11/1/2020 update. I scrubbed through this thread and tried to find the pics that went missing when I stopped paying for the server. I got 90% of it and added some stuff. Summer 2020 was exciting.
Test drive to see if it will pull (YES IT WILL!!)
550 mile round trip to get the next project. 1996 TDI swapped 59k miles. Thing was fooked up by the "builder" (Nice Cars Co. in Bellingham got $20k to "build this car in 2014 for the guy I bought it from!!!). Me and a friend went down to get this. Ran 60-70mph with AC blowing the whole way back.
ABA 96 dragged home from 150 miles away. Needed interior and exterior parts for projects and I only gave $300 for this thing. It even runs! 140k on ABA swap if you want it!
On 10/12/2020 the center shaft ate another bearing. Looks like I didn't weld the yoke on square so I went and grabbed another Audi TT shaft and sliced the yoke end off. This time the yokes are OEM welds and I joined them at the shaft. This was very difficult to do and I haven't had time to install it but rolling it on the table it looks like I got it pretty good. If this iteration doesn't work I have a Mk2 TT shaft with the same diameter pipe that I can send to a driveline builder. This will be installed week of 11/8/2020.
Days before the September Riverside Fire came roaring by I managed to get my machinist friend to hog out my IP bracket and I tossed an 11mm ALH pump on this bad mofo. What a difference it made too! So much torque and it comes on instantly. Boost is up to 26psi now with Bosio 764DLC nozzles. I have another ALH pump conversion ready to go if anyone out there wants it (11mm pump, electrical plug, machined bracket, machined pulley). And yes, that is a genuine Nathan Airchime horn. It's the smallest from a K3LA running off my air system. Honk honk baby.