Phil K

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Has there been another copy of the sprinter since Jims C was on the cover?

Nice looking storm you have there... and welcome to the forum 8)

Is it "safe" to do that?

:lol: pmsl :lol: sorry to hear you bad luck though dude and hope you get it sorted with minimal fuss

well it's £2.5K including the head work I'd also had done... in retrospect I know that for the same money I could have put something with a lot more power in (and I wish to some extent that I had) the trouble is that this has been a case of discover problems as you go... if I'd known the facts before we'd spent out on fixing what was already there then it may well have been a different story. TBH if I'd known beforeit was my problem I could have just bought a VR in the first place!!! However I do now have the benefits of a full VW warranty on the engine and peace of mind that it's as good as new in that department... it also remains insurance freindly which is beneficial as my driving history has been slightly colourful and I pay a fair bit for limited milage insurance as it is!!! As it says in my sig, Danny assures me it's one of the fastest C's he's driven and this is before it's been run in... hopefully I have many fast miles of motoring to lookforward to with my freshly re-vamped C :mrgreen:

:lol: Thats the basic idea but... I was having real problems with the timing, so we re-built the head (cam chains, tappets, belts etc) had it back for a w/e and it got worse.. so back it went. After lots of head scratching as to why the timing had to be 40 degrees out just to get it to run Danny (my mechanic) looked further into it and we eventually found out that the crank had so much play at the pully that it was causing it to run 4 teeth out!!! So, that was why it wasn't running right! A new crank shaft was £400 form VW and with the exchange on the bottom end a new one could be had for £700. I decided to go for a new bottom end... so it sounds fairly straight forward - well thats what we thought!!! Once the old bottom end was out we then discovered that it was the wrong block! Someone before me has had the 9A out and stuck in a shagged KR and covered it up with the 9A head!!! Danny has had a steep learning curve sorting my C out and we've discovered that there are so many small differences in the running gear between the two bottom ends... lot's of parts have had to be ordered from Germany and delivery times have really slowed it all down. Danny has had to write off a lot of the hours he's put in to this as he can really only charge me for an engine swap and not all the buggering about he's had to do... I also get the feeling that he's been working on it in his spare time and other vehicles have taken priority. Fair play to him though, he's done a cracking job and it should be home by the end of the week. I just have to sort out the £2.5K bill and pray that his contact at VW manages to slip the KR block through and give me back the £400 deposit on the new block... So, there really is quite a bit to it - but in short it has taken 7+ months just to sort out my timing :lol:

slightly different but just as annoying - I've had a long wait for my C to come back from having the timing sorted out at a garage... went in after august bank holiday last year and is due back at some point next week :shock:

they did similar to a bay window camper van too... used to be able to get it to wheely aswell 8)

Nice one Jay... good luck with the swap, how badly written off is the Golf?

and you'd be guessing right ;)

nothing I know about in the swindon area tbh.. although there have been meets in the reading area before which isn't too far away from you... you could start a thread in Event Announcements to see if there is any interest for a meet in your area... if and depending when I'd probably head down for it as i could go and see my god son at the same time 8)

Where in Surrey are you from? My office is based in Swindon but I try to stay away as much as I can...

nice one - look forward to seeing it in the flesh... love your quality photo's ;) :lol:

this part comes from just above the peddles... found mine when it dropped down and caused the accelerator to jam open - not fun when you're going round a roundabout gaining speed all the time :shock: I decided not to put it back to prevent this from happening again in the future...

welcome to the forum dude, put some pics up...

coming along nicely dude.. love that seat :wink: :lol:

nice looking C but having the wheels spaced out a bit further would help imo... as for the side skirts, it looks as though there is a cut out infront of the rear wheel - for an exhaust maybe? not a fan of smooth front bumpers either... looks ok with the indicators but keeping the fogs is better tbh

£3.5K should get you a nice lowish mile 2.0 16V! and as far as insurance goes that sounds like a good price you've got there... especially as its group 16! I've had a fair few problems with my valver but mine was a special case... most tend to be good solid cars and are reliable. Good luck, look forward to seein the pics of your new ride 8)

you don't need legs if you have one of those ;)

You might find that the 90mm spoiler is missing due to the car being low and the fact that even with standard ride height they rub on practically everything... I'd put the 50mm one on tbh - you could even get it colour coded which looks 8)

imo every C I've been in suffers from hideous amounts of condensation and it doesn't seem to matter if it's pre matrix failure or after. My C has been standing for some months now and as soon as we fired it up last week to take it for a test run that was it, bang, no clear glass to be seen!!! As soon as it gets back home I'll be stripping the interior and going round it very carefully to check for possible leak points and to generally clean everything up... with some luck that'll sort it! If you manage to find a leak and get it sorted it's probably worth keeping the windows open a touch for a few days to get some air through and help it dry out... Good luck

Silver one in the golf did it for me - love those rims! damn, looks like I'll have to go and get PVW now :roll:

sounds like he started off with all respect but then got his head so firmly wedged up his ass that he forgot what he was saying :lol:

sounds like it "should" be that simple... I'd call vw and pick their brains or find someone with ETKA and see if there's any difference between the part numbers/diagrams,,,