RE: It's Alive! (longish)

["Neal Tovsen" <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>]

CONGRATULATIONS!

Damn, I was just happy to change my p-side motor mount by myself. You, my
friend, got's SKILLS! I hope that, as you drive your car over the next few
months, all that work will have been completely worth it (as I'm sure it
will). May good Karma be with you. (jeez, there must be some stray vibes
floating around from one of the air-cooled-hippie lists! ;-) )

I can't wait to see your wheels in Cincy. Then again, I can't wait to see
*anyone's* wheels at Cincy. I've been looking forward to finally meeting
some of the people on this list. I'll be there, tho my po' littl o' stock
1.8L 16v will be jealous of every 2L/G60/turbo project there! Ah...it will
happen someday...

Neal [weather's too good for work. I'm going home to wash my car...]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majordomo [mailto:majord@neubayern.net]On Behalf Of Brett P
> VanSprewenburg
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 2:05 PM
> To: scirocco
> Subject: It's Alive! (longish)
>
>
>
>
> I've been off-line for a bit while I concentrated on putting
> my engine in.
>
> What an ordeal...took me about 40 hours by myself.  Fired it
> up last night
> for the first time, and it actually worked. :)  I was really
> nearing the
> end of my rope, and was pretty tired of working on the car.
> I was very
> agitated about turning it over for the first time, wondering
> if I'd put
> it all together correctly, tightened everything, lined
> everything up...
> But after a 20 minute ring-seating session in my driveway, I
> took it for
> a spin through the neighborhood (without a hood
> naturally...isn't this what
> you're supposed to do after changing your engine?  I see the
> muscle car
> guys doing it all the time).  My 60 second drive put a grin back on my
> face pretty fast!!  It felt sooo good to be back in the
> drivers seat of
> that car, and it was sooo good that I was actually done putting the
> engine back together and IT WORKED!
>
> This phase of the car project stared in late August 98 when
> Jim & I brought
> the 2L short block back from West Virginia...
>
> So here's what I did over the winter/spring (harder then it
> looks, trust me):
>
> -2L 16v block bored 2nd oversize, 83mm pistons, giving
> 2008cc's, also given
>  the royal treatment of new parts...right down to the oil
> pump drive gear
>  which runs *$84* direct NOS warehouse in the Fatherland.
> Klaus retrieved
>  one for me, there are only like 40 or so of them left...
> -Cleaned, freshened, ported & decked 1.8L head.
> -Schrick 260 cams.
> -Lightened flywheel with HD 2L 16v pressure plate.
> -Kent Adjustable cam gear.
> -Polished valve cover, and intake manifolds
> -Pretty much new *everything* (water pump, oil pump, all
> seals/gaskets, belts,
>  flanges, distributor, and on and on and on and on...and on
> and on and on...)
> -Stainless steel brake lines
> -rear caliper
> -H&R wheel spacers in the rear
> -ABD weighted shift rod
> -Rear axle pivot bushings
> -Front control arm bushings
> -All new rear axle brake lines and one new p-side front brake
> line (thank you
>  flare nut wrenches)
> -More stuff I've probably repressed
>
> Tons and tons of cleaning, sand blasting, and painting to go
> along with it
> too.  Don't even ask how much it's all cost me...I may be a bit ill :(
>
> I have gathered a very deep understanding in *exactly* how
> the engine goes
> together, *exactly* where and what every wire, hose and
> vacuum line goes to.
> I can hold the picture of just about every  nut and bolt on the engine
> in my head at the moment, but it's somewhat painful... :)  I
> just can't
> really believe that it's done, or that I did it.
>
> I have been planning this engine swap for at least 5 or 6
> years, I've owned
> this Scirocco for 7 years, I had wanted a 16v for at least 4
> or 5 years
> before that (since high school)...the final stage is a
> repaint to be done
> next year when I (might) be able to afford one.  Needless to
> say, this
> project is culminating into the perfect Scirocco embodiment
> (in my mind
> anyways).  To make this car as perfect as I can make it is
> one of my goals
> in life...too sad, eh? :)
>
> See you in (near) Cincy next week!
>
> ==Brett
>
>
>
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