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well if its everything connected and the tech helping (mother trucking little git) undoes the wrong bolt without having the engine supported.....its easily bench pressed back into place...with a lot of swearing!!

Been offered a g60 at a fairly decent price, engines good but the bodywork leads a lot to be desired, so was looking at swapping the engine into my 16v daily and then start collecting all I need for a 16v g60. I've got an idea of how easy the swap should be, could the 8v swap be possible in a day( 2 people working on it brakes and everything)?

Had a quick look on vagcat and as far as I can see its the front cross member thats needed one of these parts numbers (1) 535199171D cross member / F >> 50-N-002 100* / ADY PG (1) 535199171G cross member / F 50-N-002 101>>* / PG,2E,ADY (1) 535199171G cross member / KR,9A Im hoping this is right and if anyone knows of anyone that has one going for a valver could they let me know

ooooh, looks like im getting our bodyshop to get one priced up. was dreading that I may of had to get someone to custom make me the panel

White G-reg C parked up In Barnard castle on friday about half 1/ 2 think it was sat on white rims and looking very tidy

Does anyone know were I can get my hands on the lower from panel( were the bottom of the front bumper and splitter fasten? Mangled mine the other month and hoping to repair it when the cars in for it's respray

burgundy C Darlington bound on the A66 yesterday during the downpour why do I never see any when Im out in my C

finaly 2 weeks later My JOM coilovers arrived and friday night we set about fiting them. plenty of seized bolts etc. Heres the end result someone tried squeezing a fag packet under the spoiler really enjoying this view Going to wind the front up a bit this morning, just sitting a tad lower than Im liking. Had to use a set of 10mm spacers to help the tires clear the coilovers and I think it helps fill the arches nicely

changed the spacers upto 10mm both front and back, now need a new front tire...bugger

Red c ,possibly a valver,on Preston farm estate in stockton, Friday dinnertime.

Ended up last night, with a lot of swearing, a bent axle stand+ 2 weary brothers. Now I've got to plan my route to avoid any or all speedbumps! Fitted my JOM coilovers, car sits nice and low now, haven't had her out for a proper run + set up yet, got to get a set of spacers for the rears, so that's my job for this morning lol

just a bog standard foam, rinse and wax. next month tho....should be, coilovers, brakes and a general good going over

Blue rado parked up at nationwide crash in team valley, in the same place Everytime I've been there. I'm normaly pimping a Toyota hiace van mind

oil pressure switch possibly? just found out that mines p**sing oil from it

Lovely red heading towards Ingleby Barwick about 2pm today, I was heading towards Yarm

cheers, been too busy enjoying the drive.....problem solving as such to get round to actually looking in the pack

I was looking at respraying it an early porsche or audi colour but this one has truly grown on me...and you dont see many about Ive been looking into getting a paint code for the respray so any help is apreciated

took the car into work today to look for that oil leak and narrowed it down a bit, there is a leak from the rocker cover. Anyways, decided after giving it a foam and a wash at my dads last night, 2bm and a good clay using autoglyms clay and dodo's born slippy just to clean the paint up and get rid of the overspray and the galons of tree sap. anyways, I gave it a rinse of and dried it and puled it into one of the valet bays, out came the buffer and my weapons of choice was Dodo's Lime prime on a 3m yellow pad. I worked round the car, as Im planning to get a full respray in a few months this was just a brighten up. car was waxed...but will leave the wax my little secret. as the wax was left the rims were treated to Megs NX metal polish on a Microfibre, and Wire wool on the zorst. wax was buffed off and the windows treated to a double dose of Rain-X, before buffing the rain-x the interior was given a good hoovering and the dash a going over with swabs, brushes and a microfibre. enough chit chat heres the end result

Had a word with one of the techs at work and he was going to have a look at it, I thought it was going to be something bigger than it was(like the time the golf ball in the shifter went on my mk1...easy job). he was busy tonight so I had a quick look and a quick trip to halfords(came out with a little more than I went in for) and 10mins later I had a fully functional shifter. Using a ramp at work on sat to try and find were the oil is coming from so I may do the gearbox oil while Ive got the chance

well thats 2 of us doing the 16vt in the area. I was going looking at doing an engine rebuild soon(depends were this oils is leaking) and the funds are available, should be fun