Background:
This car is fully stripped, and very light.
Car has been down since February, got it running a couple days ago. Turns out I blew my IE HPFP after only 1K miles; it was fuel cutting like mad when I stopped driving the car. I have my old stock HPFP internals in now, and bought a spare just in case. Also bought a 135i w/ dual clutch as a daily driver.
Recent developments:
I put the old Golf R K04 back on the car and made a tune for stock HPFP with just 1 bar linear boost from 3000 - redline. Had to use a stock catted downpipe too since my 3" got sold. Performance is very "smooth" or "gentle" for a K04, lol, but it still pulled nicely on my stock 135. The motor runs smoothly and I'm getting good timing advance on 93 with a fat intercooler. No meth in the car for now, I was gonna throw the kit in my 1 but we'll see. Should probably keep that car mostly stock except for software.
Current Mod List
--K04 + flat tire tune (totally stock fueling)
--Big intercooler
--Custom charge piping
--WOTbox
--Bilstein PSS10
--RE-11 tires
--Poly bushings
--Lines / pads / fluid
--Almost everything not involving stopping, going, turning, or necessary for structural support has been removed.
Plans:
Next step for the Jetta is to fix a wheel bearing, repair a newly broken headlight mount, and then throw on the big turbo I have laying around. I'm really looking at using port injected E85 to supplement the stock HPFP.
Here are some recent climate control modifications, since the car now has full fixed position polycarbonate windows except front / rear. The tube has a 12v brushless fan in it to ventilate the driver and supply fresh air. It works.
Couple pics of the new daily driver, taken after a 300 mile drive:
The 135 is a much better daily driver than the Jetta. The stereo sucks but I mostly don't use it. The gearbox is really good (same hardware as the v8 M3) and the RWD is fun too. Although a great daily, the bimmer is much less raw than the Jetta and considerably worse for track style, all-out driving, although it's fun powering out of corners and it's easy to power oversteer. I drive DSC off 100% of the time.
This car is fully stripped, and very light.
Car has been down since February, got it running a couple days ago. Turns out I blew my IE HPFP after only 1K miles; it was fuel cutting like mad when I stopped driving the car. I have my old stock HPFP internals in now, and bought a spare just in case. Also bought a 135i w/ dual clutch as a daily driver.
Recent developments:
I put the old Golf R K04 back on the car and made a tune for stock HPFP with just 1 bar linear boost from 3000 - redline. Had to use a stock catted downpipe too since my 3" got sold. Performance is very "smooth" or "gentle" for a K04, lol, but it still pulled nicely on my stock 135. The motor runs smoothly and I'm getting good timing advance on 93 with a fat intercooler. No meth in the car for now, I was gonna throw the kit in my 1 but we'll see. Should probably keep that car mostly stock except for software.
Current Mod List
--K04 + flat tire tune (totally stock fueling)
--Big intercooler
--Custom charge piping
--WOTbox
--Bilstein PSS10
--RE-11 tires
--Poly bushings
--Lines / pads / fluid
--Almost everything not involving stopping, going, turning, or necessary for structural support has been removed.
Plans:
Next step for the Jetta is to fix a wheel bearing, repair a newly broken headlight mount, and then throw on the big turbo I have laying around. I'm really looking at using port injected E85 to supplement the stock HPFP.
Here are some recent climate control modifications, since the car now has full fixed position polycarbonate windows except front / rear. The tube has a 12v brushless fan in it to ventilate the driver and supply fresh air. It works.
Couple pics of the new daily driver, taken after a 300 mile drive:
The 135 is a much better daily driver than the Jetta. The stereo sucks but I mostly don't use it. The gearbox is really good (same hardware as the v8 M3) and the RWD is fun too. Although a great daily, the bimmer is much less raw than the Jetta and considerably worse for track style, all-out driving, although it's fun powering out of corners and it's easy to power oversteer. I drive DSC off 100% of the time.
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