Removed the Origin roof wing that I never liked, sold it for $120 and found this Kouki already painted in black for $50…fair trade I’d say:
of recent progress
for the front anyway. 17×9 +15 215/40 Goodyear Revspec. Just needs more low now!
I need you in my life again:
But silver again…or some bronze this time…hrmmmm
Super nice bug from a fellow in Oslo, the color and steel wheels are perfect.
Super nice install of the air stuffs up front. For the whole build, check out the thread at VW Norge
Darren asked me to throw up some closer shots of my setup for the breather tank. I finally got around to taking some quick snaps. I decided to mount the tank near the front of the car for a few reasons. 1st, it’s close to the radiator, overflow tank, and water neck, so aside from the line going down under the fan to the lower radiator hose all the lines are as short as possible. It is also because I still am using my oem boost gauge and the oem sensor is on the shock tower were most people mount the tank.
When I 1st went to install the water neck fitting that pulls the air out of the cooling system, I forgot to use the supplied washer and broke the fitting off while tightening it. This was actually a little bit of a blessing in disguise. The supplied fitting was just a straight nipple for the line, but since I broke mine I had to order up a new one. Greddy also sells a 90degree fitting that I thought would work better given the close proximity to the exhaust manifold. So you can see the new 90degree fitting gets the rubber hose quickly away from the hot manifold and also makes the hose easy to work with going to the tank itself as it swivels freely.
I was at 1st worried about the location of the tank. I thought it may not clear the hood; but I have no problems with that at all. I also didn’t know if the tank would be higher than the radiator (the tank needs to be to work properly) but to my surprise it sat slightly higher and I can see it working properly.
Likely more than you ever wanted to read about this little part, but it can be a tad confusing and last I remember even the units shipped stateside only include Japanese instructions. These are relativly cheap and also saves you the hastle of always having to make sure your cooling system is properly bled. So my cooling setup now includes: Greddy 2 row aluminum radiator / Greddy breather tank / Nismo low-temp thermostat / Stance water pump pulley. With this setup even in the recent hot summer I sit at idle in traffic at 69-70 degrees C and at my last Meihan outting I never saw temps higher than 76. At touge, I see around 85 at the end of my uphill run wereas I used to see temps just roll over to 100 C at the last corner.
Be on
This should be good:
and I made some pancakes
