PhatVR6

no, they aren't my wheels. I don't actually think mine are genuine porsche items actually, I can't find any markings on them to say so, and apparently all porker wheel will have a porsche part number on them. they are usually made by fuchs, bbs or speedline anyway.

Yeah, my mate knows her, she gets on well with his missus. Cracking fun bags eh! she was the bird in the tight yellow top at ED38 if you didn't already know............chapel hat pegs......

The DSP one is on this months. Its minging. That american one on the BBS's is that fella who come on here, sweet car (looks just like mine! ;-) ) The silver one in The Golf+ mag is nice though. Are yougetting the cover shot next month then Lee?

Oh you'll hear it alright, it's not going to be quiet that's for sure. :-) Henny, there's nothing wrong with a bit of mechanical persuasion and persussive maintenance you know ;-)

24v VR all the way.

the 02m is a complete bastard to fit in an older vw. The thing is huge, and runs VERY close to the subframe. firstt of all, your driveshafts ain't gonna fit, so it's time for shortened TT ones or custom ones. secondly, the bigger TT CV joints mean that th gearbox side subframe mounth as to go altogether or be moved back. so you have to make up a cutsom mount or weld in the chassis leg mounts like in a mk4 golf or tt. and also, there is no provision to bolt on the front engine mount either, so it's another custom jobbie. also, those dual mass flywheels are total sh1t and fail a lot. i have a few of those if you need one. one of the reasons I decided not to fit the 02m in my corrado. it'll be going in my golf, but that won't exactly be shy of chassis mods.......... check out http://www.dutchdub.com for more info on getting the 02m in.

If you remember, I wrote into GT-Purely Porsche magazine last month about my unusual porsche wheels to see if anyone could identify them. I mentioned in the letter that I also had some Boxster S brakes waiting to go on the car too. They printed the letter and photo last month, I have recieved only this reply, printed in this months issue.....Is the guy trying to genuinely help? or is it just another case of the snobbish, elitist attitude typical of Porsche owners? Discuss. I'll post it on the forums tonight to see what the VW world think of his comments about our cars..... VW Porsche It was with great interest that I read Paul Horrocks Techincally speaking query in last month's issue (Wheely Stuck On This, 01/05), where he was after the identity of some 911 wheels that he had bought. Unfortunately I can't help him with the identity of his wheels, but I may be able to pass on some advice. I have been a fan of German cars since my youth and to me there is nothing that can match the engineering integrity, speed, handling and appeal of a well-sorted VW, Audi or Porsche. Having progressed up the ranks from a Mk1 Golf GTI into an Audi S2 and now a 996 Carrera 2 I feel I have finally achieved my goal. It is great to see people like Paul following the same path and I realise that retro fitting Porsche parts to VW's is a fairly common modification these days. However, I thought you might be interested in something I was told by a mechanic friend of mine several years ago regarding putting Porsche parts onto lesser cars. Basically he was worried about the increasing trend of using porsche parts on VW's because they might actually make the cars worse. his argument (which I agree with) was that Porsches are designed as performance cars and with the 911 in particular, are setup specifically for the layout of the car. therfore, fitting the brakes from a 911, which have been designed with a rear engine, rear wheel drive layout in mind, won't neccessarily benefit a car, which at the end of the day has been designed as a front -engined, frontwheel drive family hatchback. having a rear bias brake setup could in fact be detrimental to the handling of the car and will be unsuited to fast road driving. Obviously retro fitting wheels, like Paul did, isn't so much of an issue, although I can't imagine they do the Corrado's fuel comsuption any favours! Anthony Farrel, via e-mail Edit: Title censored. --Andi (Admin)

already got the r32 downpipe on, just needs a tweak to get it to clear the steering rack boot a bit better. I've got a vr6 syncro downpipe too, but as it's for LHD it goes bang where the steering rack wants to be on the RHD cars The exhaust is going to be a bit "custom" anyway ;-)

yes. you may need a tt bellhousing though.

getting a bit sick of welding now (mainly becazsue I'm not very good at it!) I hate welding thin sheet, it burns through far too easily. Almost done now though, just need some more ear plugs so I can grind back all my ugly welding and get some seam sealer and underseal on there ASAP.

hello!?!?! does anyone actually bother to read this thread since it's been dunped under "drivetrain" where nobody looks?

