nine-deuce Jetta

[Belvader]

Beautiful Jetta man

[dubluv 19]

nice car man, like how you've done things a bit different ... keep up the good work!

[philavon]

alright alright alright, just read the whole thread again and i'm getting a 2.slow next month...already have a turbo and forged tranny for it. guess we'll have twins!

[zsdvxc]

I love the color of this car, can't wait to see the new wheels on.

[Rocambolesque]

ì didnt sell mine i smashed it. it's still in my driveway sitting all twercked up and shitzels, BUT you guys will be happy to know that i found a sweet little vr6 that im putting into it in the upcoming weeks. so i guess we will finally get our photoshoot next summer buddy?

I like! When april comes around...

[Queef|Chief]

Looks soooooooo good dude. Color and wheels are spot on

[jgaffney]

Glad you kept it!

[philavon]

ì didnt sell mine i smashed it. it's still in my driveway sitting all twercked up and shitzels, BUT you guys will be happy to know that i found a sweet little vr6 that im putting into it in the upcoming weeks. so i guess we will finally get our photoshoot next summer buddy?

[Raarasutra]

Don't make the same mistake Phil did and sell yours, it's too gorgeous

Cheers :p

[Rocambolesque]

Mint green metallic LB6U.

And here are a few old pictures from Eurokracy '13 taken by fellow member Stancephil!





Also, the T28 has been working for about a month. Pulls harder and higher in the rev range, but way more lag and progressive boost build-up. I think I preffered the T25 neck-snapping response though.

[Steve.]

Oh boy, this is one clean Jetta. It is definitely giving me some inspiration to finally finish my ABA swap into my Caddy.

What is your color code?

[Cwyatt]

damn son! so sweet!

[Rocambolesque]

I didn't have much time to work on it this week because school has been taking most of my time, but I did recieve a few parts to clock the turbo. Then I went to install it and found out the nuts I bought to bolt it to the manifold were the wrong pitch! Also, the new oil feed fitting I bought is also wrong!


And some guy contacted me to trade my wheels for a set of RS.... et0 and 16x6.5, but 4x100. I'm REALLY tempted, even with the et0. Lack of width doesn't bother me.

[Rocambolesque]

Fuckin' awesome. Swapping an aba into a Montana green gti right now and this thread is huge motivation so thank you!

Thanks man and if you got any questions about your swap just let me know!

hehe! don't worry about it mine is far from ready too! but i'm glad you decided to keep it. you made a good decision!

Next season we'll be stealing the show at them Julep meets haha!

Weather wasn't really nice these last few days, so I worked inside the house on a few thing. First was clocking the turbo. Those turbos are made to be bolt on on SR20's, they need to be clocked to work on my setup. I got the housings and CHRA free and started to mock up things. I still need to get the oil return flange to be 100% certain of the housing's positions and then I can bolt it back together. I also got the old turbo off the car:


The thing was leaking oil... and exhaust


The exhaust leak must have been because of this crack. This is when I first installed it. People told me the worse it would do was increase spool time. It probably got worse with time.


As you can see, they're almost the same size. However, the new compressor wheel is a 50 trim instead of a 40 like the old one. And the turbine is slightly bigger with a .63 A/R ratio.
I will also be putting the wastegate actuator "under" the comp housing like on my old turbo instead of "over" it (see my previous post). I had to shorten the arm and also drill new holes.



I recieved the oil return line parts. Found out I ordered 2 fittings wrong and the line is too big (kinda wierd, inside is the correct diameter but the outside won't fit inside the fitting...)


More progress to come this week!

[willie@stance]

Wow, what an epic thread! I love this haha! iwasn't very much into jetta's, but i sure the hell am now haha!