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• #45 by Powered by Spearco on 10 Feb, 2011 19:56
• That motor looked just like the one that was in the car but dual side draft 45's.
  
  Not much to update as I've been very busy with work. Plus by the time the days over, I'm over. .
  
  The car will be towed back to my house, and put on jack stands. I'll pull off the front controll arms, sand blast them and paint them. Figure out where to mount the radiator, intercooler and fuel tank.
  The brake pedals are a Tilton dual master cylinder setup, but the hight of the pedals are in the air compaired to the throttle. so they will need to be pulled off and adjusted/modified so they are at a more comfortable angle. Still need to go through the wiring and find out whats what at the switches/rockers.
  Maybe I'll add some just for the diesel and then remove whats not needed. Need to order up the suspension that I'm going to run with. I think Raceland or Rocker. They don't need to give any kind of ride comfort, just adjustability. Plus the price is afordable.
  Sand down the engine bay and treat any areas with POR15 and paint it. Peel off most of the stickers. Replace two of the wheels as they are bent and don't hold air for long. Thankfully they are cheap to replace, $69 each. order up some drag slicks. Order up a seat cover and string up the new seat belts.
  
  Anyway, the list goes on as you can tell.
• #46 by Powered by Spearco on 10 Mar, 2011 21:44
• Been a long time but I have done some things to the Scirocco. So lets update.
  Got the shifter box frame made up, positioned and bolted down.
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  Got started on mounting the intercooler and radiator. Still need to figure out a way to hold the top of radiator. Intercooler is bolted in to a frame thats been welded to the chassis.
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  Also started to make the cooling system hoses. The drivers side coolant flange at head has been deleted but a temp sensor is still there. The upper and lower radiator hoses are a mix of hoses that I cut up to fit the areas where needed. The front coolant flange is a AHU plastic one with the little return nipple that will go to the over flow bottle. the heat exchanger hoses are from a 2.0LXflow. so the return from the over flow bottle can flow back to pump.
  
• #47 by Powered by Spearco on 10 Mar, 2011 21:50
• Raceland Coilovers should be here tomarrow along with the 12" fan and mounting hardwear.
  I'll stay late to install those parts and finnish the cooling hoses.
• #48 by macka on 11 Mar, 2011 04:56
• For the rad, make 2 metal dog bones out of flat bar and tie it into the grille support.
• #49 by Powered by Spearco on 11 Mar, 2011 22:09
• Got the coilovers today  . But they won't go far enough down, and no I'm not going to modify them. I guess I'm going to have to rebuild the Carrera ones. So I gave up for the rest of the night.
  
  So anyone interested in a set of new/used Raceland coilovers for MK1?
  
  
• #50 by Powered by Spearco on 14 Mar, 2011 21:59
• Well, change of plans. I decided to get rid of the front mount intercooler and go water to air intercooler.
  So I cut and ground off all the mounts for the front mount and reposioned the radiator.now I can flip it over the right way and use stock hoses and coolant flanges.
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  It leaves me more room for the external oil cooler flange, hoses and the radiator fan, which hasn't showed up yet.
  The water to air intercooler setup I'm going to use from Frozen Boost, and is a decent deal.
• #51 by Powered by Spearco on 16 Mar, 2011 22:18
• The fan finally showed up. So I got it mounted. Also welded up some tabs on the frame for the remote oil filter. I'm happy with it.
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  Also a shot of what stock Rabbit front struts would look like on the car. No way would theyeven come close to working. I found a guy locally that can rebuild the struts. Come to find out that he built the ones on the car way back in the day. They are Bilsteins with Nitrogen bags internally that he made. Cool huh.
  So for $75, he can rebuild them, new oil, seals, fittings and a shock dyno print out.
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• #52 by Powered by Spearco on 27 Mar, 2011 19:05
• I got the water to air intercooler. Looking for the best location to mount it. I think that over the trans might be one? Seems to fit in this location and have the shortest hose connections for max flow.
  I taped it up as to not scratch it. Its just resting there to get an idea.
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  I might think about mounting the intercooler in the cab and run hoses through the firewall.
• #53 by oldpoopie on 27 Mar, 2011 19:06
• yeah, its lookin a bit crowded under there.
• #54 by Powered by Spearco on 29 Mar, 2011 22:18
• Got my shock inserts back from the Shock Shop. They look great and are all cleaned up with new oil, seals and new fitting. Also got the dyno output sheet.
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  I'll get them assembled and get more pics later.
• #55 by Powered by Spearco on 13 Apr, 2011 21:16
• Small update.
  The shocks fit great but the nitrogen fittings on top are a straight fitting. I need 90* ones as to clear the hood and not rub the line.
  
  I found some 90* swivel fittings right accross the street and got them for free. They look great and fit even better than before.
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  Also got some fittings to get the 2stage NOS all together. Need to mount the nozzels in the boost hose at intake and get a Hobbs switch.
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• #56 by Powered by Spearco on 13 Apr, 2011 21:30
• Also got a Tilton Universal Master Cylinder kit for the clutch. Its cable now but I'm using the O2J trans and clutch slave so I need  it . It should be an easy add on due to theres already a full Tilton peddal assembly there. Just drill a couple of hole in fire wall and its mounted. 
• #57 by 81 vw pu on 13 Apr, 2011 21:56
• Looks awesome Josh, just be careful with the Teflon tape because it does'nt take much to hold a solenoid open or clog a jet.
  If a solenoid sticks open the only way to stop nitrous flow is to close the bottle. A inline filter is a good idea too mounted
  between the bottle and the tee. Make sure whoever fills your bottles has a filter on their fill station.
• #58 by Powered by Spearco on 13 Apr, 2011 22:06
• Yeah, I made sure that none of the tape rolled over the end of the fitting as to get into the solenoid.
  I'll make sure that who ever fills the take is filtering it.
  
  

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  Man, there's no way I'd work with all those open holes.

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  What open holes. The body of the car?
• #59 by rabbitman on 14 Apr, 2011 20:29
• Quote from: Powered by Spearco on 13 Apr, 2011 22:06

  What open holes. The body of the car?
  

  
  I think the oil lines, vac pump, missing vc, injectors, intake, coolant and all the ones I missed.