chrishill

hehe could do! I think in the end we decided if you could get the engine to start but the alarm to remain on and the doors locked it'd be secure enough to leave it with the engine going, only problem is you'd have to turn the motion sensors down so low they'd be next to usless. in short... too much hastle and people would probably think you were a kn*b if you ever used it in public anyway. :lol:

ford - we were saying the same thing at vw festival yesterday, there were 4 silver C's there, 3 VR's and a late valver. 3 of them were K/L reg... not sure what year OSV's is, that was the 4th. jhanlon, looks like a mint car, paintwork looks sparkly!

me and chris vr6nos (god not that again!) talked the security thing over with the guy who fitted my alarm. he said they're designed to cut out as soon as the handbrake is taken off so unless you have the key, you cant go anywhere. obviously you could just cut the handbrake cables though, so you're right henny, sort of makes your alarm pointless. I wouldnt fit one personally but you have to admit its a nifty trick.

I've got a toad a606i which i've been well happy with so far. I asked the guy about remote starting out of interest when i got it fitted and he seemed pretty confident that any of the remote start modules from the other manufacturers could be wired into the system. I half remember him saying that clifford arent doing the modules any more though and they're the only ones I knew of.

cheers guys! :D got a few nice comments and a suprising amount of attention at vw festival on sunday, wasnt sure it'd stand up to close inspection as its got a whole host of little bodywork things which need sorting but I was pleasently suprised. I even got a compliment from OSV, which is a pretty major thing to me considering his car is there or there abouts where I'd like mine to be when its (eventually) finished, maybe a little more + than OEM than him though.

have a look at the cars for sale section, the blue one h8rra has up for sale is an absolute bargain, so much history it hurts and looks damn nice with it.

there was a stand at vw festival selling the AK's for £350 and i thought that was a good deal! £280 is a bargain, snap them up.

RH AG's, not splits like the ZW1's so cheaper!

thats about £560, I'd say thats a bloody good price!

I recently replaced my speedo clocks/dials/whatever with a new unit, since then my rev counters been on the fritz. Basically at aprox 100mph the rev counter is showing almost 6k, and the little MFA revs function shows that the needle is only reading about 200 under what it should be. obviously somethings not right and I suspect I've missed something when reconnecting the dials. The only connection i could see was a big plug, is there anything else that should be there or is there any other reason why my revs could be so out? the car idles at 1k when first started, down to 600/700 when warm which I think is abvout right... very confused!

i'll definatly have a couple, being able to make a mini-me version of my car brings out the kid in me!

is Oichan making these himself? just been looking at his prototype gallery on vortex...

wooooow!

6x9's on the back shelf and get some audioscape pods for the doors which will allow you to fit the bigger speakers up front.

cheers kev, I'll check the throttle cable, hopfully it wont get stuck open on the way home (honestly osserfer, the throttle jammed!) I wondered if it might be the MAF after seeing how chris vr6nos's ran when his wasnt working right, probably just another thing to add to the list of 'niggles' to fix!

that doesnt sound too healthy... :|

I had standard bilstein shocks and 'ventura' springs on my valver which I bought as a 'lowering kit' from euro car parts, all I can say about them is AVOID! not sure if it was the springs or the dampers but it was bouncy as feck over bumps, not good. One thing i learned from that missadventure is you get what you pay for! have a look into H&R springs, they're a bit pricey but combined with koni dampers (which you could upgrade to in future) they're supposed to be the best ride availible for the corrado.

isnt that like calling a corrado a golf coupe?

nick - http://www.styledynamix.co.uk/

what i've always been told is 40 for handling, 60 for looks, but my vr is lowered 60mm and handles much better than my valver did dropped 40mm! guess it depends on the kit you buy too. are you planning on changing the dampers as well as the springs?

just been out for lunch, went to start the car and it didnt fire, turned over for a few seconds, rev's rose to about 4000k so i stopped, and tried again, this time it fired as it normally does. Reversed out of the parking space, into first and pulled off...power dies for a second then theres a BIG jerk, tyres squeak and car shoots forwards....then its fine! idle is where it should be, engine sounds fine... drive in to town and back with no further issues. One thing i've noticed recently is that it seems to be running a little oddly in that when i'm holding constant revs i can feel it backing off very very slightly every so often, the only way i can describe it is like very slight subtle engine braking which comes and goes.... any ideas whats going on?

nothing in the glovebox? where do you keep your CD's and A-Z then?

oddly not as much as I did when I had the valver... although that was bright blinging red and had a pretty meaty exhaust note so it probably demanded a bit more attention than my current VR, silver is a more subtle to start with and with the standard exhaust its not shouting about its presence. TBH I like it that way, when people look now I know its becuase they apreciate the car and not because theres a bloody great red loud thing coming towards them.

i did it the cheap, nasty, quick, 'just want the the bloody things fitted' way and chopped up the original plastic mounts leaving just the parts that clip into the dash. gives plenty of room for speakers underneith and keeps the grilles as flat as they were before... just destroys a part that is probably £50 per side from the dealers if you can still get them at all! :lol:

after reading the FIA's side of the story i can 'sort of' see where they're coming from. If they changed the track for the michelin teams it would have imposed a disadvantage on the bridgestone runners, who were prefectly capable of driving the full track... not very fair. However I think this was an extreme case where the rules should have been bent for the good of the sport, as it is the FIA look like a bunch of stick in the mud old farts, the drivers look like huffy gits, and the fans who went to see the race are all well p*ssed off, there must have been a better solution than what happend.