Maintenance is paramount.

[.Ant]

This thread originally served as my "Fck I just broke down thread". I don't feel like giving it up, so it's now my build/ timeline thread.

This was the original post. Since then my car has been fixed and broken again and again.

Car broke down today.

Probably no waterfest.

I had a secret too.





I guess this will serve as my teaser now.

This is the earliest picture I could find of my car. Car was bought completely stock.


First set of Mods:

• GIAC tune
• APR R1 diverter valve
• Eurojet 3” turbo back exhaust
• Rokkor coilovers

I have a lack of pictures from this era.

I was a broke college kid so I did a bunch of cheap mods for the time being.

Home Depot door sills


Hand stitched the seats


Rear seat delete


Rear wiper delete. (No pictures but imagination can be used)

Joey modded my headlights and replaced the lenses with glass.


Started making a “racecar” and installed a eBay FMIC and devils own Stage II water/meth. I found a rep R32 bumper and sold the stock golf bumper.


Rewrapped my interior mostly plaid other than the headliner that I did black.




Thought I was so awesome.



Bought played wheels.



Moved onto my second set of coilovers, Raceland Ultimos.


Sometime around this time I installed a forge turbo inlet pipe, TT short shifter, Euroimage motor mount spacers, Hotchkis front and rear sway bars, roof racks, and traded my diverter valve for their Eurojet diverter valve.



Got my frame notched by these guys. Highly recommend them. Real chill guys who are actually in the vw scene.


Bought a DSLR. Still thought I was cool.






Bought OEM R32 grills. Can’t really tell from head on.


Car is starting to take shape.





New plate and golf tails to match my amber side markers.


Sold the sawblades and removed my tint.


Fried my ECU the day I was getting my new secret wheels mounted.


Replaced my ECU and got tuned by Gonzo Tuning.
17” BBS RS 5x112

Front: 8.5” et39 1” lip
Rear: 9.5” et45 2” lip

Broke an axle 139 miles away from home right after a show in the rain.


Replaced both axles with Raxles.





One week later I took third at a show and caught on fire on the way home.



Found Jetta vents at the local junkyard.


Restitched my seats to match my wheels and put the back seat back in.






Removed crappy FMIC, crappy rep bumper, and water/meth for my new bumper.
Euro golf bumper with a 4motion lip.


Broken oil pan 109 miles away from home. Replaced with hybrid pan.


BAGS!
Airlift slams front and rear
Accuair E level





Dirty car


After TT spindle and LCA swap


Rob Swain Photography



Rebuilt headlights


IDF Drop Plates




EuroImage flat caps. Cant really see them though.


Euro rear bumper


700 Miles with no plates


SoWo





Stubbies!


The start of a shaved bay.


Battery relocate. Bolted the OEM battery box to the car.


Vag Fair. 99-02 Wild.






Gonzo GTT




Wire tuck


IDF plate broke off


H2oi





Sectioned subframe



Off to Dubfresh for bay shaving



Cleaning and painting the engine.



Putting everything back together



Tie rod notch


Shorted some wires



Floating car


Slim fans mounted in the front


Bay first release




Tristate Tuners 2013



Near future plans:

• Maintenance
• Enjoying it

Thanks!

Table of Contents

Test fit rear wheels and fried ECU

Front Wheel on

ECU woes

Spacers on adapters

Fcked my bumper

Very old picture

Replaced ECU

Low skateboard

Broke axle after vag fair

Vag Fair 1 2 3 4 5 6

Homemade ramps

Raxles

Caught on fire

Waterama 1 2 3

Car fixed

A funny old pic

Firewall flash test

Engine cover mini project

Dead Water meth

Restitching my interior

Random pic

Dubs on the boards

New bumper and broken dog bone

Jetta vents

Crazy bumper

Quick shoot with a buddy

Missing sawblades

Dog bone fixed

New bumper on

Lost waffle and cap

Too low

Removing tint fairy tale

Rental

Old

Grills

Painted bumper

Broken oil pan

Sweet trade

Thread reached 1k

FDR Toys for Tots meet 1 2 3 4

Vibration dampening

Beginning of the bag install

Bag install (Time lapse video)

Broken axle

Bags finished

TT Spindle and LCA swap

Hella4 Feature

Vag Com Dyno

Hardwood False Floor

IDF Drop plates

Finished Headlights

[Vuck Folkswagen]

Awwwww mannnnnnnnnnnnn and I just saw this on Facebook.