I downloaded the official VAG manual for the 02A. had a flick through it, then took my gearbox to stealth............ you need several grands worth of special VAG tools to press most of the bearings and seals in and out, not to mention special gear to measure the pre loading of the diff bearings. Save your sanity, pay a pro tp do it, Vince is tha main man.

ah well, supergolfs........fantastic prices.........I'm amazed they sell anything.

It's only a 120a welding set. I've been using it on full blast all the time! mine wouldn't be capable or doing that. Anyway, plug welding is much stronger. (b4stard, that could have saved me 4 hours work!!!)

Floorpan all drilled ready for welding This is the cross memebr that you can't buy anymore. it has to be cut from a syncro. the ends had been cut off thos one, but I'l sort that out later And this is where it goes Niticed how the rear panel, which used to be the back of the boot is now under the car! Stiffening brace. one of 2 that steady the x-member Started filling in the hundreds of holes. 5 hours of welding gone into that panel so far (and I'm still crap at it!)

Slight mishap yesterday...... I was making up a piece for the syncro floor, had it in the vice, beating it with a hammer. Anyway, smacked it, next minute WOOOOOOOOSSSHHH, I gets blasted in this face with this white sh1t! tremendous noise....face full of white, eys burning like mad, garage quickly filling up and just turning white. I didn't know what the F*ck was going on. kciked the door open (lucikly I hadn't fell over so I could still just about tell where it was, dashed out into the garden choking. a swift dose of Optrex and I went back out to see what had happened. Only to be greeted with this..... The whole garage was caked in white powder. It looked like it's been snowing in there! It didn't take me long to nice what had happened. My in car fire extinguisher was hanging up not far from my bench. The metal had flown out of the vice and peirced the container, making a hole in it right on my eye level, about 1m in front of my face, hence the direct blasting I got. Didn't take me long to clean it all up, but it was certainly a shock!!

so 300BHP out of a normally aspirated 3.2 V6 with just a set of cams and a remap isn't impressive? The R32 lump is still a VR6 remember...

Or you could just wait a while until I've done mone and then decided to sell them. (especially if you're offering £1500!!!)

I think the 350bhp may have had something to do with that, not the 4wd.............

You're going to need at least 200bhp/ton to make it even emntertaining let alone competetive. so due to the weight of the corrado and yout budget that rules out just about any 16v, unless you're lucky enough to find a full ITB setup for pennies.. I thoroughly reccomend what I've done with my gearbox. 3.94 final drive and peloquin diff. worth every single penny.

read what i said again. money on the engine is wasted if you can't put the power down. don't think a car with 300bhp and stock drivetrain will be good on track, it won't.

just kill 'em all, easiest way.....

The chassis leg needs cutting to the same shape as the new side panels. Then drilling through so that you can plug weld the chassis leg to the new side panel, the weld the chassis leg stiffener to the inside of the new side panels. You can clearly see the line where the panels overlap in that first pic on this page. The new side penls goes behind the reshaped chassis leg. so much so that it actually sits on the bottom of the inside edge of it. Not so on the NS though, that side is only profiled slightly in the middle by about 5mm.

whatever you do, buy a close ratio gearbox with a decent diff in it, otherwise every penny you spend on the engine will be a waste. vr's aren't cheap to tune, but they can take all the abuse you'll throw at them. Remember Daz Ashby's yellow vr6? that got the sh1t ragged out of it for years and used to kick ar5e on track and it was practically standard, just stripped out. now owned by coxylaad on here.

Wait and see ;-) can't see it pushing more than 300bhp myself, don't really want it to, it's a daily driver. then again, I do have an NOS sportsman fogger direct port nitrous kit sat in a box in my shed..........