1988 scirocco project (shortened bumpers too) by JonnyPhenomenon

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Spent sunday working on the rocco. I had a couple hoses blow since I went on the cincy trip. was pretty sure that I had a blown head gasket and was getting exhaust gasses in my cooling system. so little by little Ive been replacing mall my old hoses, and that is a huge pain in the butt.. anyway, I ordered a new head gasket, - metal laminate this time - and got to work installing it. 

once I got the head off, I was able to see the problem right away.

here are some pics...

my initial guess was that I damaged it during installation, but in retrospect, there is no way that could have happened, since I installed head studs and slid the head down on them. so something bad must have happened when I was attempting to tune megasquirt. I did make a couple mistakes during the initial setup that caused the car to backfire and stall. that must have deformed the ring around piston three and then over time allowed it to seep gasses out into my cooling system. 

anyway, new MLS gasket is installed, and I took the time to plane down my crappy eurosport header so it actually seals. the roccos a lot quieter now too!

9-23-2009

I didnt hide it. I removed it, and then I just ran a new hose out to the bottle in the rear. 

I bought a two way washer pump with the intention of installing that so both my washers would work, but since I dont have a rear wiper and I dont drive in the rain, I really dont need it.

uh.. thats a good question.. I dont know why it wasnt mentioned before.. I guess I said a little something about it on page 14, but yeah, basically I used an alloy power steering resovoir from canton performance, and then I hid it in a space just below the passenger side headlight.

like so:

it fits in there perfectly. and in fact, I had enough hose and space in there that I could have just used the stock bottle and I think it would have fit OK. 

9-24-2009

why thank you CuRide. 

Ive put a lot of work into it, thats for sure. Still have a few things left to do too.