Henny

Ah, that's not entirely true Jim... ;) There's a bit of a debate on this one, as some cars have: .........................Corrado Supercharged G60 and some have: .........................Corrado G60 Supercharged No one is quite sure which is correct, or if there IS actually a correct answer... :? Mine says G60 Supercharged...

that should JB weld back on... 8) Thank god that's not a vital part of the box! ;) I'd DEFINATELY raise the suspension if I were you! ;) :? Check all the way under the rest of the car too, you may have damaged a fuel or brake pipe and not notice until you either get a fuel leak or your brakes give up on you! :|

the screwdriver is the black end of the wheel nut remover... ;) pull it out and you'll see what I mean! ;) The discoloured parts on you paint look like someone's left bird cr@p on the paint for too long and it's eaten into the laquer... it'll probably poilsh out after a while... use something like a clay bar to try and get some oils back into the laquer. 8) The fuel cap sticker is standard fit... tells you (in english!) to use "premium unleaded only" ie good quality unleaded or Super unleaded. If they're all the scrapes that the paintwork has, you've got a very nice C there... 8)

it's also easier to swap the whole dizzy than it would be to try and take out the hall sender... ;) 1x 13mm bolt to undo once you've taken the cap off... twist as you pull and it'll come right out... 8)

Ok, hall senders replaced points in the dizzy on a car. Points were a mechanical switch which opened and closed as the dizzy span letting the electricity get to the coil to provide the spark to the plugs. As you can imagine, points wore out very quickly and were often a PITA to set up and keep setup properly. A Hall sender is basically a small coil of wire which detects a piece of metal going past it, this then sends a very small electrical pulse to an amplifier which then sends the elctrical signal to the coil and onto the plugs to give the spark. The hall sender lives inside the dizzy on a G60 and isn't replaceable seperately AFAIK, so you need to replace the whole Dizzy... 8) Hope this helps. 8)

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The lump is there to smooth the throttle response at low throttle positions... effectively it acts as a dam for the airflow creating a smoother transition from closed to open until the second butterfly opens and all hell breaks loose anyway! ;) :lol: You may find it a little bit less predictable and less easy to drive in traffic if you remove it, but, as long as you fill in the holes that it mounts onto, there is no reason it needs to be there... 8)

It's alwasys been legal to de-LOCK a car, plenty of new cars have just a fob to unlock them and have no key holes... 8) (Renault Laguna doesn't even have a Key, it just has a card...) Judging by new TVRs, it's also now legal to have no handles at all on your car and to just have electrically operated opening mechanisms... 8)

Check your fuses, it has probably blown a fuse if it just suddenly stopped working. If you find one it's blown (probably a 15A) then replace it and see if it blows it again... If it does, put in a 20A to test the spoiler off the switch. If that's OK, then you need to put a 15A fuse back in, and then spray the spoiler lifting mechanism with white grease after cleaning it up..... If it blows the 20A fuse, then you have a serious problem, or a seized mechanism... :?

There were 2 ways I used to do this on Beetles which I used to de-lock when I was a mechanic... 1) Connect a pair of electrical wires to ONE of the door lock actuators with a 9V battery terminal in a plastic bag under the body somewhere only you know about. If you ever get locked out, the odds are that you'll be able to find somewhere local who will supply you with a fresh 9V battery which will unlock that door for you... 8) 2) Connect up a Bowden style cable with a hidden pull under the car somewhere which unlocks one of the doors mechanically. No parts needed if the battery ever does go flat, but if someone discovers it, you're knackered security wise... :? Making up hidden battery terminals is all well and good, but you do HAVE to make sure that there is NO way to short them, even in an accident as they could turn a minor shunt into a major fire... :? :crazyeyes: Which ever route you choose, make sure YOU are the only person to know about it to ensure the security of your car! ;) :D

