dr_mat

They don't do paypal cos paypal don't do Euro accounts, so the poor germans would have to accept payments in $US or £GB and transfer it from their paypal account to their german bank *at great cost*. It's really not worth it for them.

Mine was attached to the fuse and control relay - I think it's the fan control relay? The black plastic one under the bonnet on the right hand side, in front of the coolant expansion tank.

I think this is as expected... That why it has to switch to the alternative manifold path to get reasonable performance above 4k rpm..

Why does that matter? 2 and 3-D Trilateration GPS relys on the seeing 4 or more satellites to work out where it is on the Globe. So shouldn't matter how many there are in one particular quadrant and, besides, all 24 available satellites were orbited as such so that 4 are visible at any point in time, anywhere on the globe. I know. But it also relies on having a large enough subtended angle between those four satellites in order to perform an accurate positioning calculation. It's gotta solve an equation, after all, and if it's got crap data, it can't solve it accurately. I worked with GPS during my PhD (before they turned off spoofing, admittedly), and it was shockingly inaccurate. Even differential GPS (immune to spoofing) was prone to drastic errors if you didn't have a statisticaly nice spread of satellites. We used to use laser ranging data for the satellites, and that was much more accurate (a few cm over 1300km).

A lot! You're after a new engine?

It may just have been a bad time - if all the visible GPS satellites were over in one particular quadrant of the sky the readings would be pretty innacurate..

You car is a moody biatch, ain't it Kev??!! Agreed on the factory supply tho. If they'd come from the factory with the VSR manifold they would have wiped the floor with everything. Even if they'd reserved the VSR manifold for the Storm it would still have been a bonus. Not only that, but if it had that much torque from the factory, I'm sure they wouldn't be in such an appalling state now, on the whole.. If people didn't have to thrash the living daylights out of them from day one...

Well it might, if you lose enough power...

Dunno..

Must be bonkers banger racing a Corrado.. The panels are so expensive!!

Well that's not so painful then... £230 + theft plus what 2 hours? For the real VW badged thing.. Sounds good to me.

With a Vauxhall engine, if I'm not mistaken...?

Meanwhile: ECP - Genuine Corrado P.S. Rack £339.45 Reconditioned Rack £180 GSF - Genuine Golf 3 VR6/GTi/16V rack £229 What's the odds the G3 part won't fit the corrado?

I have to say I'm still convinced that you've slipped a cam tooth and it'll all be fine again when you've had it retimed and the chains done...

No, no reason to suspect. Vince's experience just said that a lot of VRs are in need of it when they reach this mileage. But I pointed out that there's not much seepage around the head gasket, and that it uses maybe two litres at most of oil every 10k miles, so it doesn't seem like it's worth it... Also, I noted that a head rebuild doesn't replicate much labour with the timing chains - i.e. you don't have to pull the gearbox off to take the top off the engine.

Could be I guess. No doubt the brake servo is expensive from VW... :(

The only difference between these posts is the number of exclamation marks...

This is the sixth post...

Kev's power has been crap for some time, so I'd suspect that first, rather than the Schrick not performing right. After all, even if the schrick never switches at all, it's default state is the tuned inlet for 0-4000rpm running.

So good you posted it THRICE!

It does seem to make a noise, yeah. I've not noticed it being that loud though. The ISV damper valve should hiss anyway, AFAIK. It looks to me like the TB is actually phsyically in a slightly different location now that the VGI is on, further from the top of the engine block. I noticed that the top hose that goes to the heater matrix from the back of the head was quite stretched where it went through the clips on the ISV (I think). I took it out of the clips, cos I already lost *one* of those hoses, and I don't wanna lose another one...

They judder because (at least on mine) the passenger side blade gets stuck in one orientation and doesn't "pop" to the other, so on the upward sweep, the blade is being pushed across the screen, rather than being drawn across. Ideally you should flip the rubber across so it rests in the other position sometimes.

You're jokin, Kev?

Ah, but Vince is like that.. "Why don't you get XYZ done at the same time? Saves labour later..." :lol: I did have to work fairly hard to convince him I didn't want the head reconditioned when I got the chains done. :) But so far the work seems to be top notch. No complaints from me!

The front engine mount is the most important, as it's the one under tension when you're accelerating. The two rear mounts are just under compression, which is at least not going to suffer a catastrophic failure...