Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

[MischlingMk]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

so that 4.15mm would lower your compression by 1:1?

[RONDAL]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

correct it knocks it down from 10:1 to 9:1

[RONDAL]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

who has an electric palm sander? I wanna resand and polish my intake manifold on the top side to make it shine.

[MischlingMk]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

are you in Vancouver or cow-town

[RONDAL]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

Cow-town

[MischlingMk]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

too bad cause i got a hand sander but im in van city :( i tried

[edicius]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

i've got my die grinder and scotch brite pads but you dont have a compressor to run it.

[RONDAL]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

too bad cause i got a hand sander but im in van city :( i tried

are you on dubberz.com ? if not go on there and make an account. I miss Vancouver so much right now cause of the massive VW community

[MischlingMk]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

are you on dubberz.com ? if not go on there and make an account...

no i am not, but i will defiantly go on there and sign up. i have always been a car enthusiast and i just bought my first Dub quite recently. just love the little thing. im still feeling out the community in Vancouver and abroad. thanks for the direction to dubberz, i assume your account is the same name, RONDAL? Vancouver really is a great city and i totally see why you miss it. whenever i leave to go to school back east or travel i get van city home sick. little too much rain though but thats what makes everything so GREEN

[RONDAL]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

yeah i spend more time over on that board anyway. 10x the amount of traffic

[RONDAL]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

just scored this amazing toy!

it is one of 3 in north america that got brought in by HPA from HGP. Retails for close to $2000 in europe, you can't even buy them here.




If anyone wants my high flow ported and polished MMP intake it's up for grabs. I was planning to just keep the MMP as the gains weren't going to be that much greater going from an already high flowing intake to only a slightly better one, but at the price i am getting this SRI it was a no brainer. Regular SRI's go for $1000-1200, this one is closer to 2K but i got a massive deal.

[Lars]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

Rondal, I have an electric palm sander if you still need one ?

[MischlingMk]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

lol i saw that FS on dubberz, and your taunts to the loosing bidders! snooze ya loose

[RONDAL]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

the palm sander was to RE-polish my old MMP manifold....but since I am getting the SRI i dunno if I need it. It looks decent enough already there is just one little spot that wasn't mirror finished i wanted to fix.

[RONDAL]

Re: Screw weight saving....just add more HP (Project Turbo Smurf)

Update: December 23rd, 2007 -Install Headspacer and Gaskets

Using brake cleaner I cleaned all of the contact surfaces on the head and the block. Spent lots of time on this making sure there was no high points and i cleaned up some of the carbon buildup on the pistons though there really wasn't much to clean off.

Using one of the old head studs I sprayed it was WD-40 to clean the threads on the stud, then sprayed WD-40 into each of the holes where the studs go into the block in an attempt to clean out any crap or corrosion that may have built up. It takes a bit of time but it is worth it.

I had an issue sorting out which headstud went where in the block as there are 3 different sizes, but eventually sorted it out after laying the head back on and guessing and testing a few of the questionable holes.





Looking at the block with the intake ports closest and exhaust ports furthest away from you in a birds eye view:

back row of (7): 4 - 5 - 4 - 5 - 4 - 5 - 4

center row of (7): 5 - 5 - 5 - 5 - 5 - 5 - 5

front row of (6): 4 - 6 - 4 - 6 - 4 - 6


I then removed the head off of the block and placed all the studs in their corresponding holes




Using the ARP Lubricant I lubed the threads on each of the studs one by one and hand tightend them into place, finishing it off with an allen key to snug them up. This is where having cleaned the threads helped as they spin into place very easily.






During the process I just so happend to drop the small allen key I was using into the water jacket in the block. just a reminder to be very careful and avoid using things that may fall into the block. I made some chopsticks out of a coathanger and fished it out.


The studs all in place:




I then recleaned the contact surface on the block as some of the poly lube had come out of the threads and pooled.

I then lay the first gasket






followed by the headpspacer:




followed by the final gasket completing the sandwich




I then placed the head carefully back down onto the block






.....and called it a day. Gotta pack to fly home for christmas tomorrow and spent some more time working on the jetta as well which cut into the time a lot.

More to come in the new year when i get back.