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  1. I have the G-werks one- In terms of movement It's between a stock one and the solid ones, so a happy medium I reckon
  2. Blue C parked in Comet carpark in Shrewsbury today
  3. 102_2018.JPG[/attachment:2eqwvjdm] :D So much easier to clean than my multispoke TSWs! I like BBS a lot too- LM reps and the RXs you can't go wrong with really
  4. Don't forget the Lysholm or turbo options! :D
  5. jaded2882

    ABS?????

    Yes! My g does it too. Can I help you with it... No :(
  6. Gutted... Is it beyond repair? :(
  7. The SNS ones are pretty good, that's what G-werks sell. If you tell them what mods you have there will be an 'off the shelf' one for your car. Or you can look into live re-mapping if you have a heavily modded car but thats some serious £££ usually.
  8. Black vr6 by the column in Shrewsbury today
  9. Remapping will give you more available power and should improve your mpg too (if its a good chip!). The pulley and chip is by far the cheapest way of increasing BHP, well worth it I reckon.
  10. If the seals are knackered you will see an improvement from just a rebuild. But I'd say since it's apart, you might as well go the whole hog and get it all ported and polished. But a 68/65mm pulley and chip will give you more gains than porting if you haven't already got it.
  11. I've seen these for sale, always wondered what they would look like. I'm guessing not very good but would love to see some pics if anyone's had the guts to do it :lol:
  12. My gf spotted a black 16V in Kidderminster today Keep seeing M5 VWC round Shrewsbury- who knew gold wheels on a silver C would look so good!
  13. Haha my gf used to live in Cardiff and I loved the sound of the G60 through that tunnel! :) I'd love to see some vids of this
  14. Didn't pitstop stop trading years ago? Or have they become something else?
  15. That was me :wink: Yes they replaced all the apex seals. I'm not sure they are set up for full overhauls yet but give them a ring just in case- I'm certainly very happy with what I drove away with
  16. Looking good- when was the charger last serviced? Looks a bit 'weathered' :eek:
  17. Ta, should see you at the RR day- be interesting to see what it makes on the rollers
  18. Whilst it was in they changed my badly fitted Scorpion exhaust with a Milltek, fitted some new pads and grooved disks from Supercharged, fixed my spoiler (which is the only thing the missus cared about :lol: ) and changed a sticky caliper. Compression was good on all 4 cylinders but acceleration was still poorer than it should be and the boost reading was still low. So by now it looked like I’d blown a load of cack through a newly serviced G-lader and damaged the seals :censored: :bad-words: . Dave and Graham very kindly offered to redo the seals with me (mostly watching and being scared of touching ANYTHING :camp: ) Dave got some new seals from ARZ (£100 for 8 bits of rubber :shock: ) and cracked the charger open. Now comes the great g-lader mystery… There was a slight score mark in one of the seals 2.8l 24v Climatronic system.pdfDSC02816.jpg[/attachment:1hgyvu2n] But there were no seals at all in the one end of the charger! DSC02818a.JPG[/attachment:1hgyvu2n] Although it didn’t seem likely I thought they may have been left out when it was rebuilt. Darren at G-werks got back to me very promptly when I emailed them and said they would have known if they had missed them out because: 1) They would have had 2 seals left lying around, and 2) G-laders explode when seals come out- they aren’t balanced and so the scroll spinning inside makes contact with the casing- which throws it more offline and after a few milliseconds KABOOM! He told me that this is often what kills chargers when some seals are more worn than others. Therefore no seals at all would kill it quite quickly. I didn’t realise that the balancing was so important- so the issue of the missing seals is really weird. The only problem I had prior to taking it apart was poor boost. No horrid grinding or metal on metal sounds. The walls around the missing seals were in good condition so it didn’t look like this had happened (ie the charger about to blow). If I hadn’t been there myself I would have said they dropped out when Dave and Graham opened it, but we did it very carefully on a work surface and I still have the 6 seals that came out! So although we’ve all done some head scratching we can’t work out what happened to them- it might be down to whatever blew through the