I haven't had it running for long as I don't have any gauges hooked up yet and just wanted to make sure my engine section works and it seems to be fine. No coolant in the system either, so I will now wait until the rest of the wiring is done before. It took a bit of coughing and spluttering before it ran properly but now it turns on the first crank every time so very happy! The internal fuel pump is inaudible when the engine's running so well worth the extra effort.
Excellent, I recently know that feeling. Now the hard part is waiting for the wiring to be finished. You know you are going to want to go out there and just start it every day 😁
Kev
I thought rebuilding a VW would be cheap - Shit I was wrong, just don't let the wife know !!!!
I haven't had it running for long as I don't have any gauges hooked up yet and just wanted to make sure my engine section works and it seems to be fine. No coolant in the system either, so I will now wait until the rest of the wiring is done before. It took a bit of coughing and spluttering before it ran properly but now it turns on the first crank every time so very happy! The internal fuel pump is inaudible when the engine's running so well worth the extra effort.
awesome. but I expect a little vid when it runs in anger finally. 👍
That must feel satisfying. I like the sound of mine so much I flattened the battery, as the charging circuit is not operating because the warning light is not connected
I can see that happening to me too Steve.. Except it's not just me, my 8 year old son wants to start it up every time he comes outside too!
I've cleaned up a set of 944 axles and CVs ready to fit over the weekend, the exhaust needs fitting properly and then I'll try moving it under its own power 😵💫
Here's the main section of the wiring, bank of 20 blade fuses and 5 relay sockets, when you are sitting in the car they aren't visible, they sit flush with the bottom of the dash.
New dash finishing panel and the stack oil pressure and boost pressure gauges fitted in place. As I'm re-doing all the wiring I decided to source some switches that took a proper plug on the back rather than the VW ones that are separate lucar connections. I ended up with classic mini ones as they are cheap to source and in keeping with the rest of the car.
View through the steering wheel shows that everything is nicely visible
The GT3 badge is definitely NOT staying, I took it off my 996 as I'm not a fan of badging things up like that. It's just on there as a placeholder, I'm thinking about getting a VWRX badge made up in VW script.. Or maybe I could use a 1303 badge with the porsche GT letters afterwards?
This is how the interior looks at the moment and gives a better idea of how it will look when finished. I have to reshape the foam area over the gauges properly before it can be trimmed.
The running boards have now been pie-cut and widened at the rear to match the new width of the rear wings. I've bought some ribbed rubber sheet so they will be re-covered to look stock and help disguise the rear wing width.
After destroying the big ends of the first engine, its replacement is now in and working well! The only issue I have is hitting the fuel cut with overboosting but this should be relatively easy to sort out and is an indication that my exhaust porting and downpipe are working better.
I'm doing some fine tuning of the set-up and found that the air dam was definitely a necessity, rather than put all my time into something untested I cleaned it up with a bit of paint and got it on the car and I'm pleased with how it looks and works.
I wanted the rear seat to look stock over the transmission tunnel so modified the seat framework to clear it.
As it stands it shouldn't be too far off 300bhp. I'm kind of seeing where Jak is coming from now as it's almost too fast as it is. More power would be unusable on the normal back roads by me and with the aerodynamics of a bug being thrown around it definitely keeps the adrenaline pumping!
Time to finish off the dash... Some wooden strips were used as a guide to keep a constant thickness of the binnacle over the instruments
I then filled in the gaps frm underneath with some fibreglass matting
Cavity builders expanding foam was then used to build up the volume without adding too much weight, it is very easy to sculpt to about the right shape too
Then skimmed with filler. I just need to radius off all the edges and do some final finishing now..
Nice work bud, i love those porsche wheels too, really set it up as a performance car.
300BHP sounds nice what was the replacement engine? (yes i know you are running subie)
