Topic: 2001 Jetta 1.8t, B class.competitor - Pittsburgh $7500
$7500
2001 Jetta 1.8t
Originally NASA st5 car
I bought it with some buddies in 2021.
Have had used it for some champ/lucky dog/Lemons/TREC, SCCA enduro etc. .. pretty much whatever we wanted to go do.
It classed B with no penalty laps at road america last month.
(Although if they see it one more time with no theme, that may change)
Lots of goodies, upgraded cooling, turbo, injectors, tuned on a link4 ECU.
We've pretty much replaced every bit of boost holding hoses with hard pipes, tired of those rubber hoses tearing.
Peloquin limited slip diff
Vented hood is fake carbon, but gets the heat out all the same
Some eBay brand coilovers
Has some racing marks obviously.
Turbo was rebuilt with all new cartridge this spring, as well as fire bottle and belts new.
Has rear view camera screen that also records video forward and back (mirrors are so old school!)
Comes with a few boxes of new pads and rotors.
7 total enkei wheels.... 2 with nearly new falken 660s, 2 with RS4s with some age, and then 3 with some old worn out RS4s
Needs a headlight if you should so choose.
Only real con is the tablet dashboard.... It powers on but has no data.
If I plug my laptop into the link ECU I can see everything.
However, the link feeds a race capture system, which then feeds the dash screen that is running race capture app on a raspberry pi.
It's all there, but over my head.
It all worked prior to this spring getting the car out and at that point all telemetry was 0.
The race capture with predictive lap timing still works... Basically this is an I.T. problem, not a mechanical problem.
If we ever thought there was a problem, we'd go to paddock and plug in my laptop to the ECU.
Other spares include new front knuckles and new front axles from rock auto.
You're going to want to keep a spare of each as that's the weak spot on these 1.8t jettas, and the parts are cheap to just have them on hand.
