Nialls supercharged GTi6 - project tidy up

[Niall]

Cheers guys. Im getting nervous now about the first start and how the guys are going to tear it to pieces when its mapped!

Anyway, todays progress. Up bright and early to get some parts from Pug then back home, bacon, egg and sausage sarnies and a good cup of tea then onto the car!
First job was to get the new engine out front so i could drop it on the floor, get the crank oil seal in, flywheel on, clutch on then....snap. One of the bolts sheared off with no force at all. Thankfully it wasn't tight so managed to drive it out the back of the flywheel with a drill and get the flywheel back on again. Box on, few other gubbins on and here we are.

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After a cup of tea, we decided we better do some work and lift it in...

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And after that, it was a case of connecting everything up again which went surprisingly well. I started getting the loom all hooked up but still have a few plugs to wire up so will do that tomorrow and then its a case of working out where everything will go.
Grant also kindly made a take off plate for the charger but this wasn't going to work so we had to change that a bit which worked out ok because there was more room in the bay than i thought in front of the charger pulley.

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And thats where it stands now. Only issue i can see is the charger sits at more of an angle than i thought it would meaning the air filter pipe is going to be bloody close to the radiator and bonnet which is something i need to sort out tomorrow. Or i could just do a Poodle and slam the bonnet on this

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So overall, a good day and again, a massive thanks to Gunt for helping. With any luck tomorrow, i will have a first start video