Yep - I just did it yesterday with the help of my 8 year old assistant. Took us about 3 hours, including cleaning the intake. Here's the before:
And an after:
I worked off of two or three different write-ups from tdiclub, vortex, newbeetle, etc.
I had the hardest time removing the four 6mm bolts for the intake and output for the egr cooler. Two were rusted shut and had to be pb blasted and hammered (lightly ), but they finally came out.
We took it for a short test drive - I can't say I feel a performance increase, but it feels good to have done it. Spending my afternoon with one of my sons is nice too...
Thanks to the community again for a new New Beetle owner to tackle this project!
Now - onto my next two projects - diesel purge, and evry mod!
- Adam
And an after:
I worked off of two or three different write-ups from tdiclub, vortex, newbeetle, etc.
I had the hardest time removing the four 6mm bolts for the intake and output for the egr cooler. Two were rusted shut and had to be pb blasted and hammered (lightly ), but they finally came out.
We took it for a short test drive - I can't say I feel a performance increase, but it feels good to have done it. Spending my afternoon with one of my sons is nice too...
Thanks to the community again for a new New Beetle owner to tackle this project!
Now - onto my next two projects - diesel purge, and evry mod!
- Adam