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Theres a screwy thing you can adjust a bit on the trottle cable where it grips on to the bracket you can move it to tighten the canle a bit but not sure weather it can be used to raise the revs

Im not planning on it rob and hopefully i will still be a le to git all the parts that i have aside for it and theres is no way ill be selling it , but basically we have veen given an opertunity on a house we cannot let slip so itl have to wait , hopefully once its sorted it will have a sweet new home to live in As for the engine my heart sank haha and i did exactly the same , the relief when we removed the aux belt and fired it up was massive as the boise stopped and me and a mate both clicked that it was the power steering ! And im deffo hoping that the tappets sort out as it sounds like a tank !! On the up side the cams sound nice and fruity from the exhaust

I wondered if you would pick up on that one fuzzer haha Cheers graham its getting there bud , sadly depending on how the next few days go this thing might have to go on the back burner for a while but dont worry its all for a good reason

Sound mental that

Looks bloody hard as nails that mate cery well done

Bugger me my hands are sore haha Here the progress [ATTACH]81142[/ATTACH] New oil filter New spark plugs ,ones out of the audi tt as advised by vince And new rocker cover gasket [ATTACH]81143[/ATTACH] The exhaust lol [ATTACH]81144[/ATTACH] Gear box oil mmmm [ATTACH]81145[/ATTACH] And this !! Its now running but i **** my pants because i thought the engine was making a horrible sound but turnes out it was the power sterring pump that i flrgot to bleed haha The new tappets must need the oil in them because iv hear better sounds kicking a toolbox down the stairs than how it sounds now Im sure it will be fine once the oils gets to work Finally i cant get gears so will have to have a play about with the selector cables ( thanks corrado helpline ) And finally just as we was getting to temp the aux water pump snapped its own head off and spat coolant everywhere wich promptly ended the day with a big **** sake

Ok so heres some pics of how i made my loom Ill try explain it as i post them for anyone as useless as i am I used 20amp cable and piggy back spade connectors ( there like a normal female spade with a male curled over the top so you can make two connections in one go !!) Started by cutting six equal lengths of cable 400mm long And connecting them in to twos like this [ATTACH]81135[/ATTACH] Then i shrink wrapped them together so the was all neat like this [ATTACH]81136[/ATTACH] And these are the piggyback spades after they was all wrapped and heat shrinked [ATTACH]81137[/ATTACH] Then cut two of the wires a bit shorter and then another two a bit shorter than the last so they was staggered ! I then marked them and cut the sleve off so they could be soldered You can see where iv already done two connections and where the other two are ready for soldering [ATTACH]81138[/ATTACH] I made sure that i heat shrank every joint i made so its really waterproof Thats the lives done so that each each one works as it should when the ecu kicks them in like it should and there is two lives there one for each fan if your running two Next you need the two negetives for both fans so just ad another piggy back connector and you have your two wires for both negatives on the two fans [ATTACH]81139[/ATTACH] Thats was added to the loom and the wrapped up in proper loom tape for exta protection against the elements It should look something like this when finished [ATTACH]81140[/ATTACH] One connection for each live on the fans and one neg for each fan Note i marked the end of the negative with a black marker so i knew which was live and what was negative because once its taped up you cant tell [ATTACH]81141[/ATTACH] Its probably a bit long winded that and a little over the top but i thought id share just incase anyone struggles in the future and needs spals as lets face it your origionals arent going to last for ever haha

Im pleased with it , and i should be its taken me a week to sort out haha

So with two fans there should be a hell of a difference if one spal cal pill that amount I made my loom last night it took me a while but its pretty neat ,ill post pics as i took a few for anyone else that struggles with wiring , it took me ages to get my head round it and trying to find any pics of how other people have done it step by step is pretty hard other than the ones vag hag sent across only hes loom was already heat shrinked up

Sean im gonna do what you have done , but im running two fans so will split it in to two looms one for each fan I dont think it would help by trying to change the speeds the fams run at i would rather have them running full power all the time so they do a better job of cooling the car

Hope it passes mate

Welcome mate

Ok as far as im aware there was three different speeds that operated in the origional fan unit , they was controlled by how much current was let in to the fans but on our new spal fans they dont have any kind of set up they are either on or off , so as far as im aware and understand the three lives dont control fan "speed" any more as there is only one speed that the spal can run on , either nothing or full blast ! But the three lives would still control when the fans operated depending on how hot the car gets I really wished i understood electrics more but they just dont seem to sink in no matter how much i read haha !! I think a college night course would be a help lol

