1999 2000 MY - The "Bastards" Draft Info Thread

[j-dawg]

Keeps our skills sharp, I guess.

[abscate]

Lifters change from hydraulic to solid, and valve stems from 7mm to 6mm, at engine 1817653 for T5s. I think that's pretty far into the run - my Dec '98 T5 has engine s/n 15xxxxx.

My NOV 1998 build T5 has hydraulics...I think. I definitely get tap-tap-tap ...silent on startup - is that a good diagnostic??

[j-dawg]

Never heard the taptaptap, but my 12/98's got hydros, as seen here two minutes ago.

[bmdubya1198]

My cousin's T5 must have hydraulic lifters if yours is a 12/98. I think his is 7/98, but I'm not certain on that. It's 100% for sure a 1999 MY. His lifters are INCREDIBLY noisy. It never goes away. Luckily you can't hear that bad now unless the hood is up, his little muffler bypass is pretty loud.

[j-dawg]

Dang, really? All these 99s with noisy hydraulic lifters? I've never heard my lifters, except a few times during the polar vortex in early 2014, when it was absurdly cold out and I still had summer oil in the car. Otherwise my injectors are much louder.

[abscate]

On turbo cars, the ETS replaces the Idle Air Control valve of the earlier P80 style. When P80s honk at you driving home at 20 mph in limpmode, yell back " Go clean your IAC!"

NA cars use a new IAC On 99-00 models

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=80565&start=10

[abscate]

Write up on the 99-00 PCV system here

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=55413&p=435523#p435523

[abscate]

1999 gets rid of the oil thermostat (near crank pulley) that occasionally screeches on the 1998- cars, I imagine it is built into the biscuit oil cooler on the back of the block

[bmdubya1198]

1999 gets rid of the oil thermostat (near crank pulley) that occasionally screeches on the 1998- cars, I imagine it is built into the biscuit oil cooler on the back of the block

Yes. And that -'98 oil t-stat is awfully annoying. Moans like crazy every morning when I start the car.

[abscate]

Traction control went from TRACS to STC

Mattymoo lists different part numbers for the ABS module.

I measure master cylinder ports of

Front 13mm

Rear 13mm


on my 1999 with STC and MT