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One thing that's bugged me about having a late bay is that the great powers at vw done away with the removable rear panel...
Being as i have to remove my bloody engines on a weekly basis, today i got MAD..









At this point i ran out of wire.... so i took the engine out....soooooo much easier

Cheers dude yeah there's quite a bit going on... just wished i know what it all did

still got to :

check the manifold and exhaust for leaks, then spray and heat wrap
finish rad mount and pipework
fit heater
bleed clutch and brakes again ( seems all the fluid had dissapeared )

Then hopefully i can start on the interior.....

Can't wait to see and hear it running bud. Bloody good work.

Bloody hell Brett, this must be the longest running thread on this forum............when it's (and i have no doubt it will be) finished you will have to bring it to your first club meet for a gran unveiling.................

..wait till i start ( get back) to the real project, that's going to be an epic of a thread

Being as it's not tax free im not planning on having it on the road till next year now( hopefully it will be finished by then )but it's first outing will be a meet

this thread is the nuts! cant wait to see it,

Trust me, it looks better in the pics..

well, bucket finally let me on... so ecu and stuff mounted....



Not the greatest install, but i didn't want to get too fussy over it ( cos im too lazy )



... Then again i may take it all out next winter ( if it all stays together that long) and do a clean install, painted engine bay and all..

Sorry, I'm a bit of a thicko when it comes to this stuff, but what the f*** is all that?

massive project that with so many aspects that need to be sorted and made from scratch - I am glad my project is not as complicated

a good read too - keep going at it

It's a bloody mess, that's what that is

That's the engine management unit( reads all the sensors and stuff ), relays for fuel pump, chargecooler and something else, oh and ignition and the little fuse box that powers it all...... in basic terms.. that's the equivalent to your coil


NO way Mr cleggy, this is childs play compared to your project !!!!

naa - mine is all basic stuff really

..So i braved the weather today...




So after spending ages working out how i was going to run my rad mount ( which was always bugging me) i came across what i originally wanted to do ( and was told it wouldn't work) on an australian web site.. the guy has been running his set up for the last couple of years without any trouble.

So last sundays heater set up which consisted of cutting up a mk1 golf matrix was a waste of time.... oh well i'll change it again and it can go in the back

Got the grinder out...
...cut out the fresh air box which wasnt being used

Rads new home....which will be plywood boxed..



So now it's basically a T2.25

is that a square back under there

No dude.......

If you look in C&C this month there is a small article near the back on Bus Stopover7. There is a picture of a blue bay with lots of vent slits in the front panel (but not like those new brazilian bus thingys). Looks like the sort of thing you could do here to get more airflow over that rad.