Kevin Bacon

I'm very indecisive when it comes to cars! Have considered: Z3M Coupe, Integra DC5, S2000, M5 (E34 and E39), R32, Civic Type R, Impreza, loads of things! Reading forums, every one of them has caveats / issues. It's a case of choosing one which has the fewest!

Not yet! I haven't really been looking tbh as I need to shift the house first. Looks like I might be completing end of the month, so I need to find somewhere quick sharp! And then this is a very tempting option.... Your M5 has always been hanging around in the back of my mind for years :lol:

Did you get a remap to go with them? Some engines just respond to them better than others. VAG-HAG and Vornwend, two shining examples of impressive gains.

When you say you gave it to a garage to fit new wishbones, they didn't fit GSF ones with prefitted bushes did they?! R32 bushes in the original wishbones is the way to go!

The mpg is calculated from the injector pulse width signal. Even if you were able to feed the signal from the 24V ECU into the VR6 clocks, the injectors are different sizes, therefore the mpg reading would be inaccurate, especially with the larger R32 injectors. The 2.8 injectors might be close in size to the 12V ones, I'm not sure. I can understand the desire for the mpg function for 'completeness', but it's going to take someone who knows both the Clocks and the ECUs intimately in order to get round it, and also someone who can build electronics. I reckon a PWM simulator/modifier would be required, but first we need to know exactly what signal the clocks are expecting. In the case of the Pre-CAN 24V ECUs, (AUE) and possibly the MK4 R32, it might work. No chance with MK5 R32s as it's all CAN. ---------- Post added at 11:54 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:49 AM ---------- In which case it must be a BDE/BDF 24V as you can't get any cams for the AUE. 245hp sounds a bit optimistic.

What bushes are you replacing them with? Try the TT/R32 rear bush. Fit and forget! The OE voided ones are pants. If it's the bolt that's coming loose, as per David. Either that or you're not torquing them enough :D

You need to switch to the diesel gears, I forgot to mention that, or at least the diesel final drive. It's because the V6 and turbo 02Ms were designed for 17s and 18s with big walled tyres.

I only use it for mpg calculations! Does the MFA trip counter still work or is that stuck at zero too?

Good call on a faulty contact switch. If not that, it'll almost certainly be a circuit board fault as it takes the same signal as the main mileage counter afaik.

Yeah I looked into the O2M and it's a big job. Don't forget you also need to relocate the gearbox mounting cup on the subframe, entire shifter setup and cables needed, the lot! So plenty of welding and trial fitting required. Not one for the casual DIYer, so it can be an expensive conversion. There is also the small matter of the 02M weighing almost 20Kg more than the 02A, and that's a proper FWD O2M as opposed to a 4WD one with a bodge plate. The one benefit the 02M does bring to the party, is mountings for a dogbone. The 02S probably does too. The 02J certainly does. After my most recent experimenting with the Corrado, it really, really could do with a supplementary dogbone to take the load of the useless standard gearbox mount. Anyway, yep, I would go proper 6 speed, or not at all, imho. Sticking another cog on top of the VR6's already too tall gearing will just drop the rpm into a power band where the VR6 will just have absolutely no response at all. You'll end up dropping back down to 5th, or even 4th, to get some kind of urge from the engine, making the conversion pointless. 6 well spaced gears that suit the engine's torque delivery is always going to give the best performance / economy compromise. It's why VAG and Mercedes are playing around with 7 and 8 gears.

Totally agree. Rough justice is the only way! As Maggie Thatcher said in: "The Iron Lady" last night, "None of these men have the balls to do anything....". It's so true. The government have gone from 'soft touch' to barely touching at all with 4" thick padded gloves. And speaking of getting medieval on their arses, I find it amazing this is the same country that once had hanging, beheading, public stoning and torture machines! It's not just Poland! My gf is from Czech and the same stuff happens there too and they have some of the worst standards of driving...in the world....ever! Her family also used to put decorated pumpkins out every Halloween, but local trash used to smash them up, just for kicks. I think it must just be some kind of destruction area of the brain that's triggered in immature men who can't handle their shandies.

Curiously enough, I got Pulp Fiction on BluRay for Xmas and when watching it the other day, Vincent Vega's comments about paying for the oppurtunity to catch the creep who keyed his car rings so true. If only we could catch these scrunts in action, eh? It would be great to take them to tattoo shop and get the same marks permanently scarred onto their skin in return. Unfortunately the people who do this sort of thing aren't human. They're a lower class of creature. It always baffles me how in the animal kingdom, runts are either either abandoned, killed or eaten by their parents. So why is it these worthless creatures are allowed to live? Scum like this are like slugs and wasps. They have no purpose (that I can think of) and contribute nothing. Oh, and Happy New Year Y'all :D

If water is getting into the cabin, it usually means the drain tubes are blocked or kinked. If parked on a hill and the water overwhelms the drain tubes, it has no where else to go but into the car. Have you actually seen puddles on the floor by the front wheels after pouring water into the sunroof subframe? The rear tubes drain under the bumper. If you haven't, the water isn't escaping via the drain tubes!

Out of interest, are reproduction panels in a different material to standard, road legal? Lovely products and going by the pictures, they look superbly made. The Corrado bonnet especially, looks fantastic. For me personally, shifting weight from the Corrado's heaviest panels, such as the doors, bonnet (done!) and tailgate would see the biggest weight saving gains but I suspect the cost would be astronomical!! Well done for bringing such a high quality product to the forum!

I'm on the Mir space station. Booked my tickets years ago. I must be communicating with your Ghost?

I'd love a 993 turbo (with an updated interior!) but the way my friend's 3.6 Varioram accelerated, I'd be happy with that tbh. Torque everywhere in the rev range and relentless pull to the redline. My C was Stage 2 S/C'd at the time and the 993 didn't feel much quicker overall, if at all, but it was the power delivery that did it for me. Waaaaaay better than an S/C'd VR6 and the whole car felt considerably more stable and able to deploy it's power. The brakes, despite being beefy 4 pots did need a hefty shove before being effective. You think a VR6 has a dead pedal, try a 993s!! To me it was exactly the same kind of ambivalence you get with Corrados. Nice cars, but.....

996s and 997s yes, but I rarely see a 993 these days. I drove a friend's 993 3.6 widebody (LHD) some years ago and loved it. The acceleration, the purity of the steering, the flat cornering, grip out of corners etc are all lasting memories. Unfortunately, another lasting memory is the ghastly interior. As much as I love 911s, I couldn't live with an interior that dated. In fact I'd almost find it an embarrassment. Brown carpet on the doors?!? What were Porsche thinking?!? lol!

I though the world ends at 24:00?

Link? That's something I need to do as well so wouldn't mind a snout at your shop to get some ideas. Got far too many DVDs knocking about. Average price from MusicMagpie was 60p per DVD and £3 for a box set last time I checked. Tight *******s. Must be able to do better than that!

Haven't made any flavoured ones yet but cheers for the tip!

Done it a few times but didn't realise ganache was also known as truffles :D

Or a Legacy I don't know that there is a Corrado 'replacement'. Something in addition too, for sure :D

Truffles are just a ganache (choc melted down with cream, then chilled) aren't they? If that's what they are, we used to make a tray of the stuff, then make balls of it with a melon baller and then dip them into crushed nuts, Green & Blacks cocoa powder, coconut etc etc. Yum!

A month to sell RCs, and at that price!! How things are changing!

Did well to get that domain name /\ !