Kevin Bacon

How are you finding the ST? I was going to pop over to this with my MK5 but the clutch is slipping pretty badly. Vince has ordered a Helix for me but it won't be fitted in time, booooooo :(

Do you feel like you're talking to yourself here? :D What's the idea behind the Sharon ECU? I thought you got it running OK with the Golf one?

The plastic intake on the AUE is really fragile. I reckon 8psi would be your lot! The R32's is a lot stronger, but you can't use that unless you use an R32 head with it. 8psi should be good for 300lbft though and will feel loads quicker than standard. If you want more power / torque at the top end, you'd be better off with a short intake, but it'll kill your bottom end on the 24V.

You'll be making 400+ if you boost that 24V! :D

I haven't got the R32 anymore :) I've got an Edition 30 that's making around 340hp, all stock, just more boost :D

Titanium is a complete waste in an engine (imo) unless you want a billion rpm from it :) Yeah I would never use There is nothing wrong with Chinese made products per se, the problem is the western organisations (mostly ebay shops) who pay them for **** quality specifically in order to maximise their profit margins. They don't give a rat's arse if a crap wheel buckles and puts you in a ditch. The difference with Apple is they pay China to make their phones to a particular standard, and it shows. But thanks to the ebay cretins selling cheap knock offs, Chinese made products have a bad rep in general, and that's allowed to happen because there are too many gullible people in the world who think a product on ebay that's less than half the price of a branded product, will be the same quality.

Wouldn't be surprised if the H Beams he's selling are the same as these - http://www.spturbo.com/onlinestore/index.php/volkswagen/vr6/12-valve/pistons/vr6-h-beam-connecting-rods-5-16-bolt.html Anything that Bill Schimmel has signed off and sells is as good an endorsement as any in my book :) He used to sell 'Crower' branded rods, but now uses these 'unbranded' ones. Rods not needed with Loving the billet rocker cover, billet dipstick and vernier cam wheels for the VR6 he's recently made!

£177! VW usually hike their prices up as soon as demand increases. The GSF one is the better option anyway as it comes with the foam gasket you need. It's extra from VW. I fitted a GSF one, must be getting on for 10 years ago now, with no probs.

Top view looks OK. Side and rear shots, rancid!

So did you apparently :D

For once, words fail me!

Looks smart on the black wheels Need to get a Helix clutch put into mine and then I can finally see what power it's making!

They're BBS Pescera. Very similar to CH. Standard fit on the Edition 30, along with an S3 engine running less boost.

I'm guessing from his username, we have another Edition 30 owner. I think that's 3 or 4 of us on here now :)

Save up for a better one. You've survived without a Corrado this long, so another year of hard saving and researching won't kill you ;) If you're new to the car, avoid major modifications like the plague (such as Climate control) unless they've been done to an exceptional standard and fully documented, otherwise you won't have the foggiest clue where to look if something goes wrong with it!

Corrado VR6 no question! I hated my MK1 :D

I know they do it to teach you a lesson, but what a waste of everyone concerned's time and money. Pathetic.

Rant? Me? :) Be like Bacon, cause Bacon don't like waiting, for nothing.......so he just gets in and drives off :) I blame car makers. Ford can't have patented *ALL* methods of screen heating, surely? I can understand both sides of the situation to be honest, but whinging at someone for preparing their car for the journey to work is a bit pathetic. What car defrosters don't appreciate is just how loudly an exhaust drone can resonate inside a house. What grumpy gits don't appreciate is car defrosters don't really have a lot of choice this time of year! Apparently Britain is famed for it's tolerance. Really? It's not like people are idling all day long is it? It's pretty sodding obvious why people would be idling for 5 mins over winter! Pensioners like him look for reasons, any reasons, for confrontation and they think because they are old, they won't get a punch in the face for being an unreasonable twunt.

Cams are easy enough DIY, but there is no one better in the country for mapping older VWs than Stealth!

The 12hp comes from revs by increasing the rev limiter. I would recommend getting the SP263 cams along with a Stealth Racing remap and that is a difference you WILL notice immediately. Something else worth mentioning, don't bother with a Schrick VGI if you are using SP 263 cams. Stealth are seeing no gain what so ever (by adding a VGI), so I suspect the VGI was tuned for the stock cams, or their own 268s.

Neither do I and to be honest, I don't care about adverts anyway. Plenty of other websites I use have adverts too, it's just how the internet is quickly becoming. I blame Minority Report.

Meh. All I care about is V Power dropping to 99p, or less.

Completely agree with those points. No one showed any sympathy what so ever to the innocent people who lost their jobs in the Finance sector because of greed at the top, so why should I sob into my tissue about the oil industry potentially collapsing? Humans never learn. They knew it was coming but did nothing. The good times are just not sustainable. Over the next decade or two as alternative energies finally gain momentum, I can't see demand for crude remaining high anyway. Supply and demand and all that. The whole world is volatile at the moment and we're lucky to have a job. As traumatic as it is losing your job, it's not a god given right to have one and people in volatile markets should have a back up plan imo. I'm sorry but if you asked the nation: "Go back to paying £1.30+ a litre to keep oil industry jobs, or pay 99p a litre?" What do you think the over-riding response will be?

It's all academical on the Corrado sunroof anyway as they're just crap full stop!

People who regurgitate what they've read on the internet - incorrectly - need to be corrected :D Bore wash indeed. Modern TSI / TFSI engines bore wash a lot more than Corrados ever did :D Plus that whole "It's a massive engine so MUST be massively powerful be default" ignorance ****es me off as well.