What did you do today to your 3/S?

[sergechronos]

Manthe oem pipes are sexy. Forgot how they looked. Add about an inch in circumference, and boom!

Quad tip is still sexy. Whatever I decide on for my exhaust, there is a distinct possibility that I may have a set of quad tips put on it.

[mb3000]

Sold it.

[TurboSinceBirth]

I finished porting my turbos. Ported vs stock. Hopefully I never have to do that again. It took forever. I could have spent more time but I was starting to lose patience.

[james92tsi]

More work on the turbo swap. Buttoned up all the misc crap that's "in the way" of the front turbo.

9Bs are still cute.

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Front one is done - well except the water line.

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Didn't like bending the stock hard line, so I went AN. Will do the same on the rear turbo. The 2 lines closest to the engine line up fine so I kept those stock.

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Going to take one more look and see if I can get the front top heat shield off to clean up the rust and paint it. It wasn't coming off easily before, and I could move it around to get to the turbo bolts, so I left it alone.

But it doesn't look so great.

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[Ange]

battery relocation pretty much completed. just some minor things left to do.

[green-lantern]

Finally almost back on the road. I've done more work in the past 2 days on my car than the last year. I have about 30min before it will move. Pressure test and everything maybe two hours.

[mb3000]

Wow TSB those housings are bad ass!

[opy01]

Put new leather on the passenger seat and rebuilt my driver side window regulator. A little JB Weld and some TLC and the window is like new! I've missed working on it the past couple of years. Glad to have it going again

[TurboSinceBirth]

Wow TSB those housings are bad ass!

Thanks! I started on it last fall but kind of gave up on it for awhile. I was porting the exhaust manifolds and even with the front welded the wall was thin enough in some spots it could peel off into the turbine. I was undecided that point if I wanted to weld the cast iron back up, finish smoothing the port, or go with a less serious port on another set of manifolds. I'm leaning more towards a milder port but in the meantime I finished the turbine housings. It helped I purchased a 60 gallon air compressor to run a die grinder. A twin tank compressor wasn't cutting it. I wish I would have upgraded a year or two ago. I don't know how much the gasket matching on the exhaust side will help but using carbide bits, sanding rolls, and cross buffs I can get it really smooth. Had I spent more time on the sanding marks it could have been a mirror shine.

I want to get my car back together and at least this is a good step. The 20Ts are ready. I'm taking my 5-speed to a good 3S friend to install a bell housing brace, pin all of the races so they don't spin, fix the busted ear on my bell housing, make a custom size shim so I'm not stacking multiple shims behind the races, and preload it with the Quaife and SCE center diffs. I should also be pulling the motor and tranny soon for the swap and hopefully my first time painting an engine bay will go well. I wanted to step back from selling parts so I could get work done on my car instead. I've neglected it too long almost a year and a half now.

[james92tsi]

Didn't have much time today. I installed the AN port fittings, wastegate, and oil drain on the rear 13T and got it situated on the mani.

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Also couldn't get the front-top heatshield off without moving the AC compressor (and, meh, didn't care enough to deal with that) so I got rid of much of the rust with scotchbrite and steel wool. Much better than the dull rusty look in my previous post.

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This is how she sits now. (sign is intentionally on her side of the garage)

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