I think I had 215 65 on wide rims with no rub. Really want to maximise lowering rpm, my ear rings from drone
What did you do to your MKIV today?
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P2B
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A 6th gear is the answer.
bluetooth earmuffs are your answer, then
fixes the broken radio that was draining the battery and had to be unplugged, too
With noise cancelling, yes. Definitely. I think I saw a 205 75 16 that was tested and worked but I need to find which tire make that was
CanadianALH
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Just got back from a 1,500ish km road trip to Kalispell/Whitefish and glacier national park area. The car performed very well in the mountains and passing was not a problem thanks to burpod. I loved the higher speed limits and diesel was cheaper which is always a win. Very beautiful scenery and we really just enjoyed being in God’s creation. Would highly recommend that area to anyone as the people are nice, food is delicious and the mountain roads are pretty fun.
03TDICommuter
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Look good! Lots of shiny metal.
BTW, always clean your camera lens before your next picture - it will eliminate the lens flare.
Greasy fingers make oily cameras.
I went down to the dollar store and bought some enamel or oil-based art paint kit. Use that to mark every connection with this unique color and every vacuum hose and water hose connection. $4 paint kit is surprisingly good. That's if you don't plan on pressure washing everything and painting things. That puts a dampener on things. Spent the last hour and a half looking for misplaced parts and hoses, and I did find one broken black wire and the plug adjacent to the plug that goes to the injector pump. It was green so it must have been broken a while. I wonder what it was
The Cream Dolphin
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It has been an awesome saga to watch! I remember the start with that timing belt. I think I commented at the time "if you give a mouse a cookie..." and I think that still stands haha. Well done.
Nuje
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Lofty praise for the VW Mk4/ALH's engineers.
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JDSwan87
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Dave Ramsey has entered the chat...It only hurts for a minute when you put the credit card in the reader.
PakProtector
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I have noticed it is quite painful to sum up the CC interest payments once the card is cleared.
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All comes down to where you want the pain... I personally do not use a credit card, never have. If I've got the money, I can buy... If not, I save up until I've got it. Much less stressful for me!
last couple days been putting a stupid $70 chinese t3/t4 piece of spinny-junk on there
now it's loud
gotta get down to work and weld together a resonator and such, I'll wait until they're near closing time so I'm not in anyone's way
now it's loud
gotta get down to work and weld together a resonator and such, I'll wait until they're near closing time so I'm not in anyone's way
JDSwan87
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We followed the baby steps and got completely debt free. Almost cost our marriage because I was working a LOT. Now we have 1 car payment, a van we bought new and plan to keep forever. That will be paid off after 3 years of a 4 year loan.
I digress... today I drove my Golf and smiled.
CanadianALH
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T3/T4 on a ALH? Sounds interesting… can you elaborate? Maybe some pictures.
I didn't really take any pictures, it's on one of those chinese t3 cast manifolds for 8v gas motors, it only fit together one way, I wanted to run an HX40 I've got but it was going to be about 2" past the firewall.
Looked at he341cw clones for a while before remembering I had this junk on the shelf, and it barely fit.
ebay ad says it's 50.5/76/65.5/55.9 (comp inducer to turbine exducer) with a 0.57 a/r housing
Not intercooled because I didn't want to mess with plumbing. Might get an air/water at some point but it'll likely just get filled with coolant and plugged for thermal mass.
The T25/he221 combination is a lot more reasonable.
Haven't beat on it yet, most I've seen so far is 12 psi. Wakes up after 2700 with a relatively clean smoke map, probably running too much advance too, which will slow the spool, it's around 8-10 deg in that area which is probably way too much. No lift pump. little tiny pp764s and a 10mm pump
CanadianALH
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What is the advantage? Like beside costing less?
Mostly for laughs, but also autism.
Exploring if I wasted a bunch of my life on compound turbos when big singles may well have been a much better/easier path.
CanadianALH
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With turbo technology these days it looks like a decent sized single may be the way to go. From what I understand they are able to get a 76mm turbo to perform really well. Like guys on larger turbos are going down to a more efficient smaller turbo.
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The pictures my buddy sends me from kalispell are absolutely gorgeous. So much beauty in the area. Lots of river fishing in the mountains catching huge trout and salmon. The lake fishing is just as well. He's been trying to get me and the wife to move out there with him and start up a practice. Other then the community I live/around in I would much rather live there then MN.
CanadianALH
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We definitely might consider moving there one day. Again we have an awesome friend, family and church community around here which is hard to leave.
GlowBugTDI
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Same for us in all those reasons. It would be hard to leave. We have been here our whole lives and many of our friends do all the same things we like to. I would definitely miss some of the boy's, we raised each other lol.
The only downfall of kalispell is it's a more expensive area, but if you move outside of there a little way's things are much more reasonable.
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. May need to paint that up to make the engine bay just that much cleaner.
pkhoury
That guy with the goats
What did I do to my mk4 today - I made DSOL identical to DSEL. Finally got back my transmission this past weekend after waiting about a year and a half! Figured I'd install it. Didn't think I'd knock out the job in 10 hours, including test drive. Last time I pulled out an 02J, it took me a week to get it back up and running. Also changed out the flywheel so I'd have a proper TDC hash (note to self - NEVER EVER EVER buy Eurospec SMF's again). The first flywheel (one of two spares) had centering pins that were off, so I had to take it off and reuse my only pair of bolts again, and the second SMF worked.
I only made it down the driveway and back, because I'm operating on one fog and one highbeam (need to replace the wiring harness inside the driver side headlight, and replace some bulbs as well).
I only made it down the driveway and back, because I'm operating on one fog and one highbeam (need to replace the wiring harness inside the driver side headlight, and replace some bulbs as well).
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pkhoury
That guy with the goats
Oh, and next on the list is doing the TB for DSEL about 9K miles early, along with the accessory belt pulley, belt and tensioner (learned my lesson from my Florida trip). I'll probably tackle DSEL this weekend or early next week.
I crawled under my Jetta to find out why the heat shield over my right CV joint was rubbing on the inner hub.
It turns out that the shield was still tightly installed, but the aluminum that the steel mounting point reinforcements were supposed to protect had worn away over the years, so the bolts were hitting the reinforcements while the aluminum shield was vibrating around and wearing itself until it eventually started dragging on the inner CV axle hub.
Removed for now, fixing the screeching noise, as well as some mystery rattles if never managed to isolate previously.
It turns out that the shield was still tightly installed, but the aluminum that the steel mounting point reinforcements were supposed to protect had worn away over the years, so the bolts were hitting the reinforcements while the aluminum shield was vibrating around and wearing itself until it eventually started dragging on the inner CV axle hub.
Removed for now, fixing the screeching noise, as well as some mystery rattles if never managed to isolate previously.
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pkhoury
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I got SO much crap from @alphaseinor for installing those when pulling transmissions/replacing CV's and whatnot. I don't think I have one on either one of my Golfs, but I also have both straightpiped, so in theory, the exhaust should be running cooler with no restrictions.
100% sympathize with your post, as I've had the same happen to me (and have gotten replacements from the junkyard).