I finally found some time to clean up the pistons and install some new goetze rings. Pulled the car out and gave it a thorough wash, forgot that it's quite pretty.

I am going to put a complete low mile head on it from a parts mk3 I have, so I started pulling that engine as well.

My goal is to ...

I didn't notice that the other car was a fwd... bummer.

Do you know if it sold to your buddy yet?

Also found this gem, if anyone is looking for a clean 200 20v.

https://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/cto/6105141659.html

This should not turn into a donor car!!

So I really shouldn't get board and scan Craigslist for things I really don't need, but it happens too often...

I found a guy looking to sell a 1991 Lago Blue, 200 20v Avant with a bad head. Apparently it was maintained by 2Bennett for most of its life, but the customer did not want to pay to have ...

Sounds like a fun project. I built an urS4 with an Hx35/40 and it was super fun. It was a bit laggy, but when it lit, it pulled like a freight train. I would be concerned about stock rods with that turbo though. It is capable of way more than 340whp...

Sorry to hear about the blue smoke issue Dana!

It will be interesting to see what you find. I'm thinking that you're on the right track thing that it's rings. Though in my own research I have found that the AHU pistons have a much shorter crown than other TDI engines and I could be possible that ...

What was the verdict with coolant and oil mixing?

I am definitely interested in a set of these, now that I've got another urS! I just re-read the thread, but I couldn't find a figure on how much more travel they will allow. Has that been determined yet?

cool info on those rods, maybe I should have put a set in my car.

Right on about the TDIclub. I've posted some stuff on my car build, and literally nobody even looks or comments on it. Not to toot my own horn, but my car is pretty badass as far as 1.9 diesels go, but people asking which stage 1 ...

I have them in my built block, it's been confirmed by two well known tdi gurus that they are the same rods that ie, and rosten sell, just final machining is done in house....my machinist has been building race motors for 30+ years, he said the rods were fine. I made a point of having him check them ...

Noisy Cricket wrote:Assume that the bolts are forgeries and buy genuine ARP bolts.

It has actually been confirmed, with ARP, that the Maxspeedingrods do come with genuine ARP 2000 bolts and that they source directly from ARP.

Hank told me that most rods come from the same Chinese factory when we were talking the merits between brand x and brand y (think it was scat and dm forged). He said the difference was in the machining at the end of the line... how tight and consistent are the tolerances being what influenced the ...

Double post. Stupid Tapatalk

That is a great description of them, ha.

I understand what you are saying for sure, but if they are just as good as rods that cost twice as much, why spend more money? Some people say they actually come from the same factory as Rosten and IE rods and just have a different name.

I have been doing lots of research on building my ALH TDI and right now I am trying to decide on which connecting rods I am going to run. I have heard of many different people running "eBay" rods in big power Honda's, DSM's, VW's, etc. with no issues, but it seems like everyone on TDIClub is totally ...

A hopped up TDI makes for a great daily power plant. For those of us who rack mega miles onto our old cars, it makes daily driving one of these things (dare I say) practical? Its just a car anyhow.

Honestly, you should be able to swap it back to a 5 banger anyhow. I don't think putting a TDI in ...

It kills me to see it swapped, but it's so clean I had to comment lol

I agree with you Chris! It is a constant struggle, in my head, thinking about swapping such a clean, low mile, rare car, but here is my logic...

This is my dream car, and I finally own it. It would be great to park it in a ...

There is not much to update about the car right now, but I did do an oil change, haha. It has been a dream driving an urS again! The guy I bought it from put less than 1500 miles on it during the 2 years he owned it... I have already put over 3k miles on it Here are a couple pics of it all cleaned ...

Any update on when the RennWgn will be back in service??

What Chris said! ^^^

ringbearer wrote:Contact Chris brydon for the caliper brackets. He makes good stuff, 17z seems best imho.

I will do that for sure. You should it would be worth it to sell the 993tt setup and go 17z in the long run?

These springs came with my car when I bought it. I don't think they have ever been installed or ran on a car. Here is the info from the group buy page on QW:


As some of you read before there is the possibility of cutting the price of the OE sport springs sets by more than half by having Hyperco ...

You should have told me you were passing through, i would have bought you dinner!

I totally forgot man! Next time for sure

I got the coilovers and new wheels installed and had the alignment done. It came out awesome! I initially did the take up springs on the front and the rear, with the coil ...

Looking good Jon!

My rear konis were stoopid expensive, get the qa1 rears going down the road and do a write up so others can enjoy the more affordable route.

I love my horizontal bandsaw too

QA1 rears will happen once the Koni's are worn out. I will definitely do a write up on installing them ...

I actually came up with a solution today.

Last night I was really not looking forward to cutting the rings out with the drill press/hole saw and was also trying to figure out what to do for the rear struts. I called the local steel shop, that I normally source my steel through, and asked if they ...