Lito's MK4 GTI

[Jmac]

Done a bit this afternoon after tea.

Rods built up



First one in after also checking ring gaps



And the rest



Rods bolts torqued up the required 3 times to 50lbft





The sump is now on. It's a spare as the drain plug was stripped in Lito's.

Tomorrow morning I'll be doing the belt and water pump, as well as dropping the head back on.

Yeah good old ultratune with the sump plug, ive wrestled with it twice now, next move was a piggie back, that would be the go, but if you have a sump all good. Carlos be sure to come round after she is hummin
Cheers
Jmac

[VWindahouse]

Love those manifold bolts along with the Ikea gag Great work guys!

[SLAJ]

Re: Lito's MK4 GTI

Love this build man

[cylinderhead]

Lito's MK4 GTI

thanks mare, i can't wait until its all together and tuned. shouldn't be too long now

sweet I'll keep an eye out for you. what's under the hood?

: )


Very nearly bought a PTE5857 like this



But they had reliability issues.

[Lito]

Loving this build mate.

thanks mare, i can't wait until its all together and tuned. shouldn't be too long now

I drive a dark blue B5 A4, debadged, europlates. Looks absolutely stock bar the exhaust note and front brakes.

sweet I'll keep an eye out for you. what's under the hood?

[BLN355]

Loving this build mate.

[cylinderhead]

Lito's MK4 GTI

yeah mate you probably have seen me around, i live in sunnybank. ill try and keep an eye out for you. what do you drive?

I drive a dark blue B5 A4, debadged, europlates. Looks absolutely stock bar the exhaust note and front brakes.

[h100vw]

gavin has been hard at work again

Not sure I'd call it hard work, more like 3rd hand Ikea furniture without the instructions

[Lito]

gavin has been hard at work again

[Lito]

Gavin linked me to this thread.

Good to see more 1.8T 20V going BT.

I might have seen your car around Beaudesert Road near Algester. You live anywhere near? I'm close to Richard(guile).




Danny

yeah mate you probably have seen me around, i live in sunnybank. ill try and keep an eye out for you. what do you drive?

[cylinderhead]

Lito's MK4 GTI

Gavin linked me to this thread.

Good to see more 1.8T 20V going BT.

I might have seen your car around Beaudesert Road near Algester. You live anywhere near? I'm close to Richard(guile).




Danny

[Lito]

just a quick update from last night. turbo is bolted down and oil and coolant lines are being routed. intercooler piping will go back on with some modification as will the dump pipe

had to fettle with some heater hoses to get the tip to fit but all good now. all i can say is that it's snug in there but should look like it was meant to be there once it's all back together. here's a few pics...

[Lucas_R]

Awesome progress Lito and Gavin. The new rods are H.U.G.E compared to the stock ones. Im sure these will be up to the task of supporting a good dose of boost from the new turbo.

[h100vw]

Hey mate just wanna know, how did you replace the rods ?

Kay

You take out one of the circlips holding in the wrist/gudgeon pin. Then you can push the pin out from the other side. Lube up the little end of the new rod and push the pin back through. Reinstall the circlip. Easy.

Watch where you put the notches for the big end bearings, they need to be on the inlet side of the piston.

I checked the end gaps on all the rings for all the pistons, before fitting them on the rods and installing them in the block.

You should check the big end clearances too with plastigauge but as we were using standard sized bearings and there's hundreds of these rod in existence, I didn't bother doing this.

There's a good 1.8T rod install on youtube in 5 parts.

Hunt down my number and call me if you like. Anytime in business hours is ok.

Gavin

[KKK VR6]

Done a bit this afternoon after tea.

Rods built up

Hey mate just wanna know, how did you replace the rods ?

Kay