Daily Driven 1.8T Build

[cmdshft]

Here's a couple of random shots from today.

Got my 10mm and 20mm spacers for the front/rear respectively today. Still no hood bra, hopefully will be here for reals tomorrow.



Had to go to Pennsylvania to get an evap code deleted from my tune. I friggin' love the roads out that way.



Random mall shot.



Random shot at work.

[cmdshft]

nice work man !!
love the hybrid pan !!
just get rid of the rear perchs completely dude and then stiffen up the rear struts ( if possible ) and then if its still a bit too bouncy get some heavier springs for the back !!

looking good tho dude

Thank you, I love the pan as well.

That's the plan. I'm ordering 10mm spacers for the fronts and 20mm's for the backs and the car will be pretty slammed. Hopefully not so much that I'm tapping the axel on the frame but hey, you ain't dubbin' if you ain't rubbin' somethin'.

Hood bra comes tomorrow. Hopefully it will look really nice on this car.

[PassionGarage]

nice work man !!
love the hybrid pan !!
just get rid of the rear perchs completely dude and then stiffen up the rear struts ( if possible ) and then if its still a bit too bouncy get some heavier springs for the back !!

looking good tho dude

[cmdshft]

Deleted my evap system finally as well as my washer bottle to free up some room in this tight bay. Not sure if I want to delete the coolant ball and most of the coolant lines or not. I kind of like the idea of knowing how much coolant I actually have instead of guessing or waiting for leaks/overheating...



Also installed a hybrid oil pan today and changed the oil again... Waiting for Savage Chassis to come out with their 1.8T all steel pan so I don't have to worry at all ever again about hitting shit in the road... They emailed me and said they'd send me one to test out when they are ready, which will be awesome!



Sadly, I wasn't able to bring the car down lower today because I didn't get the spacer I needed. Totally forgot I needed them because the car drives fine on 30threads... when spun down, the perch hits the wheel. D'oh!

[cmdshft]

Thanks!

Here's a better shot of her as she sits currently:



The plan now is I am actually going to order a hybrid oil pan to bring it above the subframe and then spin down the fronts 2 inches and take out the rear perches, roll the front fenders and get some 15mm spacers in the backs.

[btns44]

Really enjoy this. Keep up the good work!

[cmdshft]

Got up early af to head up to my friend's house to get a special thing done finally.



Here's my friend's 12v VRT on air hiding in the garage 😈:



Laid out the coilovers and broke out the beer! Bought FK Street coilovers because they were on sale cheaper than Racelands, looks like I win!



Rear perches are spun all the way down!



My buddy getting that ride height dialed in before installing.



Purdy.



Freaking managed to break the inner axel CV. Somehow we managed to pull the axel spline out of the cup, went to take the car for a test drive and realized the car wouldn't move. Could actually fully clutch out and not stall the motor, the differential spun but the axel didn't. That open-diff life ahsuhhhh...



After 9 hours of fighting this right cunt, it's together and it drives!



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Overall, I am pleased with how it looks. The fronts could come down a bit more and I am pretty sure I want to take the rear perches out because they are spun all the way down and it's still a bit high. I'm planning on also doing some engine bay deletes. EVAP system still needs to come out (it's coded out of the system though) and I am going to be deleting the coolant ball and some lines plus the washer bottle and stuff. I need to figure out what I want to do with the wiring for those parts. Keeping the power steering bottle until I can figure out what to do with that as well so I can keep my power steering.

Also plan on ordering a new hood bra to cover up the god awful hood notch which I don't have time to fill before H2O.

[cmdshft]

Nah, none of my coworkers are into our types of cars.

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Recently had a code after doing the valve cover, said system too lean (add) and system too lean (multiplicative). Change the exhaust downpipe-turbo gasket and still had the issue.

Got the hood release cable repaired so yesterday I decided to take care of a few things, had a burned out headlight bulb, swapped out the city lights with new LEDs and removed my manual boost controller.

Inspecting the system for any weird things, I noticed that the plug I used when I installed the IE VTA catch can in the spot for the PCV puck had gone missing! I don't know where it went but thankfully it wasn't sucked to the turbo, it seems it somehow wiggled up and out of the intake hose. That explains why it was running lean.

I was able to put a new plug in with a taper on the top and secured it way tighter this time. Lean codes haven't come back.

Hopefully in the next few weeks before H2O I'll be able to get the damn coilovers!

[rice4life]

There is no duty to act where I live and they are more for "curtesy" reasons than anything else. Plenty of people run tags and stickers where I am from without issue.

I work for a hospital and a private medical company. For my own privacy reasons, I'm not going to state the exact names.

It's all good, here in Cali there is no duty to act law either, but if you roll up on a scene and they find out you're in the medical field(sticker, shirt, uniform) and you don't do anything they can slap you with a negligence lawsuit and some other BS. Just don't want you dealing with that shit. So you're with an IFT company?


Are any of your coworkers into cars? I know that at my station pretty much everyone has some sort of modified car or truck

[cmdshft]

That emt sticker could get you screwed by a litigious person claiming that you have a duty to act, and negligence and all of that nonsense, even if it's not state law.

What company do you work for?

There is no duty to act where I live and they are more for "curtesy" reasons than anything else. Plenty of people run tags and stickers where I am from without issue.

I work for a hospital and a private medical company. For my own privacy reasons, I'm not going to state the exact names.

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As an update, I found the cause of the remaining leaking fluid. The valve cover gasket was leaking oil down the driver side of the head by the VVT solenoid to the turbo and then dripping onto the axel and ground. Replaced the gasket and the leaking stopped.

[rice4life]

That emt sticker could get you screwed by a litigious person claiming that you have a duty to act, and negligence and all of that nonsense, even if it's not state law.

What company do you work for?

[cmdshft]

Love the cluster!

- Renato

Thanks! It's my favorite thing in the car, honestly.

[TWM Performance]

Love the cluster!

- Renato

[cmdshft]

cars progress is looking pretty good

Thank you. I'm excited to see how it will look lowered.

is the larger pipe going over the valve cover from your fmic?

Yep! If you're curious, it was made by CTS Turbo, and they used a photo the shop that installed it took as a example photo on their product page! 😁

how difficult was it to setup the electric boost gauge?

It was fairly straight forward. Power from key on switch, ground it and then connect the wiring harness to the boost sensor into the gauge. Same with the AEM afr gauge.

[boneskid1]

cars progress is looking pretty good

I do have a couple of questions though

is the larger pipe going over the valve cover from your fmic?

and how difficult was it to setup the electric boost gauge?