My 1992 GTI

Pulled 4 degrees of timing and added some fuel. No more funny noises at WOT when the engine is insanely hot. I'm still going to throw in the colder plugs I bought.

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Originally Posted by DocWalt

This is the bearing that disintegrated on the BBT:
http://i.imgur.com/tOtWhXX.jpg

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Holy shit that bearing lol

I would have definitely been putting in an insurance claim after the second failure lol I don't have the patience I used to.

Great success this weekend! My father won his class for the weekend beating out another Fiesta (on much stickier tires too!)! I placed second in my class for the weekend (beating a Corvette and losing to a Lotus Elise)!

Here are the videos.

My dad's first day. His third run was his quickest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdzWsSUYMDA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihpzLuD_8S8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw24dhO2VVM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHkuFJAYL2U

My dad's second day. His fourth run was his quickest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7wN5l6CgnE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxjZ4d2V-Xo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WFLqLtZLJ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NEzkvjr7g

Here are my first day runs. My third was my quickest but the GoPro battery died, so the third link is to my fourth run:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV0p1db8Zpc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB7XpgUeac8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Co0whYwBA

Here are my second day runs. My third run was my quickest again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee4NETdNusg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr3m6ZLYxZw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17hkxN3s16M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLlbjTqcZOU

She is still screamin! How's the bottom end?

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Originally Posted by CoopKill

She is still screamin! How's the bottom end?

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It has bearings in it... I guess? I'll pull the pan sometime, but it's supposed to be unbearably hot and humid this week. I don't have much motivation to get to the garage and play around with it.

http://i.imgur.com/1W8t7aZ.jpg

The pump on the left is an OEM with 100k+ on it... The pump on the right has ~3k on it. Also, notice the horrendous "machine" work in the mounting bolt hole at upper right. See the evidence of the cosmolene staining in the face the gear teeth ride against on the pump on the right so it wasn't bearing material that did the damage to make the pump have MASSIVE tolerances. F**king German Auto Parts "German" pumps are complete garbage.
http://i.imgur.com/K05x1FN.jpg

This picture is especially damning... The new pump looks and feels like sandpaper inside with massive tolerances. The brand new one I just received likely looks identical inside... Notice the horrid "machine" work done to the mounting bolt hole on the right.
http://i.imgur.com/c48ZuGi.jpg

The bearings are all wiped. #4 (on the left) has some fatigue cracking of the babbit around the oil hole. If you know King XP series bearings.... That's a LOT of abuse.
http://i.imgur.com/dcQx5hV.jpg

Again, f**k GAP's "German" pumps.