Gavin's cheapy but getting more expensive GTI ;)

[Lito]

Ups has landed! Engine crane borrowed. New bolts for the turbo purchased. The finishing straight!

nice!! let me know if you need any help getting that engine in

[h100vw]

nice!! let me know if you need any help getting that engine in

thanks mate, should be ok with the crane on hand.

A few photos later, clutch arrived today.
















Turbo bolted up.

[h100vw]

Well, it's back in the bay and only one minor crush injury to report .

Photos later on.

Mostly hooked up now.

[team_v]

Well, it's back in the bay and only one minor crush injury to report .

Photos later on.

Mostly hooked up now.

So this is the engine that was in the car that broke down or the spare sitting in the garage?
And is it running a K03s or Franken?

[Greg Roles]

Is this the point in the thread I remind you of what you said to me not long after you got it about not touching it??

[VWindahouse]

Well, it's back in the bay and only one minor crush injury to report .

Photos later on.

Mostly hooked up now.

Go you bloody good thing!!

[jboogie]

gav,

can you see if you can sort out a flat shift for our tunes?

[h100vw]

So this is the engine that was in the car that broke down or the spare sitting in the garage?
And is it running a K03s or Franken?

Spare motor Clay, the other head got some bent valves and the exhaust cam was wearing out the journals. The bottom end is still good I reckon so still might go back on the road somewhere.

Is this the point in the thread I remind you of what you said to me not long after you got it about not touching it??

Yeah, yeah

Go you bloody good thing!!

Soon then you're next

gav,

can you see if you can sort out a flat shift for our tunes?

I'll ask around, maybe from badger5

[h100vw]

Todays photos, have to go into work tomorrow for a course. Ticked off about that, could have had it running by mid day.

I want to see proof of life tomorrow though!!

[Jarred]

cracking pace Gav, well done!

[noone]

Will this be a prototype tune?

FT K4T, bigger fuel reg, bigger injectors, anything else?

Everytime you show your new toys I wish I'd asked you to order x2...

[h100vw]

Will this be a prototype tune?

FT K4T, bigger fuel reg, bigger injectors, anything else?

Everytime you show your new toys I wish I'd asked you to order x2...

It won't be an off the shelf tune, it will be Phase 3 written for the hardware I have fitted. There's a USRT fuel pump, 440s, big MAF from an S3. The fuel reg will stay 3 BAR.

I am going to drop the standard airbox in favour of a BMC CDA I picked up a while back. I have a Deka battery that I am looking to fit very soon.



I haven't done much today, had to go into work right in the middle of the day, which screwed everything up.

I did buy an O ring I needed and a new dipstick tube though.

I have a couple of TIPs floating about, the standard one wouldn't go on the FT. I have a silicon K04 ebay special, this is for an S3 and the pipes are in the wrong places. The FT TIP from Lito's Golf isn't any better unfortunately. So in the interest of getting it on the street soon, I have mated the bottom of a standard S3 TIP with the top of the Polo one.

It's really gash I know but improvise, adapt, overcome is what they taught me in the RAF. So that's what I did.

[vwthunder]

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I have a couple of TIPs floating about, the standard one wouldn't go on the FT. I have a silicon K04 ebay special, this is for an S3 and the pipes are in the wrong places. The FT TIP from Lito's Golf isn't any better unfortunately. So in the interest of getting it on the street soon, I have mated the bottom of a standard S3 TIP with the top of the Polo one.

It's really gash I know but improvise, adapt, overcome is what they taught me in the RAF. So that's what I did.

I am using the Frankenturbo bottom half and a polo top part

Didn't i tell you to do that

[h100vw]

I am using the Frankenturbo bottom half and a polo top part

Didn't i tell you to do that

Nope, did you join them with a straight section of aluminium Troy. Or did the FT one fit over the Polo?

Off to look at ebay now.

Gavin

[h100vw]

30km under it's belt now. It seems to have a bit an appetite for water, I reckon it's just airlocks working their way out. It has been bone dry so I don't believe that it's anything sinister.

Had a bit of an issue with a missfire after I first started it. Luckily as a pulled the plugs out to do a compression test, I spotted that there was no gap on one of the plugs. Open it back up and she ran like a dream.







It's making massive boost, well over 25 PSI which I will address in the morning, by dropping the actuator pressure. Of course it needs a full tune, injectors, MAF and fuel pump to sort properly. Just glad to have it running and not making any horrible noises so far.