pete_griff

thanks very much for all the positive comments gents - i can assure you it does make a difference! :) i know it will be done before long - really really looking forward to that first drive once EVERYTHING is sorted as i want it, but that won't be for a little while yet. i have ordered my new clutch master and flexi line, so i'll get that sorted as soon as i get the car back. it still won't cure my 1st-gear grinding though. i'm praying that when i swap the end plate on the gearbox the noise vanishes instantly, but somehow i don't think it will...

i would be more than up for helping out/providing help/tools etc i have always ALWAYS wanted to do something like this myself. i've not done any track days or anything yet - but i've always been itching to have a go! promised myself that i will track the 'rado once it's all finished and running :)

thanks for the kind words buddy, most appreciated - i can assure you i have been in better moods than i was on the train home last night!!! :censored:

just to reiterate what i put in my own thread karl - great to meet you today buddy - thanks very much for coming down and showing a friendly face while i was there :) i'll try and give you a ring/txt tomorrow to let you know whats happening with my beastie... cheers again :D Pete

i'm crap at replying to people! thanks very much charlie, great to hear from you as always :) anymore news on your own project just yet? (apologies if it's a tender subject - i feel your pain!) trust me i'll keep you updated as to progress on mine... hey chris, cheers for the reply. sorry you missed out on the gruven short shift - i wanted someone with a vr to swap it with straight away and i knew you were based in bristol, so i asked mark if he still had your number. i hope it's the cap on th end of the case, but i don't think so; neither does vince who saw it today :( i recon for the price of a cap it's probably worth getting hold of one to try on there... glad to hear you're still enjoying your 'rado and you haven't had to sell it - great news :) i will definitely make a point of looking you up next time i'm down in bristle! - you should PM me your number actually - i did get hold of it off boost monkey off here a while ago; but i've since managed to loose my phone on a night out :? hey buddy - i do indeed have variant 3's - pretty pleased with them so far. they are perhaps a tiny bit harder than i would like at the mo; but then they have only been installed and i haven't even looked at setting them up properly yet - just wanted to get the car running and worry about the details like that afterwards...

by the way - big thanks to karl today who came down to show moral support - great to finally meet you buddy. thanks very much again for the loan of the maf too :) i would have rung you once i had arrived in bristol and got all sorted, but my mum neglected to tell me that the phone she has lent me in lieu of mine has a battery problem and so promptly died on me a few minutes after leaving stealth! i'll try and give you a ring tomorrow buddy and let you know how things are going - thanks very much again for popping down though buddy - great to have you around :D

hye all - doom and gloom for me today i'm afraid - i bloody hate cars! :( couldn't get it mapped today as it threw up some error codes that were pretty unexpected. according to both vince and the vag-doc, vag cars can take a while to throw up codes whereas other manufacturers (eg bmw etc) would throw them up straight away. the reason i say that as well, is the vag-doc reiterated how thorough he is before letting a car leave, so was a bit surprised to hear it was throwing up error codes. that's really crap for me, as he will have to go back through it and see if he can source the problem, leaving me without a motor in the mean time :( he was kind enough to give me a lift to the station tonight though and is still being thoroughly sound about the whole affair - fair play to him - bloody nice guy :) he's offerred to map it for me again (i turned him down the first time in favour of stealth) - i'm umming and arring about it at the moment - not because i don't trust him (he's one seriously switched on guy!) just the simple fact of having stealth's name on the top of the receipt holds mucho weight in the vw community should the unthinkable happen and i ever decide to sell the car... i recon i will get him to do it instead of vince if i'm honest, but i need to let vince and him know asap so as not to mess either of them around or offend either of them unnecessarily. one of the big bonusses though is that i can keep up with my friends' celica gt4....... when the ecu is in limp mode!!! :shock: the car felt bloody quick as it was - i can only imagine what it will be like once it's running as it should be and then remapped :D :norty: :tongue: one of the gayest things from today is that my gearbox will need to come back out of the car. stopped in at the place who rebuilt it for me on the way to bristol from stealth today and it will definitely need to come back out and be stripped and inspected to see what's causing the noise - f*cking gay! :mad2: the boys there have said i can stay there and give them a hand to take it out if that's what i want to do (which i definitely do!) - i'll just have to make sure i use first as little as possible in the mean time if i get the car back before then - we will see!... either way the gearbox won't be getting any attention until the new year, which is pretty crap as i start back at work on the 5th of jan at a new location...

not that i'm a particulalrly supersticious bloke - but my post number is currently 666 and i'm goin gto get it mapped tomorrow and we all know what corrados are like! so here's another post to say thanks to all those that have helped me out off here while i've been doing this - i can't say enough how invaluable the forum has been to me while i've been sorting the project out - couldn't have done it without it :D

and here's that piccie as promised :D just spoken to karl who's going to pop over to stealth tomorrow to say hello - top man :) he's hopefully going to bring his camcorder, so you can all get a sample of it when it's on the rollers! here ya go -

