Jim

Has a space in it! :)

Sent it to you via email :)

One of the best Corrado cakes I've seen on here over the years - very good :)

Worth having a look on VW Classic Parts - I was having a browse through the site the other day and they seemed to be selling a lot of seat trim / bolster sets - admittedly a tad pricey at 200 euro though! Might have what you need?

Big thanks to P3rks (EnthusiastOwned) for getting a set of VR HT leads out to me promptly after mine decided it didn't want to run on all six cylinders properly any more. Posted quickly, in good condition / as described and a fair price. Cheers mate.

Another thumbs up for the Hella rads.. they're about as good as you can hope for now that VW have obsoleted the real ones.

I don't have any paper copies myself, but I could provide you an electronic copy? Probably not what you're looking for but the best I can do unfortunately :( Alternatively Ron (Rocket Ron) may have some surplus paper issues left over so maybe worth dropping him a PM?

People have been prosecuted based on video's posted on forums - so that probably wouldn't be the best idea if you value your drivers license! Doesn't surprise me about the Focus RS though. 301BHP as standard and essentially using the same sort of 5 cylinder turbo setup that Audi used to use, and now use again in their RS3 and TT-RS. Looking on Mountune's website they're easily tuneable to either 350 or 375PS.. The beauty of driving a regular old VR6 is that they're no match even for modern hot hatches, let alone properly fast stuff so it's a rare day I'll try and take people on and instead just enjoy opening the car up on a quiet stretch of road :)

Oh - absolutely. Once you take a Corrado down the forced induction route or into R32 territory they are a totally different beast :) Had the pleasure of an afternoon with Stealth's VR6 Turbo a few years back and boy that was a mind altering experience! I can't imagine what it must be like driving that chap whose username I forget (RedTyphoon I think?) with the R32 turbo Corrado.. puts out over 500BHP. Utterly bonkers!!

Given that the E39 M5 made 400BHP and the E60 M5 makes 500BHP, it'd take some serious engineering work to get a Corrado to double that sort of performance! Unless you mean power to weight, in which case I'd imagine that was a bit easier to achieve as the M5's must weigh a tonne :) And whilst I do enjoy a Corrado being made into a Q car / giant slayer (and I've had my chance to drive a couple and know what sort of smile they can put on your face) for me it's never been purely about the headline figure of the power. It's the entire package - the refinement of a big bruising engine like the V8 or the V10, the engineering that goes into the chassis/drivetrain which makes it designed for and to cope with that sort of power and of course the fact that something like the M5 also retains total practicality with its jekyll and hyde personality - you can take the family away for the weekend in comfort, or you can go tearing round the country lanes worrying super cars. Of course it totally depends what you need from your cars as to what you want, and I get that everyone is different (and if we all liked the same stuff it would be very boring!) but with used car prices like they are these days, older M3's and M5's are a tough package to beat.

Huzzah :) Great work, Ron.

Presumably you could remap the engine for this - so massively increase the fuelling, and advance the timing - but then would just end up with utterly woeful fuel economy?

Yeah - you're sealing an early fate for your engine if you're ragging it from cold. Oil needs to get up to temperature to provide the correct lubrication at higher revs.

I guess the first / quickest test would be to simply disconnect the radiator fan switch and see if it switches off when it's running (though obviously be careful as you do need to get fairly close to the fans to do this!) If the fans turn off then there's a good chance you just need to replace the rad fan switch :)

That's a top tip! :)

Bag me a cap too, Ron - I'll send through more money. Great news on an update finally :) Can't wait to feel what a factory fresh steering wheel feels like.

My friend has still had no response from VW Classic Parts. He tried ringing (straight to a voicemail that says go online) and has now filled out an online contact form. What the hell is going on there? :|

Welcome - and agreed, great username :)

Hi Ron.. That picture was part of a set of two - thankfully both still online here: And here's the one you're after.. Cheers.

I'll have to dig back through my emails and find out where I got that photo from. I think the owner sent me a couple of pictures too. Am out all evening but will try and remember to look in the next day or so, Ron :)

Wilkommen! :)

Looks like 20, Ian - with three different sized bolts according to this: http://www.ecstuning.com/Volkswagen-Jetta_III--VR6_12v/ES2263/

My friend evidently hasn't had a reply yet either.. not sure what the hell is going on at Classic Parts?

Hi Rog - phone signal is a real problem where I live and I have to basically go out my house and up the road to have a phone conversation (some sort of weird blackspot as it's high signal everywhere else around me) so I tend to stick to email at the moment. I'll PM you both my email and phone number though, and we can go from there!

Doh - so even with your level of detail on repair jobs, it's still a problem. I've got no hope! :) I did read that VW used to sell some kind of shim kit to fix this back in the day, though I doubt they still do so I think the most sensible thing I can do is nice new callipers and maybe discs when I've got some spare pennies and see if that improves matters. Maybe a clean / grease of the slider pins would be a cheap starter for ten though.