{"id":1297,"date":"2022-10-16T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianloso.com\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2023-12-01T03:58:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T03:58:37","slug":"1988-16v-scirocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianloso.com\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"1988 VW Scirocco 16v"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How it started: This was my first Scirocco back in 1998 right after we bought it, it was a 1986 8v. I owned a 1976 Rabbit 4 door before this car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had been sitting on a good running 16v engine from a Scirocco after pulling out on my Rabbit for the Tesla Swap<\/a>. I told my wife if we ever came across a Scirocco with a dead motor I wanna buy it. Well… the night before this photo I was on Craigslist looking, I’d usually do that a few times a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On our way back from Camano Island after buying from the previous owner. Late summer of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Engine Swap and front Suspension Rebuild<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interior and climate control rebuild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teardown:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This interior was nasty, and took much longer than I expected. I found 3 mouse nests in the process, one was even in the blower fan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HVAC Rebuild<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Door Panel Rebuild<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What’s Next<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the upcoming Projects for this build. This car is low priority and just for fun, things may go slowly now that the car is on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Custom Exhaust System<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Finish installing rear interior<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Sound system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    Thanks for visiting the Scirocco blog, check back next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Why finish your other car projects when you can start another. This is one of the best cars VW ever made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engine-swaps","category-restoration","tag-16v","tag-restoration","tag-volkswagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianloso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianloso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianloso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianloso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianloso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/brianloso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/brianloso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianloso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianloso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianloso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianloso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}