Carnage Pics: The Death of Smokey Eddy's Jetta

[Smokey Eddy]

Tyler has been very generous with his offer of his aaz block which is complete from the oil pan to the deck of the block but it may need a bore and the crank nose slipped on it so it needs to be machined as well.

which would mean i'd have to find 0.5 over pistons no?

it would be cool to go 2 bores over and have a 2.something Litre IDI.
I wonder how it would drive...
I think that would merrit a girdle and a bigger pump head.
possibly a second, smaller, turbo.

[truckinwagen]

if it needs bored then yes you need OS pistons, but I would let the machinist look at it before you buy the pistons, it may need more than .5 over to make it right again(deep scratches, lots of oval, etc...)

[Smokey Eddy]

Catlin_Cava sent me some of Gilles prices on pistons and his are $130 each. so that plus about $50 per cyl for the bore is over $500 plus the shipment of said pistons across the 2,000km that is the girth of North America.

which i guess isn't that bad considering i spent that much on suspension...

I'd hate to get tits deep into this only to find that my new AAZ head is destroyed tomorrow... I think i'll shut up until i have pics of the insides to show you guys.

I'll be sure to have a video of me dumping the shrapnel out of the oil pan out.
"Well there's your problem, you've got bits of the block in your oil"

[truckinwagen]

I sincerely hope that you get a pleasant surprise when you pull the motor apart tomorrow.

and I would be looking into wrecked mk3 TDI's(I am actually, have been for some time) to swap one of those motors in...

[Smokey Eddy]

Yes, I'd love to go TDI. But ... I'll have to have my career by then. I think i should have like a ... cap of how much money i should be willing to spend to get an IDI back on the road and if its too much just sell what good stuff i have and buy a TDI with the money instead.

[catlin_cava]

V10 TDI out of a touareg 

[truckinwagen]

if you can find a tdi from a car with a CE2 wiring harness then the swap is pretty straight forward into a late mk2(like your '90)

but there is something to be said for the simplicity of the IDI.

[Smokey Eddy]

What does a CE2 wiring harness look like?
and key indicators?

i do like the simplicity but i'm ready to play in the big leagues.

[truckinwagen]

the later mk2's had a CE2 harness(your 90 should, my 91 does)

it will have plastic water outlets on the head with two wire coolant sensors, it will have a two speed rad fan(I think) etc...

[Smokey Eddy]

the later mk2's had a CE2 harness(your 90 should, my 91 does)

it will have plastic water outlets on the head with two wire coolant sensors, it will have a two speed rad fan(I think) etc...

yes and yes

[truckinwagen]

so a CE2 TDI will very nearly plug and play in your car.

other than swapping the throttle pedal, all the TDI stuff should swap right over.

[somolovitch3]

After all this, I guess the turn signals now work.

[arb]

After all this, I guess the turn signals now work.

My diesel caravan's turn signals stopped working when the over voltage alternator cooked the ECU. Its on my list of things to fix now that I have a shop manual from Chrysler... I'll be going old school rather than change the ECU.

Mean time, I try to use motorcycle signals, but most drivers don't remember what they mean.

[Turbinepowered]

Mean time, I try to use motorcycle signals, but most drivers don't remember what they mean.

You're using too many fingers. 

[Smokey Eddy]

HEY! actually i found something out quite humorously.
I was with two friends (RadoTD did make an appearance briefly but these two are other friends he has his fancy gauges now and i have my magnet RPM thing...)
and one of them says, "hey Ed... why are there no tunes?"
I point to the lack of a battery.
"oh..." he says
after that i fetch the jumper cables & battery and connect the wires that go into the dash and my amp wire to the RED and i clip the BLACK lead to where i DID have my ground going to on the body...

no power at the deck.

thats odd... i think... i jimmy them around a bit and some sparks fly and i get "continuity" which was more like a spray of sparks.

what i was using for a ground was structural but where i couldn't see it has become all corroded.
So i take my second ground that grounds to the transmission mount bolt.

That one grounds for the starter, because the car was previously starting, but NOT my stereo!!! So, me thinks the mounts to the body are either rusty or too dirty to be useful grounds to dash stuff or some combination of the two or too many things trying to ground through something too small?... i hopefully have found the solution to my electrical problems.
now for internal pictures... which i must say i am quite pleased about.

SUPER big imprints from the bigger valves on the piston that let go. The rings had gone BELOW the cylinder lining and it was stuck in that position. I need to remove the crank to get it out. I didn't clean ANYTHING by  the way... that piston head is exactly as it was...


Here is the head as it came off. no cleaning anywhere has been done in ANY of these pictures.


here are the piston heads from left to right






I cleaned the head up and it looks fine except on the piston that hit the head you can see very definite ... burn? marks where the combustion chamber is ... its odd. Look for it in the second picture.
It's as if ... this piston let go but it also was burning very strangely. coincidence?