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I need to take my cat out as I'm sure my 'charger must be cooking it, plus probably not helping with overall performance. I need to do my head gasket aswell so I'm thinking I'll do the works while I'm doing that - 6 branch, de-cat, spacer gasket, smaller pulley and aquamist! So easy to spend money on cars, too easy.

Thanks for all the replies!! I WANT one now!! Be a good soundtrack to go with my s/c whistle :twisted: (sorry, couldnt help myself) I get paid friday, so I guess I know where its going. :)

Seen these on the bay before, I was wondering if anyone had any experience with them, or opinions? I've seen 6 branch manifolds advertised in VW mags before for around 230. The same company also sell fairly cheap de-cat pipes for £39. Is it cheap junk or worth a look? (Perhaps I've become too used to being ripped off here in the U.K) Clicky Thanks. (Sorry about the mahosive link, I dont know how to shorten them :oops: ) Link shortened - dinkus ;)

Good work Dave, really pleased for you. We'll have to get another meet at the compass inn sorted!

I foolishly told them the true power output, I'll adjust it for my other quotes...

Not tried Brentacre yet, so I'll give them a go in the morning along with Adrian Flux.

Thats my only quote so far, and a few others on here dont seem to have had such a massive increase - but then they are in their thirtys and I'm 23.. It just sounds like I'm asking for trouble, them: "So you're 23, male, drive a 2.9 litre engined car and want to supercharge it.... ok"

Best so far + 150% !!!! I just tried Adrian Flux, but the lady on the phone said the modified department was busy, and to try in the morning. Its about the same as I was paying for my Mk1 Cabby when I was 19, and I earn more now so it's not too bad really, easy to see why people dont bother declaring thier mods!!

Well almost - I have just run through an insurance quote with HIC... :( There is a bit more of a jump in my insurance than I had bargained for!! I turn 24 at the end of may which brings the price down somewhat so will wait till then till re-newing. I'll give brentacre a try tommorrow. Not using car now! (Awaiting abuse for not sorting out insurance already/before hand)

I had to go and pick up my girlfriend up from work today, and as I got there 15mins early, I thought sod it, lets have a look at the ABS fault - lights been on permenately now for 2 months. I dropped the cover under the glovebox and yanked out the fuses, cleaned them up, popped them back in and bingo!! All ok! Quickest and cheapest repair ever on my raddo. Well pleased.

Hi Dave, was nice to meet you yesterday, I have been thinking of going down the megasquirt route after our chat, be nice if I could sort out my fuelling without the need for another trip to stealth and not blowing my head gasket! I would probably need some help though. Hope you get yours up and running soon, be good if you could bring it along to the next meet.

Good work man! Wouldnt like to have to sort out that loom!!

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Poor guy. The Fox wouldn't stand a chance against a head on with a lorry. On a side note, the whole "speed kills" advertising campaign is to a point pointless, as it's all about momentum - mass and speed, in theory lorrys should travel at zero speed!

I'd LOVE a MK1 Rocco.

No prob's. trudubrstu Two bottles of G12+ from GSF cost less than the coolant I bought from Halfords (admittedly less in quantity)- which was their best stuff and it really is better. I would imagine that VW have a larger R&D budget than Halfords!! lol.

Thanks for the comments. The cold start mod is working a treat, idle is smooth and no stalling which is nice, still stalling when coming to a hault occasionally though.. Vince rang me end of the week see how I was getting on and when I mentioned it to him he suggested opening up the throttle alittle whilst pluged into VAG-COM, to take some of the strain off the ISV, will give it a go next weekend. My head gasket will last untill the end of the year, fingers crossed (well september) then I'll pull the engine apart, re-hone the bore's, new set of rings, fit a spacer in the head gasket and go with a smaller pulley and water injection, it's bad but I'm already thinking about more power! :twisted: I've got some RS4's (17's)to go on over next few weeks (being refurb'ed at the moment), will try and get some exterior shots up then.

I used to agree with that, I was using some of Halfraud's finest - conforms to all the standards you care to wish, but since doing a full flush to get all the halfords coolant out (i've carried out a few flushes before) and topping up with G12+ the car runs MUCH cooler. I'll never use anything else again.

Went out for a good blast last night, which put a big smile on my face, had some twit in a 106 try to race me :lol: Had a go at a 0-60 run, think I gave it a little too much at first as I was just spinning the wheels for a while! I'll have to work on that as I'm probably going to go and have a go on the pod (http://www.vwaction.co.uk) next month, anyone else planning on going? Also I dont seem to be having any cold start issues - Vince said he'd put a mod into my map he'd been working on, I'll leave it a while though to give it a good test. I do have a problem with it stalling when coming to a hault when warm though, usually stopping from going fast.... anyone else have this problem? Cheers.

Well I had a pretty eventful 24 hours, monday I went to college and back in my car no probs, but it started to develop a knocking sound. That evening I went out to do a job for someone and clunk! Air filter and maf came off - obviously from hitting the body and I ran them over! Got up on Tues at half 5 and reshaped and fixed the air filter on less the MAF in order to get me to stealth. On the way there the bloody air filter came off again - my 4 month old front mount was totally shagged, so I pulled into an Asda I was passing and bought a couple of pairs of tights, and streched them over the inlet (Thanks to James for the idea!). Managed to limp up to Stealth and fair play to Vince he got it all sorted for me, he opened up the carbon canister hole, fitted a Vibra front mount, red tops, sorted out my gear linkages (I had to drive there in fourth aswell!) and finally got me on the rollers at 4! We had to wait around untill half two for the MAF to turn up. We started with a MAP he'd already done on a same spec Raddo. Bit of bad news is that my head gasket is going to need doing - I thought it was a healthy bit of sweating but Vince thought it looked a little worse than that, and said in order to carry out a full map he may of "finished it off". So in the end he only managed one power run and then tweaked it from there as it was chucking in too much fuel at the top end and ignition wasnt spot on. Bit dissapointing as I didnt get a full custom map and it means I'm going to have to do my head gasket - but managed 268.5 Bhp @ 6490, Vince said it'd be good for closer to if not 280, but wasnt going to risk killing my head gasket! My tracking is a mile out aswell, so they had to spray the rollers with glue. Its not too far off what I was hoping for and it certianly flies!! :D

I thought they had to be issued within 2 weeks, and thats it....?

I need a Bugatti Veyron...

I'd have thought a smaller pulley and FMIC/charger cooler would be a better option, especially if you can stretch to short runner too.

No doubt Cazza, its needs a bloody good clean and a day detialing, plus the day I drove it to my parents I noticed someone a bumped into my bumper and cracked the paint and left a some blue paint on mine - still I'm not letting it bother me, s**t happens and I'm in too much of a good mood to get on a downer about it, it needed blowing over anyway. Besides with me its about the go not the show, sleeper style!!

OK James, I'll join them together - I knew you told me something I had forgotten! (well quite a few things) :lol: I was advised strongly against fitting the red tops before the remap....(?) You'll get there Rob!! I feel pretty good tonight, with all the work finshed and by me, the charger sounds good, just not at idle, but I'll get used to it. Took her out for a bit of a run, needed to inflate a tyre and put some v-power in, its lovely, gave it some beans and it flew! Quote from the nervous girlfriend - "Its ridiculously fast" - job done then. Its not running right, stalled once and it tried to a few more times, cant wait to have it all sorted. Especially the tracking, its a mile out now!