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2x late model rear calipers (normally reffered to as "mk3 calipers by mk2 golf owners looking to upgrade) £100 for the pair.

a rear one. it was going cheap on an autojumble plot so I bought it in case I fancied using them. i got some R32 front brakes for sale, only £300. don't buy 288's, crap, I killed mine at donnington. i thought they were good untilI took them out on track. 3 hard laps and they were goosed. they smoked for half an hour afterwards.

I have a brand new mk4 caliper, still in it's box. £50 posted if you want it.

he's saying "no boost", then at the point I pass him he says "ooh, you t w a t!!!" hehehe. He did have car problems that day, but just look at how slow all the other cars seem! (with the exception of the 350 bhp kit car thingy)

Track vid from donny from my mates 1.8T mk2 golf. http://www.20vsyncro.co.uk/videoclips/tits%20up%20at%20donny.wmv 12MB.... I enter stage left at about 3.5 mins, check out what daz (the driver) says when he noticed me out dragging him. shame he had to retire due to lack of boost (seemed to be working fine up until that point though, and then came back on afterwards!)bloody roll on mine is shocking (as was my line through craner.... :oops: ) will get that rear ARB on before it's back on the road.

the porsche bells are a mile off offset wise, they'll never go over the VR6 hubs, plus they will be for 5x130 fitment.... When I get my new bells machined up I'll ask the guy how much he wants to copy them to make a set up for you. I have some aerospace grade billet alloy i bought for some hub adapters years ago that never got used which is ideal for the job. actually, it's be easier if I sold you my Mov-it ones and had a matching pair made up for mine now I think about it. open to offers on them, includiing the disc too as they have tiny crack starting to show from the holes. genuine porsche items AFAIK.

yeah, it does sit a tiny bit high at the fron, even though I dropped it 5 turns and raised the back 5 turns to even it out, plus it's acellerating in that shot so it will be lifting a little. ben, challenge accepted, I love hammering 1.8T's with ambitious power claims ;-) bring it on! and for those on about camber, don not panic, the tyres have worn totally evenly right across. If there was no camber, they outer edge of the tyre would have been ragged to death on tha track.

yep, I am also using boxster S calipers with the MBT brackets, the blank ones that you drill and machine to your own offsets. for discs I have 993 Carrera 4 turbo 323mm outers, on Audi TT fitment "MOV-IT" alloy bells. they sit a bit close to the hubs, but it's only on a tiny lug that doesn't actually do anything so I'm going to grind that off. I didn't want to use the VR^ disc offset as that would have sat the disc too far out into the wheel, I wanted the disc to be as far 'in' as possible so I had a greater choice of wheels that will clear the caliper. even so, I'm still going to have a thicker bell made up #9rather than run a space) to space the wheel out a further 3mm to cllear. I would sell yout he bells but I think i#ll use them on the rear if I can find a suitable disc size to use with the r32 rear calipers. I've be ding a full thread on my brake set up as and when I do it over the next month anyway so that should help you out loads if you're lokking into a similar setup.

no surprise really, R32's aren't that much quicker than a golf Vr. drivetrin losses......no, I'm pig sick of people saying that, funnily enough, people who don't have 4wd........weight, yes, it's alot of heavy sstuff to be carrying around when you aren't using it..

passing my mates poorly 1.8T....then I did that TT engined mk1 on the next bend, drove right around the outside of him, LOL! (he was an old giffer though).

well thank you very much indeed. it's still very much work in progress and rough around the edges, but it's impossible to do so much work and get it right first time. Now I've thoroughly tested it on road, strip and track I know where it needs work so it can now come off the road again to be finally sorted, and them when it drives right I can start to tidy it up and put it all back together so it's more presentable,. check out my GTI track show diary thread

aye, and usually I'd be sulking like a big spoilt kid and throwing stuff about when thing like this happen, but I such a good time out on track it just doesn't really matter. I know that the hard work has been worth it, and that the poloquin diff and the 4WD are just so amazing at putting the power down that the car actually feels underpowered! The crappy, half built phase has come to an end, I know what I need to do to make it spot on now. shame I haven't got a penny to do it with!

