I'll start this post off by saying that I'm a terrible build-thread updater-guy: I barely have time to do all the work required on the car, let alone take any meaningful pics and write update posts 
Also, I see my previous pics are broken- I will try to fix those and upload the remainder that I have soon... however today's post is a plea for help!! :
The engine has been mated to the transmission and is now in. The car started for the first time yesterday! There are still tons of odds and ends to tie up, but I ran into a rather disturbing problem last night: when attempting to drive the car out of the garage, I cannot get the car into /any/ gear while the motor is running (I was able to jam it into reverse once). With the motor not running, I can get the car into all gears (not perfect, but pretty darn good feeling).
When the car is running, I depress the clutch pedal (feels pretty firm) and as I attempt to put the car into gear, I feel resistance on the shift knob and the engine will bog down proportionate to how hard I am trying to jam the gear in.
Furthermore, the car does not want to roll while in gear & clutch depressed.
The initial bleed of the slave cylinder was done by having someone pump the pedal. According to the Bentley, you need to pressure bleed it. Thinking this was the problem, I hastily built a pressure bleeder - still no luck
[as an aside- while the bentley tells you to do a pressure bleed, it doesnt tell you how to do so... so I may have been doing it wrong?]
other relevant facts: firewall is broken by slave cylinder, and the slave cylinder is angled slightly upward preventing the ideal pedal+plunger angle, but it still seems like it should be working. (I'm going to weld on some sheet metal to fix it).
7a flywheel
ClutchNet pressure plate and disc from a 200 Quattro ("3b", I believe)
Re-used whatever TOB was on the car (it had a sub 1k mile clutch, so the TOB was new)
PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE THIS OUT! Less than 2 weeks until the race. REALLY hoping not to have to drop the tranny again...
Also, I see my previous pics are broken- I will try to fix those and upload the remainder that I have soon... however today's post is a plea for help!! :
The engine has been mated to the transmission and is now in. The car started for the first time yesterday! There are still tons of odds and ends to tie up, but I ran into a rather disturbing problem last night: when attempting to drive the car out of the garage, I cannot get the car into /any/ gear while the motor is running (I was able to jam it into reverse once). With the motor not running, I can get the car into all gears (not perfect, but pretty darn good feeling).
When the car is running, I depress the clutch pedal (feels pretty firm) and as I attempt to put the car into gear, I feel resistance on the shift knob and the engine will bog down proportionate to how hard I am trying to jam the gear in.
Furthermore, the car does not want to roll while in gear & clutch depressed.
The initial bleed of the slave cylinder was done by having someone pump the pedal. According to the Bentley, you need to pressure bleed it. Thinking this was the problem, I hastily built a pressure bleeder - still no luck
other relevant facts: firewall is broken by slave cylinder, and the slave cylinder is angled slightly upward preventing the ideal pedal+plunger angle, but it still seems like it should be working. (I'm going to weld on some sheet metal to fix it).
7a flywheel
ClutchNet pressure plate and disc from a 200 Quattro ("3b", I believe)
Re-used whatever TOB was on the car (it had a sub 1k mile clutch, so the TOB was new)
PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE THIS OUT! Less than 2 weeks until the race. REALLY hoping not to have to drop the tranny again...