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looks great,

I see you have 2 helpers

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Thanks. Yes they are usually right under or behind me lol

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Like what I’m seeing.

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I put the cab back on the frame and prepped the inside for Lizard skin insulation. I have used this stuff before and it works very good. So on Sunday I sprayed and today I took the masking off. I learnt last time to mask everything you don't want it on because it splatters out of the gun quite a bit.
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Got the fuel tank back from the Rad shop that I had clean it out and check for leaks. Before I sent it in I added the return at the top of the tank with a tube that goes 3/4 of the way down. Then I painted it the color that the inside is going, platinum gray.
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Nice resto on the tank....


Marc

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did you use the heat or sound? i just picked up a gallon of each, has great reviews but i've not really seen a lot of ppl using it. my thought was to use the thermal under the cab to keep heat from ever getting to the metal, then the sound inside to keep things quite.

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Have you ever tried this stuff? FlexSeal

I have not used it, but it looks like it might be a good for inside doors, cab corners, and the firewall for heat and noise insulation.

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Thanks. It helps the tank was in good shape to start with.
In this truck I just used the temp stuff, my other truck I used both, they work very good. Keeps a lot of the heat from the motor and sun out. The sound makes the cab feel very solid. I put both inside, with a gallon you can do floor, fire wall, back of cab and roof. It also adds a waterproof layer, I also just sprayed the temp stuff in my sons Jeep CJ6
I'm not sure how much temp control it will do the Lizard skin temp control has little ceramic balls mixed in, but if you put a good layer of that stuff on it should add some sound insulation.

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Today I did a few little things, but my trans cooler came in so I got it tacked in before I had to go to work. It's a Derale 16 pass with a 10" fan. I tried a few spots behind the cab and thought this should give some air flow while driving.
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Saturday my son and I painted the interior of Darel, Platinum gray. Turned out really nice. Dash, front of seat riser, door jams, back of cab.
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looks great, ........keep it going !

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Great work. Keep it up and we'll keep watching.

Be sure to post mileage when you get going. The incredible MPG with our 2012 Passat SEL was about the only thing i liked about it. Darn near 60 MPG on first cross country trip!!!! Still wonder where it is after VW literally forced us to sell it back.

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That color has some great metallic to it...Looks great.
Marc

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Bob, very nice...Jim

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Thankyou I will
Thanks glad I can help you kill time.;) I will, I'm guessing between 30-40mpg but ??. Ya kina sucks they are probably over seas.
Ya it's the same color as my 2010 Jetta, made it easy to find a color.
Thanks Jim

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that's exactly where/how i've been planning to put some coolers too, here's hoping we know what were doing! :lol:

:metal:

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I have seen lots of people put them under the floor boards on cars and seem to work ok we will have much better air on the trucks.

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Fuel tank is in and hooked up down to the fuel filter. Peddles, steering column, ebrake peddle and speakers. It's all going to plan so far.
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Started laying out the fuse panel plate so when I run a wire I will know there to cut it off. Wow way less circuits needed in this truck than my other truck.
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On the weekend I put the front clip on to get some stuff figured out. Rad is out to be modified and I can work on turbo fitment stuff as well as body mounts.
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Looking good...Jim

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Nice progress....theses all sorts of room for activities in that engine bay.
I feel your pain on the wiring. I have been wiring mine for what seems like weeks.

Marc

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when i was building my 02 WV Golf TDI, i found a junkyard in The Netherlands (yes, in Europe) that was really good. it was cheaper for me to buy a complete 5spd transmission swap kit from him and ship it over-seas than buy anything local. i also ended up buying a complete custom tuned ECU shipped cheaper than anyone in the US would tune mine. had him send me the bigger AFN injectors with it. just his tune and injectors made that car super fun.

http://www.dutchautoparts.com/index.php

i always worked with Franz, great dude. TONS of great feedback from everyone who uses them. but they can be slow to reply and respond, gotta have patients.

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When your done you may pull up at stoplight and cars around you will be looking for a VW !!

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hopefully not like this??

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:lol:

stock would ramp in the boost and RIGHT at peak RPM it would hit 16psi for like 1sec. mine was tuned to basically 18psi all the time. the only smoke from mine was a bad PCV that would fill the intercooler with oil. then when i'd get to ripping on it she'd suck that oil up into the intake. had an oil separator on it for a while, but was too much trouble to empty it that often. so instead i just stopped changing the oil and added some now and then. haha

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do you have any plans to build the motor at all? i did a bunch of research and was just about to build my ALH for 300hp before it went in the '55 ... then the 12V fell in my lap.

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Thanks Jim
Wiring does seem to take forever. Yes total contrast to my other trucks engine bay.
I'll look him up. All of the parts, adaptors and tune I use are Canadian which is nice.
Ha that will be great
No I hope not!!
This one should work well with the setup I've got together. My Jeeps ALH runs 20psi all the way through this one has a different but bit bigger turbo.
Stock internals are more than enough for even stage 3 which is what I'm thinking I will run. 140whp and 240wtq. I'll have to do injectors tho. I run a stage 2 in my Jeep and it pulls great, not like a 12V tho.

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:(

but it's just so entertaining to say "block girdle" ... why not need one? :lol:

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Yes it is.
Today I got the front end hanging on it's own, front clip body mounts are tacked in. I need to do a bunch more work to the inner fenders before I can take them off to clean and paint.
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On the weekend I got the cold side of the intake put together. Then put in a crossmember and bumper supports. 2x4 1/8" then 2x2 1/4", I added a lower brace but forgot to take picture. The bumper is the tow truck bumper that came with this truck it is 1/4" thick :eek: it will never dent that's for sure. It is now sitting at what will be ride height, bumper at 7" and running boards will be at 6".
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I think you are having too much fun, enjoy, looks great

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Maybe ;)

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Working on getting the running boards installed. Brackets are 1x2" tube getting bolted to the frame. I cut all the old bracket off.
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Working on the motor wiring. This motor came out of a swap, who ever did this swap should not do wiring. I already cleaned up a bunch when I got the motor running, now on to the rest.
This is what I started with last night and this is the type of thing I found 2 wires in 2 wires out and a ball of extra taped up, like just cut it and twist the wires together with tape would be better imo.
Now its all cleaned up ready to make the harness fit.
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Great build!

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awwww ... no MTDI conversion?!?!

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Thank you
Ya I thought about that.

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I have been working on the wiring getting things terminated. Motor wiring is in and hooked up, so much neater. Also running the wires under the dash, it's all coming together. I never thought I would end up with 8 relays.
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