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Good stuff! Yes, it's handy what a fuel pressure manometer can tell you. Reminds me: Need to ask someone for mine back again :lol: Glad, you sorted it :-) Tempest

Get the German seller to try a few of their equivalents to our Interparcel. For example, the seller could try Ilox. Tempest

Nice indeed :-) Tempest

Yes, that site is mandatory reading for all Rocco owners, so, yes, I was already aware of it a long time ago. Used to be called "A Texan's Scirocco site" (ATS), but then was combined with info on other watercooled VWs and the website recreated in its current form. Tempest

Lambdaprobe? Could be coincidental that it's gone just before the clutch job. Tempest

Yeah, the decision was taken rather spontaneously, and I enjoyed every bit of the quiet ride in my C, listening to music, enjoying the cool air inside (airco) :-), cruising along. Still toying with the idea of doing another trip somewhere nice today in the C, as I might as well make the most of the good weather while it lasts. Tempest

See here: http://www.kabeleins.de/auto/videos/einzeltest/artikel/09928/ Notice the drone of the modded of the 2 G60 Cs. The guy claims he took 4 months to get the sound on his modded C right. I say: "Stick the Helmholtz resonator back in again, as that drone does my head in!" :lol: Some good points in that documentary: Karmann gets mentioned as the builders of our Cs. Lots of Cs get trashed by first-time drivers, due to their cheapness. Prices are at their all-time low, and are bound to go up, especially for original Cs, as they're getting rare. The driver of the original G60 does all the maintenance work himself, as he says: "If I had had this car serviced by VW, it wouldn't have lasted 280,000 km!" So true, I'm amazed they let him get away with saying that, but it's so true. Tempest

With a compression tester you can pick up any major difference in compression between adjacent cylinders. Such differences may result from a failed headgasket, but it's not a conclusive test by any means, just in addition to any other tests. The only real one is the sniffer test, testing for any CO in the coolant reservoir. Tempest

The intention was to have a nice relaxed Saturday, which to a large degree I've managed to have. I had decided to tootle to Mallory Park in my C to inspect the circuit for an event. Hardly 2 miles away from home, I was setting up my brandnew all-in-one in-dash receiver, cruising along a 2-lane road when I spotted another alpinewhite C parked on the buslane. It immediately became obvious as to why this other C was parked up on the buslane (see pictures) :cry: :cry: :cry: I made a U-turn at the next junction to see whether the driver was at least OK as far as his health was concerned, as emotionally he was down in the gutter, of course. He had rear-ended a Saab with his 9A-engined valver, and erm, no, you can't get that damage fixed for £1000, as he was hoping. I had to shatter that dream and advised him on how best to deal with this with his insurance, as he wasn't quite sure how to best go about it. Well, neither would I, if I had been in his shoes, just having crashed your own C. Whilst a few mates of his took him back home to retrun with his Dad, I was kind of babysitting his salvage. The insurance apparently want the wreck in their own yard (I hate that!!!!), it transpired during a telephone call. The AA refused to tow his car back home ... don't know what cover he had. After I had finished helping him as far as I could, I continued my journey to Mallory Park. Upon arrival I couldn't resist to pick the most interesting spot in the car park, right next to the only other C, a darkblue VR6, what a coinidence :-) On the track a few Morgans were giving it some, displaying awesome sounds from those lovely Weber carbs :-) On a dirt track some kids were having fun with their dirt bikes :-) Mallory Park is a really nice track, as I walked around the entire circuit, and also through the paddock area :-) I left again with a feeling of satisfaction, even though today there's one C less on the road. Tempest

IMHO, I don't trust any main delaer with any of my 3 treasured cars, which is why I prefer to service them entirely myself. At least I then know what I've done (I keep records of all work done and parts changed). Couldn't stand the thought of letting some young inexperienced VW dealership mechanic loose on my Mk1 Rocco :shock: Tempest

More mayhem: http://www.nwm-tv.de/index.php?id=1279 Another G60-C burnt out near Osnabrück, as the engine caught fire. Worst thing here is that when the owner opened the bonnet he got the fuel squirting straight into his eye :shock:. Hospital job et al ensued. Get those 3 fuel hoses changed, peeps. Tempest

Fuel pump afterrun relay IIRC has a 91 stamped onto it. Rad-fan afterrun switch is located right next to the FPR. Tempest

Chris and I later on went to see the organiser, who having paid a cool 30k for the hall we were in, was faced with hoards of sad day visiters wanting refunds due to the lack of VWs on display instead of getting themselves organised like we did, and get their cars on display. Anyway, we thanked the organiser, who in turn thanked us for having the only clubstand out of a rather long list, but almost everyone bar us decided to drop out, some right at the last minute (night before). Due to this however, I was really chuffed to get a Mk1 Rocco driver side front wing and door both in rather good nick and for an attractive price to keep as spares for my baby :-) Tempest