yeah of course i remember! thanks very very much for that - most appreciated. :thumb right: i really didn't want to sell my bmc (especially not so cheap as i did - kaz got a bargain there!), but to get me running etc and until i can do something with the routing of that hose, i'm a bit stuck really... the car is fantastic - got lots of little things to sort out yet - loose/missing trim inside, set my shocks up properly, sort out my replacement brembos... etc etc got the gearshift sorted today so i can get all the gears now which is nice! only trouble is i am getting some graunching when driving in 1st - no other gears and it seems to be going in and out of the forward gears ok... i'm not sure if there is some more adjustment i can do that i don't know about... i'm going to ask vince tomorrow when it goes to stealth to get remapped. seeing as it was fine before my rebuild, i should hopefully have some comeback with the garage who rebuilt it for me as i still have the receipt etc and they seemed like a nice enough bunch there. (the only thing i can think of other than something dodgy during happening the rebuild, is that i bashed the cap on the end of the case when putting it in - only very slightly; but chris (ziderapple) had a similar problem when he did his, except his was noisy all the time i think...) also i think i need a new clutch master cylinder which is a bit of a pain in the arse, but not bad timing if i'm doing the brakes soon as well i guess... as for the performance - the vr lethargy has vanished! it feels like a vr does at above 4k right from the off. and when you get to 4k with this motor it goes pretty ballistic and the car buggers off towards the horizon! the rev limiter is currently cutting in at about 5k which is a bit annoying, but everything should hopefully be sorted when it goes to stealth tomorrow. put it this way (on my private test track naturally :tongue: ) it was revving hard, strong and fast up to 130mph when i got it back, then it hit the limiter - but it felt like it had loads and loads left to go :D this is naturally before it has been to see vince to get remapped too - so i'm very keen to see how well it performs when it's all set up and running as it should. as it is at the moment it was about the same if not a tiny bit faster than my friends celica gt4; which is runing about 260-270 bhp... the quife seems to be earning it's money as well! - i can't wait to see what it feels like properly in the dry - i can feel it scrabbling for grip because of the stupidly slippery roads at the moment (i recon they have accidentally been putting grease in the gritters! :lol:) it's funny how you can feel the power go to the one side and then the other as the weight of the car alters with the road surface etc and the small pull on the wheel you get either way as it does this :) it's almost like feeling the car wheelspinning, yet still getting a decent amount of grip and forward momentum... also i remember from a thread about snow and one of corozins posts - when the front lets go, it really lets go with a quaife; as both wheels loose grip at the same time and the car really does fly towards the hedge like the titanic posessed! then when it grips again it does so with a bite. this isn't massively massively bad or offputting once you know it's coming - but the first time you do it you get woken up! :lol: i'll have to make sure i drive to it's limits because of this while the roads are still in the terrible state they are... i've just thought - i've not got any piccies of the engine in and running as it is now - hold on all of you and i'll try and get one up for you in the next few mins... :D (oh and i need to get myself sorted with altering the coolant hose routing and another bmc in place of the itg. the car is nice and quite at idle - quiter than a vr just with a tiny tiny bit more noticable gearbox chatter due to the harder mounts. when you rev it though, there is no mistaking that the car simply wants to kill you!)

brackets are looking great buddy 8)

hey everyone, i've hopefully patched things up enough for now - just off out shortly! i'll write all about it tomorrow. but i'm very very pleased - need to sort everything with mapping and a couple of teething problems - mostly thanks to the breaker sending me wrong/crap/broken parts! i will say that i'm unbelievably pleased with it and it's chuffing quick :) :D

howdy all - i'm really busy patching things up with the girlfriend for totally abondonning her today :S - i'll post a bit later - promise ;)

yeah tell me about it! - i'm just waiting for the call tomrrow morning saying "actually we've found something else wrong with the car and it's going to take at least another 3 weeks to finish it!" - lush!!! god i really hope everything goes ok tomorrow - i must admit i'm getting a bit dispondent with playing the whole waiting game now - it's not so bad when you're doing the work yourself because you know where you are and you've only got yourself to blame when something takes longer than it should - much infuriation! anyway - HOPEFULLY i'll be getting on here tomorrow telling you all how unbelievably chuffed with it i am :)

great stuff to hear kaz :D you going to be there tomorrow - hopefully going to be picking it up tomorrow morning now :D :D :D

i'm gutted for you too buddy - stuff like this really upsets me. i just can't get my head round the mentality of some people and what motivates them to do $hitty things like that :bad-words: hope you get it all sorted alright my friend - really sorry you're being put through this :(

:lol: haha - i guess so! let's hope that i won't need the receipt to take it back!...

finally - i hopefully have what is now a definite collection date! it's getting it's mot tomorrow afternoon, which it should pass all being well - certainly no reason i know of for it to fail being as everything is new! which means it should be ready for me to tax and collect on saturday morning! :D really hope that nothing else causes further delays now. not only am i itching to get it back to see just how good it is/isn't - it's unbelievably frustrating not having any transport when you need it; having to ring people up and scrounge lifts! :( bring on saturday morning :)

engine bay is looking squeaky clean buddy - nice work! :) i'm a big fan of the OEM look on the outside/interior, but you've made some nicelittle changes - car looks mint overall, nice one :D

the poor guy over in broistol has been under the weather today and yesterday, so he hasn't got much done to it since getting it running. he said he will hopefully be working again tomorrow, so there's a chance i could pick it up tomorrow night..... more waiting for me!

saw this on pistonheads today.... it will be great if they try and set a new record.... long live the credit crunch! http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default ... ryId=19132

Sixty percent of the time, they work...every time. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

IT'S ALIVE!!! MWAHAHAHAHA! got a text last night off the vag-doc, he said it's now starting and running fine - just got a few electrical gremlins to sort out... i'm hoping to get the phone call off him today to say "it's ready!" :D :D :D (please please please please please please please!)

alex (lizard racing) on here is in the process of doing it as we speak...