george_seamons

There's loads of bolts left; but that's because I've effectively built 2 engines. Lots of bits have been stripped off one that aren't needed on the other. If you can afford it, get the SFS oversized turbo intake pipe...made a big difference to my friends Cupra. They are a twat to fit though, they really are huge in comparison to the standard ones!

Yes Luke! Good man, will make a big difference having all those bits on. In my own news; my engine is all back in now. Just got to bolt the front panel on, so I can get some water circulating round,...then its time to turn the key and see what damage occurs!

Sold the engine already I'm afraid (Well, taken a deposit, I haven't finished taking off all the bits I need yet!). Got £500 with the manifold, couldn't really turn that down! Would be cool with a 1.8t in it though! I know of a couple for under £200, if that's of any interest to you? Not sure how far away they are though. When are you back? We should get a takeaway or something. You'd have to come here though, I'm obviously pretty transportless at the moment! f**k Sarah, she'll come round to it eventually! Lauren is constantly in a grump with me because I "spend more time with that f**king car than you do with me (her)".

Nice one dude, always nice to congratulate yourself! You'll have to pop over in it when you're back, be good to see you/sarah/the car.

So yeah...did this tonight. On my own, skills!

State of affairs at the end of today. Doesn't look like a huge amount done, but I've taken a hell of a lot out, and the weather wasn't really on my side either! All ancillaries removed, inlet manifold removed, all wiring and sensors removed and labelled (and bundled up on the right hand side to give clearance for the engine removal), water pipes disconnected, battery removed, airbox and intake removed. All that's left now is to remove the bumper and slam panel, driveshafts, and engine mounts...then it can come out!

Fitting the actual engine shouldn't take that long, its just taking the front end of the car off to allow the removal and refitting that will take the time!

Its like a concrete prefab thing. It's brick on the outside though. The back wall has shelving which is full of tools and shit (really must tidy it at some point haha!). Thanks for the offer, but I already have a crane, and I'm hoping to have the swap done by the time you get back!

Same house dude, garage has always been here!

Had a busy day today. Started off with having to dig up our drive to get access to the mains water pipe to our house, which had split yesterday, causing a shit load of water to flood everywhere! Spent a few hours digging the hole, and cut the pipe where the hole was, and put a joiner over it...all seems well now! I then spent the rest of the day building the rest of my engine, got pretty much as far as I can without taking the current engine out of the car to rob a few bits off. Started off by torqueing the new rods up to their final tightness (50ftlbs, then loosen, then 50ftlbs, then loosen, then 55ftlbs). Once that was done, the windage tray went on, along with the new oil pump and pickup: I then spent a little while cleaning all the crap off the head, to allow the new head gasket to seat properly. Used a combination of petrol, wire wool, and 1200grit wet and dry: Once that was cleaned up, I whacked the new headgasket on the block, and put the head on, and torqued all the head bolts down. I then installed a new waterpump, thermostat, Kevlar cambelt, cambelt tensioner pulley, and hydraulic tensioner. Timed it all up, and made sure all was well, then pulled the pin on the hydraulic tensioner. I like the blue cambelt, almost seems a shame to cover it up! I then spent a little while with the petrol/wire wool/wet and dry again, to clean up the exhaust manifold gasket faces, to ensure a good seal. I then chucked a new gasket on, and put the tubular manifold on. Ran out of time to put all the nuts on. I know from last time I did this, that getting all the nuts on is a RIGHT pain in the ass. Should be a bit easier this time though, because I will actually be able to see what I'm doing, and not have to lay on my back and stretch up! (Did it with the head on the engine, in the engine bay last time...wouldn't ever do that again!) Looks so cool from underneath, its like a stainless steel porno! That's as far as I got today. Just the inlet manifold, ancillaries, the clutch/flywheel, and the gearbox to go on, then Mr Leon goes for heart surgery! Hoping to get the "old" engine out of the car tomorrow. Got an engine crane, so I'm going to whip the bonnet off, and try to get the whole engine and gearbox out in one go, rather than pissing about underneath trying to get them out!

Used with a DMF, and standard pressure plate, people are reporting it feels like a stock clutch...can't see that being the case myself!

Standard clutch on the right, Sachs paddle clutch on the left. Think pulling away might take a bit of getting used to!

Good lord, that looks mental! The duct tape on the air filter and turbo is my favourite part

Individually they arent that much, most of them are less than £5, its just the sheer amount of them! That and the amount of stretch bolts, studs, and nuts that need replacing...again, not that much individually, but its all adding up. I will have spent not far off £1500, and wont actually see any beneifit other than a stronger engine, lol. Just have to keep telling myself to look to the future though!

Rebuilding a forged engine and replacing every single gasket, and installing a new flywheel and paddle clutch is SERIOUSLY expensive. Think I underestimated just how much it would cost!

Will try and get vagcom on drop box later on, although Ive not done it before! Out off-roading today, so wont be a while Im afraid. Will write some instructions for it too, because you have to be pretty exact in where you install things, so the batch file works correctly.

Ive got a cracked version of vagcom, with a proper batch file to keep it thinking its genuine. Whether it will work on a mk5 or not I don't know.

Its a petrol Tom Paul, I found the torque app doesn't pick up on a lot of vw specific codes, so there could be something there, but you just can't see it.

Looks 10x better for it!

Got a buyer for it already dude, but thanks. He's paying £200 for it. Stripping an engine bare is SO therapeutic! Really really enjoyed it.

I accidentally a whole engine... ....and then I done bad, whoops!

Jardo, why would you spend all the money on the Brembos if you're selling the car? Seems a bit pointless? Luke, when I did the work on that Cupra, SAI removal was one of the things I did. You'll need some coolant too, because you have to take a flange off the block to get access to one of the bolts. Certainly wouldn't be a bad idea to replace the vacuum hoses while its in bits. I didn't put a resistor on his, but he got it remapped, so the code was irrelevant anyway because it got deleted.

So...I bought another engine. Looks like this build has begun! Jardo, I'm totally the same. I love getting busy. Can't wait to strip this engine to bits!

He rebuilt MY 100k engine though, not his 200k one. I did look into swapping back to a 5 speed, but it seems they are much weaker, so promptly knocked that one on the head. Let me know either way about the downpipe. What version manifold is it?

Luckily I'm not in a huge hurry for them, so if they do take a while it doesn't matter. It sees that the last batch of orders have all arrived fairly swiftly, so fingers crossed for mine! Nick, there's a complete AGU engine (with manifolds and turbo etc) on ebay for £250 which is about 15 miles from me. I messaged the seller and asked if he would do it for £200 if it didn't go on the auction, and he said yes. Only thing is, its done 160k. Should I get it?