94 TSi AWD - Reliable 11 second DD

[RlySlow]

Nothing really new, just drove the car the 3 hours back home last weekend so next time Im back I can work on pulling the trans.

Of course I took it out and photo whored it before parking it.
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Was definitely a fun year with the car, can't wait to get it ready for next year - though just hoping with the way my school and all is looking next year I'll even have time to do much with it.

[RlySlow]

Again nothing new on the front, still need to pull my trans for a rebuild or else find one used.
Have found a few decent ones used but either people didn't get back to me or didn't want to work with me on shipping.

Anywho I came home for the first time in quite awhile this weekend and took the car out of storage to drive it around a bit this weekend for no other reason than I missed driving it.

Also took some additional pictures to send in for the DSMTuners DSM Calendar competition, hoping one of mine gets selected.

seeing her for the first time in almost 2 months, lookin neglected
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trying to make it look good
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[RlySlow]

updating for shits and giggle, even though nothing too much has changed yet.

I'm up early today, heading out soon on a 6 hour trip to pick up a good stock trans for $100 which I'm going to throw in for a temporary fix while I rebuild mine. Still want to go with a semi-built trans so don't plan to stick with the stocker but at least she'll be more friendly to drive daily again - though she's still not going to come out as soon as there's any salt down.

Also she did make the DSMTuners 2015 calendar! Now I guess I gotta buy one.
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So hopefully I'll be able to update this weekend with the trans in! Still need to buy a clutch too but the act2600 still shifts fine so it should be fine to be left in with the temp trans for the time being. It only slips if it gets hot, usually after too much of a burnout before staging. If it looks really insanely bad though I might bite the bullet and order one and wait to finish the trans til it comes.


On another note, I finally caved and put her back on 91 pump on a very "safe" tune. Figured for the little driving I do in winter like this I didn't need to stay on e85 and 23psi. Took off the MBC so I'm running off the 14.7psi wastegate spring. Running a pretty flat 7-9 degrees of timing through WOT and 10.5 target a/f. I forgot how slow it can be haha. Should be really safe though. Still feels like she might have a mid-low 13 in it though.
Spent christmas eve tuning it, got it pretty solid. Drives perfect, definitely miss the power but the main motivation was 91 is now actually even cheaper at the pump than e85. Being that I don't beat on it much right now it just made sense to do the switch back. Will probably go back on e85 in April.
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[Mark Leasure]

I love how clean this thing is! Very nice.

[scheides]

Any pics of the engine bay? This thing looks dang nice! Same color as my old 1G :)

[RlySlow]

thanks! i try to keep it nice.
I don't like to show the engine bay haha, it's pretty nasty.
It's finally getting some light love though here soon, but I wont be even remotely happy with it until I finally find a reason to pull the motor and re-do the wiring/tuck it. It's all so sloppy and nasty.
The new FMIC/piping alone should help it look a lot nicer alone.
Also picked up a brand new tial q in black - first start to my planned black sleeper engine bay theme. Eventually when I pull the motor I plan to get the VC re-done and powdercoated in black, powdercoat all my IC piping black as well as the intake mani. Would really like to get a mintish heat shield to rig up with high temp black paint. Just want a simple sleeperish engine bay.

Also need a catch can so I can finally quit breaking the dsm cardinal rule using one of those stupid little breather filters on the VC and spraying the area with oil here and there.

best I think I have that shows the engine bay, I try to avoid pictures of it haha
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[RlySlow]

busted ass this weekend since i had to go back home to finish what i started over break but got caught up waiting on parts. Drove 3 hours home from school friday night, worked all friday and saturday night, drove the car back up to school yesterday. She even set a new record for mpgs for herself - 32.4mpg.

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Anyway put in the extra trans and it's perfect, better shape than I thought it was!
Feels great to be driving the bitch again with a proper 2nd gear. I still find myself letting the rpms fall and slow shifting it forgetting that it doesn't grind anymore.

[RlySlow]

Car has still been doing great, had a lot of fun with it with all the snow we got a few weeks back.
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Anyways, I finally decided to actually spend some money on this thing.
Shouldn't have an issue blowing it up with the new goods now:

wally 450lph e85 pump & new bearings for my extra motor with the evo9 piston/1g rod combo
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and the new whistler setup
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It's a 7blade HX40 freshly rebuilt by Justin from tuners. I didn't really need the wastegate/o2 setup but it'll help me clean up my bay a bit.

and just a random picture from while I was out yesterday in the pile
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[turbotalon1g]

You will want that waste gate they work a lot nicer that internals.

Excited to see how this goes.

[RlySlow]

I'm actually currently rocking a tial f38 2bolt wastegate running off a stock 2g mani with a 38mm flange. I'm really eager to go back to my stock 2g mani with no flange since it'll clean the bay up a bit and I'd like to get a factory heat shield on the car again.

I honestly can't stand internal gates, always have creep issues it seems like.
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