Kevin Bacon

In the case of R Tech finding more power after taking the BMC off, how do we know the owner of the car had recently cleaned and over oiled it, thereby screwing up the MAF readings? Seems likely to me because I have never seen a stock airbox make more power than a BMC on a VR6 or R32.

Here is the Kirby in all it's 'retro' splendor. [ATTACH=CONFIG]75623[/ATTACH]

A little more insight into my vaccum life..... My biggest complaint of my old Henry was it's lack of suction. It was especially noticeable in the house with the carpet / lino head. It seemed to just move the dirt around rather than sucking it up, just like a Dyson :D Using the tube in the car, it was merely adequate but it certainly wouldn't suck up pea shingle like cheapo hoovers do with ease. I think I'll just it put it down to be old and worn out perhaps! It was solidly made for sure, but it's performance wasn't inline with it's price. I also have a Miele upright for the house because you just cannot beat a heavy vaccum's weight pushing a rotary brush into carpet imo, and they are much less effort than pushing a carpet head around with a Henry style hoover. The suction from the accessory hose is waaaaaaay stronger than Henry, but it's a very heavy hoover and lugging it out to the car can be a pain. The Miele is so far the only upright I've owned that has resisted the power of long female hair jamming the brush! I did recently buy a stainless steel Henry style hoover from Machine Mart for the car and sucking ash out of the fire place, but I think the ash has wrecked it as it's suction has gone right down, even after a thorough clean up. I've also managed to break the Miele a few times too. I think I should take up a career in product testing because I always seem to get 'a bad one' or break things easily. You name it, washing machines, irons, dishwashers, hoovers, Fridges, they don't last 5 minutes in my house! So maybe a George in my life might give me the suction I need :D Do you remember the Kirby Hoovers salesman rocking up to your door with their £800 hoovers? They look like they were from the 60s with it's light on ther front, but those things were crazy powerful and came with some mental accessories, like sanders, hair clippers etc

A tenth of the price of a new one. Bargain!

My Henry was plastic too. Maybe I'll give George a look. Can he suck up wet things too? lol I did like the way Henry coiled the cable up in his head actually.

Yup, it's how I ended up with my user name and the handsome nose job.

Mine must have been an old one as it only had one switch. Apart from said switch losing it's latch (had to tape it down and use the wall socket switch instead), it was reliable enough, but vacuums less than half it's price easily out sucked it!

I hope George is more powerful than the Henry I had. People obviously buy into them because of the cute eyes on the front and human names, but underneath they are very average vacuums.

Thinking of getting a glue puller kit with slide hammer and mini puller. Any recommendations? I wouldn't know a bad kit from a good one tbh!

Well.I.Am impressed with your purchase :D VW did indeed make some changes to the Corr.A.Do Storm in relation to ground clearance. En.Joy

If it's just for the car, just one of those cheap wet / dry ones from any old DIY place will do. Usually around 30-40 quid.

Sounds more like "National Unimportant Things Irrationally Annoy VR6 Day" to me :D Where's my Bacon?

I thought it was R Tech who said that. They've told a lot of people that and it's unsubstantiated nonsense. I suspect the R32 in question had the universal CDA85-150 fitted, which is what most, if not all, VR6s use. BMC do an R32 specific one, which is larger. As Cazza said, he and Stealth have found a 7hp gain on a VR6. Stealth also saw a 14hp gain on an R32. I used a BMC CDA on my VR6 turbo and it made 392hp with 11psi of boost. Restrictive? I don't think so :D With an open cone it made less power and just felt flat off boost, made a heck of a lot more noise and got dirtier far, far quicker.

You'd have more fear in a MK4 / MK5 as the bloody fans can catch fire in those!!

Nope, I'm on call that weekend unfortunately!

You wish :D

To do it properly, about the cost of an R32 engine ;)

Most of that is down to body shell stiffness. An 18 yr old Corrado shell built with1980s construction techniques is like a blancmange compared to your MK7 :) And short wheel bases with beam rear axles doesn't help, but you have to over look (or try to) all that with Corrados and love the car for what it is!

The roads are terrible but cars have improved to deal with it. Modern cars with stiffer suspension and elastic band 19s don't make a meal of small bumps and pot holes like Corrados do.

What Bilsteins are they Jim? Not many people rate Bilsteins as crap :D

Sachs Advantage were sold as an OEM equivalent, but weren't exactly the same quality or damping. H&R springs for 4 cylinder Corrados are blue, but there's white writing on one of the coils to confirm. They are pretty hard.

A 'Quattro' can never be a 'Quattro' without the 5 pot engine.

Anything you do to improve flow through the engine in n'asp form, will make forced induction a lot better too, so it's not a waste of money in the long run if you're going to keep the car. Big valve head (forget porting, waste of time) Cams BMC Schrick / VSR (if you can tolerate the 4000rpm step) Remap 3.68 final drive That little lot will make a standard VR6 feel incredibly flat.

Is it obsolete? If it's corroded through around the retainer clips, meaning it no longer snugs up to the floor, I used some big repair washers to sort that.

Phone and tablet pricing I can stomach, but for some reason their desktop and laptop prices seem like a p1ss take. Especially that mac mini! This Hasbeen thing sounds interesting though!