I am finally back from my long exodus! Just a quick update on my life since the last post. I basically struggled through the last couple weeks of the semester, bummed around for a little bit and fixed up my car then moved up here to detroit where i'm working for a plastics mold making company. So me and my friend CJ down in terre haute decided to undergo the task of changing the timing chains on my car. Call it a mistake on my part or whatever but it certainly turned out to be a HUGE fiasco. I have a ton of pics and stuff from when we did the timing chains and after that. So we'll spread this out over a couple of days or so. At the same time, im going to see if i can change the layout of this blog to be a little more to my liking. Forgive me if it goes wonky for a couple days or so.

This is where all the 'magic' happens. pretty cramp space to work in but it was alright. My roomate lionel decided to follow me to see what we were going to do and it was a good thing too cos he was alot of help. The car on the left is CJ's old car. Its originally from Germany that he shipped back to the US. For all those that don't know, all newer VWs are made in Mexico now...so def a differnt quality as opposed to german made. His car was initally a 2.0 liter which he bored out to a 2.1 and put a beast of a turbo on it. Recently he was going to make it a VR6 with an engine swap but he has since decided that he was tired of the car. And is going to move on to bigger and better things


On the left of this pic is my left driver side wheel...and to the right are the wheels CJ was planning to put on his white jetta. He has since put them on his other car which is supposed to be his wife's car but he dries it most of the time now. Its a 95 GTI as well but its black in colour. Anyway, you couldnt really compare it in the picture but the size of my tires are 205/40/17. Quick tutorial, 205 represents the width of the tread, or the wheel base measure in mm, i.e the part of the wheel that is in contact with the ground. 40 is a little fuzzy to me but my understanding is its aspect ratio which is the percentage of tread width that equals the sidewall height. In csimpler terms, if you look at the wheel from the front, its how thick the tire is from the wheel itself represented as a percentage of the wheel base. 17 is the rim/wheel diameter. As it is, my tires are cutting it close to scraping the inner walls of my car. CJ's wheels are 235/30/16 or something to that effect. that is a HUGE difference from mine and when you install them, they stick out and give the car a nice fatty widebody look. However, in order for the tires not to constantly rub against the inner wheel well, spacers have to be installed on the spindle to so called push the wheel outwards. Only thing is that now its rubbing the outside fender but that is still tolerable. One of the things you could do to overcome that is to 'roll' or 'pull' the fenders. A special tool is used to stretch the fenders outwards to make space for the wheels. anyway, the main point i was trying to get to is that that set of 4 wheels and tires costs more than my car in its entirety. They are worth close to $5k! Bloody expensive i tell you.

Here's a pretty shot of my baby, i just wished i closed the hood properly before i took the pictures. I think I'm going to try my luck and send this into eurotuner....cross my fingers and hope they like it as much as i do!

This is CJ's 95 GTI, Schnell means faster in german for those who were wondering. He has one of those eurolips that i have yet to put on the car. Just looks so sexy i say. He did a jetta front end swap which means that he switched out the headlights and the hood. His car is slammed to the ground with his coilovers. Just look at how much the back wheel is tucking into the wheel well! Those wheels are Audi TT polished wheels and he's already sold them off for close to 700.. by the way this car is fast as hell, it has a vortech v1 supercharger in it and it can absolutely throw you back in your seat. One thing i din like was the fact that he had a TON of scratches on the body...but recently he sent his car in for detailing and it looks good as new now. It really was a night and day difference. OK so more to come in the next couple days. Will be showing pics of the engine and all that good stuff. peace out!

¶ 12:40 AM

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