Bringing this back up...
A few updates, but not much. I was hoping to have the car fired up this weekend, but it didn't happen. Hopefully I'll be able to put some time into it this week in the 40 minutes of daylight I have after work.
From last week, the lift pump is installed and works:
Wires are run into the passenger compartment but not to the fuse panel yet. I did test it with a battery I had laying around, it pumps fuel! Filled the fuel filter and had fuel coming out the return so it works. No leaks either and it's a nice clean setup. I originally had kept the water separator back here and installed the pump with it, but like an idiot I turned the valve on the water separator to see if it still worked, and the valve broke off instantly and splashed diesel everywhere. I later found out that since most fuel filters have water separators built-in to them, and our fuel is better now than it was in 1986, the rear separator isn't needed anymore. Oh well.
Here's the pump I used:
And yesterday, I got the console out and modified for gauges:
I have most of the wiring done for the gauges, still need to run the wires into the car. I also had to scavenge the backlights from the gauges in my Scirocco since these Audi gauges didn't have the sockets with them. I think it looks good though, and it passed the Wife Test.
I like it because the lower cubby is still usable, and the radio will be in the stock location.
That's about it really. I noodled around under the hood some, got most of the stuff in order, cobbled together a working vaccum system, tucked some wires, arranged the harnesses, and managed to somehow break the ground stud that is on the driver's inner fender. :banghead:
I'm going to fabricate two upper radiator supports and attempt to push in the radiator about 2", I think that will give me
just enough room to fit the intercooler in there with a little trimming to the core support. But I think once the wiring is done, I will fire it up without the intercooler anyway just to get it warmed up for the re-torque before we break it in properly. :laugh:
So, next week she should be running. We'll see.
Brendan