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4 minute(s) of a 85 minute read
10-26-2010
Thanks for the comments, folks!
Yes the car still has cut springs believe it or not. I keep meaning to have some coilovers brought from Brazil but it hasn't happened yet. Soon enough.
I am running 4 injectors for now, which may change to 8 in the future. Let's see how the car does on the road and if it starves for fuel at the psi setting I want first. I have a feeling that it will be fine with 4 for now, and that I'll be able to move to 8 in the future when I rebuild the engine with forged pistons and crank the boost some more.
Anyways, I thought the thread would move to 2 pages after post #20; guess it takes a bit more than that. I'll keep going with the pictures!
Disbritutor and spark plug cables in:
Exhaust manifold and turbo in:
Water pump, rad, oil filter support
The body of the wastegate also got the same flameproof coating (i love bbq'ing my parts)
Started refinishing the wheels in silver one by one - first stripped them completely with paint stripper spray then sanded them free of what little residue had stayed
That's because the goal is this:
This is a photoshop on this picture Adam took of my fox back in OSCR 2008
I still prefer the BBS basketweaves to orbitals, but it'd be nice to have orbitals as a 2nd set
New fuel distributor in:
Intercooler (from a Passat 1.8T) and tubing:
Got it ready to fire up.
Hooked up the battery, alternator, cold start (on a temporary push-button because my thermo time switch is toast), timing belt, timed it, and made up some injector lines out of brake line and fuel injection hose - all because the holes and threads on each injector port on the FD are larger than the ones found on Fox and Audi units. I'll eventually get adapters so I can go back to the steel braided lines but for now these are working well with no leaks
Finished all the wheels and took the car for a little test spin. Lots of tuning left to do, but so far, it's described by my friend Steve as "s**** your pants fast"
Comments
The Fox!
Posted by Diggymart on 10/17/21 @ 1:08:06 PM
Nice update and video!
Posted by Diggymart on 2/18/21 @ 4:11:06 PM
Nice looking Fox!
Posted by MPower on 10/1/20 @ 7:49:34 PM
Thank you!!
Posted by alaincopter on 1/10/21 @ 10:14:40 PM
My pleasure, very glad to have my build featured - thanks for everything! From day one I've seen how hard you've been working on this site and you made it exactly the way us car nuts love - a great place to quickly access great builds and helpful info, along with a easy to use platform to post new content, even easier than the forums. Many props to a great site!
Posted by alaincopter on 5/3/17 @ 1:43:00 AM
Thanks! We appreciate the kind words. :)
Posted by diyauto on 5/4/17 @ 9:48:42 AM
Looks great and thanks for adding! I love that blue :)
Posted by diyauto on 4/21/17 @ 10:24:00 AM
Thank you Diggymart! I’ll have other updates soon as I’ve finished the interior upholstery, front suspension and brake upgrades, and I hope to start posting videos more regularly as well. Cheers!
Posted by alaincopter on 10/18/21 @ 12:55:10 PM