peruses
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Hi folks.
I know I'm a decade late to this party, but good times will be had.
My fun beater decided he wants to go a little faster again and overheated the na AAZ, a quick look around craigslist revealed a dirt cheap decent running 96 Passat with the 1Z and CTN tranny.
click this for one of the very few videos of how I drive him
20190629_112620 by Brice Moss, on Flickr
After a lotta reading starting with the wonderful swap list sticky above, I decided the route to go was to take everything from the B4 I could possibly make fit into the Mk2 and I've gota sawzall, welder, and not worries about looks
20190629_084112 by Brice Moss, on Flickr
IMG_20200712_175941768 by Brice Moss, on Flickr
I have extracted the whole wiring haness from engine bay to fusebox, fusebox to dash, and down the drivers side to the b pillar. I've got the pedal cluster and master cylinders already swapped over, a plan for cutting the dash to fit the b4 gauge cluster.
I'm highly concerned about the gearing on the CTN tranny (is it really a 3.2 final drive?) cause I'm pushing 28" tires and offroad this thing a lot more than I drive it on the freeway and I want a limited slip of some kind.
so questions:
Wavetrack or Peloquin diff with the shim kit? I'm leaning towards the Peloquin mostly because that dude called me up and chatted with me a half hour when I left a message on the website to figure out which level of his shim kit I wanted to install in the 020.
what maintenance to do on the TDI while I've got it out of the car? I plan to do timing belt, water pump, valve cover gasket, and a clutch disk, anything else?
The turbo spins nice but there was a drizzle of oil in the inter cooler rebuild or replace and if replace with what? Low end torque is the highest priority on this rig.
Sorry for the wall of text I'll revise when I get some pictures loaded.
some pics and vids here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dpxD14xSkSwykcdy7
I know I'm a decade late to this party, but good times will be had.
My fun beater decided he wants to go a little faster again and overheated the na AAZ, a quick look around craigslist revealed a dirt cheap decent running 96 Passat with the 1Z and CTN tranny.
click this for one of the very few videos of how I drive him
20190629_112620 by Brice Moss, on Flickr
After a lotta reading starting with the wonderful swap list sticky above, I decided the route to go was to take everything from the B4 I could possibly make fit into the Mk2 and I've gota sawzall, welder, and not worries about looks
20190629_084112 by Brice Moss, on Flickr
IMG_20200712_175941768 by Brice Moss, on Flickr
I have extracted the whole wiring haness from engine bay to fusebox, fusebox to dash, and down the drivers side to the b pillar. I've got the pedal cluster and master cylinders already swapped over, a plan for cutting the dash to fit the b4 gauge cluster.
I'm highly concerned about the gearing on the CTN tranny (is it really a 3.2 final drive?) cause I'm pushing 28" tires and offroad this thing a lot more than I drive it on the freeway and I want a limited slip of some kind.
so questions:
Wavetrack or Peloquin diff with the shim kit? I'm leaning towards the Peloquin mostly because that dude called me up and chatted with me a half hour when I left a message on the website to figure out which level of his shim kit I wanted to install in the 020.
what maintenance to do on the TDI while I've got it out of the car? I plan to do timing belt, water pump, valve cover gasket, and a clutch disk, anything else?
The turbo spins nice but there was a drizzle of oil in the inter cooler rebuild or replace and if replace with what? Low end torque is the highest priority on this rig.
Sorry for the wall of text I'll revise when I get some pictures loaded.
some pics and vids here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dpxD14xSkSwykcdy7
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