit of direct airflow that it now gets will aid in keeping it cooler than before (even though it was working great).

pic (sorry it was dark.... my crappy old camera did little...)



also thought i'd share with you fellow sooties my new rear windscreen livery:

[Water Boy]

Loved looking at your engine bay at Nats

[gldgti]

heh, cheers. i don't know if we met

your mk3 is mega cool bro. LOVE the simple look. you need a set of vr6 seats in it though

[gldgti]

warning, diesel porn imminent

so guys, the time has come... for me to do something.

uni is finished (so far as i know) and the last month has been hectic but wanting to get into all the things i've said i wanted to do for years (literally) has finally got the better of me... i think i'll let the pictures do the talking:

heres my big achievment:


clutch slip (again) has necessitated a new clutch. new rear main seal




who could believe.... all this time i thought i was driving around a k14 turbo, turns out my brain is fried cos this is a wee little garrett T2 - and its been pushing 22psi for 40,000km now.... lucky i have a big intercooler


but enough with the past, how about this for a size comparison:




theres a little work going into adjusting the positions of the wastegate actuator and compressor housing to clear something else i'm working on this week...


brand spanking 1z manifold....


making the incision...

[gldgti]

i've got a total of about 20minutes aluminium welding experience, so i dove right on in...

and the obligatory gearbox cleanup...


sorry for phone pic quality...

on the upside, i am hoping to have this thing together and running for this sunday afternoon, just waiting on new oil lines, finish my intake manifold, and install a couple of other new bits while its all apart - gearbox input shaft seal and bushing, new timing belt, new main engine mount, new turbo intake pipe, and modify the exhaust downpipe to fit new turbo.

but heres to progress, and to you Preeny, may you be inspired

[Lorenz]

Your doing some brilliant work there mate, big ups to you!!
Look forward to seeing it all backtogether

[Preen59]

Great work dude. Who cares if your welds are a bit average.. That's how you learn! Loving it.

[Golf Loon]

Yeah man.
Just when we were getting all dissapointed that no-one posts build threads anymore. Nice one.
That Turbo looks pretty purposeful mate, you could put the old one on a Mk1
I`ll be watching this with interest.

[gldgti]

Yeah man.
Just when we were getting all dissapointed that no-one posts build threads anymore. Nice one.
That Turbo looks pretty purposeful mate, you could put the old one on a Mk1
I`ll be watching this with interest.

ahh, great minds and all that - the T2 will be going into Megans Cab

thanks for the kind replies.

[GoLfMan]

sweet! Looking tops there matey

looking forward to the "review" of the new set up!

[Greg Roles]

Ferkin ell, you're on the serious end of buildups! Noice!! Making me feel bad about how little I've done recently, but you're going to a WHOLE other level. Awesome!!

[Jarred]

WIN! that's what I call a real turbo!

woot for progress finally.