AdamjVR6

I found the culprit. It was a hose half off on the engine :D sound as a pound,not that its my car anymore now :lol: funny enough the buyer is on here too :)

hmm,ive undone the nut on the throtle stop but i cant seem to thread it up as theres no way to grip the little bugger??? any help??

Ok,cheers,yeah i hoped that being a VR6 enthusiast he would understand. Shame its pissing down though. Test drive will be one long wheelspin :lol:

Hi guys. Although i fear there are many reasons for this to happen im in a bit of a predicament. I have someone coming all the way from london today to buy the VR6 and 2 days ago it decided to stop idling around 70% of the time when i clutch in at say roundabout or junctions. Naturally this wont look good on a test drive :( This guy i suspect is a member here anyway as he said hed had VR6's before,anyway. The weather is crap and i ahve no garage,so,will i get any chance of a miracle if i simply reset the ECU(disconnect battery) nd let the old girl learn again.? Or is the only "quick" fix to tighten the throttle cable a little,yee haw thanks in advance of all your help as this will probs be my last ever post here anyway :)

What it just breaks when i turn the engine off and mends when the engine is running :? :? :?

Since im selling my car it's decided to go wrong for me :lol: Basically i noticed my water level had dropped to just below the min line on the expansion tank. Then i noticed that there are no leaks untill i turn the engine off :? Then it leaks about half a pint of coolant and stops. Does this everytime without fail,am i right in thinking this means i need a new water pump? As the leak is directly below where the belts for PAS etc are. Any idea what a garage charges for a water pump if that what the problem is? Oh,and the problem seems directly linked to how long you drive. I.E. i drove about 100 miles friday and the leak was about a half a pint after i turned the key yet after a short say 10 mile drive its a thimble full :? weird

noted,its just a cold air feed to a cone now. just to be safe. be interesting to see my AFR graph from the rollers on saturday

yeah,i have mate,although its weird,somtimes it seems so much faster than others,weird. Going on alan jefferies rolling road saturday anyway 8)

perhaps,but then the filter inside is as big as the cone filter that as on the car before,just it had rusted out (green cotton) so though id better change it. might take the front off the carbon intake and give the car more scope to draw in what it wants. FWIW car has better throttle response since fitting this filter,used to bog down a little at WOT in low revs

Kinda committed myself after i cut the hole ion the bumper :lol: :lol:

yeah,thats why i think i'll stick with that,cold air pipe about 3 inches away from the filter opening. Correct that its not for a corrado too,its generic,but i cant stomach paying £££'s just for a name,well,not for an air filter anyway :lol:

noticed something i cant quite believe with this type of kit. with the cold air hose fixed to the filter it goes fine. Take it off and leave it about 2" in front of the filter and it goes a lot better :lol: WTF is that about,it literally pulls a lot better in first and second gear in this setup. Air starvation with the hose connected???

Well,would just like to say thanks for the hoards of old posts which helped me in routing my cold air feed by re situating the charcoal filter :) Took a while to get the hose right in the bumper lip but got there in the end! cheers

Very nice car mate,like the pictures too,although i have to say,shocking exhaust :lol: Is that what a stock pipe looks like :?

yeah,funny enough i had a rattle under the car and it was the heatshield on the cat,it had snapped off two of the welds,cant get the bugger off yet as two bolts nearest the manifold are proper shagged,gonna dremmel them off tomorrow now. i measure mine whilst under the car and got 76cm too :)