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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

GTI Engine In!

I can't wait to hear the sounds coming out of this header

With a little (lot) bit of help from our awesome crew member Kyle (who's now hired locally full time), the engine is in after patching all the unnecessary holes in the firewall and attaching the sweet 17 year-old stainless Superspring 4-2-1 header I found a couple months ago. Now I can finally return the engine hoist and stand I've been borrowing, (unfortunately their owner needs it, the crank may have walked in his 2.4L-swap neon daily driver) and get to the 'lighter' work of coolant lines, radiators, fuel injectors and installing Kenneth's harness. Once I get back from vacation, of course!

Side note - the halfshafts on the old trans were SO shot, with significant rotational play. The passenger's side inboard, with goes through a fair amount of travel with suspension movement, was misaligned and had dropped a ball into the housing. I couldn't believe it still worked. Add it to the list of things which miraculously held together to finish Sno-Drift all those months ago... Also, we found that the trans had eaten the end of the speedometer cable. So we've bolted up the spare trans, unknown history. We'll see how that goes. It's time to build one right, final drive and diff, so as long as this replacement one works we'll be happy for now.

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