Track

Small amount of work this weekend. I was planning to take out the roll bar and removed my seatbelts, but I decided that was too much work for 3 lbs of weight. I post-poned this until another time. I plan to do it as my driver side seat belt clinks around very annoyingly.

On a different note, I made a block off plate for the radio and mounted my window switch and wideband gauge in it. Put a good ol' MFz sticker on there and changed out the one in my window (don't have a picture of that one).

curly

I zip tied mine to the bottom of the roll bar for this very reason.

Track

Working on an oil cooler setup. I will be using a Mocal sandwich plate, and using an inline NPT fitting for temperature. post more info tomorrow.

Dntlift

I like your window switch solution! I kinda lol'd when I saw it. how well does it work there?

Track

worked fine so far, the coroplast is actually pretty stiff and the surround took out any play in it. I guess we will see how it holds up to repeated use, but I suspect I won't have power windows for much past February.

I have been lazy about the tow vehicle thing while I take care of higher priority financials.

flying_solo

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I cheated on the tow vehicle this year. I traded in the wife's car for an SUV for towing er uh, hauling baby crap. She figured me out when I commented on why it must be a Touareg with Air Suspension, because of it's 7700 lb/towing.

Now, I just need a trailer. I think for this season, I'll just uhual it. But, before I can actually borrow her truck, I got to get her to drive my car again. It's a manual and after she learned, she had a bit of a panic moment picking me up at the airport and stopped driving it.

Track

Ok, So Oil cooler:

Mocal Sandwich
Mocal BSP to -8
-8 male to-8 female with 1/8 NPT port
2x 90* -8 Swivel
2x Straight -8
10' -8 SS Jegs hose
Setrab 13 row
22mmx1.5 to -8 (goes on the oil cooler)

Total comes out to about $360 with shipping. More expensive than the FM kit, but I blame the mocal plate which is $100, when you could easily get an equivalent cheaper. For simplicity's sake, I am probably just going to buy the FM kit and get the 1/8 NPT port adapter and call it a day. Unless I can find some sort of thermostat for the oil which would allow me to use a different sandwhich plate.

Anyways, Small updates coming up soon (2 weeks):

-Bought a set of used 99 injectors to get cleaned. Last idea I have for weird idle and semi-random leaning out.
-Buying 01+ headlight connectors to finish up the front bumper conversion.
-Will start on the undertray/radiator re-ducting as soon as I finish the bumper conversion.

curly

What are you paying for the oil cooler? The link doesn't work.
http://www.racerpartswholesale.com/c...ol_Oil_Coolers

Track

well the setrab 13 row is pretty expensive. Looking at the dimensions, its bigger than the 24 row tru-cool, so I am assuming its probably all you would need.

Anyways, price from ANplumbing is $134 including the 22mm to -8 connector.

I am considering going with a cheaper cooler, I just haven't finished reading about them yet.

What cooler did you go with Josh? Also, any suggestions on 1/8 NPT temp sensor and gauge?

curly

The 24 tru-cool I believe. I know that's the brand, not sure if that's the right size.

Not sure about the 1/8" NPT port. I salvaged my sandwich plate from an ebay oil cooler kit and it came with two ports.