Kevin Bacon

More Power and torque lower down and remain through the rev range, better efficiency/MPG, smoother engine, much better idle and response, reliability and availability of spare parts. To name a few.

 

Best thing I did to my VR6. The engine went from being a bit of a dinosaur with a rough idle, the odd cutting out at lights, random misfires, you know; just the general/normal VR6 running issues/behavior. It became a smooth powerhouse, very modern in it's behaviour without loosing any of that VR6 charm. Idle became perfect and it never cut out, started first time every time, MPG improved noticeably, driveability increased with more low down torque for day to day use and the list goes on.

Worth it alone for that!! It just doesn't stall, ever. Many OBD1s do when the MAF starts to go, or the ISV starts to get sticky, or the O2 sensor gets a bit lazy. All manner of reasons.

One of the best things I did to mine too. So many more parameters can be monitored on VAG-COM too, and more mapping options too. Hence why Turbo/Supercharged VR6s are always better with OBD2.

That my opinion anyway but Ive never been one to think low mileage means its worth more considerably more.

I'm of the same opinion too, but then I've always been a driving enthusiast, rather than appreciating value enthusiast.

Nothing against the OP's Mum's car fetching a high price. It's the state of the market these days. Anything old, moderately interesting a couple of decades ago and that gold plated "1 owner" or "10K miles" is fetching ridiculous money these days. £25K RS Turbos, £15K MK2s, £30K MK1s, you name it. All reaching crazy sums.

Some folk say it's the owners who bring the values down. Well, not really imo. We're realists, we know the car's issues and 90% of us own them for what it is, not what it's worth. And a lot of the negativity is said tongue in cheek. All the broken sunroof gags, the crap headlight gags etc etc. It's just bants.

I think anyone whose primary reason for ownership is future resale value is not a true Corrado enthusiast imo, they are like I said, an appreciating value enthusiast and should perhaps consider becoming a dealer.

Corrados being worth a fortune is surely not good for theft potential either tbh?

I see they're still going for sensible money these days lol :D

I've been lucky as never had any probs with RM or PF. Posted LOADS of car parts over the years. Didn't know car parts aren't covered though. They fail to mention that at the Post Office when you buy the service.

I wonder what else isn't covered? Valuable watches, TV screens, concrete blocks? I think we'd be better off delivering stuff ourselves sometimes.

As mentioned above, its allowing our country and our leaders to lead based on what WE want, not what is dictated to us by Brussels.

Yep. The amount of times I ranted on here about emissions regs being dictated to us by Brussels! Well, they can feck off now :D

VAT on sanitary products, food and childrens clothes was forced upon us by Brussels too. So they can feck off again.

Never one to sit on the fence! :grin:

Lol..... I was ranty this morning because I had a flick on my FB news feed and all it was, was referendum stuff! Just different articles assorted journalists from both camps being bandied about. And as usual, the press sensationalise everything out of proportion!

I think the amateur dramatics surrounding the pound dropping in value wound me up the most. I found a website that trend analyses currencies and check this out - http://fxtop.com/en/historical-exchange-rates-graph-zoom.php?C1=GBP&C2=USD&A=1&DD1=01&MM1=01&YYYY1=1953&DD2=24&MM2=06&YYYY2=2016&LARGE=1&LANG=en&CJ=0&MM1Y=0

As you can see, before we joined the EU in 1975, the buck to quid ratio was strong. We joined, then it started falling and has been up and down ever since. And look at the massive dip at 1985.....the year they are comparing to currently......we were part of the EU then!! :D

I was very much in remain camp by the way ;)

Its done so we must get on with what needs to be done and work together.

Exactly.

Leading up to the vote it was pure lies, scare mongering, polarised 'opinions' and zero, cold, hard FACTS.

And now we've left, it's yet more scare mongering and bullschitt, like England will now collapse into the sea or something. Who on here can remember pre 1975? If you can't, why the big fuss about leaving again? The people shouting about this the loudest are using regurgitated journalist pieces from social media on which to base their opinion. They have zero actual experience of pre 1975 and how joining the EU radically altered their lives. It was the 55+ age group that had the majority on voting to leave. I wonder why?

Who can provide me with a big list of facts that leaving the EU is going to adversely affect my life in a terrible way?

