It Begins: The S3 1.8T into my '85 Mk2 GTI

[GOLFBALLS]

Haha, the tractor sound has gone now that the oil has spread nicely thru the engine.

The next main jobs are monitoring that engine movement and keeping a close eye on the turbo temperature and water flow.

Then I'll mount the slim fan and change the thermostat to a 75 degree one. Joe also needs to fix up the drivers front strut top mount which is loose.

Cheers

[GOLFBALLS]

Hehehe. Just got a call from the exhaust shop. Reckons the back end was too low to fit a single 2.5 pipe near the rear beam. Awesome!

[gareth_oau]

so you're plumbing over the roof instead?

[GOLFBALLS]

so you're plumbing over the roof instead?

Nah man, drill thru the floor and into the boot and out the tail-light...

I did get a call from the tuner earlier. Says the exhaust sounds really nice, and isn't stupid loud.

Also, when he put it on the dyno he only got one fast run before the bottom rad hose blew off from the engine movement. Dang

...But, he did get a quick reading and as expected, it's running very lean. Still got the 3BAR RV fuel pump, so no surprises there. It was apparently reading around 150bhp - 160bhp between 2000rpm up to around 4000rpm, then suddenly the fuel mix richened up and whack it suddenly shot up to 218bhp, but was still a little lean.

Should get quite a bit more once it's getting enough fuel. I thought it felt very dull down low.
So, now to swap the fuel tank for a mk3 one and pop that 4 BAR VR6 fuel pump in there. That should sort things out.

Pics soon i swear...

[GOLFBALLS]

OK so time for a little update. Saturday morning I swapped in the mk3 fuel tank and got the brand new VDO VR6 pump in:




mk2 and mk3 tanks. spot the difference. The old mk2 fuel pump is tiny in comparison. Getting the plastic in tank fuel tubes off the float assembly is a ****ful job!



all strapped in:




Had to solder on the slightly lager 4-pin terminal for the later pump. (old mk2 plug on bottom)




...and all wired up ready to go



There's a bit of a leak from one of the overfill tubes but nothing i cant fix in a few minutes.

I just hope this fixes the lean running issue.

Cheers

[Water Boy]

Likes this a lot...

[GoLfMan]

nice one fella! Not long now!

[GOLFBALLS]

took some snaps of the exhaust while i was under there. 2.5" all the way, big resonator, high-flow sports cat and a Lukey rear muffler. Almost sound standard heheh!
I got them to weld on my stainless downturn tailpipe too.





I went to the TargaWest special stage at Langley Park today and parked it up with VWCWA display. Had lots of curious punters crowding around it which was pretty sweet to see. I took some pics which i'll stick up here later.

[GOLFBALLS]

TargaWest display pics as promised.









So yeah, obviously I did the big to small bumper conversion with the metal lower panel painted with a spray can and soldering on the later indicator plugs to suit the big bumper terminals, and used electrical tape for the red pinstripe (just for now haha)!

Just need to find a nice straight lower splitter...

[Water Boy]

So its all good and tuned now?