schrickvr6

You could always just boil the kettle or use a steam cleaner, be alot quicker than a hair dryer. :thumb right:

I found a 2nd hand dizzy today from a supposedly low (but unknown) mileage car for about £85 inc vat & delivery, does that sound about right?..... I thought it was a bit steep. At the moment i'm leaning towards a new one unless the local auto sparky can find a sensor to rebuild my one. :roll:

Damn i forgot all about that, how did grant do in his new beetle?

Ok thanks for asking, what was wrong with them?

It has but i bought it about 5 years ago for £500 2nd hand. :D

Ah well it's knackered, has anyone got a vr6 distributor going cheap?

Thanks STORM 2 I got my car on vag-com today with the engine running and i did have an intermittent out of range/no signal fault with the hall sender. Unfortunately the hall sender is part of the distributor and is not available seperately.....later on i got the dizzy off to get the part number to check for prices as i didn't like the sound of £176 trade price......and then i noticed the plastic shield that protects the wiring from getting cut up was gnarled right up and wedged between the sensor and the metal hub. Anyhow i've stripped the dizzy down, removed the remains of the plastic shield, glued the wires down and cleaned it out tidy with some white spirits, i'll give it a chance to dry out and hopefully it will be ok :? edit: Does it matter which way around the spindle/hub of the dizzy fits onto the cam?

Listen to the bro he speaks sense, although you would need some headwork to really take advantage of the increased capacity. I've got just over 3l rebore, BVH, schrick manifold, 6 branch exhaust and schrick race 278 and 284 cams and economy is not 'THAT' bad, i tend to get around 17-18mpg average but most of my driving is town /A road.

I've got a strange intermittent problem where the car goes then holds, goes, holds, particularly at higher revs, it also doesn't really sound like a misfire but it feels like it. The problem also seems to get better as the car warms up but not always. I've replaced all the obvious stuff such plugs, rotor arm and cap and the coil(92k dizzy) has been changed as the old one died. All that changed nothing so i got the car on the snap-on equivalent of vag-com which threw up fault codes for the lambda, hall sender and crank sensor....but the engine wasn't running so i'm guessing thats why i got the last two, anyhow i've changed the lambda and now when i get this problem it feels very flat around 1000rpm, i'm guessing again that this is because now its not running in safe mode the ignition timing has been advanced a fair old whack. The only thing i can think of is the ht leads breaking down under strain but they are pretty new magnecor kv-85s, could it be an intermittent fault or maybe dodgy wiring with hall sender or crank sensor? Sorry about the long post but i'm stumped :roll: If you need any more info on the engine let me know as it is pretty heavily tuned. TIA :D

I found that as soon as one of the original pipes went they all started going, I bought some samco hoses and have not had the slightest problem with them in about 5 years use, not too sure if it's still the case but hose direct were the cheapest when i bought mine (£140 IIRC).