My father just gave me his. 2004 Passat 1.8T 5 speed with 4 motion. I've already kicked in about $3,500 for new pads and rotors, cleaned out any oil sludge, new timing belt, water pump, thermostat, camshaft sensor, battery, serpentine belts. He keeps saying it could be a collectible or of value by people that know - because it is very rare that it is a 5 speed and AWD.

I really appreciate you doing this teardown to see the failures so we all can learn from it. As someone who plans to do a VR build in a mk4 at some point it’s great to see what’s goin on when they fail to know what to look for. My comfort zone is the 1.8t (I have 3 and love them) but I’ll likely build from scratch with selected second hand parts and refresh all consumables to drop into 1 of my 3 if any die. Cheers 🤙🏽

clean whole intake and outake system. Check commpresion one cam shaft can be disfunction on chain. almost good but this tank is one block of rust

I am loving this project. Don’t lose interest now that you have a new dub… I’m here for the long burn on this baby. What a sick build man! I myself want to find a 12V to rebuild on a stand and eventually swap into a mk4 like this and then turbo it. Cheers!

Oh yeaaaaaaaah she rips!

I have to say what you performed here is a dying art and you need to continue the good work and teach others! That said, any mk4/b5 VAG car with 5speed 02j and 1.8t is a good buy if it didn’t jump timing. Even then for the right price it would be worth rebuilding the top end with junkyard parts (lots of good 1.8ts end up in junkyards because the shitty auto transmissions fail and it’s too expensive to swap if you don’t work on cars yourself). I am in the middle of a manual swap on an otherwise stellar mk4 GTI with 1.8t. It’s got just the average 20 year old car plastic/rubber and consumable part problems. I’ve been slowly replacing all that stuff and deleting what I can to make it reliable for another handful of years so my oldest son can learn to drive on it without having to go into debt (the way prices of running used cars are going 🤬). Chances are he’ll crash it anyway so this a good learning experience for us both. 🤙🏽

What a pile

very nice, what did the car have before?

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4:14 - What's happening? A powerful graphics card requires major cooling.

I guess your APU it's actually a gpu built into the mobo, HD3200/4200 780/880G mobo?

gg

Nice 👌🏼👌🏼😂

no idea about most of the terms ur talking about, but I think it's cool u can make a frikin computer for that cheap

Looks rlly good

Imgot a minecraft yay!