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Agreed,

Who did the head job? Did you have everthing in the list fitted at the same time? Could be timing/temp sensor/lambda problem. If the valves were not closing you'd get no compression and I doubt you'd get it to start at all.

Jim, If you want a std shifter, I have one on the Passat I am breaking. Gavin

Jim, my Golf gear selection turned to cr@p over about 2 days. Really notchy, Andy at Awesome checked it for me and it was just the mechanism on top of the box that was bone dry, a quick squirt of grease cured it. Have a look at that before spending any more cash. Redline oil improved my Passat no end but the problem was definately in the box. Do all the cheap/free things first. Gavin

'SIMPLY' take the oil filter off and undo the nut below the cooler. Then get the 'oil filter mounting thread thingo' from a carby car and swap it with the std one. You need top swap the 2 water hoses that fed the std oil cooler, with the ones from a carb motor. I am sure the numbers have been posted here before. Gavin

I meant to the fitter mate, as I haven't got a Scooby. :oops: Get the info off your man and do it yourself. Gavin

On a 2 litre the tickover screw should be screwed all the way in. You may have a problem with the closed throttle switch not telling the ECU it should have the engine at tickover. Had a similar snag with a Passat a few years ago. Gavin

Nah, can't see anything in there Andi. I think a phone call is in order. Gavin

how big is the software?

Get a cheapy Laser one. Most motor factors sell them

Probably a big air lock in the matrix. Sounds like a headgasket to me. Make sure you have a proper G60 metal gasket fitted. My mates Passat TD did the same, as soon as it warmed up it spat the coolant onto the road. If you ran it with the cap off and revved it it looked like Iceland..( The country, not the shop!) Don't keep driving it as you might knacker the head. Gavin

Would he rather come and drag you out of a hedge you didn't see or fit some bigger bulbs? :mrgreen: You should ask him for a reference next time so you can look it up for yourself. Gavin

You can do it with some pliers at a push. Gavin

The wires only go to the engine mount on the drivers side IIRC. you will probably have to cut the plug off the old one and splice the wires. They should have waterproof connectors if not, try a invent some way of stopping water getting in. I think its about 24/25 mm to undo and you will need a spanner, not a socket. Gavin

Also advise using the old grease caps, new ones always need fettling to get them into the disc. Be prepared to replace the 8mm allen bolts cos they can be a b1tch to remove. Might be worth checking VW have some in stock before you start. Gavin

You need an 8mm allen key, one in a socket. 13mm and 15mm spanners. Slacken the handbrake cables off which takes two 10mm spanners. Get new bearings too. Much easier than re-using the old ones, which is just plain tight. I use some big sockets to drive the races into the disc. 24mm socket to undo the big nut. Gavin

Was this a 'winter safety check' type conversation or one down the pub? For your police friends information, main beam is 60Watts anyway on a Corrado. So I would like to question his expert knowledge :roll: Yeah the police have ways of checking light intensity but the chances of them wheeling the tester out are slim to fcukall. I think you would get away with 80/100W bulbs in the headlights so long as they are set up correctly. These are the max you can use with one of my looms anyway. You need to retain the std spotlight bulbs too. Also, how are they going to legislate against the 25/30/50% brighter bulbs that produce the same 55/60 Watts????? A Watt is a measure of Voltage and Current, not brightnness. Give it a DGI and fit what you like. :lol: Gavin

Most fitters would cut the starter motor feed and the fuel pump. If it turns over then the scource of the problem is unlikely to be the Immob. I blew an ECU on my 2 litre Passat in January. Backed out of a slot at work and it just stopped dead? Tried coil dissy relays etc as I had never personally come across an ECU failing, lo and behold............... Although, a mate had one go on his mk2 16V a couple of years ago. Gavin

Comes from the exhaust manifold so you can monitor emissions from under the bonnet without sticking the probe in the exhast pipe. Gvain

The ECU would stop it running. With no output to the coil, you'd have no spark, the ECU also switches the fuel pump relay which will stop the fuel pump. The pump would still prime when first turning the key, that would prove the relay and the pump itself. How have you checked for a spark? Check for a monster airleak, that would stop you getting fuel. Although it may fire for a couple of seconds on the cold start injector. Gavin

Get a new cap for the sniffer pipe and re-assess the noise. The one on my Passat had a hole in it and it sounded like the tappets were knackered. Gavin

Is it not on snstuning.com

The spark is used to ignite the air/fuel mixture. Some high revving engines have used 2 sparkplugs because the mixture burns at a pretty uniform rate. Set the flame burning from 2 places would mean a complete burn in less time. This also works with big combustion chambers. Have a bigger more powerful spark would have little difference with regards to power output. Some big turbo motors running loads of boost have been known to 'blow' the spark out. I can't imagine how. I believe if the G60 needed a better coil, VW would have fitted it at the factory. If the std ignition system has no faults and the plugs are gapped correctly I doubt very much whether you could get more performance. Gavin

SNS write chips for use with 3.5BAR FPRs, usually in combination with red injectors. You cannot just fit a 3.5 FPR without the right chip, it'll overfuel.... With a 65mm pulley it's not about WHP, that's for down the pub after a couple of beers :lol: What you get is a motor that can pull trees out of the groung from virtually tickover. GazzaG60 has one on is Corrado and he says it breaks traction all the time, not just 1st and 2nd. The Corrado intercooler is possibly the worst you could get for the application. IMO it is far too small. I have the same on my Passat and it works great at highway speeds but if you get sat in traffic it soons gets hot. If you haven't got Air then the best thing to do is fit a front mount ahead of the radiator. Failing that an air water would be a close 2nd. I would also recommend fitting a proper oil cooler, the oil system on G60s in general is marginal before upping the boost. Afterwards it can get overwhelmed big time. I have no experience of aftermarket cams but in general going too long in duration will cause you problems with emissions and need another chip to fix that. I personally would spend money on an intercooler and oil cooler first. Get your car running right will be better than throwing money at it with miss-matched parts that gain you little performance as they work against each other. Obviously, just my opinion..... :wink: Starting to sound like a grown up there I think. :( Gavin

1. Only the sidelights should come on with the ign off. 2. They don't usually get wet cos the face the wrong way. You could spray some waxoyl on them if you like. Gavin