and the first thing he has me do on Saturday morning is pads and rotors on somebody's poor beat dd z.
Later on that day I pull the door apart on an even worse example, to replace the broken window with one from one of his parts cars.
Spee and Ashley... A Modern American Gothic 
On Sunday Bob brings us Krispi Creams, Ashley is impressed by his morning wood... 
That's it for pictures from the first weekend. I had a bunch of great pix from my first 2 weekends in NoVA,
but I still haven't been able to recover the ones I lost when my hard drive crashed. Oh well.
Well April 6th rolls around and after work I head down to NoVA again. It's Easter weekend and Bernie is going to visit his parents, but he found a buyer for my motor so we spend Friday night getting it ready to be delivered on Saturday morning. Ashley and I spend the rest of the weekend pulling the AC and the NA power steering hard-lines out of the engine bay, swapping the fuel pump, and cleaning up the the bay and the motor.
The bay looks pretty good for a car with 96,000+ miles on it.
This is before we start cleaning...
Well the following weekend is April 14th, and my dad came in from LA, so I couldn't go down to NoVA.
Bernie, Spee, Ashley and Glenn make good progress on getting the bay ready for the new motor...
The weekend of the 21st was the ECZA Meet, Bernie had a wedding to go to, and my neighbors daughter had her first communion on the 22nd, so no Z work was done that weekend.
On the 27th Kostas met me at my office at about 4, and we hit the road in his Z. He was on pain killers so I drove, but I had a conference call at 6:30, so we pulled into a rest area so I could start my call, and he could get some refreshments.
Sunset on the road in MD
And here's what it's all about, a couple of little spinny thingies...
Here they are bolted up to the motor
Note Bernie's sexy custom bent turbo cooling hard-lines.
On Saturday 4/28 Ashley, Bernie, Kostas, and I, drop the motor into place, while Rusty (the VW driver) takes pictures...
With the Z motor in place, I show Rusty, the Clown Photographer, how to change the brake pads on his R(32)abbit
Kostas makes sure that the Motor Mounts are good and tight
Spee showed up late Saturday afternoon, and as punishment, Bernie banished him to the under side of the car.
Bernie smiles as he sits comfortably atop the motor fondling fuel lines while Spee squirms around under the car
Kostas and I install my pimp custom fascia
It's about noon on Sunday April 29th, and Boys & Girls it looks like we have us a 2+2 TT :D
Bernie adds what he said was "...all we really needed to do from the begining"
As I drop the hood
The crowd waits anxiously
We push the car out )~; and I add about 7 qts of ATF in the drive way
I take Bernie for a ride around the block to make sure everything is as it should be.
But after our return we hear a hissing noise in the engine bay...
This is a bit perplexing as there are next to no vacuum lines left on this motor.
We bring the car back into the garage and pull the plenum to discover this...
Some poor finishing work on the lower plenum left sharp burrs that caused 3 of the fuel rail insulators
to disintegrate when they were put under pressure after the fuel rail was tightened down.
A few hours later, it's about 8 and the motor is back together and purring like a kitten.
Bernie crosses my TT Swap off on his white board.
And a tired but gratified crew says fair well...
BIG Thanks to all who helped make it happen!
 
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So I arrive at Bernie's place Friday 3/30/07... - 
