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Re: It's Alive! (longish)
I love going to all these events with all of these sweet cars in my beater GTI : )
It makes me laugh. Too bad I have no money and can't afford the fuel pump it would
take to get me out there. I'll see y'all next time.
-Josiah
jonas miller wrote:
> 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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