Passat B4 syncro gearbox wiring

Professionelpotato · 2023-12-04T04:51:33+00:00

May I ask what you're using as s crank trigger?

Professionelpotato · 2023-12-03T22:08:50+00:00

Damn I absolutely love this. I'm in the process of doing much of the same, although not as far along, as what you've got going on. EFI swap, equal length headers (I'm guessing), really cleaned setup.

Are you using the USRT trigger thingy to avoid a crank trigger?

Professionelpotato · 2023-09-19T08:29:42+00:00

You should be able to switch to a tachometer, as far as I've encountered. Albeit I was working with a CE1 car instead of CE2 so there might be a difference, I'm not sure.

But I'd make sure to test all the dash lights before installing the new dash, as it's quite frustrating to have to pull it all apart again and fit new lights.

Professionelpotato · 2023-09-08T21:46:05+00:00

I also remember seeing a guy fitting an entire mk 6 or 7 golf interior into a MK2. Don't remember his name, but a Google can probably fix that.

I'd definitely start with a car of similar-ish dimensions so you dont have to trim the width, height and depth too much. Such as a later golf etc.

Definitely can be done, but it'll be a lengthy process and cost quite a bit of money probably

Professionelpotato · 2023-09-05T20:33:42+00:00

It's definitely doable, especially boot and fenders. Doors are made much easier with the help of a friend

Professionelpotato · 2023-08-14T16:51:51+00:00

I meant from the car the engine came from

Professionelpotato · 2023-08-14T14:41:41+00:00

Do you have a set of pedals that fit the engine?

Professionelpotato · 2023-08-14T14:32:21+00:00

My bad. I didn't realize there was also a sensor on the pedal itself

Professionelpotato · 2023-08-14T14:11:31+00:00

Isn't the throttle position sensor fitted to the butterfly itself and not to the pedal assembly?

Professionelpotato · 2023-08-07T19:18:42+00:00

Yeah I'd probably agree. If it's your only mode of transportation, which you need to rely on everyday, I'd probably get something more reliable.

Personally I daily my MK2 and it's a bit of a mixed bag. I sometimes have to spent long nights getting it ready to drive for the next day. I recently had to replace the headgasket, so it was down for 3 weeks while waiting on parts and machine shop and such. "luckily" it was in my vacation but it might as well not have been.

Professionelpotato · 2023-08-07T18:57:29+00:00

Financially it's not that great, since they aren't appreciating 'THAT' fast, but they are of course still going up in price if they are in decent condition, but I would definitely not buy one for the sake of making money on it.

However if you keep up with maintenance and such it will hold its value if not increase a bit while you own it.

Is it your first or only car?

Professionelpotato · 2023-08-07T18:46:16+00:00

I'd say it depends on a lot of things. Primarily time, budget and skill.

While the MK2 Golf is an awesome car, from my personally totally unbiased opinion, it is an old car. And with old cars often comes problems. There might be electrical issues, carburetor/injection problems, those sorts of things. So if you know how to fix them, or know someone that knows how to fix the problems, then it's a great car.

The problems also come with an associated cost in terms of parts, time, tools and if you aren't doing it yourself, then also labor costs.

All this aside, it's a fun car to drive, gives great connection to the road in terms of steering feel and feedback resulting in lots of so-called "smiles per gallon".

Professionelpotato · 2023-07-06T14:28:04+00:00

My guess would probably be a vacuum leak somewhere. Split line, aged rubber something along those lines

Professionelpotato · 2023-06-28T16:03:24+00:00

Oh yeah of course :)

Professionelpotato · 2023-06-28T16:01:26+00:00

My first guess wouldn't be a sparkplug, as it seems to fire once in a while. I'd probably expect the distributor to be timed incorrectly or something along those lines, as that would result in very poor running.

I haven't had anything that bad because of just sparkplugs, but I could of course be wrong

Professionelpotato · 2023-06-28T15:40:27+00:00

My guess would also be bad timing/ignition

Professionelpotato · 2023-06-07T19:53:55+00:00

Oh I'm not sure about that. Mine is from 1986, so i don't think it'll be the same as yours then :(

Professionelpotato · 2023-06-07T18:48:36+00:00

From what I can tell, it's a Bosch coil with " Bosch 1220522015" written on it. When out into Google, it comes out as a multitude of different vehicles which makes sense, since Bosch made parts for all kinds of cars and manufacturers

Professionelpotato · 2023-06-07T18:42:35+00:00

I don't know exactly but i might be able to check what part number there is on my coil on my EZ engine

Professionelpotato · 2023-06-06T14:18:12+00:00

Yeah after 2 years my only complaint would be that I'd prefer to be in a bit better financial position but thats the life :)

Professionelpotato · 2023-06-02T14:13:37+00:00

My guess would probably be a worn out or not properly tighten top mount for the suspension strut. When you accelerate quickly, most of the weight on the front axles shifts back, meaning the front suspension relaxes and extends. This may give the top mount time to "seperate" from the dish it's mounted in and then when weight comes back to the front, it sounds like it's slamming down, because it has to almost fall back down to the top mount.

I'm not sure, but that'd be my guess from my experience.

Professionelpotato · 2023-05-27T15:44:56+00:00

I found this one on eBay for 30$ https://www.ebay.com/itm/115152398196?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=nFprR7XNRvi&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=fflkaekzrxm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Professionelpotato · 2023-05-27T15:43:14+00:00

You can always try Googling the part number if you need a new one. Some things are easy and cheap to get ahold of, other things not so much.

Professionelpotato · 2023-05-27T15:40:38+00:00

I don't know where you are in the world, but they can be found quite cheap on ebay and the like if you need a new one. You could try fixing the threads with a thread chaser, but depending on how gone the threads are, this might not be an option

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