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remember to get a nose plug when you do it, gear oil smells _so_ bad :doc: :doc: :doc: :gag:

That sounds like a lot of money for what you have listed. did you get a full service or something? I guess brake lines probably eat up hours of labour come to think of it.

Any idea what caused the smoke? Someone saying they have had the car running (in a garage or sat idly) is a lot different than driving it around for an hour under load.

I remember a jaunt I had to the dealers last summer. Basically, Prodigal was out of the country on business and his brakes needed doing. Me and his missus got cracking as she's into cars too. Long story short, bleed nipple sheared on a caliper so I went to pick up a new caliper exchange at one of the dealers in Oxford-ish area (can't remember which one for the life of me, might have been North Oxford / Kidlington way?) Anyways, I get there and park up. Walk out of the carpark and through the showroom to the parts desk out the back somewhere, all the time carrying a dead caliper in a latex gloved hand! You would have thought the Salesmen were gonna call the bomb squad with the amount of looks I got as I walked through! :lol: So i get to the back and hand this caliper over. Get chatting to the guy and yep they have the caliper in and it's the right one. Top quality bloke behind the till and had a little natter about old VWs and stuff before I paid and wandered back out to my car. Another long story short, I had managed to park in the Fleet Cars area and subsequently someone had put a brand spanking new Passat right across the front of me! (Question: if you saw a G-reg Grey Mk2 Jetta in the Fleet Cars section, would you think that maybe this is _NOT_ in the right place, and is _NOT_ a fleet car?) Anyways, I go back in and find a really really helpful guy who turned out to be a driver and he said he would happily move the Jetta out of the space for me, as if he were to hit anything it would be a no-fault as he worked at the Dealership. So I did. 2 mins later I was on the road back home. No patronisation, condescending behaviour from anyone. Just tons of people willing to help :) Note to self: find out name of VW dealership from brother.

they'll be pretty brittle by now, so you can prob use a hammer, mine shattered because they had got so hot. I think it might be a VW part, but you might wanna check you can get replacements before you remove them.

That brown sleeve is the injector shroud. The car will run fine, but I would get them replaced whilst the manifold is off. My injectors used to rattle around a bit which is a little worrying!

seriously though, could well be lambda. Andy's 60 runs much better with it unplugged, so if your sensor was shorted by the water - and then ran fine - and now it's dried off, and works, the car runs lumpy again that might be something worth looking into? it's a theory i'm working on at the mo.

I have a brand new Etch-a-Sketch so let me know if you want a remap at the same time.

*pencils the dragon green in for some student tinkering sometime in early feb*

What are you missing (colour and or shape of connector) and where? I did a like for like in my golf with a KR, but I labelled all of the connectors up. They weren't technical at all, stuff like "blue connector to cold start injector", you know, stuff like that :D

Damn straight, he couldn't drive a screw into a wall. That is some funny sheet though! I do the same kind of crazy narrative, ask Prodigal... :(

I hear very similar things. Apparently water injection systems can literally steam clean combustion chambers increasing economy and reliability! No experiments yet, but if someone wants to bring a VR down to the Engine test cell to the School of Technology, Wheatley Campus.... :D

well, Prodigal's car currently runs better sans lambda, so you could be right, and with regards to original post... you know car washes HAVE been invented right? or was the flood actually just a puddle but your car is so damn low...?

Cazza, how did you pass your emissions with that ozone-causing vee in the bonnet? did you slip the guy a twenty?! :lol: seriously though, good work on that. Awesome to hear you're going the black wheel look too! I highly recommend it. I think we'll be doing wishbones this week, they're pretty simple so I reckon 2hrs tops for both of them? Sucks that the G didn't pass MOT, it was running spot on through the wideband at G-Werks on thursday. Old mk2-esque cars can be so cruel! :/ We will get it working again soon though. I dread to think of the time when I can afford a catalysed car, so complicated...

^^^ OMG, thread hijack!!!! Baaaaad butterfly.... On-topic...Well, you can find out those kind of details from DVLA I think, although they'll charge you for the privilege :(

it's free on other Vr6 sites if you know which mod to talk to... ^_^

there is a serious amount of pipeage buddy. and they are £££ from the dealers :( any pics?

True! You'll also get a date with a man... :?

probably only the dizzy cap then or something :( :lol: Junkie, you should stick up some engine bay pics or even conversion "in the middle of" pics if you have them? that would be cool.

:shock: :shock: So gutted I missed this, you must only be about 50miles from oxford? sounds like you had a good one, awesome pics and good find on the water pump? (any idea where the broken blades are? :( ) Uni starts again on monday so will be back to not really doing much 24/7... :lol:

*random post alert* does anyone know the differences in the head/block between a mk2 8v carb 1800 and the G60? I'll try to get engine codes if possible. My jetta engine bay and Prodigal's G60 bay looks pretty similar once the fun parts have been removed...! /random post

seized calipers?! on a corrado you say? does that happen? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: yeah, ditto dinkus, sounds like a likely culprit.

There was a horrible resonance at about 3500rpm in the R32 though which made it literally a complete headache to drive anywhere slowly! Isn't 3500rpm ish when the inlet manifold does that changy over thing?

http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/models/car/?car=34034&Volkswagen (no, I cannot be bothered to tidy it up!)

Until I see some dyno graphs before and after the Viper, It is staying firmly in the 'ricer tat' section of my engineering brain. Dyno graphs or real engineering proof, either will do :D btw, the K-jet on top of the airbox is the Metering Head.