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Well I’ve had this car for almost 3 years and have put seemingly endless amounts of work into it. It had a hard life before I came into possession of it, and it went through several owners who never drive it hard or very much because they didn’t want to do the maintaining on it. I drive the car probably close to 40k a year, so that was simply not an option for me!
The very first thing I did was remove the stock engine management and instal megasquirt. Currently running an aeb engine from a 99 passat, t3/t4 57 trim turbo with a semi equal length manifold, 3″dp and full 3″exhaust.
First day of ownership
Got it swapped to ms in a day and a half and drove 140mi home
The car was on 17’s and h&r coilovers when I got it. Being low with low profile tires simply does not do it for me. I put the car back to stock height with stock b3 springs and bilstein tc’s on 16’s with 205-55-16 snow tires on, this was infinitely better in performance in the snow and gravel.
How she sits currently
Thanks guys!
I live up in the mountains and drive long gravel roads all the time, the low suspension was uncomfortable and restricting. The exhaust the origional owner put on was terrible and when lowere only had a few inches of ground clearance. I swapped the rear suspension for Mk2 golf with a coilover sleeve kit and was able to remove the rear sway bar and gain another 2″ higher in the rear. Removing the rear sway bar let me tuck the exhaust closer to the underbody so I gained about 6″ of ground clearance in the rear.
I can now nearly bottom out he suspension and not scrape the exhaust on the ground!
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