Good plan mate, WILL save you a shed load of re-painting costs from all the accounts of fitting one of these things that I've heard! :? :roll: Nope, I quite like it to be honest, but I don't think it's what I want my Corrado to be about... :? The only reason I bought it was 'cos I thought I was gonna sling an intercooler in the middle vent, and then I got the Golf G60 intercooler... I've now measured it up, and the Corrado actually provides MORE air flow to the Golf intercooler than if it were on a Golf! :? :crazyeyes: I need to book the car in for a respray PDQ if I'm gonna get the car finished by my deadline of VWNW and I'm seriously thinking of dumping the Rieger bumper and going back to my spare original bumper to make her into more of a street sleeper style car... 8) I've been SOOO happy with the Rieger bumper I can't express it! 8) It fit easily (once I worked out WTF the german instructions were on about! ;) ), it's EXCELLENT quality and the fit is spot on (as people who saw it at Inters will verify 8) ) If I were to go the whole hog, with side skirts and a different rear bumper, then the front RS4 bumper would stay, but I like the comments I got about my car being original looking in my Gallery thread and I think I wanna stick with that look.... 8)

I take it you got it off then? ;) :D 8) Happy to help mate... 8)

Sorry mate, this doesn't work... on a 205 45 16 tyre: 205 = width in mm 45 = percentage of width that the sidewall height is 16 = inside diameter of the tyre in inches.... So your figures are not accurate...

Tom? that got me guessing until I read the answer... :? aide, 8) do you read B3ta.com by any chance.... ;) 8) Spot on... :D P.s. audi 80 throttle body butterflies are sooooo close to the 16V 1.8 VW unit sizes, there's pretty much no point in swapping them over... :?

completey away from the VAG scene but nissan did a 1 ltr super turbo special with sumit like 130bhp, Nah mate, it was a Nissan Micra called the "super turbo" but was only turbo charged.... confused quite a few people! ;) :lol: :roll: Turbo + supercharger = Compound charging... Very trick, quite difficult to balance properly, and rarely done well.... IIRC TrendyTramp has done this to the mental red spaceframe/rollcaged MKII shell which was at inters both last and this year in various states of completeness... 8) I first read about this about 9 years ago (sheesh! was it really that long ago! :oops: :crazyeyes: )while at Uni trying to work out what to do with my dead 1.6GTI engine (con-rod through block kinda dead :roll: ) and I found an article about an American bloke who'd done the compound charging using a clever bit of electronics and an electric clutch on the supercharger to stop it over revving.... 8) Very trick, and VERY effective... 8) Nearly 1000BHP IIRC! :D :? (based on a Yank V8 to be fair... )

fuel can keep for that long... My G60 hadn't been started in a day under 9 months while I was rebuilding the engine and she still fired up first time... 8) If you really want to drain it, the quickest way is to pull off the fuel delivery pipe in the engine bay and put it into your container, then find the fuel pump relay and short between the pins to make the fuel pump run... this'll empty your tank pretty quickly and safely... 8)

yup. hang on a mo and I'll getcha a photo :) Here ya go, undo the 2 that are stainless in this photo and the same the other side (passenger side in pic)

Remove the front and rear 17mm bolt each side. The center one is a 13mm IIRC and should be left WELL alone... 8)

Yup. Do not remove the center bolts (there's 3 either side) as they hold the cross member on and you'll drop the engine on your head if you do take 'em out! :? Pretty sure they're 17mm heads on 'em... 8)

Tom? WTFAYBOA? that one goes over my head... :?

:pukeleft::pukeleft::pukeleft: I really don't like that version of the Mustang... :? Much prefer this one.... 8)

WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP YOU HERATIC! :shock: :shock: :lol: AC COBRA, not Ford Mustang.... :roll:

only one car... (other than J-Dub and my MKI! ;) ) A Genuine 1967 Shelby 427 AC Cobra S/C 8) 8) 8) 409.9 bhp @ 5600 rpm 462.0 ft lbs @ 2800 rpm :crazyeyes: 0-60mph in 4.2 seconds 0-100 in 9.9 seconds Top Speed: 165mph Now THAT is a proper mental car and is the ONE car I definately would buy if I won the lottery... 8) There would be others, but this is the one I want to own more than anything else... 8)

definately not the onlly one... ;) :D

Call Cobra on 023 9265 5733 and ask 'em! ;) :D http://www.cobra-alarms.com