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Simon/Junkie - sent me the part I wanted at a VERY good price plus a free gift as he was a lazy git and didn't post it til 1.5weeks after he promised to :tongue: Oh and it was very well packaged. Ta muchly, Mr Watkins :)

interparcel are pretty good!

How stunning is that!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Received mine Wednesday (I think?). Will fit this weekend if the weather is OK. Cheers Zak :)

Mmmmaybe :D

Well, I went in to my local VW stealership today and ordered a new header tank and cap - thought I'd get original parts as I don't want to mess around having to go back and forth to GSF if the connector on the tank is rubbish. I started off by correcting the parts guy that G60s were only made up to 1992 (to which he admitted that I knew more than he does about Corrados :lol:) and told him the engine code... he then gave me a discount without me asking for one :D Must be my new haircut... :luvlove: :clap: They'll arrive Tuesday but I'm in no great rush for them. I also bought the above alternator springy-whatsit from Simon (junkie) so that should be arriving soonish. When the weather gets a bit warmer and I have some time off I'll be pulling bits of my engine apart, cleaning bits up and replacing the coolant hoses and header tank :) Until then, I have bought something similar to this: But what for? :D

Your sort code and account number is printed on the front of a cheque isn't it? Don't think you can access someones bank account just by having those two bits of info & a name!

It's 10x better nick than mine is! You say it's only a few years old as well? I'll have the whole thing please as I'm sure the triangular metal bit on mine is just as rusty and knackered as the spring and damper. Sort it out over PM save clogging up my thread? :)

Ok, thanks very much :D

What are the benefits of a Mk4 header tank compared to a Corrado one and is it a straight swap? I've just tried that using a completely different string of words with the "+" at the start of every word and the same number of results comes up as if I didn't add the "+" :lol:

I was trying to dig out a better picture but you got there first Yep, thats the bit I need :)

No change unfortunately and I'm not sure exactly what the hold up is as they have plenty of members interested :shrug: I'll PM both jo(h)ns now and see whats going on. If they can't get their arses in to gear then I'm tempted to arrange one on here!

It took it's time but I have my friends to thank for the well needed kick up the arse :) Quieter is a good thing, especially for my ears and my brain!! If you feel the need to detail my car then by all means do it - you don't expect paying though, do you? :lol: and Darren said he expected it to be running in excess of 200bhp now :) Definitely :) Before, the G was a chore to drive as it was unnecessarily noisy and it gave me the hump nearly every time I had to drive it! Bearing in mind its a daily driver at the moment I wasn't always in a good mood most mornings at work :lol: Yes please :D It needs to be a goodun though! The main thing is the size of the alloys rather than the design as I much prefer the way 16s look and feel on a Corrado. Will be hopefully doing a RR day at Storm if the bloke arranging it on NR can sort his sh*t out and book a day!! I did shout at him a few times as I only had converse-like canvas trainers on and was afraid he'd bite my foot as well as my trainer :lol: I couldn't be angry at that cute little face for long though... :luvlove: Those RX7s are still tempting me but the Corrado is still winning at the moment! I'll go have a lookie at your build thread in a bit... :) There is not a chance in hell that I'd even think about breaking it, driving it in to the ground or letting it rot to pieces! My G is faaaar too solid a car to be doing that. I'd rather spend the money to keep it on the road and, if it ever comes to it, sell it for someone else to enjoy :)

Just tried searching under: "mk4 tank" - nothing "golf tank" - nothing "golf expansion" - nothing "mk4 expansion" - nothing "mk4 header" - nothing "golf header" - nothing Sure it was this forum, Walesy? :tongue:

Thanks for the input, chaps :) I guess I could clean the old tank but I think its too badly stained and I know I woudn't be happy with "kind of" clean as opposed to brand new. No worries, saves making another thread on what is essentially the same subject :)

Around £30 odd I've been told?? GSF ones are £9 + VAT... A whole bottle of coolant flush was used after the HG was fixed :lol: I've had to change a couple of the coolant hoses since and the water seems pretty clean, it's just the stained header tank that makes the water look mostly cruddy.

