Topic: GOOD TIMES....... (Read 2989 times)

101stvet · « **on:** February 18, 2009, 08:55:14 PM »

So last week ed and i torn into the rabbit and started pulling the motor to replcae it with another one, nothing fancy just a mkII gti 8v a bonus being it's the 10:1 comp motor , with less miles then the tired 8v the rabbit has init .
so everything went well till we went to put the new motor in realizing the motor mounts were trashed and the exh-mani i was going to use, all 6 studs were trashed

but no worries i now have all the mounts put back together with poly-inserts and tomorrow at work i'm going to try and save the nuespeed down pipe and use it instead of the euro mani i had. then i should be good to get her back together before the gtg on saturday aslong as i get some help , ed , scurv ? here's some pics

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scurvy_bandit · « **Reply #1 on:** February 18, 2009, 08:59:31 PM »

I'll give you a call saturday morning. ALSO.... the truck may be lower saturday

I'll bring the tools and a beer, in 40 oz form?

101stvet · « **Reply #2 on:** February 18, 2009, 09:01:34 PM »

yea same pic twice

here's a couple more

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101stvet · « **Reply #3 on:** February 18, 2009, 09:03:00 PM »

yea it shouldn't take more then 2.5 hours to button up everything on the rabbit then we could pull the truck in and handle bizzness onit

scurvy_bandit · « **Reply #4 on:** February 18, 2009, 09:09:16 PM »

YEAH!!!! Do you happen to have a level? Maybe a small magnetic one? I just will need something to get the front camber close. Eye-balling isnt the best idea..

SwiftMKIII · « **Reply #5 on:** February 18, 2009, 09:53:49 PM »

I have a small magnetic level if you need it.

sad_rocc · « **Reply #6 on:** February 19, 2009, 07:28:26 AM »

Sounds pretty good! While you've got everything out and a couple days, try to find yourself a fox intake mani and audi tb for a wee bit more power. 268 cams are really nice and fairly cheap as well. I think there's a volvo fuel dist that has a bigger plate and a better air intake too, you see them all the time on ebay as cai's. I think that will give you a little more power too but I forget. It's been awhile.

101stvet · « **Reply #7 on:** February 19, 2009, 09:22:21 AM »

i allready have a fox mani/tb that i've got ready for the motor and i'm going to look in the junkyard for the volvo lower half i saw one month's ago but didn't grab it

and as far as the cam i got to wait a month or so

i might have a level at work i can use but i'll look, i need to do my camber as well it way in the driverside

101stvet · « **Reply #8 on:** February 19, 2009, 08:47:10 PM »

so the fucking down pipe i have that is suppose to work with my exhaust is oh say 4 inchs to short

so it looks like i'm going to have toget the motor in then take it down to post and fab up a new exhaust

which i don't feel like doing but i guess i have to if i don't want to run a cat since with this down pipe there's no were for a cat to be put

who had a nuespeed down pipe for a mkI/mkII for sale a couples months ago?

scurvy_bandit · « **Reply #9 on:** February 19, 2009, 09:38:20 PM »

you could just slap a pipe in until you can get the cat in. I want to get a cat back in my truck once I re-do the headgasket and the new exhaust manifold.

101stvet · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2009, 11:08:11 PM »

ed and i got the rabbit running

thanks scurve for giving that down-pipe and mani to a brother in need

, i havent' driven it yet i need to make a longer pipe going from my cat to my exhaust pipe so it is retarted loud right now but runs like a champ i'll post pics up of the finished product

Southcross · « **Reply #11 on:** March 02, 2009, 08:14:36 AM »

haha... that was fun, I'll post my pics tonight if I remember

spent all yesterday sleeping LOL

101stvet · « **Reply #12 on:** March 02, 2009, 02:46:12 PM »

i'm getting the exhuast fixed tomorrow a guy at work is going to make a longer pipe form my cat to my exhuast , but she seems to have a miss thru the rpm band , i changed the idle screw back to the one that came with it and that help but i think see might need the air/fuel tweaked if i'm going to try and drive it oneday this week

oh and a eurosport rear brace will fit in a convertable

and size is the air/fuel screw ?

Southcross · « **Reply #13 on:** March 02, 2009, 03:04:14 PM »

you shouldn't have to dick around with the mixture... since mixture is air:fuel, air flow is the same between both engines (1.8 to 1.

