Shaggy's Old G60 Rado

[flatg40 0]

Does the big valves head keep a good torque at low revs ?

 

What are the best mod to improve the torque curve (I don't need lots of power at high revs) ?

[Shaggy 0]

if you want good torque at low revs your best bet would be to increase the engine size to a 1.9 or 2 Litre, this will give an increase in torque lower down, that matched with a big valve head or a G-werks CNC head will improve torque/power through the range and will inrease air flow, which is good thing in the G60 powered car!

 

That should give you a monster of a car!!

[Shaggy 0]

My Rolling Road day results.... :D

 

 

 

[AB 0]

nice that has well impressed me. congratulations.

[Shaggy 0]

not as much as it impressed me!!! :D

[Shaggy 0]

Just randomly pulled over and took some new piccies.... :roll:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[andy 0]

aha Portsdown Hill! Looking good mate.

[Shaggy 0]

yeah i was tempted to stop for a burger whilst there aswell... :)

[Bally 0]

love the stance Mike..

[logicaltuning 0]

looking very very noice mike!

 

absolutley love this one :D

[iow_corrado_g60 0]

hey mike nice one matey looking sweet as usual i was just about to say portsdown hill i took my mates 306 up there once we were trying to do a few doughnuts till he stacked it into this verge and his window washer bottle fell out! v.funny! done anything to her matey! i getting new rubber for the beast next week then charger service from daz! speak soon matey!

[veeDuB_Rado 0]

That's so lovely mate :)

 

Any more external mods? Cos I can't think of any!

 

Or more BHPPPPPS? :-P

[Shaggy 0]

Thanx for the comments guys!

 

just ordered one of those orbital polishers from the states, which are meant to be the dogs danglies , which should save my arm from aching so much when doing a full polish.

 

Will post up pics & results when i take delivery, looking at a few pics the results are very very good, and doesnt require a huge amount of effort, especially on 15 year old "hard" VW paint.

 

the car is going into G-werks probably at the end of may to have a gearbox / Clutch change, and also a few other little things.... namely a manifold and some inlet porting if it needs it, at the moment both the exhaust manifold and inlet are totally standard and havent been matched to the head yet, so that needs to be done amd should make the system flow more efficiently aswell. :)

 

in terms of external mods i think its probably going to stay pretty much the same for a while apart from a few bits that need respraying but i am not that fussed about that yet as my main priority is the engine work for now...

[Jim 2]

Such a good looking Rado.. doesn't go too badly either! :)

[Bally 0]

Thanx for the comments guys!

 

just ordered one of those orbital polishers from the states, which are meant to be the dogs danglies , which should save my arm from aching so much when doing a full polish.

 

Will post up pics & results when i take delivery, looking at a few pics the results are very very good, and doesnt require a huge amount of effort, especially on 15 year old "hard" VW paint.

 

 

Hi mate, take you saw my link..

 

that polisher is cool.. you wont be disappointed..

[Shaggy 0]

yeah saw your link and another one i think on the Club Gti Website, that was enough to convince me i needed to get one!

[Shaggy 0]

"bally" with regards to your yellow lights? have you got any more pictures showing the yellow section, i am very temoted to do this mod, it looks sooo cool!

[g60griff 0]

i am going to attempt the yellow lights, cos i like the look of them, greeny has done his so im gonna use the paint that he used. me and you mike have more or less identical cars apart from the colour. :lol: oh and the engine spec.

[Shaggy 0]

Yeah definately looks like a cool mod, not sure whether to do the black detail part aswell tho???

[g60griff 0]

well the black on mine is already done, but i think it will look good.

[Shaggy 0]

i remember seeing a red one from the VWvortex forums, that had the yellow bits in, that looked sooo nice, havent seen it much tho, think its more of a euro style mod... so would prob suit cars like ours??

[g60griff 0]

what do ya think about doing the fogs yellow aswell?

[g60greeny 0]

what do ya think about doing the fogs yellow aswell?

i was thinkin about havin a go @ mine,might aswell butcher yours 1st though mate while we do the headlights :D

[Riley 0]

love the styling on this rado 8)

 

been thinking about yellow fogs again me self,along with the yellow bits in the headlights...

but i might be brave and colour the whole lens? :shock:

 

ps:the headlights and fogs can actually be bought brand new with the yellow bits! sure ive seen a link somwhere...

[g60greeny 0]

i went on a site an the fogs were 269 dollars an the headlights were 515 dollars