As some of you may know I bought an Autech Pulsar back in December 2011
I couldn't keep it because of major rust issues. This being the worst...
So I decided I would try and find a decent shell to swap everything over. Few months later I ended up buying this PH1 Si...
I swapped everything over including the interior loom
However as some may remember it didnt go well as the engine started knocking straight away.
To this day I still don't know what caused it. I lost interest in the project and left it parked up for almost a year. My brothers were planing on putting a standard gti engine in and later turbo it up. They actually bought a gti and a few turbo bits lol.
But a few months ago Stu-E advertised his gti up for sale and I just couldn't resist...
Attempt 2!
This time I decided I would take my time and tidy things up
Slowly put the interior back in
The temporary look...
Its taken AGES to get to this stage but hopefully worth it.
I've had a couple of minor bugs with it. First being the car was not receiving power due to a faulty ignition barrel. Once that was fixed it was then struggling to start, running very rich, engine management light on and idle was at 2k rpm. I think its someone got to do with either the gti maf or the nistune. Ive put my other standard autech ecu in with the autech maf and its now running fine.
The next stage is to put it on the road and see what else needs doing after a good long test drive.
Last stage is the Autech kit, I'm not in a rush to put that on as it needs some repairs.
I'll try update as I go along now but because I struggle for time the updates may take a while lol.
I couldn't keep it because of major rust issues. This being the worst...
So I decided I would try and find a decent shell to swap everything over. Few months later I ended up buying this PH1 Si...
I swapped everything over including the interior loom
However as some may remember it didnt go well as the engine started knocking straight away.
To this day I still don't know what caused it. I lost interest in the project and left it parked up for almost a year. My brothers were planing on putting a standard gti engine in and later turbo it up. They actually bought a gti and a few turbo bits lol.
But a few months ago Stu-E advertised his gti up for sale and I just couldn't resist...
Attempt 2!
This time I decided I would take my time and tidy things up
Slowly put the interior back in
The temporary look...
Its taken AGES to get to this stage but hopefully worth it.
I've had a couple of minor bugs with it. First being the car was not receiving power due to a faulty ignition barrel. Once that was fixed it was then struggling to start, running very rich, engine management light on and idle was at 2k rpm. I think its someone got to do with either the gti maf or the nistune. Ive put my other standard autech ecu in with the autech maf and its now running fine.
The next stage is to put it on the road and see what else needs doing after a good long test drive.
Last stage is the Autech kit, I'm not in a rush to put that on as it needs some repairs.
I'll try update as I go along now but because I struggle for time the updates may take a while lol.
my kind of project. Shall watch with interest.
