Turbo Project Update

[Alexander van Gerbig]

    Howdy!  Well the first day of the turbo project was exceedingly
productive.  I was able to get everything undone and out of the way to
remove the cylinderhead.  I dropped the coolant and oil, removed the
radiator, whole front clip, alternator, downpipe, all the vacuum plumbing,
all the wiring involved, and so on.  I yanked the head with the manifolds
and found what looks like almost a brand new block.  There was some carbon
on top of the cylinders, but I could see metal in most cases.  There is no
carbon ridge at the top at all.  The factory hone marks are easily seen as
well, which makes me quite happy.

    I made two guides out of old cylinderhead bolts and test fit the GTi
head with the turbo and GTi intake bolted to it.  Everything fits exactly
like I imagined, except the turbo actually sits higher than I envisioned,
but that makes for tons of clearance at the frame.  I had to remove the
entire warm air box, which I planned on anyways, for the turbo to fit.  The
exhaust is going to easy to fabricate, for a shop that is, lots of room, no
funky bends needed.  I fit up the Golf airboot and special Callaway throttle
adapter bit and found it fits quite snuggly against the intake manifold, a
little close, but it works well, nicely clearing the DPR which was almost in
the way.  The injectors run alright, but not very stock looking, I'll have
to fix that:)

    All in all it was a sweet day, much faster than I had planned.  I am
removing the pistons tomorrow and doing some small stuff.  Then on Tuesday
the pistons hit the shop to have new rings put on and to be swapped onto the
stock con rods.  Hopefully that should all work out pretty easily, doesn't
look to be a problem, even doing it from under the car.

Wish me luck and bring on the boost:)

Alexander van Gerbig -- '88 80

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