psykokid

fingers crossed for you :wink: ouch, thats quite a sum for replacement auto box, and thats even before i convert it from UK pounds to US dollars. Kind of pointless now, but my question is why did you decide to put another auto back in instead of swapping it out for a manual gearbox? Is it an insurance or MOT issue?

you can get the water neck from the dealer or you can get it from mike potter and company at http://www.parts4vws.com. It will come with all the o-rings and everything if you get it from them. Mikes a good guy to deal with and knows his stuff well (used to run the parts department at a dealership for quite sometime)

no, actually they're quite bad for the most part. its one of those ride comfort/increased handling tradeoffs.. plus i have the wifeys MK3 Vento to drive if i need something cushy..

i just got finished swapping out springs from my corrado that were designed for a mk2, they were absolute rubbish on my car. Had they been on a mk2 they would have been acceptable, but as the corrado weighs more than the mk2, the spring rate was no where near stiff enough to handle the wieght of the corrado. I replaced them with some very high rate springs from a mk3 VR6 and i liove the ride now. The springs are h&r 800lb front/550 lb rear, just a lil stiff but suits my taste just fine.

you need the whole LM1 bit of kit to get it to work right, you cant just drop the LSU42 sensor in. It would be like talking to a cow in french... the lambda circut wouldnt be getting the correct voltage. LM1 box converts the LSU42 signal into something that the digifant ecu can understand. I dont know how picky MOT is over there, but as a cheap alternative to the $150 vw lambda probe we just get the bosch lambda probe for an 89 ford mustang 5.0 and hack off the ford connector and solder on the leads for the vw connector and heat shrink everything up and call it a day. $44 and a little bit of time versus $150. I'm sure you could just run some heat shielding tubing over the connections to hide them if thats an issue. most cars of that era use the same bosch lambda probe, the only difference being the connector that comes on it.

here's a link to thier manual : http://www.innovatemotorsports.com/supp ... manual.pdf its on page 20. it explains how to use the auxillary output in place of the stock lambda probe. you can use one of the other auxillary outputs to run an standard narrowband type a/f ratio gauge. I had a problem with the a/f gauge that i was running introducing some sort of interferance into the signal wire making my car run very poorly. good ol picky digifant system. had to pull over on the side of the freeway last saturday on the way back from a GTG. clipped the signal wire going to my a/f gauge so that my car would run correctly. some stuff you learn the hard way..

Now THAT is useful to know... 8) Thanks... I'll scrap that plan then and move onto plan B... ;) Thanks psykokid 8) no worries mate. also, if you get your hands on one of the innovate lm1 wideband units, you can pull the stock lambda sensor and drop the wideband in its place. The lm1 has an output that outputs the correct voltage for the cars lambda sytem to understand and make use of while still having a wideband lambda sensor hooked up. Plus you dont have to have any extra done to your cars exhaust (ie a new bug for an secondary lambda sensor)

Only thought is that the lambda probe may be affected by heat. And there is certainly going to be much more heat at the exhaust manifold than right before the cat where the bung for the stock lambda probe. The 4 gas anaylzer that they use to test from that port works a tad differently than the lambda probe does.

Bahn Brenner is having a sale on rebuild kits at the moment, just tell them you saw it on the vwvortex forums. IIRC its $350 for everything shipped in to the continental US, that breaks down to about £195 for you plus it will inevitably cost a little bit more because fo the post.