IT HAS BEYGON! My 1.8T swap assembly by talx

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So pistons look beautiful pornolishis and thanks to bobqzzi for the grate deal!!

Well not much can be said about them except the fact that they are probably the strongest pistons on the market made Mahle seam so too because they mention that very fact in the manual

Pistons seam to have a gray coating I don't know if it is ceramic based ore not but looking at a F1 piston picture of a Mahle piston it seams to be the same coating and quality of piston

Unfortunately I will not be installing them in my engine just as yet because I first need to finish my project on the car before I can be worried on building the engine 

They will be going in with a set of Pauter rods I have forged crank Race ware studs big port cams solid lifters etc etc....you know all the usual

1/6/06

Just a few more parts came in 

ADR big port head flange to for my intake manifold I will be building soon with velocity stacks

Exhaust and T3 flanges from 304ss bar for my exhaust manifold that I should start working on around next week when some SS321 pipes come in

And Raceware head studs because you can't ever be too safe

More to come 

Its bin raining so i haven't worked on the car for more than a month but hopefully some work in progress updates soon 

3/2/06

Intercooler has arrived!

It's a HUGE B****!!!

Spearco Wave technology core 24X12X3.5 with 3 in and out pipes

One good thing about the MK2 is lots of room for a healthy intercooler

Although I did do my homework and measured then measured again and to finalized it by...... measured once more I had my worries it wouldn't fit because the pipes mite hit the tray support pillars 

But in the end it's a perfect fit and has good clearance I test fit it with the radiator as well which sits perfectly in the pic its leaning a bit forward because there is no support but actually the intercooler sits quite snuggly under the tray 

Getting it in was very tight and on the edge I needed to take the air temp sensor of to be abele to slip it in actually I thought at the beginning I would need to take the intake manifold off which didn't really worry me since I am building a custom manifold with shorter runners anyways

That's it I have don some progress on the car but nothing interesting since it has bin cold and raining all winter so it took my inspiration away to work on the car

4/5/06

So I went to do sum shopping yesterday for Ange and ...................

Ange has a complete Haldex swap now 

It's a Golf VR6 rear end with 40.000 Km and a Skoda 4-motion 02J tranny with 10.000km which means it has a transfer with the ratios needed unlike the 02C trannys

And I can swap my 6-speed Quaife set into it with Peloquin diffs front and rear 

Damage to my pocket wasn't that bad actually only 1500$ for it all and I have 2 ½ sets of drive shafts to go with it which means lots of spare couplings 

My mom told me when I got home and I quote "maybe if you spend all the cash you waste on you car on a good psychologist you mite have some hope in hell to torn out normal"

me normal is that posibal