That sucks bra
Drink a few of these

[furr]

That suck

Wheels are going to look good though

[Ryan =)]

that blows

[Tinker Bell.]

boooo. what happened?

[Clean PG]

damn that sucks! at least you have pretty wheels to stare at all weekend?

[.Ant]

boooo. what happened?

Just driving and I lost pedal response so I pulled over. I think it's either my plugs or coil packs. My buddy is coming over with his 1.8t so we can try his coil packs.

[NoIdentity]

get a tdi next time, you'll be happier. I hate myself for not getting one

[.Ant]

get a tdi next time, you'll be happier. I hate myself for not getting one

I wish I had a TDI.

[DJ Gonzo]

Man that stinks. Scan it!

Does it start?

[boostingti4ever]

does the car run? seems more like a throttle pos. sensor, if you just lost throttle response

[DJ Gonzo]

does the car run? seems more like a throttle pos. sensor, if you just lost throttle response

[.Ant]

Here's my actual "Sht I'm fcked thread" It has more info on my issues.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...BS-EPC-and-CEL

So far I've heard FPR, the pedal sensor, and coil packs. Still haven't got the chance to scan it.

[boostingti4ever]

Here's my actual "Sht I'm fcked thread" It has more info on my issues.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...BS-EPC-and-CEL

So far I've heard FPR, the pedal sensor, and coil packs. Still haven't got the chance to scan it.

coilpacks seem the least likely candidate since it idles fine, coilpacks wouldnt stop the car from reving up either, they would just make it misfire and run like crap. FPR maybe? but i dont see those going bad too often. could be a throttle pos. sensor or the pedal assemby. once you scan it try a tba, if it comes up error then the pedal assembly is bad.

[.Ant]

It occasionally now starts up but then the motor dies. Not like a dead battery die.

Then sometimes it runs fine.

[limastock]

BBS rs

[DJ Gonzo]

Did you check your fuses?

[.Ant]

Did you check your fuses?

Nope. Which ones you think?

[CPW12]

figures...... that sucks dude

[i3rent]

Poopsicles

[.Ant]

Alright now my car runs like sht. Misfiring like a mofo. I have auto-scan going on now.

[orzel541]

My car broke down a couple days ago too! Welcome to the club

[.Ant]

My car broke down a couple days ago too! Welcome to the club

:highfive:

[.Ant]

I posted up my codes in my other thread. I did a TBA and that went fine.

[HolyRollie]

Penis.

[McSlo2.0]

testicular

[iTz JERSEY]

worst day eevvveeeeeerr

[Baconator14]

hope you get it worked out dude

[d.Mon]

Maintenance is paramount...

[punkinabox]

Lame

[.Ant]

worst day eevvveeeeeerr

Tell me about it. It's like the day I found out Santa wasn't real.

I ordered adapters from motorsports tech and bugged them about sending me them before waterfest. They were extremely awesome about it and managed to pull it off and I got them today. I would name my first born after them. Then this sht happens.

And a good buddy of mine came over to try to help. He walked away with my waterfest passes.

[24vMonster]

sucks bro, wheels are pretty dope though

[oakdub]

well at least im not the only one with a ****ty start to what was supose to be the best weekend this summer

[GTIDamien_407]

ah whatever I give up how do you upload GIF's?

[oakdub]

ah whatever I give up how do you upload GIF's?

same way you upload pics lol