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I owe you one big ass beer. You got the suggestion of the century. My father-in-law dropped the exhaust and it immediately revved and redlined as...
OK guys I must apologize for the extremely late reply. Life has been extremely chaotic lately. I am extremely happy to report that the car can now...
Good evening, I posted about this car the other day. We had a lot of great feedback from you great folks, and there was a lot of dialogue. While...
Ok so we verified that the timing is acting as it should on both banks, both at idle and above. We used an adjustable light so we were able to...
Ok guys, update from today... I started out by driving down to AW Italian Auto in Eatontown, NJ. i wouldn't consider them extremely competitive,...
We've got a good 75-80 PSI system pressure and 50 PSI control. Our cold pressure is still giving us fits, but we're moving on with the bigger...
Hey Gordon - That's an interesting diagram because the original manual that came with the car shows that the forward bank is (left to right) 1-4...
So we never finished checking the injectors. After finding (2) bad ones, we decided that it didn't matter how many more were bad, but that we...
I would imagine that the numbers will go down if we were to run the static compression test again with all the plugs in it, which I will be doing...
They were cranking numbers, with all the plugs removed. We were going to do dynamic numbers, but we can see enough consistency to rule out...
Jason - We just ran a compression test and the results are as follows... 1-195 2-200 3-195 4-190 5-185 6-180 7-175 8-180 The forward bank is...
The timing belt was done recently, but the car ran great since. I know that timing belt jumps happen, but I ruled it out as an extreme scenario...
We can confirm that all 8 cylinders have fire.
The first thing I did was check the plugs and that were all fuel-fouled. They were all gapped appropriately. I cleaned them and put them back,...
Hey Ron - Honestly, I didn't check to ensure each injector has fuel on it initially since it's extremely obvious that it's rich. What we were...
Hello everyone, My father-in-law just pick up this GTSi. When he test drove it, it ran great. Between the purchase in California and the delivery...
