Re: It's Alive! (longish)

[jonas miller <sjmill@erols.com>]

sweet i wannna see how yours runs...i hope my is firing by then    i got
the damn crank case ventilator holding me up.....wonder if we will match
up and all withthe mods you got and the mods i got..heheheheh...this is
gonna be a fun weekend...gentleman start your engine tuning
jonas

Brett P VanSprewenburg wrote:
> 
> 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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