MK2 jetta, Ned

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So today I got the rear propshaft back in so the car is awd again. I got some copper exhaust nuts to hold my wastegate on. It's had a tendency to blow off. That seems to have fixed that issue. I swapped alternators to fix a charging issue and I fixed half of my throttle cable issue. Then I went for a drive or 10. It pulls hard. Gets some pretty decent torque steer on shifts but hooks and goes like a rocket. It's pretty fun at wide open throttle. Sounds pretty sweet too

[P Arkus]

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Got a ride in this beast last night. I must say there's nothing quite like the feel of an AWD car going squirrly on you. Its been a long time coming but its great to see this car back on the road Chase. Just dont lock your keys in this one lol

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/\ Couldn't agree more. Its awesome to see this up and running. Super happy for you and all the progress. This thing is a beast!!


Posted a short clip of this on instagram so go check it out!!

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I pulled my hood off and my wiper assembly out and cleaned up and repainted the raintray, then I fixed a couple grounds and mounted my battery in the bay as best I could since I cut out half the battery tray about 4 years ago now. Hopefully my next rotation home I can get that mess cleaned up and move the battery to the trunk. Then I dove into the rad fan harness and realized that my rad fan hasn't worked for probably 3 years now. Since I ditched my a/c and had absolutely no wiring knowledge when I did it. So I cut the factory harness apart and used the original connectors for the battery power and thermoswitch and built a harness for my fan. I was quite impressed with myself when the fan kicked on with the thermoswitch and the after run even worked. I want to pull off the last pieces of boost piping that haven't been painted yet and paint those black to match the rest. Hopefully when I get time to do that I'll pull off the valve cover and repainted it black as well. I picked up some of my stuff that was left in Lethbridge when I moved and found all my interior pieces that were missing and got those on. Going to start looking for a set of power window recaro door cards and rear bench and put the interior all back in. I also mounted my go pro inside with the intentions of making a video. But forgot to turn it on in the excitement of the damn thing leaving the garage. Lots of little things to clean up, hopefully it will make it to a show of some form by the end of august

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swapped out the aeros for a quad round setup

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I've been going hard the last week to get the car done before my son is born at the end of may. As of tonight I have a full interior again, my tach, fuel level gauge and coolant temp gauge on the stock mk3 cluster all work. The tach was a bit of a pain to get to play nice with the megasquirt but it reads exactly the same as the tunerstudio dashboard now. I mounted the mk2 power window switches in the center console. Moved the dash up about 2 inches so that the wheel wasn't in my lap anymore. I sold the 15 inch snowflakes and picked up a set of 16x8 wagenwheels cs1's. I wired in the rest of the speakers, just have to find speakers to put in now. I also installed my heater controls just in time for nice weather. Well on to the pictures sorry for the shitty quality.

I just have to trim the lower dash pieces a little and they'll go on.
Now its time to put some miles on it. Tune the suspension, and maybe hook up launch control and see what I can't break
Hope to make it out to the next eurodrivers meet.

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If anybody has a set of mk2 roof racks they want to get rid of let me know. Mine are going to need some love and I'm itching to put the roof basket on

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[VwSweetHeart]

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Awesome work! So nice to see the final steps come together after all the hard work you put into this. Love the wheels too!! This is one bada$$ MK2

[Canadian Turbo]

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Looking good!!!

[Fizzo20]

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Love this thing!

[P Arkus]

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My God its almost fully finished!!! You know your build has taken you way too long when you start it as a child and finish it as a Father! Although sometimes (most times) you're still a child Chase. Cant wait to see it out this summer!

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So it's been a while since I've updated this thread.
The current plan is to drive this to Leavenworth this summer as the only set destination in a month long road trip. So I've been busy working out all of the bugs
On to the few pictures I have



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[Circuits]

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Looks great! Nice work!