My 1992 GTI

[DocWalt]

Did a compression test when I got home from work. 215-212-210-212. Not bad for nearly 170k

[DocWalt]

What $100 can buy in VW money, lol. Actually, it came with an alternator and a/c compressor too!

[Turbo Beast]

Get a G60!!!

[DocWalt]

Not yet

I just spent half an hour pulling parts off of the new engine.

It has a snazzy metal breather, woo.


Corrosion trail:


TT Cam gear set at 0* and TPS sensor:


Really clean, but it felt like half of the bolts were loose:


Like I said, really clean!


Great crosshatch, ignore the junk in the cylinders. Note the blackened head gasket on the back half of the engine:


Blackened back half of the head. Otherwise in pretty good shape:

[DocWalt]

Pulled the exhaust manifold from the "new" engine and broke only half of the studs for the downpipe... Guess I'll reuse my current manifold, but port match it to the gaskets. Should be quick-ish work, but I'm kinda ticked that it's still a delay that will hold me up during the engine swap. I also pulled the intermediate shaft and the adjustable cam gear. The intermediate shaft is getting some special work, the cam gear is getting cleaned.

[DocWalt]

I finished stripping the block today. It's ready to go to the machine shop once I figure out what I'm doing about the head.







The pistons do have a bit of scuffing on the opposite side, but they fit very tight in the cylinders and there's no scuffing in the cylinders.

I went for a cruise yesterday with a few friends, car ran nearly perfectly. It's running a bit rich and would soot up the plugs a little bit and feel kinda flat. I advanced the ignition timing a couple of degrees today and it really seemed to help. It hasn't been an issue for autocross, so I should probably just leave it alone at this point.

[Snook]

Needs moar vr6.

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[DocWalt]

I don't want a boat anchor in front of my front wheels FWIW, my car should be as fast as a stock VR6 now, and more so with the new engine. I'm still hoping to get my car dyno'd up at GZP to do a before after of the chip, and also to have a baseline before the new engine.

[Snook]

I gotta show you my friends 83 gti vr6 swap.

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[DocWalt]

Post up some pics!

A tiny bit of excitement is on the way...