What did you do to your Scirocco today?

[UKScirocco_1983]

Woke up to this...

[n057]

Spend a lot of money on it... without even looking at her.
Does that count?

About the head gasket job? (I assume, no quote in your post)
When I look at it, this what I see.
Nothing is too good for my Baby. After almost 20 years at my service, it deserves it :-)
But what counts is the puddle of oil that has been slowly dripping in my parking spot for the past 3 years. The fact that all of a sudden it lost 1 liter of oil, which indicates that oil is being spewing out of the engine at speed. To corroborate, the general area behind the engine, PS, is all caked with oil and dust. Plus the UV dye line that now shows very clearly.
I am not equipped to open up the engine. But what I see is consistent with the Bentley :-)

Jean-Claude
84 8v
13 2.5 Passat

[MacGruber]

Fixed the play in the supposedly already shot RPM transmission mount (so low a price AutohausAZ is out) by replacing the missing starter bolt that also clamps the front torsion bumper bracket.

Insane pricing: that little rubber bumper stop is $33.89 at Advance, the transmission mount with 3 high strength steel studs in it is $5.89. Both are Anchor -made in India.

[cuppie]

So, as much as I've always loved how my audio system sounds, I've always hated how it left me with zero space in the cargo bay.
A battery box, an Alpine Type S 10" sub / enclosure (which is a good 2 feet long), and an Alpine V12 amp (an MRV-F450) took up the entire floor.

So.... I semi-recently acquired a JL Audio HD900-5 amp. It's little. Really little. It fits on the crossover rack on my left (just a sheet of MDF, fills the wheelwell-tail panel space.)
It went in today. I re-tuned the system. I regained cargo floor.

That done, I found the visor clips that I bought, oh, last year. Installed those.

[sciroccodriver]

This.... Cincy prep..

[UKScirocco_1983]

Mind you...its all STOCK

Before:



After: Still some thick dirt around the plastic pieces and fuel pipe but its mostly done

[H2oWerker]

Rerouted the PCV hoses, repaired the coolant temp wire that didn't send a signal to the cluster, and modified the "air-box" from a MK3 Neuspeed P-flow to fit. Unfortunately. The air box didn't stay put and the alternator pulley/belt made additional modifications while driving.

Maybe that's not so unfortunate?


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[Teighlor O']

Ripped off a rattling, rusted dust shield from the front wheel.

[Rresetrrewind]

Had it running, blew a fuse, and now it won't start lol. It was fun while it lasted.

[ANSAracingb]

Two days ago halfway through my morning commute, my fuel transfer pump died. The main pump started making noise which is how I knew something was up.

After much bucking/stalling upon acceleration, I was able to nurse it up to 70mph and keep it there as long as I didn't put my foot in it. Got the rest of the way to work (all highway) and had to get a ride home that night.

Today one of the techs at work installed the new transfer pump. I am lucky in that the main pump is now quiet and so far doing fine. Thank goodness because the main pump is not so cheap, and more difficult to replace.

Tomorrow the plan is to drive it home after I get off work.

[UKScirocco_1983]

1:30 AM and pretty hammered.....washed and waxed....lets see what the sunshine shows for that work

[cuppie]

Why, I drove her back home from Cincy!
And, then I unloaded her, de-bugged the windshield, and 'installed' the scirocco.org stickers that I got from Cathy.

Planned for this week:
Oil change
Trans oil change
Alignment
Install Cincy XV duck.

[hatchbackkid82]

Finished putting the interior back together sfter replacing the carpet

Repalced the + Battery cable the goes from the +battery terminal to the starter

[79MK1Scirocco]

Rebuilding my vintage Rajay Turbo.
I had to CNC a specialty tool and hunt down parts, unfortunately I cannot attach files so no pics

[ziggirocco]

I sat in it finally!

[cuppie]

unfortunately I cannot attach files so no pics

None of us can.
You need to upload photos to a hosting service (e.g. Photobucket), and paste here the image links from said hosting site.

[Rresetrrewind]

Sealed around my taillights so I don't come home to a fish tank in my trunk again.

[roccostud]

about freaking time still working on the front one. I bought them off of andy(polo8v) for "cheap" years ago and never put them on the car. I wanted black and these were green, and rusted out a bit the rear bumper looked mangled from some one bumping in to the left side. so i cut the rust out, used some hammers and blocks of wood to straighten one of them, painted them and in the process of finally mounting them.

[mk2roc]

Preparing for paint and what is remaining of summer. Been a long time since I have driven this scirocco. I needs my fix.

engine compartment paint ( spray can )



Corrado G60 brakes.



Engine being assembled

http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7eb1ae3c.jpg

Dropping the engine in. Blew up after 1 week. Damn stock exhaust valve dropped and blew a hole through piston 2 and thrashed the head.





AWP engine installed running aeb electronics



Body work starts




After a lot cutting out of wheel wells and rocker panels. ( As a side not I had someone patch the car a few years ago and all the did was put the new metal over the rust. My advise if you can weld do it yourself and if you can't learn )
Fitted body kit after lower body work.

[fnord2012]

I tore out fence posts so I can get a pole barn built to put it in

[midlman]

Finally got back the the Scirocco.. retrograded to a mono-wiper, put on FredyBenders steering column bearing fix clamp, new fan speed switch relay (didn't work...so need to go after the blower motor next I guess)..

Also put in a new coil and new coil wire..keeping fingers crossed the ignition cut out is cured (did the ign switch already).

Inaugural drive went well...

[punchbug]

#1. Moved her around in the garage (she went to Cincy, so she is happy for now)
#2. Drove her to the airport top down, then to the track, loaded the dead quad into her then home
#3. Drove him to the city after loading the quad into him, picked up a second (non dead) quad, then to the track, then home

Drove them all today I guess! THAT is how it is supposed to be eh? Oh, the quads are small enough to fit on the seat.....two year old sized ones.

[smithma7]

I walked by Red, then I went and got drunk.

[origsix]

I was able to purchase 2 White Wolfsburg Edition Fender Badges then apply them appropriately to my 85 wolfie. Ultra rare find,but with a price!!

[punchbug]

I walked by Red, then I went and got drunk.

Funny, my Scirocco drive was today was for a beer run! Drive first, silly!

@origsix: Nice score! but worthless without pictures

[H2oWerker]

Filled her up, drove her to work, and noticed what may be the beginning of clutch slippage on the way home.

):


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[n057]

It has been developing a slow oil leak for a while, so I took it to have the engine gunked. Confirmed I need a new head gasket. Appointment made for Wednesday AM, will likely be gone for a week.

Back from the shop.
It was worse than I expected. In addition to replacing the head gasket, they had to rebuild the head. Parts alone were over CAN $500: gasket, planing the head, valve job, replace the timing belt and thermostat, a bunch of springs, a bunch of guides, fix up the distributor and water pump, a slew of nagging things that might as well get done while the engine was apart. And then there was labor ...
But the engine is now purring as it has not for a long time. It should be good for another 30 years. :-)
Now to take the driver seat out and fix the leather. Myself.

[Skankahaulic]

Well most of this stuff has sat in my closet the past 5 years... surprised how much a tour overseas and moving makes you lazy...
Got a friend to do a custom sub box and audio install in the rocco. Can't wait to hear how it sounds when I pick it up tomorrow.




Also custom kick panels too!