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the alternator isn't attached to the PAS belt mate, they're completely separate. Big belt goes: Inner crank pulley, inner water pump pulley, alternator. Small belt goes: Outer crank pulley, outer water pump pulley, PAS pump. try checking the smaller belt, you should only be able to twist the belt through 90 degrees, that means it's tight. glad things are getting there though :)

I r in ur valvez, finitely analyzing ur elemants! :nuts:

yeah it's worrying for sure, that kind of thing can warp the head if you're not careful. i'd jump on the bike if you can! That's what I do. It's really nice in the winter. Love it :| :| :|

Silly me, if only i'd posted it somewhere synonymous with Corrados... :bonk:

cool cheers. I think maybe what I thought was auto-centering was just the weight of the steering wheel: with the UJ disconnected, I span the column 360 a couple of times and it always came back to rest in the same orientation which made me think that there was some slight weightedness to it. cheers for the new replies, glad I don't have to touch the UJ again! :grin:

you could use the spare wheel you know :nuts: something major will break on your car soon enough and you'll really wish you hadn't bought new wheels!

any pics of the roar air box? :scratch: Care to be a little more specific? you've just quoted over half the power band! Don't touch it. Take it to a garage as flusted said, but the 3mm allen is used for the CO content I think which isn't the screw on the side, that's the screw hidden away in the top.

Here are the part numbers you need: Plate: 037103111 (~£10) Ring: N 90250201 (~£1) Bolts: N 0147074 or N0122293 (~30p each, you'll need 4 of them) Jon :salute:

you can't diagnose a dead thermostat from a broken temperature gauge :nuts: If you've changed all the sensors and the guage is still dead then you have a wiring problem. that sounds like normall running to me, mine doesn't pass 104 tops now that it's all working properly. must be an air lock because the sandwich plate that the oil filter screws into means that when the water temp goes up a lot the oil will normally do the same thing.

:lol: thread was originally for Corrado motivators what with the long dark cold winter hours ahead, but it seems to have skewed off on a tangent like my concentration on a nor... *wanders off*

could be a braking imbalance i.e. caliper issue. ditto wheel bearing for the noise though.

sounds like exactly what happened to mine. What is the temp guage on the dash telling you? if it's sat on 70 then it's broken, and you should check the oil temp in the MFA stalk. Mine peaked at 128 (oil) when my pump died. the system will begin to pressurise so if you have an air lock somewhere then the tank will bubble over a bit, but it has an overflow valve for precisely that. try pumping the top and bottom rad hoses by hand with the engine cold and see if the tank coolant level goes down a lot, it should move a little bit hopefully. if it continues to happen you should pull the pump and have a look.

cost perhaps

Cheers was, I will bear that in mind and will check the boots too :salute:

ditto that, I hadn't heard of them before. Brand names seem to use a highly durable low friction coating on the bearings instead of oil. I'm sure someone who is more Aero / Mech Engineering will be able to shed more light on the matter.

I worked through the tutorial in SW last night just to get used to it. You take a sample-drawn ball valve and model the flow of water through it by setting volume flow rate and a few other variables. Just like with modelling forces, the particles change colour with respect to velocity so you can see where they are moving quickly or slowly: this is theoretically proportional to cross sectional area of the pipe. It can then export all the data into Word; apparently highest particle velocity was 7.5m/s :grin: Shouldn't be too hard to mock up 2 boxes with 4 inlet tracts running between them, and then tweak the dimensions, materials, surface texture as and when I can get the proper data. I have a spare 42mm manifold which I could take some measurements from hopefully. Jon. p.s. I'll try to stick up the ball valve screenshot tonight.

Since when did VW have reference figures for a blown VR? ;)

No there's no drawbacks: the pumps usually have a non return valve in! :lol: :lol: :lol: Engineering joke.

That's a bit of a grey area; Bentley explicitly states that those 3 bolts should be tightened in the dead centre of the holes and not used to adjust ANY suspension geometry. Anyone else heard anything different?

I think it must have Phil, the FEA side of things is done by a utility/add-on called CosmosWorks although I haven't got it to work properly yet so will keep tinkering.

So I got a copy of SW2008 Student Designer Kit free from uni today, and between doing real coursework on it i've been playing around with the FEA utilities. I'm hoping to be able to mock up a 16v intake manifold and then model airflow through it in a rudimentary fashion. :cheers: I know some of the guys on here have done similar things for big projects / dissertations, but anyone else just been casual tinkering with it? Are there better FEA systems which are easily accessible/available? J-unit.

don't like the ATS cups, well too overdone and don't suit the corrado's lines. don't listen to anyone who tells you to stretch your tires either :nono: 2p.

yeah, ditto that. try some uprated pads for a little more bite. they may need to get warm/hot before they bite though.

Cheers, yeah really hope they did it in that order, I don't much fancy having a different amount of lock either way! Cheers to everyone for the replies, unfortunately I won't really be able to test my straight skills :camp: until I fit the new rear beam and do all that shizz as the car is now out of MOT. Thanks anyways though, least I can stick it in a rough position so the dials aren't obscured :salute:

i'd take it back mate, they've put the badge on wonky... G60 steels are nice though.