gee, like this is anything new..

naw, me under the hood of my own car, thats not normal or anything? kidding, probably more normal then anything else. went into the motor to re-torque the Racewear head studs, and while doing so, also replaced the intake cam adjuster itself. was hoping that it would rectify my timing issue. so far, i am not sure if it has or not, due to time. finally gave up last night around 11pm after being up since 4:30. got it all back together once, to realize upon filling the coolant that i had pinched the thermostat housing seal at the head, and had coolant running all over the place. so two coolant flushes later, and we had that sorted. then she made some awful noise at low rpm once we fired it back up. so i was done.

came back in this morning, fired it up, and no noise? not a clue, just was gone. so took it around the block a few times and got into some boost for the first time. still looks good, so i will chalk it up to being a temperamental POS, and leave it at that.

and we did get a lil video, so i will get that up when i can find some time..

a couple more shots!

one from the EW4 show, and another courtesy of a farmland photo shoot with D.Tek. going to be sad to see him leave to head back to Jersey in a few weeks :(

rolling shots are always dope.

just had to get this up and out there. first real pics of the car, all clean and rolling out on the highway. followed a crew out to a little VW aircooled event in Eau Claire Wi from mpls to get some miles on the motor. ended up taking home awards for "top 25 of the show", and "best watercooled". D.Tek came along for the ride out, and got a some sic pictures on the ride home. more later..

oh yea, and no rubbing! 18x9.5 all the way around suckas!

just a few from the weekend..

well its alive and kicking! Eurowerks 4 went down, albeit rainy, but well. the show was a huge success as far as i can tell. only dry skies and some sun could have made it any better.

almost there!

hard to believe, but a week ago, the bay was empty. as well, the car was 20 miles from the motor lol. almost there...

some more of Trusty...

took trusty out for cruise last sunday. actually, i should say i stole it for the weekend from Peter. it was a gorgeous weekend for some cruising, and for some pics. met up with some of the boys, and their camera gear. good times were had, and Jessica was all about the camera phone that day as well. enjoy..


thanks to D.Tek, and David M. for coming out and shooting some cool pics..

Audi and VW 2.0t car, Public Service Announcement ( reposted from our shop blog, furtherperformance.com)

so i wanna take a chance to do a bit of a PSA for the 2.0t crowd out there watching. and hey, know anyone with one that might not see this? forward it along. this is something we have started to recommend at the shop, to be inspected, and more than likely replaced at 30k mileage intervals as of the last week or so. 06 through 08 in both the Audi and VW cars. seems that the parts werent particularly hardened when built, and arent standing up to the pressures produced within the fuel pump.

this is what they should look like, more or less. this one is a used one that we replaced when we did an APR high pressure fuel pump upgrade. for the last few months, we have just automatically replaced them. this is the fuel pump cam follower, or fuel pump lifter as its known.


more or less consistant across the face, and black in color if you really look at it. the black, being some kind of coating i assume, like Teflon or something of that nature . more or less, something to reduce wear on the metal itself. well, needless to say, i don't think that plan is working out for them to well. we have seen 2 actual complete failures. one being just a small pinhole, but an otherwise well running car. the customer had been hearing us talk of it, and took it upon himself to check it out, and did it just in time. so far, so good.

and then we have this. granted, i will label it as a "severe service example", and being on the extreme side of the equation. but then again, car has less then 40k on it, and is meticulously maintained by the owner. but is tracked regularly, and has more or less all the bolt on goodies, etc. as well, it was one of the first APR HPFP we had done, and before we knew the lifter was an issue.


needless to say, failure on an extreme level. enough to cause damage to the cam that the follower rides on, and damage the pump. so ne new fuel pump, as well as a new cyl head. yes, you heard that right, new cyl head. the only way at this point to replace that fuel pump cam.

just wanted to get the word out there, pass it on if you know anyone with a 2.0t..