, so the fuel should remain the same. If you want to tweak it, its a 3mm allen.

double check the vacuum line from your throttle to your distributor, the line seemed kind of "large" and may be leaking vacuum.

Southcross · « **Reply #14 on:** March 02, 2009, 03:11:59 PM »

OR....

that fuel injector we used from your Rabbit, and the three from the Jetta, may not be flowing balanced... that one cylinder #3? may be flowing too much or too little

101stvet · « **Reply #15 on:** March 02, 2009, 07:58:17 PM »

well i got home and got my exhaust together enough to get it down to carson to weld it together , so i wanted to go around the block and see what see's got in the way of power well she had nothing a geo metro could have smoked me

so i pull her in the garage and noticed that the two center injectors were leaking fuel so i pulled them with my fingers and put them back in the motor and started it up still sounds like a subaru flat four so i know something is missing , well all my injectors are leaking

when i spray carb cleaner on them the idle jumps up

and she dosent respond to me dicking with the idle adjustment

so i'm lost i really don't want to have to fork over money on new injectors what do ya think ? and i allready got verd saying should have left the old motor in it blah blah blah

101stvet · « **Reply #16 on:** March 02, 2009, 08:40:55 PM »

i found a set of injectors in the stuff from scurvs storage they all have the same part #'s but i can't get them to spray like you showed me with the carb cleaner

scurvy_bandit · « **Reply #17 on:** March 02, 2009, 09:35:10 PM »

I'm not sure how good those injectors are. Your old ones should work just fine. Maybe check the timing to be sure it's good.

Southcross · « **Reply #18 on:** March 03, 2009, 08:20:50 AM »

Quote from: scurvy_bandit on March 02, 2009, 09:35:10 PM

I'm not sure how good those injectors are. Your old ones should work just fine. Maybe check the timing to be sure it's good.

the problem was the heads are different... the Cabby head had shrouded injectors, the Jetta did not. Guess can try ripping the shrouds off the other 3 injectors and swap them in.

Jesus · « **Reply #19 on:** March 03, 2009, 08:36:44 AM »

Stupid questions.. did you install new injector O-rings?

Southcross · « **Reply #20 on:** March 03, 2009, 08:41:00 AM »

Quote from: Jesus on March 03, 2009, 08:36:44 AM

Stupid questions.. did you install new injector O-rings?

yes, green Viton ones

101stvet · « **Reply #21 on:** March 03, 2009, 09:15:29 AM »

i stayed home i'm going to work on it today i have to rember were the other 3 injectors are

i cleaned my garage up and can't rember were i put them

how do i seal the threads were the injectors connect to the lines i think there leaking there also

Southcross · « **Reply #22 on:** March 03, 2009, 09:38:15 AM »

Quote from: 101stvet on March 03, 2009, 09:15:29 AM

i stayed home i'm going to work on it today i have to rember were the other 3 injectors are i cleaned my garage up and can't rember were i put them

how do i seal the threads were the injectors connect to the lines i think there leaking there also

they don't seal by the threads... they seal on the inside of the injector. Your rabbit lines had a lot of corrosion when I pulled the rabbit injectors (plus one never came apart). You might need to use the Jetta lines

101stvet · « **Reply #23 on:** March 03, 2009, 10:02:01 AM »

i went thru and i think i have a complete set by way of part #'s in it right now beside the injector by the intake i don't have apuller so that one is kinda hard toget to , so i pulled them mad sure there all the same #'s since i found the bent one i know came from the rabbit so i know which ones not to put in there

but as i turn the key the went to cyle then a little spark feel from my fuse panel

so i'm about to check fuses and then my realy

Southcross · « **Reply #24 on:** March 03, 2009, 10:15:04 AM »

Quote from: 101stvet on March 03, 2009, 10:02:01 AM

i went thru and i think i have a complete set by way of part #'s in it right now beside the injector by the intake i don't have apuller so that one is kinda hard toget to , so i pulled them mad sure there all the same #'s since i found the bent one i know came from the rabbit so i know which ones not to put in there

but as i turn the key the went to cyle then a little spark feel from my fuse panel so i'm about to check fuses and then my realy

a "matched" set isn't so much the "numbers" on them but that they are the same age, condition, and flow... the only guarantee to have matched injectors is to buy new ones. The next best guess is a set of injectors from the same engine/car.... the only way to be sure with used injectors is to spray test them into bottles

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