Rauchen!!!

[colucci]

This here's Brent Naylor Boldly standing by his *****in' ride. Notice the custom painted TDI as well as the cool black grille. I would recommend European black mouldings myself....

c/o D'nardo


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Smokin into the new millenium...
98 Jetta TDI mit Wetterauer chip

 

[RAUCHEN]

Now you're embarrasing me, D'nardo....

Thanks a million. Where's your Green Machine?

 

[SkyPup]

Great shades too!hehehe. Bet you guys blew away the gasser competition at Treffen. Any inside info from any of the performance tuners on support for TDI's? If anyone could get them interested in the TDI occult, you guys certainly could. Georgeous car, Brent.

 

[RAUCHEN]

Skypup-

I talked to several vendors about TDI performance upgrades, most scratched their heads, a few wanted to know more about the
cars.....I would bet that the people on this
forum are generally more informed than %95
of the performance VW vendors out there.

My only regret of the show is that they had this HUGE empty parking lot between the "display" and "parking" lots. I thought it would be perfect for a smoky-burnout competition (Isn't that what they do at car shows????!) Knowing the TDI's are unparalled in this aspect, oh.....what might
have been!

He he.

 

[Peter Cheuk]

Yeah, a local radio station had tickets up for an NHRA event and they were giving them away to the car that made the longest burnout in their parking lot. I was tempted to show up with my TDI amidst the hotrods and do the dance with my parking brake up.

 

[RAUCHEN]

I can picture it now....walls of black exhaust smoke, walls of blue tire smoke, the
sound and the fury. We need a video/sound clip of that one!

 

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Hi,

I've asked other drivers this, so here goes: Are the Kamei scoops on your car connected to anything? Hoses the the airbox?

Thanks,



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Scott, KE4WMF
98 Jetta TDI w/40,000 mi
53 mpg (US) w/AC

http://members.aol.com/ThreeRibs/Volkswagen.html
(Features TDI Articles and Sound Files)

 

[RAUCHEN]

RadHaz-

You are correct, Sir! (Ed Mcmahon laugh...)

Passenger side routed with 2 1/2" hose directly to airbox intake (thus my Ram-Air)

Driver's side could be similarly routed to intercooler, but I haven't had time to look
at it yet; there is limited space around the
I/C to run a hose......

 

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Raunchen,

Where did you get the hose? How did you secure it to the non-round air scoop? How did you route it from the scoop to the airbox?

Thanks,



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Scott, KE4WMF
98 Jetta TDI w/40,000 mi
53 mpg (US) w/AC

http://members.aol.com/ThreeRibs/Volkswagen.html
(Features TDI Articles and Sound Files)

 

[RAUCHEN]

I got the 2 1/2" shop-vac hose and end coupling from Lowes, total cost about $13.

The coupling fits in the intake of the box
very nicely, and takes the place of the
factory elbow. Cut about 2' of hose, and
remove the reflector, route the hose in
from the outside, one slight bend around
an alloy a/c hose, but no kinks.

The trimming to get the hose end to mate up
to the back of the Kamei scoop is the trickiest- want contact but not so much force that it pushes the scoop out forwards.
I'm still figuring out the coupling from
the round hose to oval opening in the scoop-
right now it's not quite perfect, but time
has not permitted further tweeking. Maybe
this weekend...

 

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Rauchen,

"The trimming to get the hose end to mate up
to the back of the Kamei scoop is the trickiest- want contact but not so much force that it pushes the scoop out forwards."

I got mine hooked up tonight. It's sweet. I bought the 2-1/2" hose like you said. I ran it through the bumper and into the airbox as you directed. My Kamei scoops already had small holes drilled in them so I could secure them to my car with light steel cables. The bolts are very small and nearly invisible. I removed the bolt from my right scoop and used it to bolt the vacuum hose to the scoop. The hose fits perfectly INSIDE the opening. It's visible if you stoop down for a peek, but I intend to spray paint it to match the car/scoop.

Anyway, once the hose was bolted to the scoop, I was able to pull the hose from the inside until the scoop was actually being pulled into place... just the opposite of your concern above. Once the scoop was pulled into place, I trimmed the hose from the airbox side.

It turns out that the opening in the airbox is actually 3" instead of 2-1/2". My solution to seal up the gap was to wrap the hose with a bicycle inner tube until a good seal was formed. It's not perfectly airtight, but bound to be at least as good as the OEM setup. I may drive a screw into the hose (same as the ones that held the J in place) to ensure the hose doesn't jiggle out.

If you haven't tried to perfect your hose, give my solution a try.

Thanks Again For Your Help,

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Scott, KE4WMF
98 Jetta TDI w/42,000 mi
53 mpg (US) w/AC

http://members.aol.com/ThreeRibs/Volkswagen.html
(Features TDI Articles and Sound Files)




[This message has been edited by RADHAZ TDI (edited August 27, 1999).]