CTWG60

Jesus no wonder they break!

:) Anything involving a hacksaw is never easy and usually involves swearing, sweating and pain hence the name HACKsaw. I can't hack hacksaws and I hate hacking away at things. And I'm surprised at you cheesewire I never had you down as a rubber man. From your posts I always imagine you as some sort of Hardcore MadMax character on the road with a glowing red bonnet from the heat of your turbo and flames out your tailpipe kind of thing all hunched over the steering wheel pushing porsches and bmws out of the fast lane of the motorway. :D

Hi Steve, Powerflex and the like do stiffen up the suspension but they do wear out quicker and transmit more noise and vibration as you probably already know. As a daily driver car one of the first jobs I did was replace all the rubber at the front and rear along with struts all VAG factory stuff and I have to say the difference between 15yr old rubber bushes and new items is night and day. Feels like a new car and you get a feeling for what the magazines where talking about when they reviewed the car all that time ago. The rear beam bushes I let a garage do later on along with a new brake bias valve and braided hoses all round. First and last time I use a garage to do work on this car. They didn't bleed the rear brakes properly. :shrug: Anyway I say go with the factory stuff, and you loose the rear steer affect if you use poly's on the rear. I'd say you need a tool to install the new bushes I think the knowledge base has more info.

My opinion is that accidents will always happen but it's the speed at which the accident occurs that determines whether severe injury or death occurs. Back to the original article, recently a friend who was visiting north wales to visit his retired parents he travelled through a village behind an elderly lady doing 20-25mph through the village she pulled over within sight of the "national speed limit" signs. At which my friend accelerated off to continue on his way, he was caught doing 58mph in a 30mph zone meters from the signs. You draw your own opinion as to whether this sort of road policing is right or wrong.

Why don't you plug in your old ecu and loom to see if it still fires? I know you set it up so you could plug straight back in. Or am I missing something, or is it not that simple!

Mmmm like I say weld the 4cker up! sounds like another successful sunroof repair! :scratch:

Useful for road rage. gun turret. If you can get it open. LOL

Don't worry about the sunroof they are a flawed design. MIne broke so I got another one and fitted it. Just before I got it all lined up and finished it broke as well in exactly the same place. I'll be welding the 4cker up when I get the car resprayed. :mad2:

I think it's genuine after all it is an automatic!! :lol: Who would want a R32 automatic unless you were missing an arm! :wave:

I'm interested but I won't pay up front. So stick me down on your list as my car is close to getting an advisory on the beam brightness at the next MOT. I'd want a loom that would do each headlight and each beam on individual relays so as to be safe and also be plug and play. Many Thanks. :salute: edit: the above looks a bit aggressive sorry it's not meant to read like that. :roll:

It was seeing rados on the move that finally prompted me to go get one. That and a book I'd had for the last 10 years that I flicked through occasionally. It was written before the VR6 was released so it went into great depth about the G60. Which is probably why I went for the Corrado G60 plus the rado G60 is the only RHD G60 engine car produced by VW.

Which leads to the most important thing which is not maximum torque achieved but the area beneath the torque curve at the wheels over the engines useable rev range.

That looks much more aggressive but it isn't the same car is it?

But what's weird about those numbers is that the flywheel figures don't seem very exaggerated but the high losses and hence the wheel figures seem low. I can't get my head around how that would happen unless the rolling road had a fault or was absorbing a lot of the torque and measuring it's own run down losses. :scratch:

It's not so much the car as the rolling road used that probably has the problem. http://www.pumaracing.co.uk/trans.htm http://www.pumaracing.co.uk/coastdwn.htm Those scottish rolling road figures are strange in my opinion. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5629&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Yes they are and awesome's rolling road is one of the most accurate RR (which has been proven by there running of standard new cars and getting book clutch figures) in the country and just out of curiosity I called them up and spoke to a very helpful man who informed me what I have always suspected. Power figures at the clutch in most cases is a geustimate and he said if you see 40-50bhp loss through a FWD car something is very wrong and you would struggle to push the car physically. Don't flame me if you find this information upsetting. This is just the results of a little bit of research.

Take a look on here for lots of examples of "power at clutch" and "Max Power" on all sorts of VAG cars http://www.awesome-gti.co.uk/rollingroa ... 05.07.html

Ditto. I can't really see the point of 2 [or more] road cars tbh, but then I'm not known for my conformist or balanced views :lol: One road car, 1 track car, or one road car, one company car.....I can go along with that, but 2 privately owned road cars is like having 2 wives, but you fancy one more than the other. And why pay to insure and tax the 2nd wife and only bang her once a month? Besides, nearly everything I've driven in recent years is just dull next to the C anyway. Fun for a week..... then I want the C back.....so I'd rather just devote all my time and money to one wife :-) 2 of them is just too complicated. interesting analogy. I see it more as having one wife and a mistress. The rado being good for a romp at the weekend. :lol: That can't be right cos' if that were the case your mistress is a high maintenance expensive b1tch that will bite you in the ass when you least expect it! Surely that description is of a wife? :ignore:

I take it this brother-in-law is married to your sister? If so then tell him to quote his vows "For better of for worse" but be aware she may quote back, "Till death do us part" which wouldn't be good. My brother in law did this to his 3 month old Landrover Discorvery TDi, I ended in a new engine job at the dealers but fortunately he found an accidental damage clause in his motor insurance policy and they coughed up. So check your policy first.

Bloody hell that's the most boring video involving a car I've ever seen. Has someone been messing with the aspect ratio on it. It looks like 16:9 squished to 4:3 in places.

Oh a bit of science hey! Be sure to let me know what happens, I might even see you there. :)

So you've changed that gearbox then! :D

Err first dibs on the engine if you change your mind :) Like I got that sort of money floating around at the mo!

I think your right about the flywheel. You've put together a cracking 16vG60 I'm jealous I have to admit. I think the power you have is really good but what's probably the best thing about this engine is it can do the numbers and be a nice road car with a good spread of torque. It's not like so many engines you read about, I imagine were they get the numbers but they're a pig to drive smoothly, or daily should I say. Well done................... ye jammy git. :lol:

Your absolutely right JezzaG60. I think maybe the only thing left for you to do is increase air density with maybe a 3d water/methanol system to increase power and reduce combustion heat. I can't really think of a more significant way of gaining more power without losing drivability. Any chance of that engine bay shot. :) ps. did you lighten the flywheel?