lukeyy

problem was the black sender, changed this first and its sorted it right out. problem solveed.... till the next one. lol

this has been playhing at me for days now, take the plunge and be poor to go balls out vamping up the vr with a turbo or just drop in the 1.8t bam engine. 225 bhp straight... cheaper too, i think..

cheers rob, bloody true, sods law!! doing the ordering tomorrow

okay, cheers. i'll start by ordering up the black sender in the thermo housing, see if that works.

banded steels gone and back on standard rolling stock. forgot how good the speedlines look actually. :thumbleft:

anyone got a wiring diagram for the radiator/fan???

hey, this morning went out turned on ignition and the fan came back on at full speed same as before. i had a play with the plugs on the thermo housing, unplugged blue and yellow individually, nothin happened, but unplugging black it turned off. what does this mean?

alright man, it was tonight it happened, not yesterday which i wrote before. couldn't really see what was going on cos its a bit dark out ther. lol. can you test the fan switch or repair it? i'll switch the car on in the morning before work see if its still gonna go ape on me. hahaha

Hey, A new problem!! driving home from my girlfriends last night i could hear a whurring noise coming from the engine bay, this was around 25 miles of driving around 70mph, water temp and oil temp was fine, nothing alarming there. the whurring noise continued for the next 10 miles till i got home. pulled up, popped the bonnet and the radiator was going full whack, turned off car and it stopped, clicked ignition on and it started at full speed again. :scratch: Any ideas????? thankyou in advance. luke

i'd spend it on getting mine turbo'd or charged. :)

doing same thing man, tired stem seals, so gonna rebuild the entire thing, sourced a completely overhauled head, so just looking at finding another bottom end now and putting low con rods and pistons so its ready for turbo'ing. ;) keep me updated on how yours is going man, nice to know that theres other people going through the same. lol

hey, had a similar problem on my valver, mine was a blocked water pipe, top pipe of the radiator to head, where little pipe connects to go to expansion tank, where they join, tiny diaghram in there had welded together, maybe unrealted.. but possible

hey man, you still got engine left? im after the bottom end really for a vr rebuild, but if youve got entire block i might take whole lot. pm me if you do. :)

italian tune up!! this is religion to get all my cars through emissions on mot!! haha. works a treat! ;)

awesome, i did notice the blue sensor looked a bit dirty, i'll try cleaning that up, think it had a new thermostat quite recently before i got the car. i haven't got vagcom, i got one of those fault code readers, wheres the port for it?

maybe it could be the hot weather, im gonna go cheeck the obvious thing now.. see if its got enough water in it. lol, i was thinking it was partially down to the major hot weather as theres no difference in performance.

Hey, Noticed lately that my oil temp on my vr has risen whilst driving round, used to sit around 94c but is now 108-112c most of the time. can anybody shed any light on why this may of happened. Thanks Luke

its only the tread you need to hide under the arch to get it through mot, lol. these tyres were *******s to get on the rear rims. lol

dragon green is the one man!!! ;)

im really thinking of going down this route as this will probs be more cost effective than rebuilding an entire 12v. just gotta find a rear ended golf r32 then strip it!!! :)

i never really thought abour putting a r32 lump in it.. mmm. 600 for cylinder head sounds like what i was kinda expecting for parts. id probs just do the new internals and then get a skim in that case, as for block work. i found a kit from america and it was really expensive. :( maybe a replacement bottom end with low miles and rebuilt and cammed head would be good. Where abouts did you source your parts from ,was it a kit? Might have a little look at how much r32 lumps are going for now. :)

awesome. thanks guys

i love this!!

Hey, after a few days of finally realising the vr is a little worn out and need of some engine freshening up! Ive bitten the bullet and decided that a engine rebulid is in order. Blue smoke is showing that valve stem seals need doing, so thinking if the head is coming off i might aswell replace everything. Do it once, do it properly!! ;) I'm also thinking about uping the power by camming it, and really going to town with port polishing, valve seats, skimming, basically getting the engine super strong and ready for a charger. Also a 3.1 bore might be going on in theres sign of bore wear. If theres anybody out there that can help supply places that i can get a rebiuld kit and parts from, let me know cos i cant really find anything helpful on the net :( Also anybody that has done similar work, any pointers or help and hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Luke

Hey, heres a few pics of my vr6, let me know what you think. :)