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PD engines can be just as efficient, but not with the transmission coupled to the BHW in factory VW installs, they have a lot of frictional and rotational mass losses in the transmissions from what I understand. In a deleted swap, yes you'll see comparable mpg. Tune it for more power and you...

I've heard guys on 33x12.5's or even 35" tires knocking down 28 to 33mpg consistently in their TDI swapped Toyota pickups 4Runners & Tacomas. Have you had your injectors professionally set up and balanced in the past 100,000 miles? Are you running a good intercooler setup, and not sucking hot...

That correction is only half correct. The farther apart & the steeper the pitch angle of the windings only makes the spring rate stiffer because there is less length of coil spring wire overall, if you were to uncoil the spring and measure the overall length of the wire in straight form. It...

I've got a 2009 Land Cruiser HZJ79 Canadian mining truck's R151F transmission and manual shift HF1A "splitcase" transfer cases sitting next to my Suzuki Samurai TDI swap project. It came from a salt mine operation, so I've got to replace or acid dip and nickel plate the driveshaft flanges and...

Hey, thanks for that info! It's not a priority, but we just picked up an '88 22RE Toyota short bed standard cab pickup for my wife (who loves VW diesels), and had already been considering TDI swapping it. It's got the W56 5 speed attached to the standard 85-88 EFI engine'd RF3 transfer case...

Needing to drop some money on other vehicle projects ASAP, looking to move this GT2052 soon to afford other repairs!

I pulled them out last night to check them out for you. Both wheels would need a lot of time spent refinishing them, the clear coat and black paint is in bad shape. If you would still be interested in the better one, I could email you photos if you give me an address.

From IDParts.com: "Upgrade turbo for A3/B4 TDIs. This wastegate turbo is known to provide quick spooling and much improved breathing at high revs compared to the stock KKK or Garrett turbos on A3 Jettas and Passats."

Apologies for the delay, but here are photos for those interested: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzG2Ja I could let it go with one of those two manifolds depending on your mounting needs. T25(?) flange side mount+ GT2052 adapter, or the late AAZ K03 top mount manifold that people fit the GT2052...

I forgot the details about the Mk1 GTI wheels - I also have 2 Mk1 Rabbit GTI snowflake wheels, I sold the other 8 I had to one guy in Indiana. If anyone wants to come physically pick up the 2 wheels, they can have them for scrap aluminum price, $12-$15-ish? I'm not really interested in...

I've gotten a couple messages about the turbo today, not sold yet though.

I've got a GT2052 wastegate turbo that only has a few hours testing time on it from a guy that was trying to do an mTDI swap into a jet boat. Garret part # is 727264-5001S Same turbo as raved about in this extensive thread...

To get a longer front spring so that I only need one 10mm spacer per side or none at all, I dug up these from the 2019 Lesjöfors catalog: 40 950 31: 13.00mm wire 137mm o.d. 367mm free length style: C I 40 950 33: 13.00mm wire 141mm o.d. 340mm free length style: C I Since stock is 12.5 mm wire...

FYI - Lesjöfors most current automotive coil spring catalog that I could find, go to the latter portions for technical specifications that include wire diameter, coil outside diameter, and free length. No spring rates listed, and no coil count listed, so you cannot calculate the spring rates...

Wow, this build is looking amazing! Great work! I'm considering chopping up my rusted out Samurai body and converting it to a similar pickup cab, but the Aqualu cab is just simply AWESOME! I had referenced your thread a few times in the past when brainstorming up what I wanted my build to me...

it sounds like the KS (KolbenSchmidt) heads are better quality, although they may also be cast in Spain according to a rumor, but KolbenSchmidt is a German company. I was doing a little digging and noticed some people complaining about the AMC valves and lifters being of inferior quality and...

The ALH pickup I believe, although some of the newest hybrid pans have a different steel bottom, the newest VW OEM versions, and one guy was saying that on his BHW with the hybrid pan swapped on, he thought he needed the 1.8T 2.0 pickup that has a gooseneck in it to lift if up off the bottom of...

Yes, the hybrid pans with the steel bottom and cast aluminum sides are likely about the same height as the steel pans, but the all steel pans can be cut and clearanced more if you are running the engine with an adapter that clocks it over towards the passenger fender to get the oil pan away from...

The wiring through the 2007 models really is not that bad though. I still prefer mechanical but my daily driver is electronic TDI due to the OEM platform which I could not bear to part out! $400 ALH donor Jetta wagon that turned out to be one of the best daily drivers I've ever had, after a lot...

If you send your computer out to a tuner, they can do an immobilizer delete, EGR delete, automatic transmission delete, anything you would need, as well as give you a stage 1, 2, 3, etc tune. It's going to cost more than a used mTDI pump however, vs keeping your donor's used eTDI pump plus...