Phoenix Gold Phorum

I have not listend to my system in 3 months

The 1.8 motor that I put in temporarily dropped a valve seat about 3 months ago. I had the option of dumping money into a motor that I purchased for less than 400 bucks. Or, finishing my original 2.0 motor. It was a no brainer.

I have been collecting parts for this motor for almost 2 years This is a 2liter VW type 4 engine running D-jetronic Fuel injection. I am in the process of putting it back togeather now. I have purchased a slightly more aggressive cam, and bored the cylinders out to gain a few more hp. The heads were rebuilt and came out fantastic. The rocker arms were upgraded to the porsche 911 style swivel feet. I purchased Keith Black pistons, chromoly pushrods etc. This engine is gonna be bad ass

I had all the d-jet wiring rebuilt and powder coated all the tins. I have also purchased a few more guages for the cockpit and traded the stock heat exchangers for a custom header setup.

All good things come to those who wait
I do miss listening to my system though

Anyways,

It has been a long while since I visited, and I thought I would drop in and post some pics of where Im at. I hope to be back on the road within the month.

Pics of the case after a bath and a quick primer

Rebuilt crank, with new berrings, bushings, Polished, lubed and ready to go. Resurfaced flywheel and Pics of the Head

Engine tin powdercoated gloss black

NICE!!!

Those heads look friggin new!

And check out this Header system fabricated by Chris Foley

stipud wrote:NICE!!!

Those heads look friggin new!

They were new....

In 1973

I forgot to update this thread, I am now driving !!!!
Here is my Brand New 2056 Engine.
Somabitch is Fast

Looks like you took your time and did everything right. Good job. I like it.

looks really good just too bad you could not get a HO alt on there.

I am still fine tuning the engine, and have not even turned the stero on yet, I am way too scared I am gonna blow this engine. I need to get the bugs worked out. Little bit of hesitation, a lot of jerky action, and a lot of money invested.


I am pretty sure its down to the idle adjustment (i need to hook up my air/fuel gauge) then i just replaced my throttle position switch today on my lunch, I am pretty sure this has been causing the jerkey action. Next I will drive the hell out of it for a couple of days and just listen to the sound of the engine (make sure everything is O.K.)
and then Finally....

I will start from the begining and tune my system with your guys help of course

man I know that feeling. Driving and watching your gauges more closely then a 16 yr old does his phone.... Listening to every noise, every hesitation/jerk and wonding what it is.... I went through all of it when I had to replace my motor and then after that when I did my head/cam/intake swap. The bad part about the swap was that the cam gave it such a lope that it changed it from a smooth sounding 302 to a car as one person next to me at the light said "Man that thing sounds like its ready to get rowdy...". Don't get me wrong I am not complaining that much but it was like learning the car all over again. Prior to that I could have walked past 100 cars running while I was blindfolded and still told you which car was mine but after I had no clue. I could not help but enjoy the sound but at the same time it was a little scary as well.

I too had to replace my throttle position sensor and it fixed my jerking/hesitation last year, hope it all works out for you. Now you just have a whole lot more crap on yer car to keep clean!

ttocs wrote: Now you just have a whole lot more crap on yer car to keep clean!

lol your not kidding, I found myself wiping up a drip of oil from one of the fuel injection hoses yesterday, i must have spilled a drop.

we will see how long it stays pretty.

It was the TPS, swapped it out with a known good one and....


It runs like a champ. Pulls strong and no more Bucking. I am very happy



Here is the link to my build thread on 914world

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php? ... 44124&st=0

yup made a huge difference in mine as well. Not sure why it didn't matter before the head/cam/intake swap but as soon as that was on there suddenly replacing the tps made it purrr....