What did you do to your car today?

ate it.

Penned by a million monkeys.

I have some rust to repair on the drivers side rear door, 2 large holes, (started to rust around the trim pieces) as well as replace the lower hinge on the passenger side rear door thats been giving me a loud clunk on nearly every hole on the road...

Going to patch the hole as i have the materials to do a proper patch, but will be ordering a new door skin when i get a chance.

Aswell as a EGR delete... debating on removing the shut down plate... but the idea of closing it if the engine runs away is a good idea to keep it...

Zippy_car said:

Upon re-installation this time, one of the stacked coils shifted ever so slightly. Enough to strip the new bolt going in

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Mine broke on the highway back in Nov 2010. Thank g_d for the diesel-geek's alloyed skid plate. Held everything from dropping on the ground.

You were the member alerting us all about the cam and followers on the MK4's too.... and that was replaced just a few months after that Get-2-gether up in New Hampshire when everyone was checking out your wear. It's worth putting the doe into these cars as they age. I keep passing mile stones where 40,000 or 50,000 miles pass and I say ...most people would traded in their car. So far this Golf '02 has outlived 3 new cars that have come and gone out of my driveway over this past decade.

Successfully changed LCD on a Full FIS cluster

gioTDI said:

Successfully changed LCD on a Full FIS cluster

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Did you do it yourself or have someone do it?
Was it very difficult?
I has a FIS on my car and the display is good, but you never know what could happen.

Bought a vnt20
Waiting by the mailbox

Zippy_car said:

Upon re-installation this time, one of the stacked coils shifted ever so slightly. Enough to strip the new bolt going in and make it impossible to torque down. so... new mount it was, then!

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Back in the old days, she never would have gotten away with a statement like this on the NE Forum. It would have gone something like this:

She said, "stacked....and strip...heh heh, and bolt going in...and mount..heh heh and torque down. "

Yeah, we're much more mature now in the NE crowd since Zippy moved away...wait a minute maybe there's a correlation....

The question is, what was Zippy wearing when she did this?

stubb's said:

Bought a vnt20
Waiting by the mailbox

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I had a terrible time with clogging vnt mechanisim on both the vnt20s i had.... Hope yours is better. With all the trouble you are taking for install, id recomend getting a gtb series turbo instead.

I need to do this too, but so not looking forward to it. Even have the part.

gioTDI said:

Successfully changed LCD on a Full FIS cluster

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kbrenny said:

Did you do it yourself or have someone do it?
Was it very difficult?
I has a FIS on my car and the display is good, but you never know what could happen.

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I did it my self, this is my 2 cluster that i changed the lcd, difficult not really, but i have prior experience in Soldering, for you if your FIS is good i don't recommend messing with it

stubb's said:

Bought a vnt20
Waiting by the mailbox

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With all that you want, bad choice.

Two new cooling fans, screw pulling the whole assembly.

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New wheels on the Golf:

I've decided that the 17s that come on these cars are the result of a marketing decision, not an engineering decision. I've had the 15s on and off the car twice and it accelerates, rides, and steers noticeably better with the 15s. And I'm betting it'll help FE, too.

Probably not a popular choice, but I like them. Offset is nice, and they look OE, because they are (from a Passat).

I think they look good Peter

Lurchalicious said:

Two new cooling fans, screw pulling the whole assembly.

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Yep, just a few hoses in the way..

IndigoBlueWagon said:

The question is, what was Zippy wearing when she did this?

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Black yoga pants and my KY T-shirt...with flip flops. At least I was wearing a shirt in the garage this time.

MikeS_18 said:

Back in the old days, she never would have gotten away with a statement like this on the NE Forum. [snip]
Yeah, we're much more mature now in the NE crowd since Zippy moved away...wait a minute maybe there's a correlation....

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Perhaps I've matured up a little since then too. California's making me "go soft." BWAHAHAHA... hardly. It's just that I'm more picky about what I say when I say it now. Not many on the west coast forums have this same sense of twisted humor, so I've learned to reserve my commentary for you guys when I come home.

BrianCT said:

Mine broke on the highway back in Nov 2010. Thank g_d for the diesel-geek's alloyed skid plate. Held everything from dropping on the ground.

You were the member alerting us all about the cam and followers on the MK4's too.... and that was replaced just a few months after that Get-2-gether up in New Hampshire when everyone was checking out your wear. It's worth putting the doe into these cars as they age.

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I'm glad your skid plate was able to hold everything in, kinda like a girdle. I keep telling myself that putting the money into Zippy to keep her running is worth it. It hurts on the initial payment of parts and labor, but it's a labor of love (and hate) and it keeps me from having another car payment. I just checked on my cam (the Bilstein cam I replaced the OEM one with after that same H05G GTG) and it's still good, tho starting show show a little wear. it'll be good for awhile longer. The biggest thing that all this recent work has done, is gotten rid of the "mystery vibration" (have fun with that one, Mike) that's been happening at certain RPM intervals for 4 years. Turns out the shop that replaced my right axle, put in a cheap china-part one that was only half the diameter of the OEM spec. Once it was replace, vibration/resonance went away! Though, Matt's still convinced it wasn't the axle, that it might have been the serpentine tensioner or similar, I still think it was the axle. Either way, I'm happy because it's fixed!

Kooyajerms, my goal with this car is about 180-200. My other thread is just daydreaming.

Oldpoopie, I got the vnt20 pretty cheap. It was just rebuilt so hopefully it will work well.
By the way thanks for offering to look for that cam gear the other day.
Aaron found one for me.

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Kooyajerms, my goal with this car is about 180-200. My other thread is just daydreaming.

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Shoot...looking at your mods, you should be very close to that. I assume you mean 180-200 whp?

Looks like a fun build.

stubb's said:

Bought a vnt20
Waiting by the mailbox

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Looks like someone didn't do their homework...

stubb's said:

Bought a vnt20
Waiting by the mailbox

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Hopefully with a "return to sender" tag...

Others have been there (~6 years ago) and the effort vs reward compared to the newer GTB offerings (or even the bolt in hybrids) makes for a disapointing outcome.

The bolt in hybrids will get you 80+% of the way there for 20% of the effort (and be very drivable).

The GTB's will leave the VNT20 in the dust for the same effort and perform better everywhere.

Changed my air filter, vacuumed out the airbox (lots of maple seeds, ***?), continued to work on wiping down the engine bay... not much left I can clean without disconnecting hoses and unbolting things. Fixed the two broken clips on the floor mats.

Got my first 50+ mpg tank! 50.45mpg to be exact. The best I've been able to get when trying has been 47.9 but this week I pumped my tires up from 35psi to 41 and lo and behold without even trying I got 50.45! After I get my IQ just right and really try on a few tanks my goal is to hit 55 :0)

The turbo I got is a gt2052v. Is that considered a gtb or not?

Thirstyturtle328 said:

Got my first 50+ mpg tank! 50.45mpg to be exact. The best I've been able to get when trying has been 47.9 but this week I pumped my tires up from 35psi to 41 and lo and behold without even trying I got 50.45! After I get my IQ just right and really try on a few tanks my goal is to hit 55 :0)

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Relevant: http://phys.org/news/2012-05-volkswagen-passat-world-longest-distance.html

Removed my ECU and packaged it for shipping to Jeff at Rocketchip. Very excited to get this done. I had been running a digi box that wasn't taking full advantage of the installed vnt-17 currently in the car. I also learned that I should really clean my engine bay. I wonder if there is anything safe for the rubber hoses that won't dry them out.

Hopefully next Tuesday I will be back on here freaking out about my improved power.

Chuckles, you are gonna love it, but if you haven't already, I higly suggest you look into an upgraded intercooler. the heat kills the power. and the stock unit is just not up to the task of the southern heat.

BRM w/ PD 140 Turbo from IDParts+RC Tune

Finally I got around to getting a dyno on my '06 BRM that I've been upgrading with much help from CEVANS, Jeff of RocketChip, Peter at IDParts and George, Panoramica and my good friends at Rennen along with RyanP who provided upgraded injectors (PD 150's)

Here's a link to the dyno itself:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=3428472263586

As you can see it's a bit over fueled

And the dyno curves:

I'm pleased with the typical curves from Jeff of RocketChip. 180 whp and 300 ft/lbs at the wheels. This car is a pleasure to drive!!

TDikook said:

Chuckles, you are gonna love it, but if you haven't already, I higly suggest you look into an upgraded intercooler. the heat kills the power. and the stock unit is just not up to the task of the southern heat.

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I'm working with a limited budget, but a deployment for the better part of next year might open some doors to getting my list of other things done. I may end up doing a cam when I do my TB later this year. I'm to understand that I'll be most of the way into it by the time I'm getting to the TB anyways. Might as well take the money I was going to spend having someone else doing the tb and use it to take care of a cam before it has the chance to become problematic.

Thanks for the heads up though.