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The guage is difficult to read exactly how much you have left in your tank, i previously worked at a car r&d place and all of the new cars have a fuel light which indicates a certain amount left in the take, i.e. 1 gallon, but most of the mid-high spec new cars now have a read out telling you how many miles you have left witht the fuel in your tank, a good idea IMO. I've never worked with electronics so i dont know how complicated it would be to fit something like that (positioning of a different read out and aesthetics aside) :?

:lol: if it was it would have been constantly on it and just wore out!... has anyone ever looked into fitting one, presume you'd need to have a sensor in the tank... hmm??

i cant imagine anyone would retro fit the annoying buzzer but my 94 VR has one :cuckoo:

happy birthday for tomorrow dude... nice cake 8) how come cut your cake already? surely all your time should be spend rebuilding your shiney thing :wink:

erm if you have soem of the cf logo stickers knocking around (i got mine from phil last year) you can make some pikey ones by using black electrical tape over a printed surround (these were from my golf with autohaus wolfsburg on them) and then transfer the etched glass looking sticker on them... dont look that bad in my eyes and have been on the C for about a year now!

sorry to step in like a vulture, sounds like you've properly considdered this and the decision sounds logical :( but what is to happen with the cheap low vileage VR now?? if it is available can you pm me with contact details as i'd like to know more?

well you need a special vw tool to insert the rear subframe vw bushes (500 ish inc vat!!) and vw want £500 to do the job, they need to be compressed with the special tool else you ccant get them in, every garage i spoke to said the same thing, so goign powerflex takes the same 3hours to fit but as said above will fit in yourself without the need fo a very smilarly priced vw tool :D ... i appreciate its more cost to shell out when you already bought the vw ones but i know the feelign and when you think that vw whnt that much for their tools i'll stick with poly bushes, even if there is the theoretical argument of the body and the next softest part in line taking the brunt of the force, i studied mech eng to and although i agree, just fit poly's as i never had any major issues in 4 years in a fully polybushed mk3 gti!

hiya i have heard of them befofre but that was always in reference to japanese cars, drift cars, etc, when i used to read 'japanese performance' magazine, maybe have a look on one of the forums? sorry i cant be more help but its a start!

cheers kev, i want close to 400 when i spoke with the TT shop last week they seemed confident that a BAM with a K04 and emerald would be 280ish, with garret/ihi this would push it to 350ish but this is the limit of the internals of the 1.8t, a mate at work had an ihi ibiza cupra and made 347bhp and he said he always worried he was sailing to close to the wind with standard internals. I was thinking 1.8t rather than VRT purely as i have been told the fuel economy is about 40+ on the motor way and average is about 30. You run your VRT daily right? how many miles do you cover? So with a VRT your working with old engines, whats the best way to ensure a solid spec as my aim is 400, what ever my decision i want to build the engine seperately and then look to install it rather than work with my own so is it best start with an old knackered engine and rebuild the head with bigger valves? forged rods pistons etc? (i appreciate this is probably covered in your build thread and the forced induction vr one but i am trying to get an idea where to start!) Or try and source a vgc low mileage or new head/block?

yep good value kit and as with everything i've ordered from gwerks it arrives bloody quick :D i have no complaints about that kit as it was v easy to set up and considdering i do 400+ miles a week in the C its v v comfy 8)

Second that. But they're £2k to buy the engine plus fitting. But WELL worth it! It purrs like a cat. 8)[/quote:mzdwqylb] erm, whats a vege engine?

