At the risk of throwing further gasoline on the apparent fires of frustration, yes i'll be trying to reduce down or not follow up on certain threads. I'm just trying to catch back with where things were, to try and explain a few things.
I'm not trying to piss off the board. I'm just trying to not be misunderstood.
Sad little souls like me in the low rent district have to build our dream vehicles, rather than just buying them outright.
<--- This.
I can afford a $2500-3000 Jetta to get started as a VW owner probably this coming summer.
If I literally am planning on driving it hundreds of thousands of miles, I can probably rebuild the powertrain and have something reliable for that for alot less than a new vehicle.
A power boost would be nice sometime after that. When I make money it comes in intermittent bursts, not perfectly easy $400/month payments so I improve it as I go. Especially when I explained HOW this works - I do random craigslist things and might make $500-3000 in one tow if I get lucky. I've given up jobs already because it was beyond my Saturn's 1200lb tow limit (and my pickup wasn't available and neither was a rental) that could have made me $3k twice, that would have paid for the TDI rebuild if I had one.
I make _intermittent_ but not reliable cash. So i'm looking for a vehicle I can intermittently upgrade.
You're not getting the whole picture with just this one thread. The op has been asking about cheap hp and towing potentially unsafe loads with not enough vehicle to control it. He mentions wanting to tow 10k more than a few times
I'm pretty sure I never mentioned 10k and VW in the same sentance. Any talk i've made of towing 10,000lbs was about getting a Cummins Dodge Ram to replace my current pickup which is only good to 5,000lbs. I haven't yet had any jobs over 5000lbs but a reserve would be nice, and 5000lbs is within spitting distance of guys throwing a Passat on a dolly behind another Passat so don't act like i'm from planet Pluto.
If I swap a VW TDI into a Dodge Dakota, which came in a chassis legally rated and brake/suspension equiped to tow up to 5000lbs if it came with a v6 and tow package, how is this unsafe??? Am I allowed to have my thread back? Why do you think i'm ASKING about a swap into a heavier vehicle to begin with? Because i'm not COMFORTABLE with the idea of pushing a Jetta or Passat to the level that other people ALREADY do all over the board. Yet i'm still CURIOUS when they show they have done so.
I'm willing to accept my post not being welcomed if i'm wrong, I only get frustrated when i'm misunderstood.
He's started a staggering 34 threads, vast majority of which have essentially the same pie-in-the-sky theme of a TDI powered tow vehicle. I'd lost track of how many until I looked.
A Jetta towing 1200lbs is already a tow vehicle.
My Saturn towing 1200lbs is already a tow vehicle.
I'm sorry if my questions are frustrating the board, I am trying to be clearer, but they are not all the same. Let me make one last attempt here:
I have had two main driving questions regarding towing,#1 is there any way to make one vehicle do both jobs I have right now having seen the guy pulling 6800lbs in his 4000lb or whatever Ford Ranger with compound turbos on a BHW. I'm sorry if I got curious because of this, okay? The board is full of lots of other 3500-4000lb tow stories behind Golfs and Jettas. People post their pictures in my threads already.
The second range of questions has all been is there any practical way to raise the cutoff between the things I tow with a VW TDI engine because in the future living situation I will have to park the pickup about 60 miles away from the VW which I keep in town. So this started the slippery slope of curiosity wondering how far can it go... do I have to take that 240 mile journey to get the truck if I want to tow 1500lbs? How about 2000lbs? When in europe they tow 2600lbs? THAT is where 85% of towing related questions are spawning from.
The power questions are all because if I get a Jetta or Passat as a daily driver, at some point I want to make it faster ANYWAYS even if it's only towing 1200lbs Class 1. Yet practical tow questions seep into the performance thread, two birds one stone.
If what i've just explained, for I think the fourth time doesn't make sense i'll stop trying and stop posting on the topic. I'm just making an attempt to not be completely misunderstood. And I was STILL curious about Dodge bellhousing stuff because a TDI powered Dakota towing 1201-5000lbs alongside a TDI powered Jetta towing 0-1200lbs could also work as well as the S10 or Tacoma I was already considering. I made this post because of this thread on another board
https://www.4btswaps.com/forum/showthread.php?42666-VW-TDI-Swap-info-guide if you scan down for 'dakota' you'll see people talking about stuff that is maybe incorrect, but it's why I posted.
So when people keep implying "this a__hole wants to tow 10,000lbs with a Jetta" that is flat out WRONG. I'm frustrated when saying too little gets me in trouble so then I say too much and i'm still in trouble, and then I try to correct the misunderstanding and now i'm in even more trouble because I can't win. Maybe I ask too many questions but when people repeat back to me what they think i'm saying, and it's very very different than what I was intending, I don't know what else to do but to try and post a clarification.