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Just realised this doesn't make mention of how to align the rear beam bracket to the chassis even before the rear beam is attached (I'm replacing the NS bracket as it's pretty corroded. I guess I'll just attach the bracket as best I can, and then if the garage say it's out of alignment at least the bolts will all be new when it comes to taking the beam off!

Yeah emailed them last night with the pics, no reply yet. I am just about to head out and check the part numbers on the boxes to make sure they are the right ones. Toady, as for another supplier there is only 1 that makes exhausts for early corrados now. :( Who is that Yan? PM me if you don't want to put brands up here. Cheers mate :salute:

Awesome news :notworthy: :grin:

thanks mate. It'll still be a while as i'm juggling uni and car working time, but hopefully late summer although the car may go into new ownership then (i'll explain later). The goodridges were never really an option financially (£60 ish? :eek: ) plus this is a restoration project hence the standard suspension! the only thing that will be different are the 280s I think, oh and the exhaust but a new standard one is just a false economy anyways. Gotta save some ££ and get the tools posted back too! :salute:

probably is. Who did the re-map?

Reventon :luvlove:

So I got my rear brake lines finished today. the hoses I'm using to check fitment are the caliper hoses in case you're wondering: My old versus new hard line bracket thing. At £2.50 a pop they really aren't worth reusing. First trial fit last weekend before I realised I didn't have some parts I needed. First fitting today. This was actually line #2 as the other one folded when I tried to introduce a slight radius. Yes, I have copper greased the bushes! The tighter radius just before the hose bracket (which runs to the hard line from the brake bias valve). Bit fiddly to do but nothing major. The other side which has the bracket on for the BBV so there's even less room by the ARB for the tight radii required to meet up with the hose bracket. You can see what I mean here. Almost lost another line to the cause, but managed to get this one to work without kinking it which was nice. A previous kink. May have passed MOT but fluid flow rate would be greatly reduced and may have played havoc with the BBV so not even worth risking. The scrapped parts. First shaped part is the mock up from a week ago, unfortunately it flared off-axis so I scrapped it. Other bad flares got cut off, and the twisty bit used to be straight before I kinked it :mad2: Just waiting for the other silver bracket to come in from germany, and then the beam is going on. Should be able to put al that together really quickly as I've done it before on the Jetta (and discs are a lot easier than drums).

Wow, this boost guys treats you real nice. Maybe he will buy you a pespi sometime soon too? :lol: Glad it's getting another ticket tomorrow, let me know how it goes.

Yeah trade prices are good aren't they! Gary doesn't understand it, but Dave is happy to put it through with a flash of the metallic red and grey CCGB card. Iffley actually dealt with my whole £500ish rear end order, and not a bolt missing. But I just enjoy the 10mile drive to see Dave, plus he knows what he's talking about which is nice. Iffley did mess up my water pump pulley about 3 times in a row and got really arsey about it too. Shame.

VW got back to me today to say that they would sort out the order and let me keep the extra parts. Woop! 3 bolts richer. Got my rear lines finished the other day, haven't put the pics up yet though.

That program is so non-specific it's laughable! I'd take any of those results with some of this: yeah, that's salt.

The Bentley is very hard to see which bolt is which on the cylinder head diagram, but as far as I can tell it says 10Nm (7 lbft) but I'll leave it to a VR guru to confirm. Bump.

So, I picked up my order yesterday from Kidlington VW (oxford reprazent brap brap) and it was alllmooost right. Unsurprisingly, Gary didn't check the order before giving it to me, and me being a tard didn't check it before I left. Here's what happened: Ordered 3 rear beam bracket bolts - received 2, but charged for 3. Ordered 1 smaller front engine mount bolts - received 4, but charged for 1 (any takers? :norty: ) Ordered 2 bendy rear beam hard line to rubber hose bracket thing - received 1, other in Munich - but I knew about that. Ordered 1 exhaust clamp after one sheared when taking off backbox - received a hex nut. (You're doing it wrong!) Most of you probably know I'm a part number whore, so not much chance I got the part number wrong on the exhaust clamp but I will check! Edit: the hex nut has the same part number on the bag as the beam bracket bolts different picking location though so maybe some 'special' people in another warehouse? :cuckoo: Didn't actually order an exhaust clamp - oops! At least the 1 bracket that arrived will allow me to make the rear hard lines to length (i.e. the ones that snake along the trailing arms) as I can just move the bracket to the other side and do the second one. Also got the spring retainers that go between hose and hard line.

I'd think so kev, the fuel will be approx 50kg at an SG (specific gravity) of 0.7, coolant around 8 I'd think (for a 50/50 mix?) seeing as ethylene glycol is pretty thin but water has an SG of 1, oil will be a fair bit thicker and screenwash will be a little thinner (as per coolant)...ish. so roughly speaking: 50+8+8+4 = 70kg, more or less.

is that a G60 pump "bonus feature" then? My Golfs and Jetta and Corrado have never made that noise on full lock. The jetta once got jittery but that was due to a slipping belt.

that H's very much steve, thanks! Mine is all brown and rickety - very hard to see what's what before taking it off the car.

Ok, I would have posted these up earlier, but I was too busy owning down 20 miles of oxford countryside on my steel horse. These are all parts of my fuel pump :nuts: Obviously everyone knows which each part is so I won't bother labelling them up... :help:

:eek: you hacked my webcam!!!1!!!!1!! omg.

Another quick update whilst coursework is quiet! Going to order the parts I need this morning, hopefully the dealer can get them in either tomorrow or saturday. Bought a near-new fuel pump assembly off stevej for £70 which was a cracking deal I thought! I haven't opened it yet to look at it as it's in my room and smells like fuel :nuts: apart from that I'm trying to get the back end done asap, so I can move onto the front and get the PAS all reconnected for MOT. The G60 brakes may have to wait until a summer day in the not too distant future. Pics up when I'm dressed :lol:

yeah the early spec ones are identical to the Mk2 golf AFAIK. Later ones are cylindrical and up next to the washer fluid bottle. All cars seem to have the late bracket on inner N/S wing by washer fluid: I just needed the mounting plate and bottle to use my late PAS setup.

If you mean the little circular spigot ring things, then they are: N 90335004 clamping washer 5X30 / Hope this helps, Jon.

Can you get some pics up? Sounds like it could be the same setup at the tim gauge in my old golf. Also, how can you tell the temp reading is off: does your pressure gauge have temp reading in too, and you're comparing to the MFA or something? :scratch:

I think Supercharged may have done, he has deffo undersealed one of his Cs with all the schulz goodness.

Well, the VR6 rack is known as the 'waffle' rack due to the embossed square pattern on it's main body. You may have to remove the rack from the subframe to check this though. The 4pot rack looks quite smooth and plain. Not personally, no. Play in the TREs wouldn't account for the wheels moving; you'd feel the change through the steering column and wheel unless the internal gearing of your steering rack is fooked. I think your TREs would have to be properly dead (like, really REALLY floppy with no resistance) for the wheels toe-in or track to be affected on the fly. The TREs slot through the hubs in tapered holes after all, for the very reason of keeping spontaneous suspension geometry changes to a minimum whilst driving! hope this helps.

Supercar EGTs easily pass 1000+ Celcius, I think their exhaust manifolds can stay plenty warm enough on their own even with thin walled tubular manifolds :wink: