Neil VR6

Do you vent it straight out or fit a small filter onto the end?

mmm food for thought there. Even after all 4 tyres were changed there were still 2 which leaked. This suggests porosity although tyre centres are a bit cowboy. When the tyres were fitted I had to make them get one of the wheels refub'd as they scratched it whilst fitting the new tyre :x It was great at 7am this morning in the rain having to pump up the tyres so I didn't fall of the road on the way to work :x

Like the F40, separate wastegate in between the exhausts :twisted: I see what you're saying and I can see what VAG were "saying". I still don't know what to do. I could just give it a try I suppose for the sake of about £40 for the kit.

The two driver's side wheels never seem to keep pressure for that long. It was a problem with the tyres that were previously fitted to the wheels when I bought them that has carried through to the current tyres. It's not that bad as they probably need inflating once a week and don't lose that much. Just a bit annoying really. Do wheels go porous? (They are std G60 15 inch BBS's) Cheers

My mate had some 17 inch LM's on his RX7 with gold centres, looked the absolute nuts.

Just found this on the Bahn Brenner website: The boost return tube that passes the diverted air back to the g-lader supercharger when at partial or minimal throttle position also carries oil vented from the valve cover breather into the supercharger. This oil lubricates the wear strips or apex strips inside of the supercharger and it is an engineered in feature of the system. If you eliminate the boost return tube and block off the return side of the g-lader it is recommended that you also run an oil breather tube back into the block off plate from the valve cover breather. This will maintain the lubrication in the g-lader. It is our opinion that eliminating the boost return generates minimal to no gains in performance. Dumping the bypassed air to atmosphere can cause an air rushing sound when driving out of boost or when driving at partial throttle cruising conditions.

That's OK :viking: How come VW didn't design a SC which was either one sided by design or which had a proper 2nd air feed which pulled in cold air like the std airbox? Why make it how they did? Surely they could have "tuned" the inlet tract in order to make it quieter (g/f's MX5 has a very wierd convoluted inlet tract)? I suppose space was a consideration? I've always liked the thought of the boost return mod as it makes the engine bay less cluttered and it means there are less things to go wrong. However, I've yet to be convinced that it's better than the std set up. Won't it make a tremedous racket when you're on "semi" boost as the boost will wastefully vent to atmosphere?

Is it a T25 or 28?

Yup. Strictly speaking you'll also fail your MOT if you vent crankcase vapour into anything other than the engine. Still, I doubt if many MOT'ers give two hoots or would even notice.

You won't have to clean the IC pipes. The oil supply to the charger is very specific in that it will lubricate the bearings via specific channels. I would imagine (slightly guessing you may have gathered) that the oil in the inlet tract will help to seal the charger together via the apex seals which is something the oil supply cannot do.

Cheers Stu :)

There's one on my Dubforce pics (link below) that might be helpful....

Well VAG spent lots of deutchmarks developing the engine. I know I'll get shouted down for this but I can't see the point of deleting the boost return. Not only does it lubricate the charger but it also means that the charger is receiving air from both sides which it is designed to do. Unless you can fit a decent cold air feed to the boost return side then leave the boost return there. The reason it's so popular IMO is that it makes the car sound noisier & faster. I can't be good if you continually need to spray silicone lube into the charger because you removed a bit from the engine? I think oil in the intake is "designed in". The biggest problem with the G60 intake is the pitiful size of the IC. Task: Pitstop sell a catch tank which it routes the breather into and you blank off the bit where it would ordinarily go into the boost return. This way you can take away the oil fumes from the inlet tract and retain the boost return (you're still taking away the oil though): http://www.pitstopdevelopments.com/catch-tanks.htm You could probalby make something up like this as well without too much trouble.

mmmmm fumes. On myth busters did they disprove the "chinese burn"? Does your arm actually catch fire?

Yup, I miss doing Bristol and back on a tank of petrol though!!

A'men, I got 32 mpg on the way to work the other day but I was driving like my mum. Driving like a "normal" G60 owner I usually get 20mpg. When you use the boost though you can hear the sucking noise as it chews through the fuel! Still, my mate used to have a 500 brake RX7 which did about 5 mpg so it makes the G60 look like an Audi A2 diesel. BTW g60dave, you're mean, I used to have a VTR and would have wupped yo ass round the twisties! ;) :compress: :lol:

I live in Kent where you might imagine the petrol to be mentally expensive. Is that cheap then? I haven't actually filled the whole tank up for a while, I don't like to run it down completely in case there's sediment in the tank.

Keep us posted on the progress!

My car has a 12 gallon tank, costs about £33 to fill up on Optimax and last me about 200 miles :( Have I got the smallest tank ever or what?

If you put a tooth in it overnight it disappears by the morning! Ideal for children with milk teeth or fighting people. :geek:

RainX eh? Worth a go I s'pose, cheers :)

THREAD RESURRECTION! This was a bit of a nightmare in yesterday's Monsoon conditions on the M25. The wipers were not only slow but juddery (the blades are in good cond.). Can you rebush the mechanism? Cheers

Wouldn't know to be honest. :oops:

The old slave cylinders were cast metal and used to "infect" the hydraulic fluid with rust which can ruin the components (over a very long period of time). The replacements ones from VAG are now made from resin and don't suffer from this problem. :) The best way to tell if you're suffernig form this is to see the colour of the fluid in the reservior/header tank on the left hand side of the engine near the bulkhead as you look into the engine. If it's brown, you're in trouble.

It's all very well increasing boost but if the engine, exhaust and induction are still restrictive the boost will just cause greater stress and boost pressure will increase. Engines that use boost more efficiently through the use of match porting and headwork can make very good power without the need to use a tiny pulley which will only serve to increase G Lader service intervals and put more stress on the engine. For me, a 65mm pulley would be the last thing I do. A FMIC is essential to making big power though, the Corrado one is pitiful!