Following my disasterous head gasket failure last year, my header tank has turned a nasty shade of brown!! I want to put my Samco coolant hoses on soon so thought it'd be the perfect time to change the header tank at the same time. Has anyone had any good or bad experiences with the GSF or ECP header tanks? Any other places that do relatively good quality ones? If I can get away with a cheaper one thats just as good as the VW one then I'd rather not give more money away than I have to, especially to the stealers! Thanks :D

Have you tried changing your blue temp sender? Sounds like the same thing my G60 was doing last year (minus the cutting out mid-driving!). The little £12+VAT part from VW caused my engine to turn over but not fire up and the injectors stayed open and flooded the engine!! Give it a go! If it doesn't work, it's always handy to have a spare :)

Well, it's been a while so thought it time for an update. The past year has been a bit of a downer for me and my Corrado, mainly because the master and slave cylinders died at the same time, the engine started to mysteriously flood and then a few months later the head gasket went. When the head gasket was changed and the head put back together, my mechanics then told me they don't really know much about the G60 engine and set the timing to standard. Why they even began working on my engine like that before telling me they don't know the engine very well I don't know and they didn't bother to check the timing setting before taking the head apart even though they knew I have a Kent cam pulley :shrug: Ever since the head gasket, I've been running around in a car that kangaroos, almost stalls, hesitates and runs ridiculously lean - 35.2mpg in a non-standard G60 was cause for concern! I then had issues with my alloys that I newly refurbed and bought brand new Dunlop SP9000 tyres for... the spigots on the hubs are apparently too big for the alloys yet they fitted perfectly on my MK3 Ibiza and Mk3 Golf. And we can't forgot the two split coolant hoses that I had issues trying to locate! It seemed like I was spending all my money on fixing the C and trying to make it look pretty when it didn't want to have any of it so by August time I'd seriously had enough and was looking at Jap turbos... After going to some meets and getting a bit of support/peer pressure from friends, I eventually decided it was time to save some money and start plowing it in to the C as I'm not having anymore tattoos for a while :lol: The first thing I treated him to was a new black beesting-style aerial as the one on there was "silver" and was all tarnished and rank. Next was a full set of black Samco coolant hoses ... ...and then a full grey leather interior in pretty much mint condition (I'm sure the majority of you know what leathers look like so I'll sort a picture out later on). A week later I then booked him in to G-Werks for the 30th January (TODAY!) for a charger rebuild/service, the timing setup properly, tuned up and a general checkup on the things that were bothering me (ABS and front mount mainly). Poor thing :( So... I've spent most of today at G-Werks nosing over what the guys were doing to mine as well as the stunning Porsche out the back and also getting attacked and my shoes eaten by this little terror... I didn't have the previous certificate from the last charger rebuild but it apparently had been ported. The charger was cracked open and after cleaning up, low and behold it had been and by quite alot according to Darren. He also mentioned that it was one of the best conditioned ones internally that he's seen in a while :D Other things changed/fixed - one of the oil pipes (I think it was the return) wasn't returning the oil properly so that was changed, I had a G-Werks version of the SNS chip which caters to my engine mods and the timing was setup properly (it was 6 degrees out!!!). The ABS sensor is shafted on the front N/S - when the ABS light goes off sometimes the brakes LOCK :s so the sensor has been temporarily unplugged until I can source another as it's actually safer having no ABS if it's doing the above! Also, I need to source an alternator damping spring as the one currently being used has lost a lot of its springiness. How it looks now - yes, the rest of the bay is rank: Darren took the G out for a test drive once everything was put back. I think he managed to get in to 3rd and quickly accelerating for 4th when one of the boost hoses popped off. It was only when we got back to the workshop that he realised the boost pressure had actually made not only the boost hose pop off but the BOLT that held the RSR outlet and boost hose to the charger :lol: A longer bolt cured that problem and I had a relatively easy drive back to Essex (minus the rush hour idiots of course) :) Next jobs - give the engine a good de-gunk and clean/tidy-up to match the brand-spanking new-looking charger, change the blue reducer to a black or red one, fit my new Samco coolant hoses, source and fit a standard airbox, treat him to a decent wash, polish and wax and then hopefully get my car in the bodyshop to get the rear arches pulled or rolled, haven't decided which yet as even the current (crappy) alloys are catching due to the offset and I want to go a bit lower. I'll try my best to get some decent, cleaned full car pictures up soon :clap: Oh and a BIG thanks to Darren and the guys at G-Werks for making me feel welcome and sorting my poorly Corrado out!

Drove down to G-Werks and treated my C to charger rebuild, an uprated SNS chip, timing setup and a general health check :)

I managed to view it using Realplayer but I had a serious 60s psychadelic, pop-art colour scheme going on at the same time :lol:

Seriously, what did he think would happen? :cuckoo: :lol:

345mm Richbrook :)

Mines a late - first registered 21/02/1992 :)

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