nek
10+ Year Contributor
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- Apr 17, 2009
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Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Hi all, Ive owned my my 96 Tsi Awd for about 8 months now and Im finally starting my upgrade.
Heres what were looking at
Mech Boost Gauge
14b Turbo
Ported 2g Tb
1g Bov
vr speed Fmic
Hallman BC
Tokico Coilover kit
Fuel Pump Rewire
Oil feed relocation to head
Anyways. On Nov 14th I started by tearing off my front bumper. I found this thread to be very helpful. I followed it pic for pic and the only problem I had was that my foglights held my bumper on. A quick unscrewing of the top two screws in each and a slow breaking and drilling of the bottom two screws of each handled the problem and my bumper was free.
From there I went ahead and started taking apart my stock smic and all the ic piping from the Tb to the turbo.
Now heres where I came across my first problem. I found a small amount of oil in the ic piping. Now after reading a little bit on it, its a normal thing to have a small amount in the pipes so Im not to worried. It is also said here that installing a catchcan can help prevent this problem. What do you guys think? Also, I have a good amount of oil residue on the lower engine. I think this could be the head gasket is in need of replacing but not sure.
Another issue that I hope to be resolving is white smoke out of my exhaust. It usually doesnt occur untill my car warms up. During cruise, my car doesnt smoke ( not noticeably anyways could be due to continuous cruising) but when I stop to idle, it seems a build up of smoke builds in my exhaust and when I begin to accelerate, the smoke comes out in an embarrassing white puff. Also, when I was stuck in 2 hour traffic (constantly blowing smoke when ever I inched up 2 feet) after I was free from the cluster and I moved up to 70mph, I could see my exhaust constantly smoking which lets me to believe its all building up somewhere in my engine and until giving it gas slowly releases it.
Anyways, here is the pics from first day.
Also, in the next pic, what Is this black box for? What does it do? It was the ic pipe directly after the sidemount going to the turbo.
Heres what were looking at
Mech Boost Gauge
14b Turbo
Ported 2g Tb
1g Bov
vr speed Fmic
Hallman BC
Tokico Coilover kit
Fuel Pump Rewire
Oil feed relocation to head
Anyways. On Nov 14th I started by tearing off my front bumper. I found this thread to be very helpful. I followed it pic for pic and the only problem I had was that my foglights held my bumper on. A quick unscrewing of the top two screws in each and a slow breaking and drilling of the bottom two screws of each handled the problem and my bumper was free.
From there I went ahead and started taking apart my stock smic and all the ic piping from the Tb to the turbo.
Now heres where I came across my first problem. I found a small amount of oil in the ic piping. Now after reading a little bit on it, its a normal thing to have a small amount in the pipes so Im not to worried. It is also said here that installing a catchcan can help prevent this problem. What do you guys think? Also, I have a good amount of oil residue on the lower engine. I think this could be the head gasket is in need of replacing but not sure.
Another issue that I hope to be resolving is white smoke out of my exhaust. It usually doesnt occur untill my car warms up. During cruise, my car doesnt smoke ( not noticeably anyways could be due to continuous cruising) but when I stop to idle, it seems a build up of smoke builds in my exhaust and when I begin to accelerate, the smoke comes out in an embarrassing white puff. Also, when I was stuck in 2 hour traffic (constantly blowing smoke when ever I inched up 2 feet) after I was free from the cluster and I moved up to 70mph, I could see my exhaust constantly smoking which lets me to believe its all building up somewhere in my engine and until giving it gas slowly releases it.
Anyways, here is the pics from first day.
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Also, in the next pic, what Is this black box for? What does it do? It was the ic pipe directly after the sidemount going to the turbo.
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