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I'll post a more in depth account when I'm not inebriated but, he lied to me, fobbed me off with lame excuses time and time again, and I'm a few hundred quid out of pocket because he's a waste of space!

Cheers guys, yeah VERY relieved! Yeah clumpy the idle was very rough, it's got no exhaust on, also the servo vac was sucking air in, tried it again with the vac line blocked and it sounded a lot better :) It's been a total nightmare thanks to Mark from SWICT! I wouldn't recommend him to anyone to be brutally honest! My (and the cars) hero of the day was Andrew Outhwaite from ACR near croft!

Well after not touching the car for ages today I decided enough was enough, tax is due at the end of the month and I just couldn't justify spending more money on a car that doesn't even work :( Video Oh yeah!!

Cheeky ******* :lol:

Well guys bad news, new owner is picking the car up tomorrow :( Tbh I've just lost interest in it all, with all of the delays and carry on it was inevitable! Or I could be lying and I might have a good update at the weekend......

Sold some on ebay not long ago! If you want a cheaper alternative to AP try Bill Brockbank at Badger 5 :)

I'll take the boost controller if still available, I'm only in Billingham, if you PM me your number I'll get in touch :)

My engine came with the rail already fitted with it being mk5 engine so all I have done is remove the old filter and put the new mk5 filter in its place, then I have just cut the blue return pipe and attached it to the return on the filter with a bit of spare fuel hose. I'm going to replace all the lines with new hose and clips once I'm happy with the location of it, its not currently fixed in place yet Thats for sure lol Going to be Thursday before I get any time to try again though :(

Well it's been pointed out to me that I'm using the wrong one for the feed and return As can be seen here in another one of kev's pics the one I was using as a return is clearly stamped 'in' :epicfail:

I learn a new thing that's wrong with my corrado everyday lol

Cheers mate but I'm using the mk5 fuel rail and filter so I've only got one fuel line to the engine bay the rest is done in the filter

Mark has asked me to send the ECU back so he can test it! In the mean time, I'm not getting any fuel to the rail, even with the pump powered off a battery. Pic stolen from Kev I had the feed from the pump going to the centre pipe on the end with 2 pipes, other one on that end is the return to tank. Obviously I had the pipe to the rail on the other end with the arrows on. If that's wrong whoever designed that is stupider than me! But when I took the feed off the filter I can pump fuel straight into a bucket, so I've either got the filter feed and return mixed up or the filter is blocked. The heavens opened and flooded me out before I could remove the filter to inspect it. Try again another day :( EDIT: I suppose my fuel pump could be on its way out and not putting out enough pressure to open the 4 bar fpr?

Found a possible cause for the issues, better explanation in the 24v conversion thread, but basically the ECU has a checksum error which could stop it starting the engine. Cheers Kev I will have a look at the trigger wires at the weekend! Will get some more turbo pics when it arrives, just hope it's not too big, hard to tell from the pics! Not sure if the exhaust housing has 1.32 AR on it lol Aye I've got my priorities right as usual Fuzz, buy bits to make it fast before it even manages to move anywhere under its own steam haha

Well making possible progress at my end :) I wanted to check the ECU wasn't dead, it just so happens a mate of mine is a bit handy with this stuff, he's managed to read the ECU on the bench using an engine loom he hacked up, read it fine with no problems, however he has noticed an internal checksum error! A friendly local mapper, John at Big Fish Tuning, has said this could be causing the ECU to shut down after the first start attempt and effectively become 'dead' for 10-15mims. This ties in with what I am seeing with the throttle body, it beeps and clicks the first time we try to start it, subsequent starts do not yield this beep and click, until it has been left for a while, usually while we stand and scratch our heads or fruitlessly stick the multimeter in random pins hoping for a eureka moment! John has offered to have a look and said he will be able to sort the checksum error and as I've known him for quite some time won't charge me. Going to discuss it with Mark from SWICT tomorrow before going any further. Once again thanks for advice so far everyone

Well still can't get her started, a little further on than we were previously but still no joy :( So I bought a turbo to try and lighten my mood lol It's off a Scania truck, I believe AiResearch is an old subdivision of Garrett so quality should be a lot better than the cheapo GT35's I was looking at, and this was only a little bit more than an eBay Chinese special! Not too sure on sizing tbh but I guess we'll see when it arrives! Also bought a 44mm Tial external gate and a Forge DV from the classifieds on here.

Well I'm well and truly stumped now guys Swapped the ECU relay from a 109 to a 30, as Mark suggested, now we have the live at pin 3 of the ECU plug, also found a single red/yellow wire which I found a home on the fusebox for, now have a live at pin 62 of the ECU plug too, happy days I thought! Fuel pump still doesn't prime, check for power at fuse, all good. Checked for power at the pump, yep all good, no fuel comes out when cranking but there IS fuel in the rail, so it must have worked at some point? It can't be left from when the engine was removed as that was over 6 weeks ago! Tried a genuine VCDS, it connects up but won't communicate with the controller, try's a few times then gives up, same with a non genuine slightly older vagcom cable. OBD has all the correct feeds etc, tested continuity between the OBD port and the pin on the ECU plug and it was ok. Also pulled a coilpack and there isn't a spark Throttle body is still beeping also I think it clicked a couple of times Need to speak to Mark again tomorrow but I just don't know where to go from here tbh :(

Sorry mate I didn't have one

Well Rubjonny off edition reckons a #30 will do the job, he said the 109 uses ignition live trigger and the 30 and 32 use an earth trigger. My mate has found me a #30 so fingers crossed, we'll find out on Wednesday! Lol yeah a beeeeeeep is a better description for the noise we heard

Cheers Kev, I've used the bottom pin :) Forgot to ask Mark about the speedo, I didn't think it needed to be changed from the VR one, maybe Mark thought I was using the audi gearbox, although he knew that was DSG so obviously not! Speedo is the least of my worries at the minute anyway lol Mark said that the yellow/black wouldn't stop it starting but couldn't remember off the top of his head what it was. He also said I should have a 31 or 32 relay for the ECU(third from left on too row) after checking I have a 109(which is upside down?) What relay have you guys got in this position? We did hear a buzzing noise of sorts, I panicked because I thought it was the ECU lol

No it definetly doesn't match in colour, wire or connector, that would be too easy lol I'm hoping Mark will know what I've missed straight away, otherwise this could be a painful process, I hate wiring tbh!

Cheers J.C, I'll check out those links tonight after work! I think it's yellow/black, hard to tell from the picture above, will have to double check that!

Thanks for the offer Pat :) Currently I don't have 12v at pin 3 on the big ECU plug, need to find out why, when I get time to look at it again :(

No I've not changed the rear beam, only had the car a year and I didn't even notice it was so far out until I went to fit the spacers!

Thanks guys, I've found 3 places it'll go but neither the wire colour or connector colour match, really should have taken more notice when I took it out! At the moment it's cranking but can't hear the fuel pump priming, tested the big ECU connector and don't have 12v at pin 3 which I assume I should. The fuel rail has fuel in it though because when I pressed the valve on the end of the rail fuel came out, can't understand how because the pump isn't working! Gonna give mark from swict a ring today to see if he can shed any light on what the problem is

Sorry mate I totally forgot, had a ****ty day with my conversion! I'll check after work tomorrow, if I've got one you can have it for the price of the postage!