The car is an 81 VW Scirocco I got when I was 15 (7 or 8 years ago) and I've been slowly fixing it up ever since. Almost everything is new on it (except the paint) and I race it at the Battle of the Imports, San Diego street races, autocross, basically anywhere where they'll let me.

I saved up 񘓤 bucks last year and bought the turbo system in April, and just got the last parts of it a few weeks ago.
The kit was absolute SHIT. here are a few of the things I had to do:

I had to cut and reweld the downpipe to make it fit
Weld on a flange for the wastegate
Weld up a wastegate downpipe (without a tubing bender...)
make a copper manifold->turbo gasket
and a LOT of little things.

anyways, I'm happy it's done, running 5psi non-intercooled, and it's FUCKING QUICK. I love driving it, it will throw you back in your seat in 1st and 2nd gear. probably 160 or so horsepower now. The car came with 74. It weighs 2100 lbs.

Here are some old pics:

Oh yeah, i ripped off Whiskeys "from:" tag. Sorry, but Whiskey is my new God.

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Originally posted by aventari:

I had to cut and reweld the downpipe to make it fit
Weld on a flange for the wastegate
Weld up a wastegate downpipe (without a tubing bender...)
make a copper manifold->turbo gasket
and a LOT of little things.

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So they gave you a turbo, a wastegate, a blue left sock, 1/2 of a marble, and a jar of slug juice? Did you beat them about the head with an iron pipe? Did that kit happen to be under a big blue light in a large discout store?

edit:For me to spell on!
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AHHHH cobras ahhh ahhhh ahh cooooobraaaass cooobraass ahh -homer

This message has been edited by L33T_h4x0r_d00d on November 24, 2001 at 10:12 PM

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All that I know there was no God for me
Force that shatters all, absence of mortality

which is why i race random people at intersections... with my mom's station wagon. yeah, i know it sounds lame, but this Tarus gets going pretty quickly. usually, i let the other person floor it and haul ass ahead of me, but once in awhile ill burn a little rubber.

heh heh heh

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Originally posted by Rhydant:
i hate people that race cars. i have no fucking idea why they call it a 'sport'.

which is why i race random people at intersections... with my mom's station wagon. yeah, i know it sounds lame, but this Tarus gets going pretty quickly. usually, i let the other person floor it and haul ass ahead of me, but once in awhile ill burn a little rubber.

heh heh heh

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Ahahahahaha...station wagon...ahahaha.

ahem...I hate auto racing too, but not necessarily the people who do it. I used to race ppl off the line w/my truck. It's a '93 Ranger Splash, 4.0 V6. Pretty damn quick. I can take just about anything off the line (Mustang, Camaro, TA). Of course, anything much past "the line" and I'm toast, but hey, by then I back off and am like "it's cool." Heh, damn sports car "compensators." Heh.

edit: WOOHOO 300!

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When everything is examined for what it really is, the only thing that I can truly claim as my own is the mistakes that I have made.

This message has been edited by Beldurin on November 25, 2001 at 11:02 AM

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Originally posted by Nikita:
*whistles Junkyard Wars theme*

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Sweet Jeebus! Did you catch the Thanksgiving marathon? I thought I was going to have to clean forigen liquids off my TV when I found out it was going to be on all day

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Originally posted by miNus:
Pretty ghett0 ride ya got there aventari

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Man, you cant joan on the scirocco. It may not be the prettiest car out there but if it werent for the fact that they were banned from rally cross they'd probably still make them.

What engine do you have? Static compression ratio? I wanna see a dyno run man.

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AHHHH cobras ahhh ahhhh ahh cooooobraaaass cooobraass ahh -homer