| One of my references for this whole thing has been the conversion video from MWS. In his video he starts the car up before hooking up the radiator. So I'm thinking, hey cool idea. I can make sure it works before putting it all the way together. So my very first start up didn't have the radiator in. My car started, but was running really, really rough. In fact it's video taped, because one of my friends didn't think I could actually do this project. In fact he still hasn't ridden in it. LOL Anyway. The timing was WAY off and the idle was really high, plus hunting. So for the next week I was searching for vacuum leaks (witch I plugged) and fixed the hunting, I had the throttle cable to tight which was causing the high idle. But I couldn't ever get the timing to 15 degrees. Even flipping the light pick-up over on the ptu wire didnt' help, it actually made it worse. My timing was like 55 degrees BTDC, if the gauge went that far. I couldn't fix it, so I just kept going and put the radiator in and filled it and was getting ready to take it to a shop, but then magically the timing came into line. I guess all it needed was coolant??? When I was running it without coolant, I would only allow it to run for less than a couple of minutes. Then once the coolant was in, even thought the car wasn't 100% warmed up, the timing was still behaving. Now my only problem is a very loud fuel pump. After I dropped the new tt motor in I first started it with the OEM NA fuel pump, but then that starte making a loud whining sound. I had a new OEM TT one on hand that I promptly swapped out, but the noise continues. The car runs fine except for the noise. I haven't boosted it past the waste gate default (about ~7psi) The longest drive will be tomorrow on the way to a shop to have it dialed in on the dyno and the fuel pump looked at. I've driven a couple TT's so I know how much fun it's going to be once it's broken in. But so far it's great! I honestly can't tell the difference in the NA vs TT rear ends though.
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