The First Few Weeks

I’m starting this blog rather late, so I’ve got a few weeks of catching up to do!  I purchased a 1999 VW Passat off of a co-worker for $1200.  The engine was the AEB 1.8t 20v (the one with the large ports in the head) and had 130,000 miles on the drivetrain.  Here’s a picture of the day I bought it:

It didn’t look like that for too long! :-p   After 2 days of work, the engine was out: (keep in mind that I’m doing this swap every day after work, so when I say “day” I really mean from 5pm- 9pm)

The next two weeks consisted of me gutting the car and taking every possible thing off of it so that I could part it out and make some of my money back.  I am in the process of creating a price breakdown spreadsheet of everything I’ve bought and everything I’ve sold.  I’ll post it sometime later, but so far I’m still in the red (as expected).