Henny

badger 5's kits are all brand new parts... and they're excellent too... ;)

the kits do pop up from time to time second hand, at around £500 though...

Different OEM brembos have different mounting patterns, so be careful just buying with no research as you could end up with a set of calipers that won't fit due to off-set differences, or that they require thinner disks, or something along those lines...

having sent my charger to both, G-Werks get my custom every time... I don't want to slag Jabba off in public, but lets just leave it as saying that I wasn't impressed with what they did and didn't do to my car and supercharger.... :censored:

G-werks on the other hand has done quite a lot of work for me since and I've never had a problem with them... 8)

It goes between the bottom bolt on the charger and the block... it's about 3/4" thick round bar... I may have a spare one at home which has been freshly powdercoated black... I'll have a look and see if I've still got it this weekend... 8)

bugger... that's not good...

As it's 100% their fault, I'd advise that you don't go through YOUR insurance, as soon as you tell 'em, it puts a mark on your no-claims! Personally, I'd contact a claims handling company who you can make sure will insist that the car is repaired, not written off, and should get you a courtesy car while it's away being fixed AND won't sting you for your insurance excess!

Hope you get it sorted with the least hassle possible... 8)

yes, there should be a support bar, and yes, it is quite important... Without it you could be de-forming your charger casing which could mean that the scroll touches the inside of the casing damaging both... :eek:

I'm putting off going home in my 'ssat 'cos the fan packed in about 6 months ago and I've not bothered to change it yet... annoyingly, it's got air-con, but it won't do anything 'cos of the fan being dead... :(

Henny, you're the sort of guy that needs at least 2 or 3 Corrados to keep them occupied ;)

I just want the time to concentrate on the one corrado I still have left... I've done nothing to it since I took the head off 3 weeks ago... :(

You can't include the cost of the car! Someone just comes along that bought one from new and already they're £20k+ in the red. If anyone was ever stupid enough to buy one from new .... errr.

 

It's what have you spent on your C .... don't forget, no one ever plans to mod them :lol:

I've not... but I had to put lots of bits on the car AGAIN that I'd already done to the car that got written off, even though I was just swapping parts over... I actually MADE money on buying the write off back, buying the new car and scrapping the old one! :eek: 8) :lol: Oh, yeah, and 3 remaps too at £350 a pop... :eek: Where's the suicide emoticon?!? :shrug:

ummm, last time I added it up, there was over 10K in the engine bay alone.... and then I fitted a leather interior, wrote the car off, bought it back, bought another one, swapped all the good bits over, got it resprayed, and scrapped the old car etc etc etc...

Dread to think how much I've spent so far on it... :eek: gotta be in the region of 20K over the last 5 years or so... :cuckoo:

the brake warning light isn't just for the handbrake... It also warns of low brake fluid level, and brake pad wear if your car was fitted with this option from the factory...

3 things to check:

1) have you got enough fluid in the reservoir?

2) as there any loose wires dangling under the front wheel arches which are likely to get wet (and therefore short out causing the light to come on like it would if you had worn brake pads)

3) is there any crud getting into the switch under the handbrake lever (which turns on the light to warn you the handbrake is on)

My bet would be cables under the wheel arches seeing as you've just fitted 288 brakes... ;)

Good luck!

I thought the turbo had BOTH disks and drums, so I don't know if the disks would be any good... I know I just sold a set of 944 turbo rear calipers on ebay, and they were mahoooosive...

 

the 924 Turbo had discs all round,same as the 924S which used 944 running gear

Not what I meant matey... I know they had rear disks, but the hand brake was done with a drum in the center as the calipers don't have a handbrake mechanism... Early 911s did this too (dunno about the later ones, I've not had one in bits! :lol: )

I thought the turbo had BOTH disks and drums, so I don't know if the disks would be any good... I know I just sold a set of 944 turbo rear calipers on ebay, and they were mahoooosive...

bugger... I've not got the instructions/pictures for the single strut anymore as all my corrados have had late bonnets...

