Rolled over to jason's today to blow off some steam after a crap day on saturday. I'll make this post short as dinner is cooking and I am beat to shit and don't feel like narrating for an hour ;)

[edit] added the obligatory narration this morning[/edit]

After painting the bay and cleaning everything up, I noticed that the wiring harness now stuck out like a sore thumb so I decided to rip it all off and redo it so it looked a tad cleaner (until the next rainstorm I suppose). Upon inspection, most of the loom was falling off anyways so removing it all was a breeze. I picked up some friction tape at Depot which was a 95% match of the factory tape so that was a plus.



Then I made a little nest with the old wrap...




Then I wrapped the downpipe with some heat wrap. Ok, I admit this is mostly for show and being that there will be no turbo this year (thanks for the callback Kinetic *rollseyes*) no one will be looking behind the block but whatevs, maybe it will bring down the engine's ambient temp by a few degrees. Plus, I've always liked the look of wrapped headers so =p to wrap haters out there.


Jason went through 10 cans of brake cleaner cleaning the tranny.






Painted some mounts


Then this piece of shit came over... Nothin better than having a PVW writer's ride stop by... HAAWWT.






Those bolsters are nicer than my MK4's!


Replaced the rear main and checked out the acceptable chain rails while we were in there.




Jason found the specific torque amounts from the bentley and got everything tightened up, bolted up the starter and tranny and then out of nowhere he remembered that he didn't torque the 1/4 turn on all the bolts so he started from scratch and redid everything just so it was right. *swoons*


So long empty bay...


Daddy's home


Strike that pose baby


So fooking hawt. Black and green like peas and carrots =)

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