PhatVR6

Borrowing the AMD ECU again tonight, and fixing the exhaust. I'll see if it makes much difference.... going to germany on thursday night...and still no sign of the new leads :mad:

looking forward to seeing this car again, amazing paint job! I might have to see about getting mine done now, it has about 6 parking dints down the passenger side.......... :mad:

yep, bang on the nail there. all vr6's need timing chains and head rebuilds by now, and it's an expensive job, so no one wants to fork out £1000 to have it done.

use aluminium, not stainless.

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pm darren, I'm sure he'll see the thread eventually, I think you've just asked a retorical question though.........

a frigging throttle pot is about £95!

I'll buy a laptop pff ebay today so I can get vag-com up and running for next week. don't fancy taking it to germany next weekend with it running like this.

I have another throttle body actually, I'll try that. already got a russek manual, doesn't tell you stuff like that I don't think. but I do have a genuine vag manual for the engine and the motronic system, so I should be able to check. f*ck me, I haven't even checked to see if the throttle cable has slipped or something as silly as that.

it only has a throttle potentiometer. i think the stalling might be due to the flywheel, it's so light that the revs drop too fast for the ISV to kick in. sometimes it keeps the engine running, sometimes it stalls. that's no big deal though, it's the power loss that's bugging me.

nah, not vacuum fed. I'm going to replace the PFR and it's vaccum hose to see if that makes a difference. I think it's fuel related as it stinks of fuel when you slow to a stop, and it's doing crappy MPG too. didn't really want to resort to taking it to a rolling road place just yet. haven't got vag-com anymore, it was on loan. haven't got a fuel pressure guage or a compression tester either. need to wire up my A/F gauge and see what that' reading.

just buy a VR and stick a Ram Air on it. then you'l have the noise AND the power 8)

Getting p1ssed off with this f*cking thing now. Right, here's the story. When I first got it running, it was only running on 5. number 6 injector wasn't opening (took me ages to find that out!!!) . put another one in, car ran mint and pulled really strongly throught the rev range, with a noticable kick up in power coming in at 4500rpm. I gave my mate his AMD ecu back and I've just got a standard one on there now. I've noticed a slight flatspot at 4000rpm since I did this, and obviously it doesn't pull aboue 6500rpm anymore After about a week I strted getting an intermittent misfire. the car would run fine from start up, but after a short whille and a couple or prods on theloud pedal it would start to splutter a bit under load. then it got worse. it'd idle fine, and run fine at part throttle, but if I booted it it'd sound like it was dropping onto 5 cylinders. I though this was uel delivery related, as the pump had been whining it's knackers off after I installed the engine and I'd had it in bits a couple of times, so I fitted another one, but it made no difference at all. then it dropeed onto 5 permanently. after about a fortnight of driving it like a bag of spanners (yes, I know, but I couldn't find the fault) I noticed that number 6 plug lead was arcing out on the head. I changed it, and got it running on all 6. I thought it was running alright (after driving it for 2 weeks on 5), but went to york dragway and ran a feeble 14.9, getting worse throughout the day. The more I drive it the more I notice it's faults. It takes a lot of cranking to start, and usually stalls stright afterwards too. It cuts out regularly when slowing down. theres no throttle response, when you floor it it hesitates then goes, then theres the big flat spot at 4000rpm, but the power just doesn't come in above that like it used to, it's as if it gets to about 160bhp then hits a wall and won't prudce any more power no matter what the revs are doing? I had vag-com on it and it came up all clear, but can't check it at the moment as I haven't got it anymore. coil pack and plugs are brand new, I've tried a different MAF, blue temp sensor is brand new. VGI isn't on at the moment. and I have an early passat manifold on it, so the intake temp sensor is unplugged (ECU defaults to 60C). Go some new leads and injetors coming next week, other than that, what else can I check or change? I'm completely at a loss as to why it isn't producing power like it should? so much so, that I've given up on the car and decided to do my mk2 golf up again.

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my corrado's rare too, it was an 8v with no sunroof. find another one of those if you can!

what a load of cock rot!!?!? as if Ken uses many VW parts anyway?!?!?

plus what? bloody great big holes by the sounds of it! tell him to go and f*ck.

and I'm stopping with the mods on the corrado and going back to my old golf no, really..... :oops:

and I love whate wall tyres and 2 tone paint. I think I'll take my 24 year old derby to the main dealers for a full service..........

no, it's a ridiculous amount of money for a 10 year old passat coupe. don't be so silly.

did I mention that I hate chrome bumpers and retro styling?

£1300!!!! christ. you must be nuts to spend that on a 10 year old car for servicing items.

well, if it has, it looks like they'll be taking the head off again FOC.

that sounds about right. the over fuelling would cause spluttering. just fill it and run it at fast idle for a few minutes with the expansion cap off and keep squeezing the hoses and shaking them to loosen up and trapped air bubbles.

if it overheated, then yes. also, if it's leaking water into the combustion chambers that won't help matters either. get some fresh coolant in it and look for leaks. check your plugs, and seel if you can smell coolant in the exhasut, or if it's putting out any white smoke. it goes without saying that you should be giving the garage a good b0llocking right now too.