DIrtyTorque's odd corner.

Lol!

I know what you mean though. I want to fiddle with stuff, even though it doesn't need fiddling with, and I can't afford to do it anyway....

I got really bored one winter, about november time and took a chop-saw and a jigsaw to a perfectly good G60 inlet manifold! Just to satisfy my curiosity!

It dangerous to get too bored, I started trying to handbrake the Audi 90 around field track corners with big ditches! Ooops! Nearly! Need a more entertaining car to stiop me killing myself! I got the G60 back on the road 2 weeks later!

Yup.

I have come so close to spending more money I don't have in the last few days through boredom. Need to get someone to drive the VR while I sit in the back listening to noises so I can actually fix stuff for free.

still lying underneath listening to sump noises Tom?

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Not bored anymore.

Whoohohoohoho! New toys! Have you ordered the ARP's?

No waiting for some numpty on ebay to pay for the brakes he bought from me.
Why hit buy it now if your not going to pay????

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He said "he has a problem with this paypal account."
Yeah,I have that problem too.There's no flucking money in it.
cnut.
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Alchohol Buy no doubt!

Time to spend money on gaskets then! Nice photography!

I think I've just let out a little bit of sex wee

Are you going to cc the pistons before assembly?

ctwg60 wrote:Time to spend money on gaskets then! Nice photography!

You live to spend my money.
I have bought new oil/water seals and gaskets bearings the lot.
So there.


Yeah I a wee bit excited too when I open the box Stu.

ctwg60 wrote:Are you going to cc the pistons before assembly?

I broke my glass cc'ing thing.
Might be interesting though as I think some VW heads have slightly different volumes.

..hmm.

on cylinder #4 the rod catches the end of the cog on the end of the intermediate shaft.
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That's not overly helpful is it

Are the rods that much wider than the standard cast ones?

How badly? Could you take a little material off one or the other?

Toad wrote:How badly? Could you take a little material off one or the other?

it would have to be the rod..

but you can imagine all the reasons why I'd be reluctant to do so.
I specifically asked them about my engine type etc.
They are for 1.8T's but they said that they use the same rods etc.
How do the 1.8T's drive their oil pumps?

I did just have a thought. External oil pump and dry sump???

Toad wrote:

I did just have a thought. External oil pump and dry sump???

* Blows out cheeks*

Hmm..
maybe.

it wouldn't be a great deal of material,you can apply a little force and get it to turn pass the point of contact but as you can see I've have been trying so hard to curb my "it will do" leanings and do everything properly so this is a bit of a blow.

If you were to remove a little material, then you should do it to all of the rods. Plus you need to take into consideration the forces throwing the rod around and thermal expansion.

I dunno dude. On one hand I'd be tempted to get a flat file out and take a little material off, on the other, I'd not want to consider it.

yeah..i know I'd need everything balanced out properly.
So really and truthly I'm better off getting rods that will clear rather than pay an engineer for the extra work.
I kinda want my money back.

dunno.
Grr.

Or i can take off the necessary material off one rod and then take all 4 to be balanced..

yup.
always good to have a nights sleep.
Marked up the point of contact.Luckily it was a nice place.The material there will not be load bearing and we are only talking about shaving off a couple of mil.
Believe you me this is not what I wanted but I am building a turbo bottom end so I can't really use the OE items.

Point of contact.
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Modified to clear.

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There goes my warranty.

I'll take all 4 to my engineer in the week so he can look at the weight differential.