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- Silver 82 Caddy GX with optional sliding rear window & stock rear bumper |
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- A-pillar fairings, A1 GTI front fender flares, A1 Jetta rear flares |
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- A1 Jetta Carat side view mirrors, rain groove covers, & door edge (window frame area) covers |
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- 84 GTI front grill, bumper (with push blocks removed), and air dam with black, flexible 3 air dam from an 86 Pontiac Grand Am mounted on the bottom |
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- Front and rear fenders clearanced under flares for tire fitment |
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Interior
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- Original blue carpet, |
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- 84 Audi 4000S Coupe seats lowered 2? and widened to fit VW tracks |
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- A1 Jetta Carat black faux leather door panels with map pockets, black seat belts, and black/white sun visors |
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- 84 GTI dash, painted black, A1? Jetta center console with gauge bezel & cubbyhole, 1990? (one electrical plug) A2 gauge cluster with custom white face gauges (150mph & 9,000 rpm tach), with green light filter removed |
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- Matching VDO Pilot white face gauges (volts, oil pressure, oil temp, exhaust temp (unmounted)) and matching AutoMeter Phantom A/F ratio gauge, mounted in center console |
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- A2 GTI steering wheel with hand stitched leather cover |
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- Steering wheel lowered 2? with spacers at mount under gauge cluster |
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- Kenwood KRC 507-S head unit/tape deck to Cambridge Soundworks Soundworks powered 5 subwoofer/satellite system with satellites mounted under dash in stock speaker location (with side vent tubes removed) and subwoofer behind drivers seat, Radio Shack 20 amp power line noise filter |
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- Shifter bent 30 degrees to drivers side with early 80s Mazda RX7 shift knob |
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- Drilled aluminum pedal covers |
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- Funsport sunroof model 1934 w/17 1/8 x 31 ½ performance glass |
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Suspension
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- 15 x 7 Borbet Type S wheels with 215/50/15 Dunlop SP 8000 radials |
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- '84 GTI steering rack, struts, & brakes with A2 Jetta? vented front rotors, drilled rotors w/ EBC green pads, drums & calipers painted red |
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- Original rear shocks with middle leaf spring removed, small leaf on top of main leaf, two sets of helper leafs added (front & rear on each side) mounted with 6 mm spacers at u-bolt clamp, Ύ Pep Boys (Addco?) Sway bar (distance from center of wheel to bottom edge of wheel arch is 12 Ύ) |
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- Tokiko Alumina adjustable strut inserts (set to number 2) with Suspension Spring Specialists coilover kits using 8 375 lb. springs |
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- Front suspension is lowered 2.5 with no loss of travel and corrected lower control arm and tie rod geometry with the following changes: - Strut housings have been modified to bolt to the steering knuckle Ύ higher. Struts pass through strut towers to strut bearings on 1-1/2 spacers on top of strut towers and use newer, progressive bump stops. - Front hubs mount on fabricated 1.5? balljoint extenders. - Tie rod ends bolt to machined steering knuckles from the bottom up, through fabricated tapered sleeves. |
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- Autotech 23mm hollow sway bar with u-bolts over end clamps (distance from center of wheel to bottom edge of wheel arch is 12 Ύ) |
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- A1 Scirocco K bar lower front stress bar, Autotech aluminum upper front stress bar |
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- 84 GTI steering rack |
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- 15 gallon Summit Racing polyethylene fuel cell with foam, VDO sender, and fabricated fill plate and mounting frame. Sideways mounted fuel cell replaces longitudinal stock tank and mounts 2 in front of rear axle for better weight distribution. |
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- Optima Red Top battery relocated to the spare wheel |
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- 2460 lb. wet weight with 59% (1460 lb.) front and 41% (1000 lb.) rear weight bias |
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Drivetrain
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- All metal shift kit with weighted bar to A1 4k close ratio 5 speed transmission |
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- 84 GTI motor (a/c), with ported & polished head (milled .025 for approx. 10:1 compression), match ported to larger & longer ported A2 manifold, Autotech (HOR Technologies) 286 sport cam with Autotech adjustable cam gear (set to 0), and racing valve springs (8,000 rpm redline) |
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- Flywheel lightened from 12 lb. to 7.5 lb. with stock disk & 16v pressure plate |
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- All fuel injection equipment moved over to passenger side with complete 87 Jetta GLI 16v injection & knock sensor ignition systems, bottom cut out of airbox with fabricated cold air intake & K&N panel filter |
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- Rapid Parts Blue Igniter ignition wires with stock ignition system (set to 12 degrees advance) |
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- Brospeed (Bosal) 4-2-1 ceramic coated headers, Autotech high flow cat, custom 2 Ό mandrel bent exhaust & 2 1/2 single chamber Flowmaster muffler exits at 45 degree angle, just in front of drivers side rear wheel |
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- Heated OX sensor (Bosch part #13913, actually a Ford Taurus application) with an AutoMeter air/fuel ratio gauge. Idle mixture set with computer disconnected and light bouncing between last yellow and first green lights. |
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- A2 (AC) radiator & 2 speed fan mounted all the way to drivers side, 176 degree low temp thermostat and 185/199 degree low temp fan switch, Prestone Lowtox propylene glycol coolant |
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- Fabricated full throttle a/c lockout switch |
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- A1 diesel noise insulator pad mounted on the underside of the hood |
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- Napa #8450 top radiator hose & #8325 bottom hose |
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- Late 80s Cabriolet A/C compressor, rotated 90 degrees for better clearance between high pressure pipe & A2 radiator |
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Future
Upgrades
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- Dexdamp sound deadening |
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- Corrado disc brakes, drilled rotors, EBC green pads, stainless lines |
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- ABA block w/12:1 compression ratio, Evans Engineering coolant |
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-1.8t electric water pump w/fabricated water pump I/O plate (use Carquest belt XL 9365) |
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- 89 RX7 oil cooler mounted behind hole cut in front air dam with Teflon/braided stainless lines |
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- Fabricated surge tank for fuel cell |
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- Bilstein rear shocks |
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- Nitrous Oxide |
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- Custom ratio rebuilt transmission |
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- 6 speed w/ paddle shifters! |
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- Quaiffe differential? |