Cripplindepresh
Member
I have a 97 GTI that I recently replaced wear ring and rebuilt the carb on, it’s been running like a bat out of hell for the past few weekends. Earlier today I took it out for about 5 minutes and noticed a slight decrease in power, so I headed back towards the launch. Then I heard something and it started running like it was idling at full throttle. I took it to the launch and it was smoking inside of the hull, took on a bunch of water and the j pipe gasket was hanging on by a thread outside of the pipe.Is my engine done or will I be able to fix it with a new gasket and installing new studs?