PhatVR6

much much expense! think again!! genuine head gasket and bolt set.....£105!!!!!! I'm thinking that someone has had the engine apart to have a look at it, then put it back together without changing the gasket and bolts (not surprised at that price!!)

Post up a pic of your Corrado on the day you bought it (well, near enough) and then how it is now (or at points when it was considered "finished" before you pulled it apart again for another make over! )

hmm, just spotted that TT wong mirros are mounting like corrado ones. I wonder how big they are?

well, it was the gasket. no damage whatsoever to the head, vales, bore or piston from what I can see. there appears to be a bit of a smooth spot on the gasket, where there should be a ridge. and there's a corresonding water mak on the head too. The exhaust valves were wet, and it had actually lost about 10mm off coolant in a week. got it all cleaned up. I was tempted to fit my spare R32 head, and inlet manifold as the valves, ports and TB are bigger, but I can't as the head bolts are a different diameter an length. look out ofr a 24v thread coming up, showing all the differences between the 2.8 and the 3.2. you'll be surprised at how different they are when they look almost identical from the outside.

that's a hell no

I win! still for sale, see classifieds or PM me if interested. Already been offered £1200 off several people, which isn't enough. this interior owes me £1600.

they aren't sided there was a set for sale at bug jam for £300, I didn't have any cash on me.....gutted or what!

also, I have a very narrow driveway (well, the carport part of it), I'm sick of folding my mirrors in!

I didn't ask anyone if they liked them, I asked where I could get some.

RS have been done to death, but it's nice to see more 17" ones. Still love the LM's of course, and the RSGT's (Lee, just get em, they are fabulous) Still haven't revealed my super rare wheels, but they'll be on the corrado one day I promise you. as for widened steels.....just wait until you see my mk4 next year! ;-)

how do they work? simple.....they don't.....shittest bonnet catch I have ever seen on my life. I'm going to VWMS bonnet pins when I get a carbon bonnet and binning all this crap.

I'm not fitting them for looks. I'm fitting them so I can go faster.

most of you didn't read.... it ran fine for 3 days. it went funny before I touched the plugs. the inlet manifold wasn't damaged, but it has been stodd with just a bot of gaffer tape over the ports for a year, which probably hasn'tbeen a perfect seal. compression checked it when it was cold. it runs no difference if it's hot or cold, it's crap at all temperatures. the plug that can out was complete, but very black and very wet. haven't checked for spark yet, didn't have a spare plug at the time, or an extra pair of hands.

Ok, so it's a 24v, but essentially it's astill a VR6. Anyway, fitted a 2.8 in my mk4 last weekend and sold the 3.2, it was costing too much to run and i needed some money back if I want to keep the car. it fired up first time, no probs. I've only done about 50 miles in it, if that, all with no problems. Then, last night I went to reverse the car into the car port and it was running really rough. Then the CEL (check engine light) came on. I ran in and grabbed the laptop, ran vag-com on it. a few codes. Firstly a "multiple cylinder misfire" then a "cyl #1 misfire, upper limit exceeded" it's definitely numebr one too, because it runs the same with number one coil unplugged. I fitted a new set of bosch plugs today, still no better. so I checked the compressions. all cylinders were 12bar.....except number one....2bar :-( so, any ideas what it could be? the engine has been stood for about a year, but if anything was wrong with it casued by it being stood or getting any comtamination in it then why has it taken 3 days to surface? My current thoughts: I'm ruling out piston.bore damage, as it's not smoking at all, and the oil doesn't smell of petrol I'm thinking it could be valve related, in that a valve either isn't seating right, stuck open, bent or all of the above! suggestions welcome before I rip the head off on thursday.

they don't look too big at all

looks like I'll have to make my own then

strange. the only 993 i've been in looked and felt positively 80's, i thought it was bloody awful! and it was slower than my corrado. i wa always a huge fan of porsches, but that's the first and only one I've been in and i was massively dissapointed.

nah, they're awful, they're too big and they're used on TVRs!

you did well! I thought I'd got off lightly with a 6 week ban and £500 fine for doing 132.35mph on the M18. funnily enough, I bought my corrado on the very day I got my license back :-)

They look bigger than my LM's! I thinkt that's why my LM's "work", they don't actually look that big as there is a lot going on at the rim. the rolled arches make wheels looke smaller too, now that that edge has been removed.

buy mine then!

well, if you fancy a set of sport designs I might have a set of 8"s and 9"s lying around somewhere ;-)

are you sure no coils have broken off?

what about that silver one from last year with the 18" tt wheels? that looked well? was he called sasha or something? it was at ED38 2004

bummer, just realised I'd have to have my doors painted :-( might forget this idea for a while then