Ricky - thanks bud
Paradox - thanks, the TTE turnaround is around a month for me but Simon from TTE is buying up lots of K04's to convert to TTE420 and have them on the shelf, they've also moved premises since i sent them my turbo so made it longer than normal
VW OEM+ Parts - thanks bud, will have to start getting involved again soon
Mike - thanks bud
Shoduchi - yea has been busy couple of weeks, thanks for the comment
ephemeros - crazy or stupid i'm undecided
Jack - you know me bud, always doing stupid things there's propbably a good reason more people don't do it haha
bignod - thanks bud, i am really looking forward to some traction
Nath - thanks for kind words bud, it's all good fun right
percy - glad you enjoy bud
as far as the conversion goes it's done, i'm just waiting for feltham propshaft services to pull their finger out and do my propshaft, after giving it to them a week before i wanted it and explaining i had to have it by early last week they hadn't even started doing it by friday so looks like it's going to be a week late at least - thanks guys
luckily i managed to borrow a prop off @moores_motors so i could build my exhaust / downpipe around it so that didn't hold me up further. i also ran into the problem of rear subframe bolts, touran ones were waay to short, s3 ones were 15mm too short after a day spent calling bolt suppliers i started to worry - so took it to facebook and luckily my buddy moose managed to find the perfect solution - M12 X 1.5 X 145mm rear subrame bolts off of 2009 audi a7 quattro, so rang vw who got them in via TPS same day :
as far as the build goes i did underestimate how hard the rear end was going to be to fit up - i can confirm NO the rear floor is not the same as golf / leon / a3 etc - similar yes but not the same and far more work involved to get subframe mounted
also the fuel tank gave issues, the touran is longer in that portion of the body so all new mounts had to be made up to mount the tank and a new cross member installed .
on top of that the propshaft mounts i bought needed a lot of modifications/ fabrication, it was decided to extend the shorter part of the prop as the propshaft company was worried that extending the long part would make it too long and would give the 'skipping rope' effect
i set out to have it back on the road by today (1 week) i've missed that target due to the propshaft not being done but it's all ready to bolt up and hope it's all wired correctly and have no issues when it's 1 piece again
