Neil VR6

Get some cams from Newman, they're UK based and will grind you anything you like without charging you the earth for a name like Schrick: http://www.newman-cams.com/

A chargecooler uses a small radiator which cools water, the water is then pumped to a "jacket" which surrounds the boost pipe to cool it. A chargecooler is a water-to-air cooler and an intercooler is air-to-air.

Wierd: 12 gallon tank 270 miles from a tank =22.5 mpg HOWEVER: MFA reads high 20's to low 30's? I do, however, run a Shabba chip which means it could throw out the MFA?

Absolutely, don't sink to his level. Calm down and be rational. Perhaps even tape the conversation with a dictaphone when you go to his house and ask him calmly to own up and pay up. You've seen what he's capable of, he'll do things that you would never dream of doing. If he tells you where to go then get the police involved.

Mine G60 (with small oil cooler) runs the following temps: Gentle 30-50mph cruising: ca. 94-98 80 mph motorway: 104 90 mph motorway: 108-110 Although I have seen temps up to 112 when giving it some on the motorway but I can't afford the petrol to keep up that speed! I have also seen 114 when sitting in traffic after motorway work. It cools down once you get going though and as air starts flowing over the cooler

My understanding is because a lambda only measures a very narrow range of a/f so if you're already outside that range it won't do much at all anyway.

Also try Elephant and Admiral. Both target younger drivers. :)

Sounds like you might need an oil cooler?

My old lambda probe was shot to bits and the car ran OK. However, following replacement with a VAG one, it runs well and I get an extra 60-70 miles out of a tank of petrol!

Could have been a Quattroporte? Square 4 door. Strangely alluring! Nice oval clock in the dash!

I'm definitely going to Santa Pod this Sunday (4th). Anybody else going? (I know it's an outside chance as it's the E38 weekend.)

Did you get those brakes off a Le Mans car?!

Righto, the Newman cams, if you decide to go for one, are very reasonably priced too. £180 all in.

G60's are easier to tune as a general rule (forced induction cars always are) although as with all car tuning you need to do it properly. Cheaper to rebuild than a VR too. Still, some love the VR's and wouldn't consider a G. Maybe worth going to a few local meets and get taken out for a ride in both and make up your own mind. See which camp you belong in! (Ignore people who say G-Laders are unreliable. If you have them rebuilt every 40K after the cars first 70K you'll be fine. Stay away from Jabba rebilds though and look for one rebuilt by G-Werks or JMR)

Oh man, I'm flattered! :) :lol: (Most don't pay any attention to what I say and probably for good reason) Most of what I said applies to all Corrado's. I've found them quite an expensive ownership proposition. Something to bear in mind. :)

It does seem pricey but buying a well modded car straight off is much cheaper than doing it yourself unless you're not into modifying the car. Make sure all the receipts are there though and look for a well loved car with plenty of regular oil changes. That seems like a reasonable price to me. When I got mine I made sure that I got one with sound bodywork as panels are costly to repair, replace and respray. As Henny says, spoiler problems are often easily sorted by cutting a single wire (behind the h/u) so don't worry about that too much. Things that often need doing are rear brake calipers and rear suspension bushes. Mk 3 or 4 GTi rear calipers are good bolt-on replacements and cost about £90 a corner. I can't remember how much my replacement bushes were :oops: Scour the forum and you'll get a feel for what to look out for. There's a buyers guide somewhere too. :)

I used it the other day on my car. There's a guy on here who sells it at a discount: http://www.the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27074 As everybody says it's not that nice to use, make sure you spray quite a lot of the spray on or the clay "grips" the paint. However, the results are very good. I did the bonnet wings and roof and then the Swissol wax went on and came off very easily. As I ran out of time I could only polish the doors and rear flanks and the wax was much harder to polish off without the clay bar pre-treatment.

:?: What on earth do Corrados weigh? That was my first time at the 'Pod.:oops: I could list out a load of excuses but suffice it to say the car has been worked on a bit in terms of getting it's power up to what it should be. Also, next time I go up I'm going to take the spare wheel out the back along with the 12 inch boxed sub! (And run the front tyres at less than 2.6 bar!) Live and learn :)

Righto. Just thought, you might struggle to get peeps from this forum at the Pod on the 4th as that's the Edition38 show weekend. Something to bear in mind perhaps. :)

Santa Pod 4th September? RWYB?

Just phoned Newman cams as they said that as I'm not raising the rev limit I won't need new valve springs. Coupled to this the fact that the G60 doesn't need to be thrashed in its upper rev limits it wouldn't be necessary to replace the springs. Sounds like a bolt-in job. :)

Will do :)

Thanks for the info. I guess Newmans will sell valve springs?

Thought I'd resurrect this thread rather than starting another one. I'm buying a cam off RACK which is a Newman cam ground to the exact specs of the Schrick cam to go onto my G60. I'm already running a Jabba chip, 68mm pulley, S4 charger and some other breathing mods. Will I need to upgrade the injectors to fit this cam and is it sufficiently "mild" to keep the original valve springs etc? Can I even run the cam with the Jabba chip? Cheers

Between 3.5 and 4 I reckon.