Root Beer's Street/Strip S2 N/A++ 8v

[VWguyBruce]

Missed having you down there man. Had a great time. Here's the few pics I managed to take.

http://s13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...M%20Challenge/

Other albums from the Challenge:

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/challenge/updates/

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/for...d/40582/page1/

https://picasaweb.google.com/1051447...M2011Challenge

You guys get the point. And yes, we lost a wheel for those paying attention.

Video from the banquet. There's a clown (literally) that brings a car called Uranus: Fast, Butt Ugly

http://youtu.be/CwTdFjshDcE

[root beer]

What budget?

My Haltech Harness is currently getting new pins and fancy shrink wrap. Hoping to start in a week.

I've been watching classifieds like a hawk.

I picked up a 2y with a quaife through some fancy trading. That's got the 3.67's in it, which i'll just try first. I'll eventually put the 3.94 fd into that trans. It also has a mk3 5th gear

I have 2 16v pressure plates now, one new, one used. I have a clutchnet kevlar full face for a small spline, and a 6 puck for a big spline.

2 lwfw's

Delrin inserts.

In these deals, i also acquired 2 sets of usrt linkage, one new one used.

So, that takes care of everything that would make me hesitant to race the car. It's going to get beat on soon.

[JohnStamos]

My Haltech Harness is currently getting new pins and fancy shrink wrap. Hoping to start in a week.
It's going to get beat on soon.

Kevin doing your harness? He makes wiring art.


Can't wait to see this finished.

[root beer]

Yessir. Why not leave it to the best.

[mushroom_curry]

Subscribed!!!

Better late than never

[root beer]

Got a pic of my harness today

The car's basically been sitting. I messed with it a little, moved the battery to the front crossmember, put the mk1 rad back in with a single 12" pusher, put on my bfi front mount, and mk3 starter.

I have the trans with the quaife now, but i don't want to buy axles yet, so i'm just running the stock 2h for a little bit. oem 90mm joints in there now. We'll see what goes first, and axle, a clutch, or a diff.

[AJmustDIE]

Looks good!

[root beer]

Thanks man. Way pumped to put around in this thing after too long.

[vento86]

that harness its tits. you better be installing that thing right now

[root beer]

It's looking like this thing should be running this weekend.

Big thanks to Kevin Black for hooking this **** up. Kevin made the harness above, and is putting a basemap on my ecu, and mailing it to me today.

Parts coming in this week:
Tachometer
Ebay block breather plug
rocco 16v throttle cable
All the clutch bolts to put on my nice clutch parts whenever that time comes.

Once it's running, time to iron out details, and get ready for tuning!

[Hurt]

[root beer]

So, the harness and ecu arrived yesterday(Monday). It looks really legit. I couldn't get a whole lot of time at the shop, but i was able to fix a couple leaky coolant hoses, and plug the harness in, and lay it out.

To Start,

3 powers to the battery
1 ground to the battery
1 ground to the chassis
1 switched 12v wire to my ignition switch
and 1 fuel pump wire
And extend the mk1 fusebox power and grounds to the new battery placement

Do you guys think a 4 guage ground cable from the block to one of the front motormount bolts is sufficient?

Oh, and i changed my thread title.

[sin bar]

Hi tim this looks exciting

<3

[root beer]

Thanks brah. We need to chill next time either of us travels 1000 miles or whatever.

[AJmustDIE]

Uhm........

Where's the naus!?

[8716vrocco]

Do you guys think a 4 guage ground cable from the block to one of the front motormount bolts is sufficient?

I used an 8 gauge for my ground wire, so yeah you should be good with that.

[Pineapplegti !]

Looks good man.. Watch that header. I broke mine in 6 mos with poly mnts. and i had half the motor.

[root beer]

Thanks!

What broke? at the flange? Thankfully the guy i bought it from got the flexjoint option

Tried to go work on the car last night, and all the bays at my family's shop were full of non-rollers. Tonight it is.

[mushroom_curry]

Good luck!

[root beer]

Ecu's powered up now. No rpm signal. I've got a new crank sensor chillin, waiting for sunday now

[Pineapplegti !]

Thanks!

What broke? at the flange? Thankfully the guy i bought it from got the flexjoint option

Tried to go work on the car last night, and all the bays at my family's shop were full of non-rollers. Tonight it is.

The inner welds of the 4 into 1 merged collector. I was not pleased.

[stain_mk2]

ROOT is right. I never knew how to port anything myself. then I met my Girlfriend, her grandpa was the only man who knew how to do it in ths country!!...the company he worked for stopped taking in PORT-Jobs when he retired. Now racers send all their heads out to south africa.

But hey!! he told me to buy the tools, and go on google. Took a while to learn. but now I know how to. Just the tools are too cheap. aaahhh!!!

[stain_mk2]

oops...i think i posted in the wrong thread...lol

[root beer]

Hey, it runs! Real real ugly, but it runs!

After fighting with it a bit today, i got it to pump some air

Now i've got a whole host of details to work out before tuning.

[vento86]

cant remember, but what management are you runninng?

[root beer]

Haltech Plat 1000

[2021cc8V]

diggin the wiring harness job!

[scirocconaut]

Love your mk2 scirocco build i have family in maryland

I used to have a sick 86 zender scirocco 2.0 8v Frankenstein cis engine

I plan on auto crossing/hill climbing/rallying my daily driver it's a mk1 1980 Scirocco S model 16v

Come down to barber motorspeedway or talladega we have open track days at barber


I've been welding up the unibody you should get the BFI core support stress bar and lower k bar

Horsepower just rips that metal up like paper

[stain_mk2]

wish my harness looked like that!!

[root beer]

Thanks fellas.

Yes! I need some chassis support in a bad way. I have a big beefy 4 point lower chassis brace, but the rear section of it doesn't clear my header. I'll probably end up making something. At some point, i'll probably be making a front crossmember for it, and cutting this one out. The previous owner of this car did some weak flux core stitch welding on this front end, but i'm going to have to go back and do that right sometime.

I got working on this thing again this week. I'm basically shooting to have it ready, 100% buttoned up before tagging and heading to the track when it opens in March.

Soooo, i've been working on the dash. I got some big sheets of 1/16" abs plastic from my local metal supply shop. I made panels to delete all the vents in the dash. I also hole sawed the dash up a bit, then painted it black with vinyl/fabric paint. Looks ok, i'm pleased.

As far as guages, i'm just running a tach, mounted on black abs, where the stock cluster would have been. I'm going to set up an abbreviated, easily removable radio in the center console with oil pressure, and maybe 1 or 2 more small guages. Ecu will be in the glovebox.

I need to get pictures soon...haven't updated this in ages because my progress is depressing.

[root beer]

Long overdue update.

New battery location:



Kuztom Dash, center console coming:







Happy!

[AJmustDIE]

Finally! A worthy update!

[root beer]

Yea, i'm really jazzed to finally be working on the thing again.

Not pictured, i also tied the harness up on this cutting board type material. Self tappered all the relays and fuse block to it. Tyte.

[sin bar]

awwww yeeeeeeee

[vento86]

about dam time timmy