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My MK5 GTI (Bora)

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kenneally_mark:
What wiring loom are you running? Great job so far...

xjay1337:
Awesome mate will have to pop to a local track event with you..

Tabs:
Finally got around to fitting trial fitting the engine. Due to the steering knuckle bulkhead being in the way on the MK4 chassis it has to be teased back slightly with a hammer. You can see the clearance issue in these handy pics:
 

 

 

 
No pics of my handy work to tease the bulkhead back in but this helpful gif shows how how it went:
 

 
Properly overdid it clearance wise. To point where the steering knuckle had some issues :$ all sorted now though.... Will need to grind the nub off the turbo housing as well. Me and hammers don't mix well.
 
Whilst I was stuck in there I decided to rip out all the bulkhead insulating material as well, I'm not too keen on the position of the turbo so close to the bulkhead and I know how easy that stuff goes up when exposed to high heat. Will pickup some Nimbus Lite shield and bit of heat reflective tape though it's not going to need a lot really.

Tabs:


Heat shield turned up this morning. Fast service from Merlin Motorsport!

Tabs:
Noticed on some of prawns pics a bracket running from the exhaust housing to the back of the block, supporting the turbo weight and taking the strain of the exhaust manifold.

Prawns is a custom jobbie based on the 1.8T K03 bracket but I figured the TFSi must have something similar. Enter 06F 145 536D (TFSi K03 uses version C)



The whole thing comes in two parts according to etka:

[img]http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/07/31/yrybe9er.jpg/img]

I'll be test fitting Saturday, got access to a tfsi setup so can compare easily.

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