boost monkey

A kg of emissions in town?! Might as well just drop a brick of carbon monoxide gas out at every junction!

Prod checked the voltage this morning after I sat there like a noob and turned the key, it was generating 14+Volts :D I will literally have to rewire the whole car, circuit by circuit, over the next few years so not doubt I'll get REAL acquainted!

I'd be worried after six months if mine had not broken down once. I'd go to the doctors for a full check up or something. LOLOGRAM!!!!11 Rob you're a nutty one. How is your remapping and playing with gadgets going?

:shock: :clap: I'll leave you the keys and you can do that next weekend? Switch is in the glove box :grin:

To be fair, it's pretty rough as Corrados go and it's only broken down once in 6 months which I don't think is too bad :lol: :nuts:

Had a major breakdown (well, not major major) on the A34 south last night. Car ran to a stop after using all it's electricities! For a bit of background, I hate electronics. It's the one thing I can't do at uni. Testing polymers in the Matlab - fine. Stripping engines - easy. Passing a basic electronics module- uhhh..... :blink: I'd been playing with the voltage regulator on the alternator on saturday as the battery light had been flickering and I won't let my nemesis beat me :angry: I took the reg out, tried a bosch one from a spare alt but that was fooked, and so I cleaned up the old one and put it back. The lights on the dash no longer flickered when the headlights were on and the idle had steadied so I was happy. Then yesterday (in the rain and cloudyness) I drove to work with wipers, lights and blower on and the battery light came on again....ffs... Played with it again last night and thought it was resolved. Went to put some petrol in followed by the obligatory blat around the ring road B) and it chuntered to a halt just as I came up to Peartree... why Corrado? why do you hate me so much? :( Anyways, I called big bro out (local, had a spare battery and you could hear the G60 from half a county away) and we limped it home (on a 110Ah caravan battery - long story!) This morning, I went and picked up another battery which cost £55 from a local business (when Halfords wanted £90 :nono: ) and all is well again. Alternator is fine, charging the battery with electricals to 14V and the engine is transformed! Let me explain... The car never used to rev past 5000rpm. I thought it was a fuel pump issue cos I knew it was a bit dodgy, but during the drive in this morning the needle passed 6000! After being a massive nooblet and asking big bro, he said that the battery probably wasn't passing enough current to the coil and subsequently my car had the feel of an eletronic limiter...at 5000 :huh: anyways, it is a lot better now. Still need shocks on the front and to swap my spare hub out but it's getting there :D

...that would make a lot more sense! :brickwall:

Yup, as VR6 n.o.s. said, they're a replacement panel available from VW. Get the wallet out though, it's £50ish + VAT and is a special order part. I think they even need to take a deposit payment before ordering? I asked about one recently. You might be better to just get a bodyshop to weld a plate in if you're not too bothered about it looking OEM.

Inconel is awesome, but why gold springs? Gold is a really soft metal (in comparison) isn't it? Not something I would have thought would be a good choice for drivetrain :shrug:

Battery light flickered a lot on the way to work this morning, on permanently at idle and inversely proportional to rpm. sat on the dual at 60 in 3rd just to try and keep the battery charged. On a plus note, my old golf 16v E405 MAD is now a full-blown (not like that) track car at the 'Ring! There's a 13-page build thread over on www.northloop.co.uk :clap: :clap: :clap: Currently chatting to owners about it, looks like they've done a lot so far.

Focii are one of those cars that I think a lot of people can appreciate cos it is just so good, regardless of badge. Nice one matey! Looks like you found a corker there :cheers:

After spotting some differences between the refurb'd beam and an old beam I have spare, I found out from previous owner that the one I bought is potentially from a Mk2 Golf :brickwall: So, I pretty much have a whole chassis refurb kit for a mk2 (rear beam, cross member, subframe and rad support)... Not quite sure how I feel about that at the moment. :| Anyways, seeing as I had a spare alternator kicking around, I decided to swap the voltage regulators over to see if it would fix my flickering lights. The spare alternator Pic of my ciurrent voltage reg (hand craned under top rad hose and narrowly avoiding dipstick!) obviously a pattern part. contacts on Bosch one seem more worn, but they also sit closer inside the alternator. other side of the regs. As you can see, major corrosion on terminals of the pattern (current) voltage reg. I stuck the Bosch one in, and started the car up. Instant red battery light, so that one is dead or perhaps the carbon contacts don't connect. So, for the sake of being a clean freak ( :nuts: ) I wirebrushed the contacts on the pattern one and put it back in. The battery light flickered for a bit but went away, so I took it for a drive round the ring road to check it was still charging. It seemed fine and I got back in good time. Popped out last night to get a film and I turned my lights on and no flickers! I'm guessing it must have been the dodgy contacts considering all I did was clean the pattern reg and put it back in. More money saved :clap: Have ZERO spending money for a while now, as I have to save up £700 before I move house in early september for my deposit and months rent up front. Hoping to get the shocks soon though and get all the subframe setup put on :salute:

p.s. sorry for the hijack :notworthy:

THAT'S MY OLD GOLF!!!!! Boost Monkey's Old Golf :grin: God, that's made my day now! I'm gonna have to get on over to CGTI and shake that guys hand! :dance: :dance: :dance:

yeah they'll be fine. No point chucking away nearly new pads. Or send them to me for my 280s :norty:

I would disagree that it strips any wax off the car. I wash my car with autoglym stuff (and yeah it's not the best by any means), but if I have previously used SRP and EGP on the car, I'll just wash and shammy the car down this time and the water still beads off a treat so I don't see how it strips previous waxes off. It definitely doesn't strip EGP or SRP, not that either of those are a wax. Maybe I should stop now before I get a microfibre cloth shoved down my throat :lol:

I always dampen mine before using it but it always works well. I think the instructions say you need to wash it in a mild detergent before (and between) uses? :scratch:

Brake Cleaner?

you can drive a car without PAS you know :wink:

Awesome Graham! yet to see this about, but will let you know if I do :lol:

whenever i've tried to remove the hoses from a PAS pump they have sheared, so be careful. They're also about £100+ from VW. Each.

don't seem to melt in to metal, no.

None of the swarf stuck to any of my paint, just the window :cuckoo: But it was raining at the time, and wet cold steel is a lot harder than wet cold glass :salute:

Have EXACTLY the same on my car. The swarf is red hot (sparks) and it melts the top layer of the glass and embeds itself. My rear window on driverside is peppered with swarf like that. Mine happened when I cut up the moonlight blue on the drive and forgot that I had parked my car only meters away :pale: ah well. :shrug:

Hey luke, welcome to the forum. £400 is a good price although be aware that it may need a few more hundred thrown at it to get through an MOT... or it might be fine! the screeching noise is probably just the PAS belt slipping a little - not a major issue at all :salute: Cheers, Jon. p.s. gets some pics up if you can!