speedysmartypants

im soo jelous of the look of your car with those wheels! what coilovers are you getting?

thanks mate

ive done a search and i think the answer is yes but i would just like someone to confirm this for me. many thanks

ive not noticed any knocking yet. i would love to go turbo in the future but for now i want to push for a modest 350bhp with my rotrex. its gunna take me soo long though cos it costs soo damm much. near future plans are the head done properly, 83mm wossner low comp pistons, uprated fuel pump and uprated injectors. ive got to strip my gearbox (never done one before) to change the diff bearings from my missus hitting a hay bale on a duel carrage way at 60mph. it totaly screwed the cars handling and im slowly replacing everything to try and recover it. the diff actually knocks if you wheel spin and over bumps. bit worried it may pop out if i dont do it soon. hopefully by the end of the year i will have sorted everything then i can get some sort of cooling and crank up that boost!

sorry for my ignorance but i dont know what pinking is so please tell me. i bought some new 2mm oversize valves off a guy from the vr6 owners forum for £110 which i thought was a bargin. i will try and get the guy whos gunna do my head to copy what you've had done to your head. apart from ports matched to schimmel intake cos i dont have one. any recomendation on an adsact specification? theres suposed to be something special about his valve guides but i cant remember what cos i have a head like a siv. thanks for your help

no but it was refurbed by stealth in febuary and they said they made it like a brand new head so i assumed they did. when i did the gasket spacer i refurbed the head myself and stealth dont appear to have done a good job so maybe they didnt skim it. they didnt clean the valves or change the guides which needed doing badly. anyway ive got some oversize valves to go in and im gunna get it ported so i will get it skimmed then.

yep. cheers for your help mate

dumps to intake. ive only just connected the recirc valve up cos when i had the spacer plate andy said the compression was too low to use it as the cylinders were taking everything given to them and the recirc valve would jus mess with the maff signals.

i did the same as u with the spacer. it was mapped with the maf and idle vave. when he was fettling after i took it back he removed the black box thing off the idle valve. he thought it was down to the throttle body shutting too quick or something. i know he played with the damper. u reckon he couldnt be bothered to map it again?

i havnt used a vagcom yet to see. yeah i guess ive got to go back to the spacer plate. did u use one metal gasket and split it or use two? i used one and split it but i was thinking of using two one one the bottom of the spacer and one on top of it. may take the compression too low though? the other prob i had with the spacer is that the car kept stalling when stoping from high speed like pulling off the motorway from 80-90 coming to a stop and then it would stall. andy played with the trottle body but couldnt stop it happening. he said hes only had the problem with cars running lower compression and low boost. doesnt stall now im back to standard compression?

my car is a dizzy. slightly lumpy on idle.smooth to drive and fast unless u floor it when as it gets to say 3500 revs is feels like it dont wanna go anywhere. i checked and checked the cam timing yesturday and its spot on. i went to a standard gasket cos i had a spare one and i had blown the gasket with the spacer in 300 miles. i used arp studs n nuts and it doesnt say in the instructions but u r supposed to heat the car up to one full cycle then retorque the nuts. the heat releases the stress in the bolts apperently and then they arnt at the right torque. andy at storm said he thinks thats why it went anyway. he says the same thing happened to him the first time he used arp bolts and he rang them up and thats what they told him. i was jus trying to do a quick fix cos i had an unused standard gasket. ive got to rebuild the bottom end soon and do the valve guides and valves (2mm oversize) n port the head. anyways r u sure the timing is fixed? i would have thought u would change it for different compression? i used a 2mm spacer plate so would it not have to spark later to allow longer to fill the cylinders up? i dont know enough bout cars

yep. ive checked everything and the ignition timing is the only thing i can think of

no sorry.

if u get arp headbolts (studs and nuts actually) torque them up then once the engine is in the car fire it up and heat it to one full cycle then torque all the bolts again. i didnt know this when i used mine and blew the head gasket in 300 miles. doesnt say it in the instructions but andy at storm said thats prob why mine went. something to do with releaving the stress in the bolts or something but i cant remember.

ive jus done my headgasket and i removed my spacer plate in exchange for a standard gasket. car is a bit lumpy and theres no power when you put your foot down. could this be the ignition timing as it was mapped with the lower compression? ive checked the cam timing, plugs and leads. thanks for your time chris

no ive only bought stuff from the states from ebay and somehow they pay the vat for you. i think normaly customs send you a letter to say they have your parcel and you need to pay them duty. ask cheesewire as he has bought alot from the states. im gunna use them for bearings if i rebuild my engine.

its an easy job even for a novice. dont use a victor reinz gasket. mine started leaking after a day. buy cheap, buy twice! get it from VW

my memory is crap but i think they have these little clip things on them that you pull off and then the injectors pull out of the rail. tight sqeeze aswell.

theres a good company in the US who ship to the uk and you could prob save a bit. the do new 82mm pistons and rings for $489.95. heres the link http://www.mjmautohaus.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2_4_19_241_3847&info=Kolbenschmidt_071107091C.4_Pistons_82mm_Set_of_6_Euro_OEM&products_id=2877

scrap what i just said. i just looked it up and see its a early golf 2.8 vr6 and i have one with the same code in my hand right now if u want it

i had the same problem a year ago and spent 6 months searching for one with the right code. my origional was a CC and i used a B with no problem. i think your code relates to an early coilpack car. if you cant find one that ends with A you may be able to use one that ends with CP which is later coilpack cars and get it mapped by stealth to your car if theres a problem. BF may be no good cos its for auto cars and B and CC are for cars with a dizzy. you may be able to use any vr6 ecu and just get it mapped by vince at stealth so i would give him a ring and ask him as he knows his stuff when it comes to this kind of thing. if you can use any i have a couple of spare golf ones. u can have one cheap if u need.

i feel well sorry for you mate. you are soo close! hope things pan out for you

i mean hiflowheads

highflow heads

looks sweet with those alloys. colour goes great with car