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you can look up part numbers online at http://www.vagcat.com :D I don't think you're the only person with "access" to ETKA either.

Great stuff Mister J, i haven't even looked at half the things you are sorting out and i've had mine about 3.5 years!

KevFish, great updates as usual. I was thinking of you the other day :camp: about your high power NA aspirations (no pun intended) and wondering whether you were thinking of throttle bodies or such like? Also maybe some bottom end mods like R36 crank (not sure if it fits, just thoughts really!) or knife-edging the standard to reduce drag etc etc.

Ah it's a 16v aswell. tbh I'd take someone who knows old VWs. I actually had to fix mine to get it home as it didn't even start and none of the wiring was done properly! Should have walked away tbh but I stuck at it and managed to get it home. Make sure his breakdown cover is still good, that's prob the best advice i can give!

54² = 2916 mm² divide by 4 = 729mm² multiply by pi = 2290.22 or using radius: 27² x pi = 729 x 3.141 = 2289.79mm² :D

i'm still saying seals based on that ^^^ i haven't had a battery in mine for about 2 years so can't check unfortunately.

Bazinga!! Clark Tartan at the Scottish Register of Tartans Where do I go to claim proper scot status? :D

sorry my bad, the stubs don't have wheelnut threads! Having a wonky moment. I got pattern febi ones, I'll check the prices for you - can't seen to find them at the moment, but yeah they're coming back in at £60+! omg. I'll try to dig out my receipts.

I've found that actually when the window seals start to go they can get sticky and bind against the glass. Also when the reg gives out, it will try to push the window up at an angle which can also cause it to bind and go up very slowly.

I think if you're buying it to run and not just break for parts you should go into it with your eyes wide open. I paid £400 for my burgundy 16v about 3 years ago and I've been slowly restoring it ever since! No doubt it could well need a lot of work.

Drive in this morning was uneventful which was nice. I got a whiff of something like solder or flux which worried me to an electrical problem as I entered Newbury but I think it was just a local industrial estate (or blower is on the way out?). Popped the bonnet when I got to work and both hose and plug lead seemed happy. I'm looking at some cheapo silicone hoses as they're only about £10 more than standard. If anyone has any experience please let me know! :D Also expected to see the 3-branch hose in the 8v kits as that is what's on the corrado, but i guess it's a 16v only hose. It goes from oil heat exchanger to water pump I think and then also upwards into the head flang at the front of engine.

Hey tony thanks for that about rear brakes. I'm deffo not feeling flush! I'd like to get away with keeping the discs and pads and swapping the cals but I know that may cause troubles, so for now I think I will live with it :/ I'd forgotten abou the bearings with discs so cheers for reminding me! Yeah my jetta 8v used to do the tappet thing too. As i was typing it I thought, "actually it's probably not that bad...!" This is true. I'll have another look. It might be that the curent stalk needs a bit of a clean which I didn't do before fitting :-s I know i know, pretty dumb! And onto tonight's updates.... Blew the head flange to matrix hose tonight. It was a little pinhole which didn't really start to steam until I got off the motorway...at least I didnt notice it until then. Suffice to say, I made a beeline for the Corrado at my bro's house and robbed the hose! This will now be time #2 or 3 that i have robbed a spare engine for a hose! I am deffo going to order a new set of hoses to go on the 8v. They're just one of those things that just start going in rapid succession. Coolant needs flushing anyways, so why not! Also, noticed a very interesting thing in the dark after I swapped the hose.... my coil lead was arcing, but it was arcing THROUGH the little plastic clip that was keeping it connected to the header tank overflow. How insane is that? A lead arcing through the outer sheath to start with, then through a hard plastic and onto another rubber hose.... I was so impressed at the little spark's determination I called ProdigalSon out to come look :lol: I ended up pulling the coil lead from the Corrado's 16v (which is working wonderfully) and sticked that on. It doesn't arc, and I must say the car may even seem a bit pokier now.... but I guess that's to be expected as a weak spark can really hinder performance. Also, the high winds we are having isn't really helping my performance but when you drive a big black brick I guess these things happen! :lol: :lol: :lol:

fair enough :D you could do what I did and take the whole lot off and develop some serious upper body presence. luckily i know how to put it back on again now so someone else will need to fight off Skeletor.

