My Ginster Mk3

[GingerBeef]

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First off, i dont know what was wrong with the white balance settings this week lol... too lazy to fix it in photoshop buuttttt...

Things are starting to wrap up! With the tranny in i got the other two motor mounts bolted in and i could remove the engine support bar. The engine is sitting a little slanted, googled it and apparently thats normal, can any mechanics here confirm? Also, guess i completely bent my powesteering hardline out of place at some point, so i had to wrestle with that for a bit... (fun) other than that, things are looking good!











So, shifters connected, clutch/brakes bled, axles in (and torqued.. looking at you Jerry), hubs reconnected to the control arms, final engine accessories like alternator and powersteering pump were wrestled on, exhaust all done, majority of plumbing and all wiring done!

All thats left is to attach the throttle cable, air filter install the rad and the final two upper/ lower rad hoses, install the ignition system, fill'er up with fluids and hopefully we have a running car early next week! Stay tuned!

[GingerBeef]

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Today: EPIC WIN!... and then a bit of fail.

Finished up the tiny jobs, filled the car up with fluids and...

May have "forgotten" to bolt the header onto the rest of the exhaust..... oops
So, heres me thinking "nah, i dont need to replace those oil cooler seals"... I have never been so wrong. Did some reading up and.....






Yeah, oops, guess i missed that part. Oh well, picked up some seals from the Northland Stealership so hopefully all will be solved tomorrow! Also, my new chip arrived today for the SAI/02 sensor/PCV/EVAP delete and to take advantage of my now higher compression. Fun times.

[Mcrow]

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Yeah that seal sucks. The oil cooler seal on winter beater VR6 would leak like crazy in the -30 weather, but would seal fine in the positive temperatures.

What chip did you go with?

[kujiwara]

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That chip

[Natty54]

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awesome!!

[GingerBeef]

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What chip did you go with?

Im.. not actually sure LOL i originally contacted C2, but they didnt make the chip i wanted (with all these deletes) for NA cars. Apparently they stopped actually making custom chips and just sell a bunch of stock quick flashes with certain things on them, so they referred me to some other company (C2s supplier i presume?). I ended up dealing through C2 but my chip was not made by them. Its really confusing haha, it was a loooong process.

Throughout the whole process i contacted Natty, TT, Garrett/GIAC, and C2.. all that i was mostly after was the deletes to get rid of my CEL.

[Mcrow]

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Cool. Looking forward to seeing it out on the road. We could get a MK3 shoot going next summer. I just can't drive two cars at once ha.

[Danaldson]

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Cool. Looking forward to seeing it out on the road. We could get a MK3 shoot going next summer. I just can't drive two cars at once ha.

i could help out by driving the vrt and taking the photos

[GingerBeef]

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i could help out by driving the vrt and taking the photos

Problem solved This forum needs more MK3 love :(

[kujiwara]

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Problem solved This forum needs more MK3 love :(

I'll drive your crappy jetta lololol

[GingerBeef]

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I'll drive your crappy jetta lololol

LOL oh god... help me get rid of that thing plz hahahaha

[Mcrow]

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i could help out by driving the vrt and taking the photos

Deal.

[Canadian Turbo]

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Problem solved This forum needs more MK3 love :(

I love MK3s, nice to see this nearly all sorted!!! I remember chipping my MK3 GLX back in the day, funny to just pop it out and pop a new one in, miss that car a lot some days!

[VwPsycho78]

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Jason I sent you a text. What's going on dude? I'm starting to regret doing business with you. You promissed me you'd stay in touch and I haven't heard from you in a while. I kept my word and you got your parts...why do you leave me hanging like this??? I trusted you and now you are ignoring me. Let me know what's going on man...this is not cool at all.

[GingerBeef]

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I love MK3s, nice to see this nearly all sorted!!! I remember chipping my MK3 GLX back in the day, funny to just pop it out and pop a new one in, miss that car a lot some days!

Somebody besides Mitch and I needs to buy one then! Were lonely!

So today, installed the new oil cooler seals and made sure all fluids were topped up and at the correct level. Left it running for a while and absolutely 0 leaks!



Pretty happy with what the bay looks like. Cant wait till driving season now....





Finally, heres a quick vid for you guys!