^ Agreed. Looks much improved. For clearing headlights, did you see the before/after shot I posted earlier? Pretty easy and holding up great.

I shopped for 18" tires because I got my first flat. Any feelings here on the Kumho Ecsta LX Platinum?

 

Thanks, It's not as bouncy as I thought it would be. And not as rough ride as I thought either. It passed the wife test so it's all good.
I got the go ahead from my financial officer to get the same exhaust you have, I'm waiting on an answer from them about the shipping over here.

 

Nice! I finally got mine installed. Slowed down by snapping a bolt off in my test pipe. I like the sound so far, haven't had a chance to drive it on the high way yet.

 

I finally tackled the light switch fix (repaired it, not replaced). Was not too bad except for a few unforeseen things:

1. like the 3mm hex head screw near the rear center of the bottom steering column trim piece. I am going to have to reread all of the write-ups I read prior to doing this as I DO NOT remember anything about this (just the two #1 phillips screws) - I knew somethign wasn't right, and lucklily i was in a patient mood and backed off to relook things over before breaking something!

2. I had to do some reshaping of the bottom headlight plastic slider piece of that switch, including putting some new springs in to make sure enough tension was there (I would like to at this time give thanks and observe a moment of silence for the 3 125VDC relays I had in my junk drawer. The springs just happened to be almost perfect (had to trim and stretch a bit, but end product working like a charm).

Took me a couple of hours from start to finish including my trying to find a breaker bar to use with my T-55 bit. As well as a half hour looking for a spring that would work. First time my ligths have worked correctly since I bought it a month ago. Awesome, can't wait until dark!

Will have to save my oil change for another day... bummer

 

Some days. They are pretty cars. I'm working on getting back into the Audi/VW game but if I do it will be vintage slow and low.

 

Finally installed my Prosport oil pressure sender, and wired the pressure sender to the oil pressure gauge. This gauge is installed in my instrument cluster replacing the analog clock (it stopped working). I bet this is the cleanest oil pressure gauge installation in any B5 chassis car Its power comes from the fuel pump relay (same goes for my wideband gauge at the left).

Video demonstration (the oil pressure gauge does a needle sweep when it's first powered up):

 

That is super clean! Nice work, it would be great if you could get a DIY together.

How did you get the needle to sweep that much? Is it a particular gauge or something you programmed? It looks like you left the clock markings alone?

 

Thanks I have a few pictures of the process in my FrankenTurbo build thread, but no definitive DIY. Though it's really not that hard I'd be willing to do this work for somebody to make a DIY for just a few dollars

The gauge has a 270 degree range (Prosport Performance series electrical oil pressure gauge, only $50 with sender!). The clock markings were indeed left alone, to make sure it didn't look out-of-place in the instrument cluster. 12 o'clock is 0psi, 1 o'clock is 11psi, 2 o'clock is 22psi etc... to 9 o'clock which is 99-100psi.

 

This is quickly moving up on my to do list. Especially since when I first purchased the car I was having some oil pressure light occurrences. After replacing the turbo oil feed line and switching to synthetic I haven't had any problems, but still.

Got a link to the gauge? Was that the only part needed?

 

Awesome work as usual, Metal!