Blue Joe's G60 - FIRST DRIVE!!

[mtc R32 0]

Sam!!!! I'm concerned..... I think you've finally gone mad!!! If more power was a drink, you'd be an alcoholic :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Blue_Joe 0]

you dont know the half of it!!!!!!

[mtc R32 0]

you dont know the half of it!!!!!!

 

Are you still looking to sell it???? Surely not!!!! :wink:

[Blue_Joe 0]

Not at the moment!!!!!

[billinjah 0]

sam youve missed the most important part from your list of to do's mate!!!

 

DETAIL IT!!!

[Blue_Joe 0]

sam youve missed the most important part from your list of to do's mate!!!

 

DETAIL IT!!!

 

:lol:

[Blue_Joe 0]

Well I had the inlet cut off the intercooler and then a new inlet fabricated by them. I must say the quality of the work is fantastic and they weren't too badly priced either.

 

They have said that if anyone else needs absolutley anything fabricated they will give a good price if I passed the word around!!

 

So now that is fabricated the work installing it can begin!!! As you can see I have mounted it, all I need to do nwo is get some new oil pipes made by Pirtek in the morning then I can move them out of the way of the Rallye U-Bend, connect it up and reposition the oil cooler over the nearside of the car!!!

 

Then hey presto - Lost about 5ft of pipework, which can only lead to greater boost!!!!!!! :cheers:

[Blue_Joe 0]

Well I've finished another weekend of hard graft on the car.

 

Got the intercooler install all finished!!!! Removed all the old pipework, fitted the Rallye U-Bend, connected it all up using a 90deg bend I already had and bought a Ali 90deg bend also!! So I have now lost 4ft of pipework so hopefully see a slight boost in performance from an extra feew psi not lost in the pipe system.

 

Also bought new fittings and pipework for the oil cooler so I could move it to the other side of the car behind the grill. The 2 pipes (only 50cm each) including the fittings came to £70 :shock: However they are proper swaged on hydraulic fittings and pipes so no worries on whether they are up to the job!!!

 

So now thats all done I gave the engine a bit of a wipe down to take some pics as I know a few of you were after seeing pics!

 

Just got to get a new mandrel bent Ali pipe to go from the intercooler to the throttle body - hopefully get that done next week when I am back from London!40

[Blue_Joe 0]

One more!!

[Mave 0]

pics dont do the engine bay justice :notworthy:

[Blue_Joe 0]

pics dont do the engine bay justice :notworthy:

 

Cheers fella!

[CorradoVR6-Turbo 0]

That’s a lovely bay you have there bud, the cooler install looks like top work :thumbleft:

[g60greeny 0]

when ya comin to do mine :lol:

[Blue_Joe 0]

when ya comin to do mine :lol:

 

Perhaps when I get my car finished??????????????????????

 

Which I think will possibly be never!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[g60greeny 0]

top lookin job mucka ya gotta proud

[billinjah 0]

looks good mate cant wait to get mine back for more blinging!

[g60greeny 0]

looks good mate cant wait to get mine back for more blinging!

 

then ya can change ya name to blingjah :lol:

[Shaggy 0]

Puts my engine bay to shame! looking good! 8)

[billinjah 0]

then ya can change ya name to blingjah Laughing

 

you mup!!

[g60greeny 0]

you mup!!

 

:lol: couldn't resist that one m8 :lol:

[iow_corrado_g60 0]

good work sam top job! i wouldnt wanna take a fmic on!

 

looks spangly bay too!

[Blue_Joe 0]

Well I had to share this. Had a bit of fun "playing" with a Golf VR6 today.

 

Lovely long dual carriageway near where I live, intersected only by a few sets of traffic lights. I calmly pulled onto the road at a set of lights from a side road and see a Golf VR pulling up to the red lights with a set of round headlight conversion and I just knew he'd try it on! Sure enough got to the next set and he'd weaved his way round a few other cars to get to the front of the queue next to me at the next set of lights and proceeded to Rev up his engine in a bid to get me to play. Well in fairness I shouldn't have but the road was clear ahead as far as the eye could see and I couldn't help it........

 

So I dropped it on green and left him for dead. Don't think he was too impressed as when we reached the end of the carriageway to a roundabout he caught me as I stopped for traffic. He had a look on him that just was one of being "slightly miffed"

 

Oh such fun when a VR6 driver gets embarressed into thinking they have the fastest of the older VW's!!!!

 

Not a dig at all VR drivers but some drivers in general just ask for it!!!

[CorradoVR6-Turbo 0]

You do have a load more power and torque than a VR but yea i can imagine his face..:lol: quality

[Kevin Bacon 5]

Agreed.....some VR6 owners think they've got a Ferrari baiting car!

 

When I had my 16V MK2 Turbo, I wasted some berk in a Golf VR and I later found out he flogged it because he was "Beaten by a poxy 16v", PMSL! :-)

 

Still, I had an unfair advantage, and so did you ;-)

 

Try picking on a S/C or turbo VR6 and see how you fair then :-)

[Blue_Joe 0]

So remembered I had some new pics on the camera from where I gave the car a proper clean and detail!!! Came out lovely and shiney!!!! Shame doesn't look like that now, although will try and get somewhere near it for the RR day!!