Henny

not quite Dinkus... The ones I've just bought have several colours/temps available and also give you the rating in Lumens... the 4600K ones (white) are the brightest in terms of Lumens, as you go up in temp they lose Lumens and also get bluer and then go purple-ish after that... I've opted for 6000K ones which are still white, but have a very slight tint to them. Have a look at this chart which I've cunningly nicked off the Ebay auction... :lol: Temp__Name_________ Lumens 4300k__Xtreme White_____3100Lm 6000k__Diamond White____2900Lm 8000k__Iceberg Blue______2500Lm 10000k_Brilliant Blue______2300Lm 12000k_Violet Purple______2000Lm

yup, with Flustered here... that's the easy way of getting 2 litre G60 16V which should get you good results... Just make sure you get someone GOOD to balance the bottom end and put in an uprated oil pump... 8)

the law about self levelling and hi-pressure washers is regarding NEW cars only... retro fitting HID kits don't need them and just have to be correctly aligned as Andy says... 8) I've just bought a set from Ebay for £99 + £20 p&p which also comes with ballasts, wiring and upgrade relay loom as well as giving you a choice of bulb colour temp and also fitment style (H4, H7, H1, R2S, R4S etc, etc etc,) for my Passat... Just waiting for 'em to turn up now, should be here in the next couple of days... 8)

ummm... I spent 8 months without driving J-Dub when I rebuilt her engine, I then spent 3 months without her while waiting for the insurance to pay after she was written off... I then spent over a month without H-YYU when I swapped the engine over, and another 2 months when the head bolt thread was found to have stripped and I'm currently without her again due to a random running fault meaning I can't use her at the moment... currently 3 months off the road and looking like she's not going to see much movement until late January at the earliest due to getting married... :| Miss it like crazy, can't wait to get her fixed and back on the road to give it some serious stick (and probably get her re-mapped again now she'll be fuelling properly! :oops: ) although I am enjoying my Passat TDI and the 45MPG average I get! :lol:

go to VW, they're only £20ish... Don't bother with the GSF/Eurocarparts ones as they're not as good as the VW ones...

they're not full coilovers, they're just a spring and a collar to allow you to wind up/down the bottom plate for the spring... you still need a good set of shocks to go with these... They're an interesting idea, but, to be honest, I'd say you'd be better off buying a full set of proper coilovers than these... :|

have a look in either of my galleries and there's loads of pictures of my Corrados with a Golf G60 front mount intercooler, both with stock and Reiger RS4 style front bumpers... 8)

Depends on which spec one you buy though! Only the full monty, big valve, tape polished one outflows a 16V head by a significant way... the standard valve sized ones flow VERY well, but not quite as well as a valver head... With that spec, I'd guesstimate somewhere between 200 and 210 GENUINE BHP with a nice big fat lump of torque all the way through the rev range that will make the car be a damned sight faster than a lot of cars with more BHP, but less torque... ;) 8)

fit a toothed belt system and feel the difference! ;) :lol:

The reason that you have to do this procedure is simple: It's illegal to have a video screen where it's visible to the driver unless the car is parked and too many people know to simply earth the handbrake connector on the older headunits, so Alpine have gotten clever with it to get around getting sued when some Max-Power chav muppet drives their Paxo through a bus queue of people while watching "2fast2furious" on their nice new Alpine DVD headunit... My Clarion unit simply needed the handbrake cable attaching to earth to make it work at all times... 8)

yup, cash only for me too... I bought a cash checking pen from Smiths when I sold my last car to check the money I received was legit... Be very aware that if you accept a dodgy check or bankers draft, the car has not been stolen, but you have been a victim of "theft by deception" so the way the police will process it is completely different AND your insurance won't cover it...

I LIKE HAM!!!! Sorry, couldn't resist it...

*wanders off to members gallery to find a few numberplates to add...* :lol: :twisted:

VR6 gearbox has a completely different bell housing from the 4 cylinder gearbox... You'd need to change the bell housing over to get it to fit, and even then I'm not sure if it'd work or not...

I do now, and I'd bet Supercharged has put a fair few gallons in his Corrado! :lol:

Interesting that my car showed improvement on low end, mid range AND top end bhp AND torque using toothed pulleys over standard pulleys on a rolling road, so there IS a performance gain to be had with them... And that was comparing a 68mm non-toothed pulley to a 69.1 toothed one... Eliminating belt slip WILL provide gains in boost and therefore power throughout the rev range... And, as for snapping belts, I've broken 3 since I fitted my kit almost 3 years ago. All 3 of those were within a week of each other after the standard tensioner I'd been using for 18months lost it's dampening fluid and so let the belt slacken and grab which is what was snapping them. The solid tensioner I now run solved that problem and has actually quietened down the whine from the belt substantially...

oh god, here we go again... :roll: :lol:

flusted, that's what the toothed pulley kits use... Dunno if it'd work with the normal belt, but I can't see why not...

nope... the ignition switch has several different contacts inside it to switch different things at different times as you turn the key... When mine went in J-DUB, I had exactly the same thing where it was allowing the starter motor to turn the engine over, but wasn't allowing power to the coil unless it was not at the start position... this meant I could bump start it, but it wouldn't start off the starter motor, even though the starter was turning the engine over perfectly well! They're a bad design to be quite honest, and replacing the £25 part is worth doing even if it doesn't cure your problem as, at least, it'll rule it out as part of the problem... ;)

Torque is 11Lb/Ft or 15Nm

Just another note: GermanPlates.tk also don't do GB badged german style plates, even though they have pictures on their website... According to the email I got from them yesterday, they've not done 'em since 2003... :roll: Usefull when that's what I was after for the 'ssat... :roll: :mad:

I'm a Senior Broadcast Engineer by trade and, as such, I have to research alternative music storage/recording methods to assess viability for use on-air and for archiving audio... We've recently changed from using MP2 to using Broadcast WAV (Cartchunk)... We don't use MP3 on air, not because it sounds bad by default, but because there's no way of ensuring it won't sound bad if someone screws up the settings when they're recording stuff... :roll: My 2 Dension HDD MP3 head units sound almost indistinguishable from CD in either of my cars (Passat or Corrado)... There's a couple of tracks on my HDDs where you can tell it's an MP3 rip of a CD, (mainly due to them not having been encoded by me to my standards) but otherwise, you'd be hard pushed to tell on just about any of the 8,000+ tracks that are normally in the cars... (80Gb capacity in either car is good for around 55 DAYS of audio!) It's all about the combination of the CD-ROM you rip with, the version of the MP3 compression software you use and how good the de-compressor/processor is in the playback unit... I've played some of my MP3s on other players and they've sounded awful and full of digital compression artifacts, but that's purely down to the firmware on those players or the CD-rom drive within the headunit... To be honest, what with road noise, engine noise, wind noise and other idiots with their BOOM-TISH-BOOM-TISH subs and tweeters only setups I'd be impressed if most people could tell the difference between an MP3 recorded at 32KHz and one recorded at 44KHz when in a moving car. A car is NOT a good place for listening to hi-quality audio, and if you think it is, well...

K-rado, either dead or re-registered on a private plate... ;)

locked... (that was a nice easy answer wasn't it... 8) :lol: )

having seen the mess my Corrado made of a MKIII golf when it pulled out in front of me, and having since found that the damage was a bent wishbone, buckled alloy wheel, dented front wing and couple of scrapes on the rear wheel arch... yup, they're pretty well built! :lol: 8)