I got a Spal 4" puller fan for the oil cooler. I have bolted it to the core, but I am dragging my heels on the wiring. I need to do so much wiring with this car it is daunting.
I scored some new Febi strut tower mounts at H20 for $35. Maybe I will slap them on this weekend.
Oh yeah, I drove up to Ocean City MD for H2Oi on Friday night and back on Sunday :crazy: 610 miles each way. The car did great. I have developed a crack in my windshield though I don't recall any trauma that would have caused it.

However,I met some cool people, saw some amazing cars, and had a great time so it was definitely worth it.
Oddly enough my best tank achieved a 45mpg average and that was the one I got at a truck stop in Emporia VA before several hours of driving on 55mph backroads through the bucolic hinterlands between I 95 and the coast. This tank also included all the sitting in traffic and several spirited and sooty passes up and down the strip with my fellow VW enthusiasts while I was in Ocean city. I was trying to show those gasser guys that turbo bark sounds way cooler than a blow off valve.

Anyway I got my next tank south of the bridge-tunnel on the way back. The tanks that were burned up entirely on I 95, which for those of you who may not know is a 70 mph limited access highway that is as straight as an arrow and flat as a board, only gave me 42mpg. All my efficiencies are a little low because according to my GPS my speedo is a little slow. I'm thinking I need a taller transmission, because I wasted a ton of fuel driving like an idiot in OC and still did better than I did on the highway.
So glad this board is back up.