"House prices will fall £1k a week" ffs, get a bloody grip scare mongers. As part of leaving the EU, there will be a 2 year negotiation period. Nothing horrendous is going to happen IMMEDIATELY. As above, people should quit their Face book blathering, crying into their cornflakes and get on with their lives. This vote always was on the cards, it happened, so let's just deal with it.

As for the pound falling in value, laughable. The usual bankers gambling with our money again.

Lovely bit of fabrication there! I know what you mean about having the itch to tweak. We can't help ourselves :D

When does the Amazon Prime version kick off? Haven't watched the new BBC one since the pilot show. Meh.

Cool! I would get some grey stripe under there where you've scraped the original rubbery stone chip stuff off personally, but otherwise it's looking sweet!

Its the low mileage therefore must be worth more attitude that annoys me the most. UK seems to have some obsession for this. Cars do not like sitting about, they need to be used to stay in good condition. The majority of the Porsche crowd are very bad for this, mileage seems to make such a difference, its bloody annoying IMO. If your cars past 100k then its worthless....lol.

Indeed! It may well have only 26K on the clock, but if the engine has received the same care and attention as the rest of the car, no thanks. That is what the vast majority of car buyers don't get. They think mileage is the only indicator of condition. Wrong. I would much rather have a 1 year old car with 26K on the clock than a 20 year old car with the same mileage. People also don't get short journeys and contaminated oil buggers engines up more than thrashing them and lots of miles.

nice!

 

great to be at number 1!

 

i certainly would like a number 10 though, especially the 850 with its V8

 

my uncle has a very old BMW 3.0CS which he has recently started to restore.

 

it is a beauty & almost has a number plate matching the model, BMW309L - it is like this http://1-photos.ebizautos.com/used-1974-bmw-3.0-cs-9423-7608791-1-640.jpg

I think he meant number 11. The Corrado gets 2 spots in the in the list :) And the 850 was the V12 :) I'm putting you in detention for such sloppiness, see me after school!

I saw a Rado out on the roads for the first time in ages recently and I couldn't believe how small it looked!

Mr Bacon where have you been lurking!?!? ;) lol

 

ive not seen the episode yet but this thread has been a good read of what to expect....& probably result in it NOT being added to the 'record list' lol

Busy with work and life :)

It's not horrendous on a Hollyoaks level, but you're well aware (and quite sad tbh) that a certain something is missing from the show. It's early days, but they should have redesigned the show to better suit the presenters. They had too big a set of boots to fill by keeping the format exactly the same.

I watched it and while not the greatest, on the whole, it was alright.

 

Not a fan of how little screen time Sabine got, the fact harris and the other one weren't even in the opening episode is a bit worrying also.

 

The ending of the section on the Aerial Nomad ruined the whole feature for me, and i'll admit for most of the reliant 'challenges' i was flicking through a beer recipe book rather than properly watching.

 

HOWEVER! I have recently found James May: The reassembler on iplayer/youtube, which is brilliant, brilliant TV. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b076nwjz

Love a bit of May. I downloaded his cars of the people series and a few other things he's done.

Oh and just remembered the unfunny quip from Evans about not mentioning food on the show...... presumably a dig at Clarkson for punching someone because there wasn't any food at a venue. Droll.

The Corrado is now officially dull. Boring. Meaningless. Yawn...

 

Jeezus the Tesla is fast..

 

Did a couple of low-ish speed pulls in insane mode and it just pummels you into the seat. But the most impressive thing is that you can plant the throttle in a ~690lbft car round a roundabout and it'll work out how to get the power down as best it can. A little bit of a scrabble from the tyres, a little bit of understeer at first, but then it just bites when you get to the straight and it catapults you forward like nothing else (*).

 

I would say that yes the steering isn't as insightful as the Corrado (pretty much nothing is), but other than that it's a poor relative and for the first few thousand miles at least you would be grinning so much from the torque that you wouldn't notice..

 

Anyone else had a play?

 

 

( * - ok like a handful of other cars, all costing seriously in excess of 100k.. )

They were meaningless and dull years ago!

Haven't been in a P85D, but was annihilated by one off the lights a few weeks back :D Very impressive machines! Nice looking cars to boot.

A local chap has one and we often bump into each other on the daily commute. As impressive as it is off the line, it's less so round corners. A lot of bulk to carry around though, so not surprising. And going by some midrange pulls we had on the dual carriageway, they don't appear to have the same kind of thrust off the line whilst on the move. Probably some kind of battery saving mode?

Haven't you finished it yet?!? :D Good solid car that. Good work!