VR6, if this is in the wrong section it's because I put it in the wrong section. Fact. So I found these off a guy over on the Tex. They seem to be much better than the usual crappy scribbled-on-piece-of-paper type that I've seen floating around. I'm deffo going to use it on the Plum as I have replaced the rear beam brackets so this will help me align them again. I can also use it to check accuracy of my CAD model of the chassis. If anyone would like the Hi-res version please PM me and I will email it over. Cheers, Jon.

fair enough. Remind me to rib you for taking your car to a garage to get the PAS belt tightened :lol:

Mate it will be the voltage regulator. Mine used to do the same. The whole dash would pulsate and would get brighter with revs! Really sorry that has happened though. It's a shame you're so far away, I'd be more than happy to give you all these 4cyl parts I have kicking about. Ditto bosch one on the reg though, they shouldn't be too much otherwise maybe get an exchange alternator?

The part he means is the stub axle. This also has the threaded section for the wheel nuts. If the brake discs don't fix it, you'll probably need new stub axles too. I've done mine, I think they were about £25 a side. If you're doing bearings, there's no reason not to replace these as putting a new bearing on a bad stub axle will just lead to premature wear.

I'm upset by the lack of cabbage content considering your prized number plate.

does your missus have bad gas? If not, then you will get a lot more road noise without the interior in. A common thing to go is the door seals on the C. They look ok but they don't have to be deformed by much to let the wind noise in. Might be worth checking those over.

omg!!! you're probably Alex Nahasapeemapetalan. Here's our coat of arms. as can be seen, we enjoy castles and bananas. Or bibs. I'm not sure what that crescent shaped thing is. Perhaps its mooning. Come on then, Alex O'Reilly, let's see your coat of arms! You're gonna need more than dundee cake to prove your worth! ---------- Post added at 01:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:49 PM ---------- p.s. i voted for 8th or 9th :)

Cheers kip, good to know! I have definitely noticed the difference in having the good tyres, it rained on the way home on friday so I was very glad to have got them done. I was thinking about tyres over the weekend...I don't think I have EVER bought new tyres for any of my 15+ cars I've driven in the last 12 years! Insane. The cars normally die or were terminal enough to not get to the replacing tyres stage! :lol: Also not having the wheel vibration at high speeds means my wing mirror has stopped flapping about! Result :D How did you know your head needed doing, compression tests? My tappets are starting to get loud, although within about 3 secs of engine start they have quietened down. Ditto with realibility, despite my scare with the oil pressure sensor wiring and the misfires due to damp ignition bits. I only do 50 miles a day in mine and am easily the oldest car on the A34 commute (despite a mini i see sometimes) so i'm glad she's still going. One oddity I have noticed is that my rear wiper stalk has now given up. It bends so much it actually tilts the light stalks so I flash main beams instead of washing the rear screen! :lol: I think I'm going to rewire the column to late mk2 /early C spec so I can use many more stalks. It was such a ballache finding that early one, and I doubt i'd find another. I could always mod it so that the rear wiper runs off a switch on one of the many dash blanks I suppose. That would be much less hassle. ---------- Post added at 01:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:28 PM ---------- I think the Corrado had a mk2 and mk3 caliper on the rear when I got it! That threw me as I thought there might have been an imbalance. I currently have a pair of refurbed (new pistons, seals and nips) mk2 esque calipers for the Corrado, and also seem to have a pair of brand new rears aswell. No doubt I could throw a set onto the Golf. I am unsure whether I should try and find some rear carriers and carrier pins at the same time and swap them all over in one job lot? Also probs do discs and pads. IIRC carrier pins aren't available from VAG anymore but I could be wrong. I still have a huge bag of VAG parts to put on the plum. I too have felt the sadness of seized cables. I think the metal of the cable may react with the bronze(?) guide tubes that go through the rear bulkhead under the bench and out to the underside of the floorpan. I'm starting to wonder whether it's just that my cable has stretched or whether the brakes are binding. Only way to think of checking without jacking the car up is to see if the rear calipers are hot...a bit pikey I know!

Nothing listed...?

yeah i've been caught with forgetting to cancel the 3 copies for £1 before, and then got a DD for £15 bi-annually! If you're actually organised you can log onto the website and cancel immediately. The 3 months will play out but you won't get charged any more than the £1.

can these be scaled up to about 14"? I think they could look good on the Golf.

Really? I can't get mine to look that bright! looks a much darker colour like the first two pics. Maybe it needs a scrub! Gorgeous colour though, like all the pearls.