For the folks following along at home, this LeMons car is actually unconstrained by budget. Any terrible car (any cheap watercooled porsche) or terrible engine swap (any diesel) is not sweated on budget by the judges. The $500 rule is more heavily enforced on the Miata/E36/RX7 gang.
After we swapped a TDI into our Mk2 GTI, we were given no penalty in spite of the obvious addition of TDI engine & tranny, inter/oil/fuel coolers, new instruments....
I've also had the (dis)pleasure of piloting a smallblock powered Monza and a supercharged '47 plymouth in LeMons, and those cars also receive no penalty laps in spite of having too much $$ stoopidly invested in the powertrain.
Back on topic: Is the MLS headgasket available for D24 anymore? They seem to be more reliable than fiber gaskets.
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Thanks,
Jim C.
1985 745 TD MT (project)
1986 A2 Golf GTDI swap LeMons racer (very not stock)
2001 Golf TDI (not stock)
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