6 bolt swap 97 tsi

[awd laser]

Just picked up this 97 tsi shell from South Dakota last night. The car is awd 5speed and has 101k miles. This car is pretty clean with almost no rust. It came without a motor, tranny, intercooler and exhaust. It only came with dsmlink v3, eprom ecu and a walboro 255.

The plan is to swap the 6 bolt from my 92 laser and run it stock until I gather all of the equipment to build it next spring. The plan is an oem build with 2g pistons and an evo3 turbo. This car will be my daily up at UMD until I figure out what I want to do.

I will keep you guys updated on the 6 bolt swap in the mean time. So far I still need to find an exhaust, tranny and xfercase, TPS, ps pump and bracket, a/c bracket and a front passenger axle. I will start tearing apart the laser tomorrow morning and post pics as I go. Enjoy!

[awd laser]

Here's more pics

[mark4g63t]

Looks clean.

[bigboostingst]

Awesome! I went and checked this car out a few weeks ago. Pretty clean. I went to UMD too!

[Fejery4491]

I love me a clean 2gb talon. Looking good!

[awd laser]

Thanks guys! If you guys have any of the parts I need PM me with a price.

[awd laser]

Nice! What was your major?

Originally Posted by bigboostingst

Awesome! I went and checked this car out a few weeks ago. Pretty clean. I went to UMD too!

[97gsexx]

Clean talon, good luck with the swap! I pm'd you about some parts you need.

[awd laser]

Update on the car. Goodbye laser, 6 bolt went in a few weeks ago. Just got her started Monday. Hopefully get the exhaust done and reset the link settings for stock injectors.

Only problem right now is that I can't connect to my ecu. A window always pops up and says that it can't find the port. Any advice?

[awd laser]

Another thing. I went to hook up the vacuum lines for the fpr and the intake manifold and cant seem to find the fpr solenoid. Do I need one in order for the car to run good? Or will it cause bad idling/airfuel ratios?

[DSMINMN]

Holy clean 2gb!

[awd laser]

Thanks! Haven't gotten her first wash yet, more pics to come!

[mark4g63t]

Try wiggling/ pushing all the connectors (especially the obdII) together. Sometimes they come apart, and I don't believe you need the fps. *but don't take my word on that*

[awd laser]

I already did, I get a quick flash from the link cable right when I plug it in but then I'll try to connect to the ECU and it says that it can't find COM1 or something.

Yeah I did a little research and talked to a few guys. They said I can just run a vacuum line from the intake manifold to the FPR.

[mark4g63t]

Do you have more than one usb port on your computer?

[awd laser]

Yup it's a mac with 2 3.0 usb ports. I have windows 7 partitioned to another part of my hard drive which is what I run link with. I've been able to use regular USB's just fine on both sides of my computer.

[mark4g63t]

Did you download it to a specific usb port?

[goodhart]

idk about 2g's but on a 1g you can year out that fp solenoid without even getting a CEL. I think on a 2g you can do it but you have to check the emissions box in link or something.

[awd laser]

Were you suppose to download it to a specific one? I thought it didn't matter which USB port it was plugged into as long as it got downloaded into the computer?

Goodhart yeah I checked around and it seems like I should be safe running without the solenoid as long as I run a vacuum line to the fpr from the intake mani.

[mark4g63t]

Mine would only work on the port closer to the memory card slot ( macbook pro) or it would freeze after connecting. Is the most recent version downloaded from here http://www.ecmtuning.com/downloads.p...c23rfg5rvl6e47