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Finally putting gearbox back together, few holes drilled to case and some small work with angle grinder. Cleaned and installed 4th gear support. Also added sealant to case strengthen kit bolts. Case back and shifter tower installed, and found all 6 gears and reverse. Seems that managed to...

Thanks, I like to try on do different things and learn on the way and as an engineer I can not pass opportunity like this even there obviously has some risks also. Appreciate your feedback :) and yes that bus didn't even arrive

Decided to try something different and maybe crazy, but I blame my mate for that. Liquid nitrogen bath for 20 hours to make parts go sub -190°C Video And after 20hours in the bath If you wonder why just check YouTube for cryogenic treatment.

I need, I want, must have...

Today was busy day, or at least I managed to do something. Frist I changed front seat of company car, previous owner had Recaro ErgoMed installed and now car is going to go to change so I made deal with boss that if I change it I can keep the seat. Win-Win situation. After that I decided to go...

Had hour and half extra time after work and before going to range so decided to crack open the magicbox Something missing from here And the devil himself... Gearbox seems otherwise good so have to find out new shift fork or upgraded steel ones.. also started to think should buy 4th gear...

Next lets try to get Smurf back on the road, and maybe, just maybe something extra spices. Need to reserve time to prep 306Gti6 also for the summers track days.

How to spend quality time on weekend Was quite tricky and time consuming do it alone but transmission off. Next step is to take it apart and find is box repairable. And suprise surprise shifter fork part between gears...

New year and trying to get Leon back to road next summer. Gearbox decided that we are not moving. Most likely shift fork. And subframe off, quite tricky to do alone. Now when I have room I will also do some modifications to downpipe.

Baffled sump is on my list, but I think goes too expensive to buy it outside of EU

I really like that body kit, this is such inspiriting project!

Thank you and yes situation with work benches can escalate quickly. After making lot of noise with die grinder adapter is ported. Also had to weld those original holes with pockets and sand flange to level. Of course i forget to take pics of welds but there was nothing to see, so difficult to...

Slow progress, too much work load and too little free time at the moment. Welding practice for 3.5" tight aluminium bends Changes of plans with throttlebody mounting, building new adapter and adding short bend between adapters. it increase a little volume of plenum which might be good thing...

It's not Wiggings, just basic "v-band" style aluminium hose clamp, works nicely for that. I have also same style but with quick connection and flexiple connection in boost pipe right after turbo.. Well I know that it's way too big for my setup, I would rather have 70 or ideally 75mm one but...

Some upgrades to test with Then need to try can I manage welding quick connector to bigger throttle body Not the best welds and was quite difficult one for me. next step is to make some changes to boost pipes and FMIC brackets. And have to admit throttle body looks quite overkill...

Have been time and motivation issues lately so Leon has been sitting in garage. Now I decided to buy some motivation hopefully :) Mystery Box arrived Unboxing toys out for a while Lifting motivation?

Non Leon related update. Garage starts to be quite full, I picked up my new summer toy aka. bike. F900R '22 And of course I had to order few bits and pieces. Crash pads, seat cover, axle protectors, mask and wheel stickers. Mine and Hers, can't wait our summer vacation trip to Norway...

New throttle body arrived, need to build some kind spacer between manifold and throttle body. I have to say that that is way overkill, but lets see what happens.

Had again free evening, decided to modify original coolant line which was hangin under intake manifold. I had from my brother some aeroplane grade stainless/titanium how knows what hyrdaulic piping which was quite perfect size for that. After some bending it was quite close what i wanted...

Some slow progress, new handbrake cables and modified center console to fit with new short shifter. Also decided to do some modifications to boost pipes and add better BOV, old forge bypass is working as BOV at the moment. I haven't weld anything with TIG for long time and i could tell it...