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Bit of a Narcissist by any chance Shaun? ;)

mate you should try Alfa Romeo suspension bushes! 2 years would be considered a long time on an alfa!

Oh get off your high horses folks! If you'd actually read the magazine properly you'd have noticed that all the ratings have been changed. Read it again - there's an explanation. I hate to say it, but the corrado IS a bit nose heavy. Fact. Corrado better built than a new mini? Really? Mine wasn't. Neither of them in fact. Not even as well built as my old golf VR. And finally, I reckon either a BM or Porsche always wins because they're the best in the group? Come on chaps (in a Scouse accent)... Calm Down :) I love corrados and always will, but lets be a bit realistic here shall we.

So how many different people can say 'it makes no difference on an old car like a corrado'!! :)

Same thing happened to me on here/ed38! Someone bought and paid for a vr head, but never collected/supplied a delivery address even after starting a thread etc! Keep the money and the car :) (i would - loose morals see)

When I was looking for an Alfa GTA I noticed that quite a few of the ex-demo cars had also had several owners since. More so than the non ex-demo cars. Perhaps because the ex-demos had been ragged/generally treated with less care, so suffered more problems, and therefore sold on more regularly? Who cares on a older car though! Like someone said, makes no difference really.

I'm yet to hear a nice V10 personally. I think they sound dry and dull in my experience. Like you say though, horses for courses.

I've gotta be honest - if I was a traffic cop i reckon i'd wind people up sometimes. The people they follow etc are more than likely the ones they saw messing around the day before, but didn't get a chance to stop. Of course I'm sure everyone on here is an angel and wouldn't do anything to upset the local force eh? ;)

Yeah I love Yanky V8s too. Have you ever heard an 800bhp nascar at full chat? I love the really hard-edged V8 sound they make. Brilliant :)

I couldn't agree more Kev. Lots of modern fezzas, gallardo, and many others sound totally lame. I can't stand the whailing/shreiking/blaring noise that the 360 makes. It's hideous. Personally I love the sound of some of the supercharged Merc V8s - eg, the SLR. Like being back in WW2 again for some people I bet! :) I heard that Hurricane that crashed at the airshow at the weekend just before the pilot lost control - very sad indeed - but the sound of that engine was amazing.

Well yeas, I didn't specifically mean 24 valves against 12v! I'll clarify - more valves = lamer sound than less valves :) Is it a wierd trait of 24v engines or something Kev? My Alfa sounded a bit similar - hollow and 'dry' - until I replaced the exhaust with a special pasta sports exhaust :) I'd think it would be more to do with the 4 valves per cyl as opposed to the 2v per cyl of the old VR. Only evidence I have for this is that the old mk2 8vs used to "bark" a lot harder than the valvers when they both had filters on... :?[/quote:4f175]

Did the new owner realise just how remarkably gay your/his car is? :)

Is it a wierd trait of 24v engines or something Kev? My Alfa sounded a bit similar - hollow and 'dry' - until I replaced the exhaust with a special pasta sports exhaust :)

Rimshot, sorry mate but your name makes me laugh every time I see it. It sounds like some sort of back door 'money shot' in porn films! :) (no offence)

Yeah I think the 12v sounds much better than the 24v. Sorry 24v fans :)

Becuase it's the only way to be sure that the rings bed in properly! Not sure about the gains but I know there were alot of MK2 GTi's that were fast and some that were quicker - one 16v I drove that always put out high figures was originally a demonstrator - maybe the engine was so strong becuase of the way it was driven early in it's life? But it doesn't ensure the rings bed in properly - it's a gamble. And you're fooked if it goes wrong. Nothing is guaranteed in any way whatsoever. To say it is the only way to ensure the rings bed in properly is just nonsense to be fair. So all engines that were run in as recommended are suspected as having non properly bedded in rings? Rubbish. All cars leave the factory with engines that kick out different amounts of power. Especially 20 odd year old golf gti's. How on earth could you possibly prove, or even suspect, that the difference between two cars is most likely because of the way they were run in?! Seems utterly pie in the sky to me. Much more likely that they left the factory with different outputs.

So to summarise.. If you're in a race team - go for the hard method. Or if you're a risk-taker. Not a racer? Go for gradual. I cannot believe someone would risk a savage running in method on a new road-going vr lump for the theoretical advantage of a couple of bhp! Why! :shock:

So Vince does it for what reason mate? To ensure that his customers engines don't blow up. Which implies that...... IT'S SAFER TO RUN IT IN PROPERLY RATHER THAN JUST RAG IT AS SUGGESTED.

Yeah, Stealth Racing know nothing eh? :?

Go away you evil man. There is no such thing as TOO MUCH POWER!!! :nono:

Yeah maybe with a race-spec engine of some description. Good luck doing that with a fragile vr lump though.

Stealth's running-in instructions go something like this.... No more than 3k revs for 1500 miles. Oil change. Then another 500 miles at no more than 3.5k revs. Then increase revs by 100 every 100 miles until you reach 4000 revs. Something like that anyway - i've not got the best memory in the world :) I'll dig the sheet out tomorrow. Suffice it to say, it's a bleedin nightmare! I did it on a brand new vr engine, and the waiting nearly killed me.

No i'm not knocking Ford reliability at all. They aren't built to last. The mechanics on Fords have always been good, parts are cheap as chips - hell I just went to Ford for a VR6 oil seal yesterday, it was less then half the price of a VW one. They just rust quicker than most cars, and are not 'built to last'. I am impressed by Seat and Skoda though, once VW took them over they produced cars that were a million times better than the originals. Dude - get with the times. Not built to last. Rust quickly. Hardly. There is very lttle difference between makes these days in terms of longevity and engineering. Last year Ford beat ALL the premium german marques in a GERMAN reliability survey. Times are a changing fella. Open your eyes - dubs aren't the only well made cars around any more.

No!!! :( First Burnsey, now this :( A dark day for motorsport.

Now you're knocking ford reliability? Er, I did 80k miles in a 1.6 focus without ANY maintenance at all, and it's still going 100k later. Not too shabby really is it.