charger from my cracked airbox :bad-words: But more importantly the new seals have gone in and it is totally awesome again! :clap: Thanks so much to DG for all the hard work and biscuits! :notworthy: Without you I think it would be on my drive getting frowned at still! I bought some very interesting wheels from oldskoolkool and other bits and bobs from the forum- here’s the current progress stromlaufplan_gamma4.pdf102_2014.JPG[/attachment:1hgyvu2n] Corrado92.pdf102_2012a.JPG[/attachment:1hgyvu2n] passat climatronic wiring diags.pdf102_2011a.JPG[/attachment:1hgyvu2n] climatronic wiring-Golf from May 01.pdf102_2009a.JPG[/attachment:1hgyvu2n] I’ve kept all the standard stuff (lights, intercooler etc) in case I ever want to go back. Not sure about the bonnet bra at the moment- it hides the stonechips nicely though! Now I’m gonna stop spending money on it and enjoy it :D
  19. So after about 18 months of ownership I decided it was time for an update. Excuse the name- it seemed appropriate with the usual state of the interior, (muddy wellies and ambiguous brown stains :roll: ) In January I went down to G-werks for some mods. Horrid weather- ice and fog all the way down and back so cracked my new fogs as I had them on for more than 5 mins! :mad2: 68mm pulley and chip 268/276 cam Mocal Oil Cooler Fixed the exhaust manifold that was blowing like a tractor! RSR outlet, replacing the plastic box with a big crack in Despite most of the bolts being rounded off, they finished everything in a day and it felt like a totally different car on the way home. However it now had a rattling noise under full load. Me being a numpty I didn’t realise it was infact pinking quite badly. I worked this out a few months later and took it to a local VW garage. They found that the timing was quite a bit out and ‘reset’ it. However it drove a bit slower after that so I wasn’t really convinced it was how it should be. Over summer I fitted a jabba FMIC kit. Was quite pleased I managed to do it myself and didn’t have any major dramas. I was starting to get a bit more handy with a spanner now! Corrado92.pdfImage024.jpg[/attachment:34tyqhr8] passat climatronic wiring diags.pdfImage025.jpg[/attachment:34tyqhr8] Also fitted inpro fogs and indis as the stock ones are pricey and prone to cracking. Inpro headlights soon followed to match. Managed to get the timing set up a bit better but it wasn’t driving great. As the charger was a Jabba job with 30,000 on it, I decided that was the next point of call. I was getting about 13psi following the mods at G-werks but now couldn’t make much more than 10. So it looked like the seals were getting worn. Also went for full port and polish while it was there. Got the charger back and had to be patient while I ran it in… Was gutted when it was finally run in and still driving like poo. It was about this time I found out that DG had opened :D so I thought I’d have a chat with them before I pushed it over a cliff and bought a VR :ignore: Extensive boost leak checks ensued to no avail. A compression test showed that one of my cylinders was way down, and they also found some grit in the charger pipes. My SWG kit had a crack in it and it looked like it had sucked crap through the charger :bad-words: :censored: So… Head off. The exhaust valves were all pretty nasty but especially on 4 which was the one that was down on compression. Soon it was all cleaned up and back together. climatronic wiring-Golf from May 01.pdfDSC02161.jpg[/attachment:34tyqhr8] 2.8l 24v Climatronic system.pdfDSC02167.jpg[/attachment:34tyqhr8] DSC02172.jpg[/attachment:34tyqhr8]
  20. Flat head screwdriver between fog and indi, then lever indicator out, it's just on metal clips. Then you can get at the screws to remove fogs and plastic bit.
  21. I spotted you too today and had a little convoy :lol: Ye it was a day for unexpected convoys with red corrados! Yours looked good on the road, the stance is awesome with those wheels! And it seems to shift a bit too! :nono: :D
  22. Went to pick new wheels up today and had a mini convoy for a few miles with a nice red K reg G60 along the M6 heading out of Birmingham. Got a thumbs up before I pootled off.
  23. Gutted for you, but at least it's not been flattened by a truck- hopefully you can repair it. It looks to me like it's been hit by a towbar?? Just the way it's only distorted in one area and its been pushed in quite far. Not that I suggest you key your neighbour's car with a caravan as I may be wrong!
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