Kevin Bacon

Yeah I've been demolishing houses in the South East to keep prices up.

Good seats those. Your driver's one is pretty f'cked though :lol: Looking forward to seeing them retrimmed!

Yeah I thought so too :D I must admit, I really don't like the tartan interior, but I can overlook that because of it's other attributes :D

£800 for a phone!! Stupid thing is, loads of fanboys will be queuing up at Apple stores to pay that :roll:

Mmmm, cake. Loving a bit of Cup Cakeado. I'm such a Retardo :lol:

So there's plastic liners and behind those is lumps of sponge?! Yeah I'll get right onto that, cheers chaps! Got some VAG waxoyl stuff spare from my Corrado days, so I'll spray loads of it around the area! Yep, we'll have to schedule something in Mic!

Mmmmm, cheeeeeeese! Cheesado, or Curedhamdo? I'm seeing a strong bond between the Corrado and cured pork and fermented milk products. For the spice lovers among us, how about a Curryado thread?

How much are the new phones then chap? I'm guessing the 5.5" one is going to be mega money? Like you, when I saw the iPhone 6 m immediate thought was "Is that it?" I really like my 5S and won't be going to a 6 until it dies, or more likely, Apple will put stuff in IOS8+ that deliberately slows down older devices, making them unusable. As for the original question, engine vs phone. Do we even need to ask that??!? Engine, obviously!

Actually, I will be keeping it standard until March 18th insurance :lol: GT30R, hmmm, not sure at this stage. I've heard rumours of the stock K04 being capable of over 350hp on this motor, which may be enough! Do I miss the 2 extra cylinders? Only when pulling away. The R32 is massively torquier below 3000rpm, but it's all relative because the GTI is over 100Kg lighter, so you don't really notice the R's low down punch advantage in the real world. What you do very much notice in the ED30 is the midrange and top end thump, which is way more savage than I was expecting!! It put a stupid grin on my face, like the VRT did the first time I drove it :D I have no idea what power it's making but it feels bloody fast. Some research suggests it's another typical VAG turbo engine that makes more than quoted, around 250hp in this case. I'll data log the boost request map at the weekend, which is one way to be sure it's not been mapped.

Nothing that wild gentlemen :D I wanted something bonkers like my Corrado VRT but slightly updated. I think my choice of steed fits that brief perfectly :D I've updated my thread!

How much did the insurance company give you? It's all a big scam. They want older cars off the road to force you to buy something new. Insurance companies, body shops & car makers, they're all in it together. A lot of body shops will only take on easy work now and I've noticed standards of repair slipping badly in recent years, especially with paint blending. The amount of silver and grey metallic cars I see these days, with very obvious colour mismatching is a joke. TBH I think I would rather take the money and run rather than let some incompetent buffoon make a patchwork quilt of my car.

Blimey, that long? I suppose the lack of updates is indicative of how thrilled I was by R32 ownership :lol: Nah, they are good cars really but the main reasons for letting her go, were: Too expensive to turbo (properly). My daily commute is 12 miles of clogged Dual Carriageway and 20-25mpg just doesn't make sense any more. It never got under my skin like the Corrado did. The 4WD system was used probably 2% the whole time I had it. Frankly, I just got bored of it :lol: So, to try and recapture some of that Corrado magic and put another tick in my car Bucket List, I purchased Mr UGly Mother F'cker (mash up of it's reg plate!) :D As you can tell by the 18" BBS Pescaras, it is indeed an Edition 30. We all know MK5s so I won't bore you with superlatives, suffice to say the praise they receive is more than justified! It goes without saying, it won't be staying standard :D Already got a few mods in the pipeline and then it will be up to uncle Vince for one of his famous maps :D

I've been on here since 2003 and the atmosphere, friendliness and helpfulness have always been consistently the best I've seen on any forum. I still think the forum is in need of a subforum, to discuss the various ways of curing and slicing pork products though :)

Lol, I don't want to pollute this gentleman's thread :D I'll update my own shortly!

You're not wrong! R32 has gone. I am coming back to boost as I've missed it. New project being collected on Sat :D

Are you running VVT on yours yet? It's even punchier with that switched on :D Yeah defo!

CP is the immobilised VR6 ECU. AG was both coilpack and Dizzy as per Corrado9A's post. Coilpack ECU has 3 low tension coil outputs, Dizzy ECU only has 1.

Yep I remember, vaguely. Doug somebody? Had a red leather interior and a couple of bits off an Aston Martin or something? That's a good point you raise there about the cam sensors being different, so sequential won't work and when OBD1/OBD2 can't see the cam sensor, or get a meaningful signal from it, it over fuels like f'ck and retards the ignition a lot. Net result = down 30hp on a 12V engine. We'll have to agree to disagree on that one fella ;) I had DTA on mine too and ME7 is a LOT punchier with the non-linear throttle :D We do need to meet up though and I am a bit of a VW hermit, agreed :lol:

Yep, VVT on the AUE engine is just for emissions during warm up, as per 1.8T. You can switch the intake with a Schrick controller. DBW is love or hate. I've driven an R32 engine with an analogue throttle and it's just not the same. Nowhere near as punchy. DBW is a very easy path to Cruise control on older VWs as well. I agree, DBW is nasty on early 1.8Ts, but on the run out engine and on the more powerful TFSI engines, it works well, imo. So whilst it can be done with OBD2, but it won't be the same. OBD2 = sluggish narrowband, ME7 = proper wideband. There's nothing complicated about the AUE install at all, but as no one on here has done OBD2 on a 24V, you're on your own.

It's a real feckin bodge and just smacks of people being too tight to do it properly.

Quite a fleet you've got there! Without getting into nerdy unobtainium VAGs like G60 Limiteds and Quattro Sports, you've arguably got the cream of the VAG crop there: RS4, Corrado & an MK7 R.

Yeah Hammond demoed that stuff on his TV programme a few years back. Inspiration taken from a tropical rain forest plant that has millions of tiny hairs on it's leaves, so nothing can stick to it.

"1K-Nano paint sealant conjoins permanently with the paint structure on account of covalent bondings and forms a fixed network" What a load of marketing nonsense! Fixed network :lol: All car care products fall into the "Wipe something on, wipe it off again. Meh" category for me, but this stuff is next level horse shat. They've given us a product that only needs doing once, and for £109? Really? What kind of business model is that?!? :lol: Horse shat :D

Don't take this the wrong way but I thought you were waaaaaay younger than 40! :D You're nearly as ancient as I am (41) :lol: Do it Jim. Shall we all defect to BMW?? :lol: