My 1992 GTI

[DocWalt]

Mine sat in a garage for 8 years, but who knows what the original owner did. The second owner bought it and parked it in his garage in NYC. Third owner moved it to mid-state NY, then I bought it. It's so smooth it's crazy. Kinda chuggy at the low end compared to my brother's 8v GL, but so much more up top.

Considering how little I paid, even after all the work I've done, and the work I need to do, and the complete lack of body rust, I'm perfectly happy.

[Turbo Beast]

Haha should be too! It never hurts to take the intake apart. Even if its clean, itll tell you how its been driven. The motor itself, its fine. Theyre tough as hell.

[DocWalt]

When I get to that point I'll post it up. Thanks

[Turbo Beast]

Youll love the crap out of it. If the suspension is right and the engine is real responsive theyre so much fun!

[green-lantern]

Those struts

[HLxDrummer]

Did you feel like you were going to die driving it home from NY with those struts? LOL

[DocWalt]

Haha, the car would skip across the pavement in turns, so yeah, it was a bit scary at speed

Update: After going out for a cruise and beating the crap out of it Saturday the coolant light came on... I appear to be losing coolant somewhere. I have a new waterpump to install, and a lot of the rest of the coolant system was recently replaced. Can't find any leaks, but I do smell coolant when I pop the hood. I'm not sure if it's pushing coolant or actually leaking. Also, I think I broke the downpipe off at the flex joint, oops.

Update 2: Failed inspection, it's running too rich. Also has a bad tie rod end, which I knew and ordered up a front end refurb kit Friday. Woot.

[nodoze]

silly inspections glad i dont have to deal with that , thats why my drag dedicated car is driveable on the street watching your build really has me in the mood for an eighties import now .... trying to locate an e30, or vw , or even an rx7 to maybe start molding into my dd next year

[DocWalt]

If you buy a VW be prepared for weird shit to happen, lol.

I got my downpipe, and a ton of cooling system pieces today. Don't you just love it when you order a gasket for a new part, and the part comes with its own gasket so now you have two? /facepalm

[DocWalt]

Tore the engine bay apart today During removal of the downpipe 5 studs broke off in the exhaust manifold, so I started into removing the exhaust manifold... I got the intake off with no issues and also got the top row of exhaust manifold nuts out no problem. I managed to destroy the two center nuts on the bottom row of studs. Going to take a dremel to the nuts and remove them to take my manifold off tomorrow. My brother is planning on dropping a spare 16v manifold off at our local machine shop to have the broken studs in that manifold removed. At least it should all go back together smoothly with brand new hardware, lol