Fitting an intercooler in any 20vt swap is always a pain.
you can fit a pretty decent sized core behind that S2 bumper .
On my both of the B3 swaps I have done I made my own support bar to hold the bumper and also open up space for the intercooler - but if I had access to an oem core support like ...

Thrust bearing -
I’ve made a couple of passes at this so far.

Basically measured the crank , measured the main cap, main cap with thrust bearings , etc.

Then we made a jig to hold the main cap to machine the cap to accept the Audi 20vt bearing . Once the jig was made we machined a “test ...

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Yeah so much of this car is custom made or home made I really wanted to give it a solid go and make sure I wouldn’t have any weird issues before I build the engine and have a lot of money on the line . Honestly I’m impressed with the stock engine and if someone wanted to keep the boost low, a stock ...

I have been super busy and kind of neglected this car because it runs fine. It’s been in the back of my mind mainly when I’m out abusing this car and bouncing off the rev limiter that I need to actually build the engine.
but with low Boost - about 13 ish # maybe , peak and a literally just a stock ...

Still working on the thrust bearing mod . Cut it on the conservative side so I think one more Mod and I’ll be good.

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Anyone have an extra of these laying around?

•modify the main cap to accept the old i5 (7a, aan) thrust bearing .
•measure with my new bearings and see what clearance is.
•drop off block to machine shop and have them balance the rotating assemble

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There is a stamping on the block that shows what color(Size) bearings it requires. I've just been re-using the OEM bearings, they are almost always in very good shape.

But instead of doing this dance, it may be worth doing studs, and a line hone done to fit a standard size bearing.

Hey Jim ...

I guess a good plan might to be measure everything with the new bearings first and see where I’m at .

This reminds me I also need to do the 360 degree thrust bearing mod so sill have to verify I actually got the right bearing

Got a question for anyone that had any experience building the 07k or Newer VW engines .

My goal is to figure out exactly what to order here to build this bottom end right .
I ordered a set of ACL race bearings , P/N :
6M5563H - STD , and a plastigauge Set.

I’m finding some info that says that ...

dana wrote:This car is FINALLY back in my shop after a LONG hiatus. Got it all washed up and have the engine re-assembled and ready to stab back in. It will be ready for sale in the early spring, maybe even by winter.

I didn’t know you were selling .
This is the car you drove to battleborn right ??

that wiring looks great and man the engine bay looks so clean , and the wheel wells .
I don’t know if you’re going stock or what exactly you’re doing for turbo and exhaust but the only one thing to check is downpipe clearance with that stud.

That sucks that the tuner wasn’t working out but you’re in good hands with Marc .

I can’t see from your pics . Did you just cut the upper front part , or the whole front (lower beefier section too) ?

In many cases the driving factor for cutting the front is not just the engine removal / install but the fact that the B2 was not made to house any sort of decently sized cooler up ...

Man that looks great . So difficult welding all those in the car . Props for taking that on.

A common thing to run into is when you are closing up the last bit of the hole on a tube that’s welded on both sides , there are no more gaps for the remaining gases to escape ( besides the one you are ...

This thing is sick . I would live a diesel Tacoma !!

No real updates here which honestly is about the best thing possible because that means nothing has broken. Ive just been driving the car using it as a commuter for work.
I have a few things left to sort out. "Comforts" if you will...
I need to sort out some small wiring things. The oil pressure ...

For some reason I can’t see pics or video . Maybe it’s just the viewing on my phone

Here’s an exhaust clip now that finally the leaks are fixed . Can’t figure out how to “embed “
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I was pleasantly suprised for sure ..
which is all Good news because I had figured pistons would take a while to get so I had already ordered stock size pistons from issam and was counting on being able to find a good block :)

In other news
I just drained a quart from the catch can again . So I’m ...

Man, those bores look nice. Perfect candidate for drop in Mahle Power Packs. Unless you are going over bore, with a proper torque plate, I would not touch the bores.
My plan was to take apart more than one if I have to but find the best condition block I have and go stock size Mahle pistons like ...

Well I don’t have huge goals , I was hoping to be in the 4-500 range I guess but Essentially I don’t have an exact power goal , I just want to have a setup where I can go WOT any time and and all the time if I want , and not feel like I’m going to break something. I want a streetable powerband, too ...