Looking V impressive :D

I've been searching the forum and came across this topic which tbh, still doesnt answer the questions i have, hopefully somebody may have attempted a 1.8t into a VR by now and can advise the pitfalls, and equally anyone in the middle of their R32 transplant, what do i need to look out for?... I spoke to the place today that services my C they specialise in 1.8T's and are incoraging me to put one in cos i feel my engine is getting a bit tired now... the thing is they are saying your looking at around £1000 -£1500 (unfitted) for a BAM engine and box although i think i'd need the cupra R's version as (please can someone confirm as i dont know) i think thats fwd and 6 speed?? they reckon with emerald management your looking at 270-280bhp on this set up which i've heard is very similar to the figures stealth or storm can get with their emerald loom for the R32 into a corrado... Problem i have is they seem to be very similar in costs for the engine and gearbox's and i cant imagine the 2 emeralds are going to differ to much. I dont want to loose the 6 cylinder howl really but will the R32 pick up on the VR6 mounts cos if you need new ones it seems the 1.8t might be a better route to achieve somewhere close to the 3-400 ponies i'm after. Can you use the original box (rebuilt) or is there a 6 speed one out there.... when i do this (winter i hope) i only want to do it once so 6 speed and LSD are what i was hoping for.

looks nice :) i think it'd look good with some smoked side repeaters and maybe some darker rear lamps but the speedlines look really fresh 8)

the more you rub the shinier it gets :lol:

you big perv you, not only were you out last night polishing the bumper but now your polishign the lights... weirdo :D o and if your doing it for the reason i think you are, wet and dry ftw to remove the lettering

look on ed38, seen quite a few mk2's on there runnign 15" pepperpot style alloys, i have some mini alloys in my garage that i will be getting machined, yep its a case of cutting the centre bore from 56.1 to 57.1 on a lathe and then your away :clap: if theres a decent engineering workshop near you they'll be able to do it... even easier if their splits :wink: as the problem seems to be fitting size of the wheel in the chuck

i put some comps on mine to see what it looked like and with 205/40/17 tires, no rubbing, but it had been laser aligned with a set of almost identical sized wheels so it was set up, o and it was lowered so the front spoiler (90mm) is 1.25" off the floor if i remember right... hopet that helps

my neighbor has a tdi one of these in a dark grey metallic, its v v v nice but its her daily driver and doesnt seem interested in bit flashy wheels so has the some smaller ones than in all the pics that kind of let it down :( ... i'd love one though! 8)

awesome... this is gonna be an insane beastie karl... cant wait to see it in the flesh when its done! good luck!

hiya i know this might not be a whole lot of use but i got a set of TT 312 Callipers and carriers that had done -30k for £100 so 50 euros a peice soudns v steep (o and my local scrappy quoted £50 for a pair of rear mk4 callipers still on a -60k car)

i'm 22 to :D my renewal with 2 yrs ncb and no mods 5000 miles and commuting with an accident on the record 3 years ago was 670 FC with Bell... but that's without an agreed value and although they will cover mods they will replace with standard.. Martin at HIC did me an wesome deal with everything named, 5k a year agreed value etc, £900 (800 ish without the carbon seats :mad2: never mind!)

you mean the bit you hold to close the door with right?... gently lever the leather trimmed or plastic cover piece running down the front of the pull... then you can see a screw(s) - sorry cant remember if one or 2 - undo and pull away

$1500 for 2 accordign to the site is only £700ish for the pair which isnt bad considdering the amoutn of work in those seats and how cool they look... but then there's shipping and import tax :(

Heyhey a local. I've seen a few floating around, been flashed by one on the way out of Flitwick a few months back. Met Nigel in Leagrave (Mulberry Purple VR on Carmonas = lush) and my mate Josh is in St Albans regions but thats about it. Let me know if your in the area any time mate. :wave: Yeah i work round the corner from nigel, lovely looking blackberry vr, especially now with smoothed rear and pulled arches 8) Theres an aqua blue Vr on polished tt comps that lives in barton just down the road from you, thats Keiran (keiranM on here) The manager of formula 1 autocentre in bedford, Malcom has a black vr6 thats just had new paint and is in the middle of a serious modified rebuild, then theres a super low aqua blue g60 owned by a guy called paul i think hee works at a mountain bike shop in the town centre... so slowly the numbers are coming up :) ... if your free thursday night man i'll be popping to the hemel nomads vw meet, i can come out your way on the way down and show you the way if you like? josh (mariojoshi?) is normally there with his green beastie and jon(vwdeviant) in his perl ghey valver + a lot of other laid pback vw peeps