OK, thought I dig up this old thread again, as I seem to now have finally got to the bottom of my problem, and it may be of interest to others :-) In indeed what I would call a small Eureka moment, my last remaining brain cell suggested to look at the fuel supply again, especially the fuel pump afterrun gubbins. This stuff works as follows (for those who care to know or don't know this yet :lol:): A pressure switch at the end of the fuel rail senses when the fuel pressure is above 1.6 bar, signals this to a fuel pump afterrun relais. This relais is powered by the radiator fan afterrun thermoswitch located near the FPR, so when the thermoswitch closes (at temperatures above 90°C) the rad fan kicks in, and the fuel pump afterrun relais is powered. When it senses that the fuel pressure is above 1.6 bar (from the fuel pressure switch) it activates the fuel pump, provided that the ignition switch is in the off position (i.e. engine off, engine hot, engine was just run). This whole procedure is to avoid formation of fuel vapour in the fuel rail. If fuel vapour does form due to the engine cooling down, on a next start (typically within 24 to 48 hours) the engine is actually being fed air through the injectors instead of fuel, and hence the stuttering that I was suffering from, until enough fuel is delivered in the rail by the pump again. I replaced the fuel pump afterrun relais, only to notice that its ground contact on the fuse box side was pushed up in the fuse box! No wonder then that the fuel pump afterrun relais never could switch on, let alone activate the fuel pump. That's why within 24 to 48 hours I would always have vapour in my fuel rails which needed to clear first (stuttering of engine) before fresh fuel could be delivered (engine running sweetly). OK, I also decided that it was good idea to replace the rad-fan afterrun thermoswitch, clean all the brackets to get a good ground contact there, and hey presto, yesterday after a run in my C, I on turning off the engine could finally not only hear the rad fan kick in, but also heard the fuel pump running. As said, might be helpful for others, as this only took me 3 years to sort :lol: Tempest

I just smoked my taillights in an attempt to get them closer to my smoked InPros :-) Need to start taking some piccies of mine so far, as most of the work has gone into making the interior to match up that of my real C :-) Tempest

I always do 70 whereever I can in our shed, erm Escort van, but then again, you could almost argue, that Escort vans (yes, Jack the Lad image) aren't real big vans like Iveco, Transits and suchlike. They still count as vans at the Dartford crossing, though :-( Tempest

What was the show like? Was there a nice big Scirocco-presence (IG53 or Scirocco Original AG)? Tempest

Are you fully comp on your C? If so, contact your insurance and make use of the legal cover, then get the hounds onto the other insurance company. Tempest

Same here, just painted them over on mine,too. Still in 2 minds as to whether I should spray mine in alpinewhite. Tempest

Applause to Darren for the senible comment here :-). After having read a little more around the topic, also on German forums,some time ago, I came to finally realise that the filter characteristics of anything other than the oem paper element inside the standard airfilter box is pants, including that of all the "sacred" Pipercross and K&N stuff, as nothing filters as well as the oem paper element. Now this isn't so much an issue with NA-engines (where the engine simply burns any crap that does make it through the filter), but on our supercharged beauties, there's a scroll between the engine and the filter :-) That scroll rotates at speeds of up to 13000 rpm, is made of soft material (magnesium alloy), so any particle that does make it through the filter will hit the scroll's surface at high speed, leaving a nice dent :-( Over time the scroll will start to look like the moon's surface. Tempest

Would keep the aircon, as it's quite special to have in a C. During last year's heatwave, mine packed up, typical. Fortunately it was only the condenser, which, once sourced in Germany (then turned out I also needed a new rad, again sourced in Germany, as the rad for aircon G60s is pretty much the largest rad ever used in a C, larger than even the VR6 rad), the job was a DIY-task. Regassed and converted to R134a and we're cool again :-) Tempest

Yep, same here, plus interior repainted to match that of my real C, smoked the real lights, gave it white side repeaters, chromed gear knob, chromed and shortened roof aerial, printed out 1/18 scale versions of my real C's number plates and stuck those on; still to do: find Momo corse steering wheel, Momo Arrow alloys, implement ELRA, Corrado footmats, side markers. Crazy? Me? Nah :lol: Tempest

Try that famous "Manta Manta" film, hilarious, nicely summarising the preconceptions in Germany of the stereotypical Manta-driver :lol: Tempest

Just reading it like that: They'll never find the court :lol: Agree: Satnav has its uses. For one as a white van driver I rely on the thing for the last few miles in an unknown town, where I have to make a delivery / see a customer. It also can be handy for when you wish to divert from the paper-map-planned route, eg. when you're stuck in a massive traffic jam, but still have the opportunity to take an exit off jammed up motorway. It proved to be handy on our journey last August, when we visited the Ring, went to Karmann etc., even though everyone had paper maps, too. Still, I had the whole route pretty much stored in my grey matter (or what's left of it) ready to ignore the satnav when I felt I knew better. Tempest

Depends on the car I'm driving at the time :lol: Tempest