Neil VR6

I had one on my G60 and it was fine. It came loose once but some loctite and a socket with about 3 extention bars sorted that. No probs at all :) EDIT: You want to ask LJ about how it's fairing now as he bought my car off me! 8)

I'll be a marshall there this year for both the weekends and probably in Amsterdam too. Should be wicked- get to see some awesome cars up close and personal and get free gear too. I marshalled at the movie premier a month or two back as well at the KoKo club in Camden- had a very nice long chat with the Koenigsegg test driver.

Yup, I'd give another vote to £2K. Depends on how desperate you are for a quick sale.

Awesome, looks nice a really nicely prepared car. Love the noise!

Well the G Lader only needs servicing every 40K miles and a service costs about £350. That's an additional 0.009p per mile over a car which doesn't have a G Lader. Doing big mileage in a G60 shouldn't worry you too much. I would have thought an aftermarket turbo with other non-std parts would be more troublesome that making sure the charger's servicing is up to date.

Just a quickie to anyone reading this, VW will not do this if you're upgrading a G60 to a VR one (a common G60 swap) as they're not like-for-like. I'll go back in my box now :geek:

Absolutely. If the car fuels up enough under load and the AFR doesn’t spike (signifying running too high a duty cycle) there’s no need top uprate the injectors

But is the actual oil any good?

I got a good slug of extra midrange with a 268/272 cam but I'd say go for an exhaust and manifold if you haven't alreay done so plus the other things mentioned above. You may not need the 3.5 bar FPR. I had a similar spec to you with an SNS chip, 68mm pulley and a cam and the stock FPR was fine- the SNS chip was set up with a wideband and it had no fuelling issues even under hard load. Oil cooler is a must especially as it gets a bit warm accross the pond! ;)

Morning all A friend of mine is currently gathering parts in order to put a 20V lump into his R5GTT. He's going for quite big power, something in the region of 350-400bhp if poss with a built lump and hybrid turbo. Quite a few guys on here have sourced very reasonably priced turbos and other associated parts (manifolds, wastegates etc) from the States. They always seem to go big on the turbo tuning front accross the pond and what with the favourable exchange rates at the moment, it makes sense to source parts from there if poss. Are there any contact or reputable tuning companies which can be relied on? Alternatively, are there any good guys to speak to in this country to get good reliable power from the 20V? Any gearbox advice would be good too as I'd imagine 400bhp is capable of lunching most cog boxes. Cheers

Absolutely, if serviced properly and given a good clean oil supply the G-Lader is no more problematic than any other oil-fed moving part! The lump is strong too. The most engine related problem I had was a boost hose popping off the WMIC but I popped it back on and went on my way. They're no more or less reliable than any other car which is likely to have done over 100K miles. I sold my G60 with 119,000m on the clock and it had good compression and pulled like a train. Gearbox gave up though at 118,000m but JMR found me a replacement for £195 so no biggie.

He stopped posting on the SXOC because he wrecked one of the moderators tents or something at some Jap car show too. Hilarious!

Same here. 2005 Vauxhall Astra from Europcar. Awful seats and driving position and ventilation control which are immediately in font of the gear stick so your hand has to do a kind of limbo dance to turn the fan on. The clutch juddered (6K mile car) and it felt like someone had nicked two of the spark plugs it was so slow (it was a 1.6 "Twinport"). A bl00dy awful car!

It's near Crowborough in East Sussex which is a well known town for having really freak weather. Ashdown Forest's near by and can get a little windswept as it's very exposed moorland. Lots of sheep wandering about ;) (and cocks who can't drive by the sounds of it!)

That guy's on the SXOC as well. Seems like a complete unarticulate brain dead tool. And not driving with a seatbelt because one of mates might have been thrown free of the car once and narrowly avoided getting hit on the head by a log or whatever! I know the road he crashed on though. It is a nice stretch with good visability on the whole. The 40 limit there is more to do with the fact that Ashdown Forest, like the New Forest has freely grazing animals which often wander onto the road. Under different circumstances it would be national speed limit I'd imagine. It is very easy to do 60-70mph on much of that road though. He's a good speller too: "hippoocritical"

Wondering why you would ever want a pair of gauges in the centre console that have 7 different colours of LED and why even when you set each gauge to the same colour- why there were different to oneanother! And the noise- oh the noise!

Absolutely- I loved and still do love my old Rado. My gf hated it which made me love it even more! It's just not viable with a 50 mile/day commute :(

I'm just going on my experience of having driven both for thousands of miles. The Racing Puma's are very stiff and probably less suited to British roads than the 1.7- Small car, 205 tyres, 17 inch wheels, stiff Bilstein suspension - Not great in the bumpy and under-invested-in roads of this country. The Puma is a lot easier to hustle and place on the road and the controls are very light- I found the Corrado generally more "German" is that it was more mechanical feeling and heavier. Not necessarily in a bad way but it felt like a lot more car and with the G60 you could always feel the front wheel fighting. That's a lot to contend with for any suspension. The standard Puma may have a shedload of ugly space in the wheelarches but you appreciate that suspension travel and the compliancy it brings when you hit a pothole at 60mph.

I got GSF ball joints for my G60 and they were fine. Still that was about 2 years ago.

Having owned both a Corrado and a Puma I can say that on a tight twisty road the Puma takes some beating! A recent trip to the Highlands in the Puma had me grining from ear to ear and that was with worn suspension bushes (typical Ford quality after only 45K miles). My Corrado had it's suspension completely rebuilt with new balljoints, wishbones and bushes with some FK Highsports and I think the Puma would still have the edge on it. However, the Highsports I found a bit bouncy but I've only heard good things about FK Konigsports and anything from the KW stable. Don't forget to budget in for a laser alignment session to make sure all your hard earned isn't wasted by your wheels pointing in the wrong direction! However, the Corrado weighs a lot more than what is essentially a Fiesta so it's not going to change direction as quickly no matter how much money you throw at it. I found with my 200SX too that with suspension, you really do get what you pay for and it's worth doing properly first time round and make sure you've got some decent tyes. I've had budget tyres which were mis-shapen from new which ruined the Puma for a while until the problem was diagnosed.

Take it to a garage then I reckon

It wasn't a glow plug relay, something to do with fuelling I think. The garage fixed it for me :oops:

I had a problem with my Pug 205 TD just like yours and it was a faulty relay (which was a relief as it was cheap to fix)

Jabba are good if you don't want exhaust-end seals replacing or poor porting undertaken. They're good at that.

This one's probably better of under "Drivetrain" ;)