Well, it was touch and go whether I was going to make it. Checking the car over last night, driver side front wheel bearing totally shot :( (but in a way I'm happy as I now know what's been making that awful grumbling noise). I had a root throught the shed and garage, managed to find my spare pair of hub assemblies, phew. Damn shame, couldn't get the CV joint out (need a hydraulic press) so I had to take off my brand new CV joint and just fit the lot, ball joint and all. I didn't really get chance to drive it until I'd cleaned myself up (beige leather was a bad idea...) and it felt awful, steering really light.....but it was dark by then so I packed in. Got up at 6:30, jack out again, tracking a mile out, toeing in big time. So I struggled like mad to move the track rod as far as I could and managed to dial out as much as I could. ran out of time and had to head off to Donnington. I forgot my helmet, and my camera.....I got there and the front tyres were red hot, and worn down to the markers!! another quick adjusting session and they were tracked up (by eye at least). Anyway, that was the car disaster over, just enough time to give it a quick wash down before I was due out on track (at 11:40). Missed half of the breifing, but by then my 3rd can of red bull was kicking in so I was all hyped up for the track. under my mates advise we got into the queue early to avoid being caught up in a pack, which worked too. I took it really steady for 2 laps, didn't want the cold tyres to catch me out, and I haven't driven donny before either so I didn't really know the lines. A few cars behind me were getting impatient and trying to get past already so I couldn't have that and started to pick up the pace. Within 3 laps I could barely see anyone behind me, I was just chasing my mate in his 230bhp track prepped mk2 1.8T. By lap 5 we were catching the back markers, which slowed him enough for me to catch up, by about lap 6 I passed him, much to my delight! :-P :lol: he quickly fell back and off the pace, and it transpired later in the day that was having major boost and overheating problems, he had to retire unfortunatly. The only car that managed to pass me on the whole session was a Jabbasport tuned Shelby kit car. so I was prettey chuffed that I didn't manage to have an off or stuff it, and that it basically hammered everything on track :) the worst thing that happened was that I kept accelerating for too long going up the hill out of craner, around a long left hander, and the back end slid out. I was really lucky to catch it just in time to brake for the next right hander, it lost me a lot of time but at least I kept it on the black stuff) Chassis wise, no ARB is a very bad thing, body roll was pretty bad at the rear, and on hard left handers I was getting an awful rumbling from the drivers side rear. I think it's a CV joint or the driveshaft rubbing on the chassis leg, or the exhaust hitting the prop?. another thing to sort. engine wise, fine, water temp never got above 110. brakes wise, terrible, the 288s are going in the bin, they cannot handle track use. they were pretty much useless by mid session, and I had to stop using them hard. when I pulled back intp the pits they were smoking for half an hour.... tyres? Toyo R888's, fantastic, love em, but too soft for road use and wear out too quick Managed to blag a spot on the PVW stand for the rest of the afternoon (lined up for a full feature at the end of the year) , pretty pointless though as the show was dead due to an advertising cock up......didn't bother cleaning it or anything, no point. Whilst sat in the PVW trailer a few of us thought we could smell petrol, and it seemed to be coming from my car...hmmm I left at about 4:30pm, went straight to the services for a refuel (130 miles out of a full tank LOL!!). Stuck £30 in , and these guys started shouting at me, the fuel was pissing out all over the forecourt. :roll: . I paid the £30 and moved the car straight into the truck stop, away from everything....just in case.....had a shufty around the back, and to my utter horror the petrol was absolutely gushing out af a hole in he side of the tank and all over the back box!!!!!! thank God I'd let the car cool down before filling up..... Here's what I think happened. the crappy temporary back box came off it's hanger under hard corenring, and I think a lof the noise I was hearing on the left handers was the exhaust hitting the prop to diff bolts. It's then moved too close to the tank, but the fuel in the tank has been taking the heat away. Then, when the fuel has dropped low (as it guzzled almost half a tank on the track) and I pulled in (i.e no air flow around the tank or exhaust) the heat just got straight to the plastic and melted it!!! :shock: :shock: needless to say I was very shook up by this, as it could have very easily gone up in flames and caused untold damage, or even killed me. The AA guy told me to park it up on the grass and wait for 2 hours for it to drain out. By 7:30 the flatbed was here, got my home for 10pm. So, it's back to the drawing board. Need a new rear bumper (exhaust melted that too), temorary exhaust has had it's last day and is going in the bin. My mates rallye shell is getting robbed of it's fuel tank,a nd the car is coming off the road for a month to finally sort all this sh1t out. I've had it with driving a half built car. MOT runs out in a week, and I know I can't get it through, so I may as well have another session and do it all properly this time instead of rushing it. and I'm buying a mountain bike and cycling my fat lazy arse the 5 miles to work for the next 4 weeks too. the saga continues!

