Henny

DVLA will also be able to tell you if the plate's ever been registered, and if not, if it will ever become available... 8) H3NNY is out there somewhere... :roll: :lol: :?

Iiiieeee.... talk about bodge jobs... :roll:

sounds familiar... :roll: :cry: Definately worth checking... The way to tell is to look down the cambelt side of the engine towards the bottom of the engine. The big pulley at the bottom that drives the supercharger belt and the powersteering belt will be at a weird angle if the bolt has snapped... :? If it is this, repairs can cost anything from a couple of quid for a new bolt, upto the cost of basically a new engine... :?

yup, it's also a water level warning light... Check that your coolant level is OK when the engine is cold... 8)

Have a word with John (16VG60) He's running twin inlets on his 16V G60 and it sound sweet! (Goes like stink too! :wink: )

Slightly more costly?!? :shock: My head gasket went, so while the head was off anyway I had new guides and seals put in it and had it flowed and polished... Total cost (inc. new VAG gasket set) just over £500.... * Cost for 16V conversion? Several Thousand pounds... :? Quite a few G60s are getting ready for head rebuilds, so why not get it flowed and ported while you're doing the maintenance? :? *(no labour costs included in either!) I agree that a 16V (or 20V or crossflow) conversion is WAY better than the standard head will ever be, but it's also a MAJOR modification with lots of costs (including the extra insurance!) and non-standard parts... It's like comparing a charger rebuild with changing the engine for a 1.8T... Both get around the charger needing a rebuild, but it's the equivalent to using a nuclear warhead to kill a wasp when a rolled newspaper would kill it just as dead! :roll: :lol:

Looks sweet... 8)

Nope, AFAIK the only ECUs that learn anything are the VR6 ones... All of the rest are static programmed so don't change any of their internal perameters... :?

Use the search! :roll: There's LOADS of posts about it on here... try searching for "passat AND handle" and see what you find! :wink:

I've just had a look on Etka6 and I can't find the seal... It looks like it comes complete with the window glass... :? Anyone else know differently?

I take it you didn't like that answer?!? :roll: :-P What are you trying to do that needs 'em removing?

Dunno Kev, it wouldn't suprise me though! :roll: The only reason I know is from when I scrapped my written off C and decided to see if I could get the glass out... I failed! :oops: :lol:

Side windows are bonded in... They're a sod to remove without breaking the glass... :?

Dunno who told you that... :? Every tuning company I've spoken to agrees that porting and flowing the head on a G60 is VERY benificial... That's why so many people are going for 16V, 20V or cross flow heads. The standard G60 head is very restrictive and so it's pretty easy to get good gains out of porting/flowing the head... The cam I don't know much about... I've heard that they don't do a lot as you can't go too mad with a cam on a G60 else you start blowing your pressure straight out of the exhaust valves rather than pressurising the cylinder like you want to 'cos of the durations on 'em... Get a good head porting on your G60 and THEN stick a different pulley on it... In the brief time my car had it's new head on before the crank bolt sheared off, the car was transformed into a totally different beast with just the standard pulley... 8) And as LowG says, a decent intercooler is a must too! 8)

I got my Autometer Prolite gauges from HERE. The guy is really good with his prices and seems pretty genuine. It's the shop the Autometer group buy was going to be using before the group buy fell apart...

yeah, I tend to agree... A509 = Brilliant in the dry, deadly in the wet, last 5 minutes... A520 = Very Very good in the dry, un-nerving in the wet, last 8 to 10K... A539 = Very good in the dry, good in the wet to a point, last about 15 to 18K... I can't wait for the next version, with any luck they should be good in both wet and dry and last AGES... :wink: 8)

MKIII ones from Eurocarparts DEFINATELY can be used for this. I've seen it done on several cars... I've not yet done it though, but I have bought the kit to do it... I'll have a look at the weekend to see if I can see where to mount them to. 8)

This is the only shot I've got of the rear of my car which you can see the (freshly polished!) tailpipe in and was taken 2 days before the engine expired... It's a custom (JP exhausts in Macclesfield) made system with a single round tailpipe... 8)

Demon tweekstends to keep straight silicone hose in stock... They may well have what you need... 8)

I seem to remember that there's a few posts on here that indicate that the bonnet switch is often a problem too, worth checking out while you're hunting for the problem...

Kev, The big difference is the torque through the rev range... A chipped, pulleyed, cam'd 1.8 will have a very short band where the torque is huge, giving the big BHP figure, whereas a 2.0 will have a huge torque figure across the whole rev range making it much faster in the real world, but only giving a few extra horses on a meter... :? I've said it before, and I'll probably say it again, but BHP is irrelevent, it's the amount of torque and the shape of the torque curve that define how good a car engine is and how fast the car it's in can be made to be... 8) See HERE for details of BHP and why it's meaningless... I'd agree that there are a lot of people who do talk utter rubbish about their BHP figures though...including some tuning places!

Nah, I've been running A539s on my 'rado since I got it and am seriously impressed with them in both wet and dry conditions... The only critisism about them in the wet is that they keep gripping and just let go... There's no warning skitter or anything, they just go... :? It does take an awful lot of trying to make 'em let go though! :wink: :lol: 8)

Ah, fair enough... I just read it as a related question... 8)

Welcome to the forum... 8) Have you any idea what make the alarm is? It sounds like it's an ultrasonics problem to me...

How are you getting 220BHP? That takes more than just a chip, pulley and cam... :?