Hello!
Thought I would throw some pics of my latest project up. I haven't been on this site much in the last 10 years due to life and travel. I used to race a Scirocco a while back and decided it was time to build another VW now that I was back in the lower 48. The goal is to go fast for cheap. The car is a beater, many parts are used or cobbled together in my garage. I'm not a professional welder by any stretch but it all works.
Here's my old all motor 8v scirocco that ran 12.1@109mph
I found a really beat down 03 VR6 GTI for sale. Shifter bushing were bad, 2 broken axles, spewing oil from an over tightened oil pressure switch (cracked aluminum housing), 3 codes for missfire and lean, etc. Towed it home and got to work. After getting it running, axles replaced, and fixing all the stripped captive nuts in the frame/missing subframe bolts etc I received a new surprise. The previous owner stripped the three bolt holes that mount the transmission to the mount. I hit a small bump and the threads pulled, dropping the transaxle at 45 mph. (Also breaking one of my new axles!)
That was the last straw. I pulled it in the garage, ripped everything out, and started building.
I never put a turbo car together so I did some reading and some ebay/amazon shopping. I used:
Precision 6266 Turbo, .81 AR
Amazon mandrel 304 SS exhaust bends
Precision 46mm wastegate
Deatsch fuel pump
630cc Siemens Injectors
UM Tune by AP Tuning
turboparts.de intake manifold (looks like HPA clone? not a high quality part for the $)
9:1 headspacer
ARP head studs
I was also fortunate enough to find someone parting out a car with an old C2 kit on it. I bought:
02M with Peloquin
FMIC
charge tubes
Finally, Techtonics put together a longer length 3" exhaust so I could use a muffler I already had and that would fit up to my downpipe/midpipe.
So here's some pictures of putting it all together, drilling holes in the intake manifold to remove big pieces of casting flash, making the downpipe, adapting the intake pipe for a larger diverter valve etc etc.
Looking for suggestions on a boost by speed/boost by gear controller for the track once I crank it up a bit more. I haven't hammered it in first but with a 10psi spring it hits full boost at about 3900 rpm and starts spinning second. Shift to third and ease into the throttle and it chatters the tires for a bit through third until it gets enough wheel speed. A whole lot of fun so far, but it's only been running and driving for a day now.
Fixing stripped transaxle mounts with timeserts
Dogbone was stripped/redrilled/tapped 2 sizes over and stripped again so I made a motor plate out of some 316L I had laying around. Working well so far, needs some time on a belt sander to clean up the plasma cutting
Clutch/trans install
Backpurging intake pipe to weld on a 40mm diverter valve pipe (using what I had available)
Some exhaust welding
warped the wastegate pipe a bit so I had to cut a very small wedge out, give it some percussive persuasion, and run another bead to close it back up. It fits but looks ugly
Downpipe done, moved on to rerouting coolant lines to clear the intake tubing
New fan shroud/fans. Thought I would need bigger than twin 10" but temps are staying at 205-210* in 95* Georgia heat.
103K miles
turboparts.de manifold. Had to cut a few holes to get the crap out. It was barely attached but in places I couldn't reach to punch it out. They also left me a nice spot to finish milling the flange flat for them.
All done
And finally, a quick in car video of 10 psi. I'm being really easy on the gas in the video as the whole thing has about 10 miles on it and I want to work out any bugs/leaks/etc.
https://youtu.be/mMXlxvv1EBc
Thought I would throw some pics of my latest project up. I haven't been on this site much in the last 10 years due to life and travel. I used to race a Scirocco a while back and decided it was time to build another VW now that I was back in the lower 48. The goal is to go fast for cheap. The car is a beater, many parts are used or cobbled together in my garage. I'm not a professional welder by any stretch but it all works.
Here's my old all motor 8v scirocco that ran 12.1@109mph
I found a really beat down 03 VR6 GTI for sale. Shifter bushing were bad, 2 broken axles, spewing oil from an over tightened oil pressure switch (cracked aluminum housing), 3 codes for missfire and lean, etc. Towed it home and got to work. After getting it running, axles replaced, and fixing all the stripped captive nuts in the frame/missing subframe bolts etc I received a new surprise. The previous owner stripped the three bolt holes that mount the transmission to the mount. I hit a small bump and the threads pulled, dropping the transaxle at 45 mph. (Also breaking one of my new axles!)
That was the last straw. I pulled it in the garage, ripped everything out, and started building.
I never put a turbo car together so I did some reading and some ebay/amazon shopping. I used:
Precision 6266 Turbo, .81 AR
Amazon mandrel 304 SS exhaust bends
Precision 46mm wastegate
Deatsch fuel pump
630cc Siemens Injectors
UM Tune by AP Tuning
turboparts.de intake manifold (looks like HPA clone? not a high quality part for the $)
9:1 headspacer
ARP head studs
I was also fortunate enough to find someone parting out a car with an old C2 kit on it. I bought:
02M with Peloquin
FMIC
charge tubes
Finally, Techtonics put together a longer length 3" exhaust so I could use a muffler I already had and that would fit up to my downpipe/midpipe.
So here's some pictures of putting it all together, drilling holes in the intake manifold to remove big pieces of casting flash, making the downpipe, adapting the intake pipe for a larger diverter valve etc etc.
Looking for suggestions on a boost by speed/boost by gear controller for the track once I crank it up a bit more. I haven't hammered it in first but with a 10psi spring it hits full boost at about 3900 rpm and starts spinning second. Shift to third and ease into the throttle and it chatters the tires for a bit through third until it gets enough wheel speed. A whole lot of fun so far, but it's only been running and driving for a day now.
Fixing stripped transaxle mounts with timeserts
Dogbone was stripped/redrilled/tapped 2 sizes over and stripped again so I made a motor plate out of some 316L I had laying around. Working well so far, needs some time on a belt sander to clean up the plasma cutting
Clutch/trans install
Backpurging intake pipe to weld on a 40mm diverter valve pipe (using what I had available)
Some exhaust welding
warped the wastegate pipe a bit so I had to cut a very small wedge out, give it some percussive persuasion, and run another bead to close it back up. It fits but looks ugly
Downpipe done, moved on to rerouting coolant lines to clear the intake tubing
New fan shroud/fans. Thought I would need bigger than twin 10" but temps are staying at 205-210* in 95* Georgia heat.
103K miles
turboparts.de manifold. Had to cut a few holes to get the crap out. It was barely attached but in places I couldn't reach to punch it out. They also left me a nice spot to finish milling the flange flat for them.
All done
And finally, a quick in car video of 10 psi. I'm being really easy on the gas in the video as the whole thing has about 10 miles on it and I want to work out any bugs/leaks/etc.
https://youtu.be/mMXlxvv1EBc