Yeah I was thinking it must be the decimal point in the wrong place, but in the days of people asking £50K for an Escort RS Turbo and the like, it wouldn't surprise me if it's the actual asking price!

I stuck a set of Michelin Pilot Sport 4s onto the Golf a month or so ago and they are superb tyres! Anyone running 17s might want to give them a whirl. Should be available in 205/40 by now I would have thought.

Hmmmm, a shed going for show winner money. Good luck to him. Seems to be the way these days selling cars. Just stick a ridiculous asking price up and hope some gullible / stupid muppet buys it.

You guys think Evans is shouty, wait until Harris joins the crew. He's a very good driver though, so the road tests should be interesting.

In isolation, I only like Matt as a presenter / actor. As a team on Top Gear with Harris, Evans & Schmidt, nah. Not going to cry if a miss any episodes. Can't wait for the Amazon Prime TG. I don't care what people say about them or what Clarkson did to who and when, those 3 pulled in schitt loads of viewers. Hammond is slightly annoying at times but the 3 of them have a breadth of presenting / narrating talent and audience engagement the current bunch don't (and won't) even get close to, imo.

Maybe it would be better if they changed the format as already said, to give the newbies a chance to forge their own path. I mean, they still had the old lap times from the previous 3 on the board, and still did the same old Stig intro, which was like a lead balloon compared to Clarkson doing it. It really does come across as literally kicking the 3 stooges out and replacing them with someone else, just because of some BBC politics. Pathetic. They put themselves before their audience. A couple of stuffy old gits' morals and principals vs millions of loyal viewers.

Yeah still happy with the old beast and can defo recommend one!

Are you going with a decat ot hiflow cat downpipe?

 

I got a 6R and looking at hiflow cats, the standard downpipe looks sooo restrictive

The one I'm looking at is the APR decat + sports cat. Looks really good quality.

Still mincing about with the old Edition 30.

For it's 100,000th birthday I treated it to a new chain and tensioner today as she was feeling and sounding a bit poorly.

There's no getting away from bl00dy chains and VWs is there??! :lol:

Engine is damn clean for it's age. I reckon it was looked after before I got hold of it. They're normally creosote brown inside like 24Vs by this mileage.

A fair bit of chain droop at TDC and nobody like slack stuff do they?

New chain and the droop is a lot less. Car is quieter at idle now which is a bonus. I caught it just in time I think. The chain has a habit of snapping if things get too worn in there.

The Loba high pressure fuel pump is clobbering the cam follower HPFP. I suppose this might actually mean something to those with MK5 GTIs but this is yet another duff design by VW but easy and cheap to replace.

I miss the basic engineering of the Corrado! Having said that, this job was a whole lot easier than doing chains on the V6s!!

Going to be experimenting with a 3" downpipe and more mapping soon and hopefully get it close to 350hp :)

Heart says R32, head says S3, The more I think about this the more I think a S3 would currently suit me better.

I'd listen to your head on this occasion!

The R32 is a noticeable step up in refinement and build quality over the Corrado and it's a nice car overall. When I got mine I was expecting it to be a useless old dog, and a wet one at that, based on the criticism the MK4 has received over the years, but the R32 is not like the FWD ones. It looks and drives so much better.

Fuel, don't even think about it, it isn't great, but then it's not going to be with a 3.2 engine and 1500kg to haul around.

I sold it and bought a MK5 Edition 30.

Why?

3 reasons really. 1) I got bored of it quicker than I expected. 2) It's too slow (for me). A standard VR6 Corrado will keep with it easily. 3) I just didn't get on with Haldex, and being the 1st generation, it's pretty lame tbh, even with a 'blue controller'.

Be careful with aftermarket exhausts on the R32. Nearly all of them drone like a b1tch, even the standard system does, and it's irritatingly loud. I reduced it on mine quite a lot by cutting the bypass system off and welding it up.

Don't decat it either as it drones even more and it reduces the torque.

If you really want an R32, I would urge you to get a MK5 instead because the chassis is soooooooo much better. Not as nice to look at, but better to drive and better engine. DSG a must. If 4WD and engine noise aren't essential, a MK5 GTI is a fine choice. Edition 30 if you want better looks and more power.

Blimey! Never had that happen to me. The TT bushes aren't harsh at all so you'll be fine with those.

I agree with you on the M3 / Z4. You need a lot of space to enjoy an old school n'asp M car because very little happens below 4000rpm.