Well hello! Look who is hanging out in front of my house! Hi old friend!
She is looking a bit haggard, but now that she is MINE, I can treat her as she deserves to be treated
I think plenty of us can vouch for how nice the engine itself turned out, but this doesn't look right to me. It looks sloppy and unfinished. Ew.
I did finally get an old screw on fuel filter mount, so getting all the fuel lines cleaned up will be the first step. I am really excited to get the pump pressure spot on and possibly recheck the timing while I am at it. I never even knew where I left off! The "mystery" tune can be solved
Second, I am going to start tucking away the wires a little bit at a time. I am also pretty sure I have enough 2gauge cable to move the battery to the trunk, but that may be a little bit more of a back-burner project. I just want to clean up the mess of wires over the transmission! My CIS bay almost looks cleaner than this! I did pick up a PERFECT little fuse block from the junkyard a while back thatis going to be used for the revised glow plug unit. I do believe it came out of a Saab, but I can't exactly recall. There will even be one leftover fuse for another random accessory!
I used the radioshack special fuse block at the time, which I wasn't fond of to begin with...but it was a POS. This will also give me a chance to set it up as it was intended, for four individual fuses, instead of two plug paired onto on fuse
I have got lots of big plans, but I am just going to chew one bite at a time. There are only a few things concerning me performance wise.
I put all new mounts in it when I dropped the motor in, put it feels like there is a lot of engine movement when I let the clutch out. I shook it around and ALL of the travel looks like it is in the right rear. There aren't many aftermarket options, other than the techtonics HD mount and the prothane insert. I have heard a lot of people say that prothane inserts are junk in the mk1 world, but I think that was just in comparison to the performance of full poly mounts...and I know better than to go with ubersolid mounts on a diesel!
Any experience with the TT HD mount and/or the prothane insert in a mk2 diesel?
I also remember when I FIRST bought this car, it had an engine damper attached to the strut tower. I took it off since the damper was blown and making a bunch of noise, but I had since lost the bracket. I had almost forgotten about that until I stumbled upon this picture of a brilliant looking mount today...
Apparently from an AAZ passat? Looks like a work of art! Anyone running one of these?? I don't even know how I would find one!
One way or another, That mount has gotta stiffin up!! The amount of travel is unacceptable! Especially since I have been running stage two poly with my gas motor haha
Glad to be back guys! Hope everyone has been doing well!