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Originally posted by SaberKhan
So about two months ago I picked up a 5-speed 93' TSI awd for $1500 bucks from a local mechanic shop. The owners son was selling it for his ex wife. It ran like complete shit and made zero power when I test drove it, and the paint was gone to hell on the driver door. Other than that, the car is pretty clean inside and out. I learned that he'd swapped in a JDM 6 bolt he got from an engine depot in Houston, a newer tranny two years ago, a NEW oem t-case, driveshaft, radiator, clutch, struts, etc etc. He also mentioned the donor engine had an automatic, and it dawned on me he also installed the auto injectors. Gotcha bitch! Gave him 1500 cash, swapped in a set of stock 450's I had lying around and voila, she ran perfect. The car was completely stock when I got it and never been molested. I immediately replaced the timing/bs belts, water pump, and all pulleys and the tensioner, all fluids and performed a compression check. 150 across the board. I was good to go! I never had a bone stock car to start from scratch with but I wanted to see what I could do on an ultra cheap budget with simple bolt ons. Of course I did the free mods and got rid of the majority of the unnecessary crap under the hood. After hooking up my logger and installing a boost gauge I noticed I wasnt getting full boost till almost 4500rpm! After looking at the cracked to shit manifold and 02 housing it was obvious. Upon removal I discovered the tubine housing to be in the same condition. Luckily I had a spare housing lying around, so I ported the inlet and some of the WG hole. I went uber cheap and ordered an Ebay tubular manifold, 2.5" tubular o2 housing, and a 3" downpipe all for less than $200. I had a Walboro 255 laying around as well, so I rewired and installed it along with a boost controller I made. Removed the aircan and dropped in a K&N and drove the car 15 miles to a close by town with straight downpipe to a muffler shop and had a buddy fab up a 3" dp-back exhaust with a Magnaflow muffler for $200. I have to say the Ebay exhaust parts fit flawlessly and look great as well, and after over 3k miles of good hard driving are performing flawlessly. As for the results... I made 5 passes the night I went to the track before the clutch almost completely gave out. With the boost set at 15 psi and the clutch slipping its ass off I ran 13.43 @ 102.2mph with a shitty 1.98 60ft. Yay! All considering and with a total investment of around 2k I was pretty happy. With a fresh clutch, a new upper IC pipe and 16-17 psi she will see 12's!....and then I swear I wont mod her more emoji

No, really I wont. Maybe....