Mid summer update

 Just an update;

The bug is running OK, I swapped out the distributor with a Vanagon 1.9L digifant dizzy.  It has the hall effect sender and I married it up with one of the TCIs I have in the mk1 parts hoard and made a new harness from a spare one I had that was a bit singed.

It solved the flat spot around 2000 rpm so I can say that's solved.  I have also shortened the fuel pump rod to lower the fuel pressure to under 5 psi but it still floods on hot start.  Have to look into that one.  But there's a knock happening at cold start up that has me worried.  When I pulled the barrels off the engine when I got the car, the #2 rod was sticking on the crank, so I swapped the rod knowing that it might be a short run on this engine.  Might be a starved journal, who knows.  It seems ok, and the noise goes away when the oil pressure comes up so hopefully we can get to the fall and pull the motor to investigate.  This car is turning out to be a PITA.

Tunes are installed,   I had purchased a used Sony DSX digital media deck with a Ipod tray which I really wanted to use but the physical deck was too deep into the dash to work.  I sold it off and picked up a smaller Sony DSX A415BT which is only 4" deep and fit OK.  The dash is pretty hacked up from many 2 post decks with their forgiving dash covers to hide it.  I had a pair of Nakamichi 6" rounds that were in the garage for a while, so I installed them in the rear package tray.  It would be nice to add some speakers up front, but for now its OK.  Its kinda weird to have MP3s playing off a thumbdrive in a 50 year old car!

On the GLI front, I grabbed some more AN6 braided hose and a 14mm banjo fitting for the CIS filter.  There must be higher and lower quality braided hose because I don't recall the fraying problem I'm encountering this time around.  I made up a bunch of hoses for the Cabby and it worked awesome.  This time around each cut made with the cutoff wheel did nothing to curb the fraying.  Frustrating!  So I took some krazy glue and glued around an 1" of the braids where the cut was and taped it.  It finally worked, it frayed a bit but not enough that I couldn't coax the frays into the fitting with an awl.  

Whew...fuel hoses done!  I really like the AN hose, it makes the engine compartment pop!  Just have a bit of hardline to add to the accumulator and we can put in some juice and start this thing!  Hopefully this is the catalyst to move the GLI to mechanical completion!