This 1989 VW Jetta has a 1.6L non-turbo diesel engine. It is SLOW. Browsing the VW nerd forums, I found references to a guy named Giles who builds a more aggressive injection pump for these old diesels. My original pump was leaking so I decided to replace it with one of these performance builds. Here is the story of making a really slow car, just faster enough to be more fun.
It is still really slow.
Here is a link to Giles's shop: www.performanc...
Before taking it out for acceleration tests, we replace the axles because they were making clunking noise indicating failed CV joints.
12 сен 2024