craigbeal

My mate beat me in a race last week quite easy. He has a 16v golf. Hes just had the belt done and all the timing and mixture sorted and it is quicker than mine. How can i beat him? Thinking of putting 50mm inlet on before getting mine setup? Any other ideas cos hes doing my head in now.

Really want to do this to mine but need to get the 50mm inlet manifold on first or do it at the same time :/

Just sent payment for mine :)

what is porting and how is it done? can it be done urself or is it a specialist thing?

how much would it cost to get the valve stem oil seal done if it was that?

Mine has the same thing. Only one plug has oil on it. The others are fine. Does burn oil and have to top the oil up every now and then (every 6 weeks) and u can smell it burning oil :(

how much extra power would u gain froma 2.0L bottom end and how does the different size bottom end increase the power?

it all started when the nut came of on the top of the throttle body where the cable connects to it (dont know its name). It meant that the black switch on the throttle body wasnt being engauged when throttle wasnt being pressed. Put the nut back on but didnt seem to click the switch on still (Wasnt returning enough to normal position and not pressing switch in). So moved the switch fully across to the left. The siwtch now gets pressed in but still not idling right. Cant see how moving the switch a touch to the left would affect anything but then stranger thing have happened??

my mates corrado idles at around 1050 and my mates 16v golf is at about the same. just over 1000

Hi. My 1.8 16v idles at about 800 and somtimes stalls when cold. idles fine at 1100 revs when warm but doesnt when cold. ISV humms when ignition is on so i guess thats working and checked all vacum lines and all seem connected. also little black switch on thrttole body is plugged in and little rubber swtich on it is pressed in when throttle is on idle. any ideas?

Looking at my recipts for the car and my leads where last changed on the 8/02. how long should they last? they where gsf standard £41 ones. the car is a bit funny starting when its damp so makes me think they are on the way out.

lol. yellow seems a bit common ;) how many people have got a dark green corrado (not dragon green)

i like my silver arial. shit radio signal with it though :/

My driver side heated mirror isnt heating. Mirror moves but doesnt heat. What is the best way of checking if its the mirror or somthing else? The left side one works fine.... any ideas or tips

i bought the whole mech for the sunroof for £80. Swapped wholes thing over and then just swapped coloured lids.

i saw it this afternoon. had a vr6 and was asking £8500 for it. Fella came to see it and got a RAC inspection. Needed new head gasket according to the RAC and tracking was way out which they couldnt fix. fella didnt buy it in the end even after the seller spent £700 :/

I would like to here how much difference it makes off sombody who has fitted one. Put a bigger webber carb on my old 1.3 fiesta and that made a big difference!

ye it seems a bit good to be true?

By the way has anyone got one for sale??

ye nice one

I know there have been posts about this and lots of people where thinking about doing it but did anyone put the larger Webber firebreather carb on there 1.8 16v and if so did it make a difference??

My mate just maxed powered my car in photo shop (he has far to much time on his hands). thought it was quite funny.

I love the MK2 Golf. I had a 8v and my mate has had 2 16v's now. I paid £1500 for mine and mate paid £1400 w/FSH. Cheap to run and parts cost very little too. I would love to get a g60 mk2 but we will see?? Had my mk2 for a year and nothing went wrong with it really. Always started etc. I dont like Mk3 golfs. Way too heavy :/

I guess these are new style VW wipers. My mothers VW polo has square ones like in the pic. Do the new type blades fit stright on or will i need to put new wiper arms on too? If so what model VW do i need them off??

After seeing this link i thought i would take a look under the bonnet to see anything that might be affecting my car running cold. Found a smallish vacuum pipe that had poped off at some point. Started car from cold and was perfect. So if ur 16v is running like poo from cold like mine was then have a check cos everything under the bonnet does somthing no matter how small it is :?