group buy on powerflex coming up then?

some pics and footage from donnington today coming soon. I'm proud to say that only one car passed me in the entire 20 minute session, and that was a jabbasport tuned shelby kit car.............nothing else came close. my mates 1.8t mk2 would have, but it kept overheating and wouldn't boost so he had to retire (well, that's his excuse ;-) funny how he was doing fine until I passed him )

no, 20% off powerflex get a cross memebr off a mk2 golf. same part. I can supply one seam welded and powdercoated, I have the facilites at work to do that, I can even fit the bushes too.

I can get them at 20% off.

I have a 2.8 lump, and a r32 lump with a cracked block. I'll be stripping them both and seeing exactly what fits (I want to get the r32 crank, rods and head inthe 2.8 block, bored out to as big as it;ll go) over the next few weeks so I'll stick the details up in this thread with pics and measurements for a conclusive guide to 24v's

24v is a different block to the 12v, heads are NOT interchangeable, also, head bolts on an R32 are 1mm smaller, to allow for the bigger bore. so althought he crank MAY fit in the 2,8 block, you can't bore it as much so you can't get a 3.2. also, the ports inthe r32 head are bigger than the 2,8 24v so the inlet manifold is different too. the R32 also has a much bogger throttle body.

zymole dthe roof and bonnet (bonnet hasn't been polished since it was painted, roof was looking a bit "milky" and oxidised). gave the rest of the paint a good celan down and a quick buff up. all ready for bug jam now!

mentalist! work out your REAL speed from the maxomum revs, the rolling circumference of the 17"s and the gear ratios. from memory 167mph should be possible at 7000rpm with stock 205.50.15's and stock gearing. my box limits me to 150mph at 7000rpm on 215.35.16's. I've seen 156 on the clock running 195.50.15's and it was just about getting to the rev limiter, fluttering a bit. But that was crossing the dutch/german border where it's allowed! I daren't go much over 100 these days sonce my ban, paranoid about getting caught again, they'll ream me if I ever get caught doing over a ton ever again. more into acceleration that out right speed anyway. so Chris, get yourself down to york dragway, I want to race you and see how fast your car really is.

porsche ones are meant to fit over 4 pot brembos in the first place, hence why they usually fit.

yeah, like a beesting, but with another ound bit in front of it.

It should be a chipped ecu, as the engine it came off has non stock cams in it, so it won't be running right until I fit those cams

the excessive body roll is due to a standard vr6 front ARB, and NO rear ARB!!! (I thought I'd lost it, and by the time I found it, I'd already made up a temporary exhasut and ran it right through where the ARB goes...) and also, currently running on a tired set of AVO Rallye coilovers, which are crap. Koni Group buy in effect, I will be buying some of the new stainless coilovers for it. Donnington vids coming next week. Yes, it's running OK now on the correct r32 management, still has a bit of a flat spot, not sure if the variable intake is working, it doesn't feel as torquey as it should low down (too used to a schrick you see). I'll run it at bug jam and see if I can get into the 13's and hopefully get some power figures shirtly before I fit the cams.