Cheers kev Excuse me being so dim but wires are not my strong point at all I assume that just an inline switch on the black temp sensor wire would not activate the fans without live running down to it so would i also need to run a live from the battery or somewhere else ? Like a say though wires arent my bag so just shooting in the dark really

Cheers mate

Any chance of a link to the stuff ej I might do my indicators

And yea fla I think they are all 12v

I could be wrong fla but I think it's the times they come on and not the speeds ie speed one would come on at about 85-95 or so and then the ecu will switch it to speed two wich comes on at slightly higher temps , then it would change again to speed 3 wich kicks in about 115 or so and finally the after run kicks in when the car is turned off The temps for what speed the fans kicks in is in the definitive cooling guide I've been talking to vag hag about all this as this is how he has done his and his all works like factory Are you using one fan or two as I know both of us are running two fans on the rad Anyone else know how to wire in a constant on switch to the dash for heavy traffic or track use

It was something to do with a freshly laid gravel road if i remember correctly but im sure the thread about it was on edition 38 , could be wrong though

Sorry if this has been asked over and over but it may be helpfull to some of the people who recently bought the slim line fan brackets of chrisl and who will be using spal fans Basically im rubbish with wiring but have come up with this little basic drawing of how i think i can wire in the fans using all three speeds and keeping the after run [ATTACH]81098[/ATTACH] Then to confirm after looking through google for a few days and working out how to do this the best way i found another basic drawing confirming that what i had come up with was going to be ok ! I think [ATTACH]81099[/ATTACH] What i want to know now is how i would wire and where in to the loom iv drawn to have a constant override switch in the car (dash) so that if im going to be pasting the car i can flick the switch on or if im stuck in heavy traffic i can controll them manually Im going to get some beefy connections and proper plugs gor the fans and im going to use 27amp wire as halfords sell it and i happen to be working on one this week so its easy to get , i know most people use or used 20amp wire , i assume that 27 will be ok and will carry the current fine anyway

That works well haha

Hi ian i think we did what sean has already said , it did go through the dishwasher a couple of times aswell haha but the most muck was in the inside and that was removed with hot soapy water Cheers jamie and yea jodies understanding haha half that cars been through the dishwasher lol , yhere just to good at cleaning car parts !! My rocker cover and chain co ers came out like new haha

Haha no piggy backs for chris ! Unfortunately phil the engine is it the only shot iv got is that one of the clean bay i font know if you can see them on there

That photo will stay with me for life it always makes me giigle like a little girl Sean they deffo carried me ! Couldnt have done it without them

Ok so lots is happening and ill try to keep it up to date Iv finished off the engine bay now , i sprayed both sides and iv now re wrapped all the engine bay looms and cleaned the full back of the bay How about a before and after ? [ATTACH]81077[/ATTACH] Really really manky [ATTACH]81078[/ATTACH] Much better and really pleased New expansion chamber and jodie did a cracking job of cleaning up the washer bottle :) Also cleaned all the power steering and put the new battery back in [ATTACH]81079[/ATTACH] On the engine side of things iv owe a massive massive thanks to chris fuzz and chris vaghag for the weekend we built the engine and i couldnt have done it without them both so thanks so much The engine was stripped New mk4 head gasket Fully rebuilt head New ina lifters Schrick 268's cams Full new chains and tensioners with mk4 springy bolt and mk4 bananna rail thing Some pics from a belting weekend and some that sums up the sense of humer haha [ATTACH]81081[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]81082[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]81083[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]81084[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]81085[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]81086[/ATTACH] Fuzzys vr6 timing chain bling [ATTACH]81087[/ATTACH] New in fashion [ATTACH]81088[/ATTACH] Lightend flywheel and a new sachs clutch went on aswell with a new release arm and bearing Thanks again boys was a great weekend Picked the gearbox up from stealth with the new final drive in and my mt90 oil has turned up All mates up nice [ATTACH]81080[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]81089[/ATTACH] Attached the spals to the rad and had the rad pressure checked and all is good Finally got the engine back in and on its mounts Drive shafts are done up and manifold is back on Power steering is connected up Rocker is on just need to change the gasket for the right one Gearbox is connected up Lower manifold is on so all is good Some new single point audi tt spark plugs are on order for weekend and my exhaust is ready to pic up so will post some picks of that at weekend Rather large update i know but its finally getting there Redborbet of the forum over and out