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think you'll be pleasantly suprised with how nippy and fun it is to drive once you get behind the wheel... I still miss my MKI GTI even now I've got my 'rado G60 sorted nicely... Just so much more "chuckable" than the 'rado...

Woah! talk about dragging a thread back from the dead... :lol: 8) Yup, the fan controller is the big black thingy by the coolant expansion tank. There should be 2 fuses there, a 20A and a 50A, and then one in the fusebox in the locations RW1 listed above... 8)

3.2mm

3K sounds like pinking to me.... what fuel are you running it on and have you changed the fuel filter recently? 4K sounds odd, could be anything from the cambelt tensioner through to the cam linkage chain... Any more descriptions on this noise?

almost certainly..... (I have no idea which one though... :lol: )

standard VAG one IS aluminium... ;)

G60Jet, that's a VERY good point... :lol:

your best gains on a G60 are from making it breath better... If you're planning on keeping it for a while and to put more money into it to get more power out of it, start off by gas flowing the throttle body (cheap or reasonably easy to do yourself) and getting the car setup and running 100% before you do much else... Making a G60 engine breath better is the key to getting the power out of it, so porting/port matching, polishing and gas flowing are the orders of the day... 8)

the calipers bolt onto the standard Corrado carriers... I have no idea on part number though, sorry...

you may find that it's the length of the pipe that's the problem... the connector looks very much like a standard one though... 8)

there's LOTS of companies... As I said, they're just industrial drive belts, so you can pretty much get one in any length and any width... The belt on mine is a GATES belt, but I've had a Fenner and another one (can't remember the brand) in the past too... Go into a bearing retainler and the odds are they'll be able to get the belt you need... 8)

started to build my car-puter... installed software onto the broken screen'd laptop and ordered my 7" touchscreen TFT... Should be an interesting project anyway... 8)

good, I'm glad... my engine was pulling over 220bhp with that head, so it's deffo not a bad one! :lol:

oh.... I thought they did it sequentially... :oops: Live and learn, thanks for that... 8)

Already carry a CO2 extinguisher in the car at all times and have also rewired/tidied the electrics and had Gav (H100VW - a non-chimp) fit a new alarm for me... /smug

if it's not what Walesy says, it could be that the power steering hose in the engine bay has slipped slightly and is fouling on the gear shift weight when you go for second.... Had this in H-YYU and it was a nice easy fix which took all of 30seconds and cost nothing (just had to bend the clip slightly... ) Get someone to sit in the car and change through the gears (with the engine off!!!) while you look in the engine bay to see which bits move and if any of them catch on anything while they're going up and down through the gears....

8) sounds like she'll look stunning when you get her back... 8)

could be a dodgy lambda sensor making it run rich, overfuel at idle and stall due to overfuelling?!? Dunno, cleaning the ISV and checking the lambda is working would be my first ports of call....

looks very much like the one fitted to my engine... 8)

sounds reasonable for the standard cooling system... 8)

yeah, that sounds like Wayne... He's a seriously top geeza and alround nice bloke as well as SERIOUSLY knowing his stuff... 8)

R32 is a dual mass clutch for smoother gear changes (for the regular road users who VW think can't actually drive for toffee and will happily pay out silly money every 60K miles when the dual mass flywheel goes wrong and needs replacing...) /soapbox

*writes reminder to get a battery kill switch fitted in the engine bay*

too much! :lol: I did the assembly work myself, but there's a good eight or nine thousand pounds gone into the various versions of this engine since I started messing with it in a big way... I reckon to build another one would cost somewhere in the region of £6000... (not including the original engine to work on or labour costs!) In hindsight, I'd probably have gone with a VR6 and thrown the money at that instead to get some really silly BHP, but I'm very happy with what I now have, and have no regrets... 8)

also make sure it's not catching on any after market mats you have in the car...