I do remember trying to work out how to fit a single one to my late bonnet and, from what I remember, it's got a plate that sits inside the re-enforcement of the bonnet, and a ball joint that fits on the slam panel for the other end... I remember thinking that it looked pretty easy to fit, but that there was no way to fit it to a late bonnet as the re-enforcement was in the wrong places... :brickwall:

now this is a funny one...

I've run a toothed pulley conversion for around 40,000 miles with the only problems occurring when the belt tensioner lost it's damping fluid and so wasn't holding the tension on the belt properly... at this point it ate 2 belts in two weeks! I put a solid tensioner on it and haven't had a problem since... 8)

...yet a few people have said they've had nothing but trouble with their kits... so much so that Darren at G-werks offered a refund on a group buy that took place, yet only one or two people took him up on the offer... :shrug: Read into that what you want...

I think the major problems have been people fitting them themselves and not quite lining everything up 100% causing the edge of the belts to wear, or over-tensioning the toothed belt causing it to strip the belt... There's no reason a toothed belt conversion shouldn't work well on a G60, giving improved response and more instant, predictable boost, as long as the kit is up to scratch and fitted properly with a good condition tensioner (solid or standard)...

having had a tornado red corrado when it was only a couple of years old, yeah, it's quite a DARK red when new...

As cheezwire says, spray some clear plastic with primer and the paint to see if it IS the right colour first though... the lids tend to lie... ;)

right, you may have made a mistake here depending on what you bought as the kits are REALLY badly labelled...

Do you have a late bonnet ( __---__ ) and two struts, or an early bonnet ( ---__--- ) and a single strut? If you have an early bonnet and two struts, or a late bonnet with one strut, they won't fit properly! :brickwall: (yes, I found this from experience too! :bad-words: )

Let us know which combination you have and I'll see if I can find the pictures I have of how to fit them... 8)

the NOZZLES are heated to de-ice them when the rear demister is turned on (as are the wing mirrors)... It doesn't heat the water coming out through it though...

It actually works quite well when they're new... I replaced both of mine when I had the car resprayed.... 8)

yup, mine's still for sale... 8)

Normally I wouldn't comment on things like this, but a friend of mine got one of these when they first came out (the new ones, not the originals!) and the build quality was shockingly bad, even for Fiat! New clutch after less than 1000 miles, electrical faults, rattles the works... I'm pretty certain she's now got rid of it and ended up getting her money back from the dealer... :eek:

If you're going to buy one, make sure you've driven the one you're buying and don't order one from the factory, get one that's currently sat in a showroom somewhere that you can see the state of BEFORE you hand over your cash... :pale:

Shame really, as I like the look of 'em...

yup, the ignition live to the stereo could well be on the same circuit as the windows, which would explain why this happens... to be fair, I don't know if this is correct, or just a nice way of someone having wired it in, as my Corrados have always had the stereo wired in by me with all new wiring straight from the battery (via a fuse)!

just a random thought..

 

could the fact your car is so tuned, could it be almost blowing the spark out due to the extra flow? prob a silly idea but thought id mention it

 

:camp:

would do it on all 4 cylinders then though... ;) also wouldn't have suddenly done it while driving, rather would never had run properly in the first place... :(

well, I've sent the dizzy off to a member of Dubforce who is trying it in their G60 for me... and it seems to be working in there engine so far with no problems.... :brickwall:

 

 

im on here as well chief :nuts:

Sorry mate, didn't realise! :oops: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

have a look at the torque curve for my engine... if I lost a little top end power, I don't think it'd make the car that much slower, it's got over 80% peak torque from 2000rpm to redline! :lol: If I wanted it to go faster, I could always flick the switch back to petrol turning off the LPG... ;)

Cooling isn't an issue with my engine either... if anything it tends to run a little too cool!

I was, to be fair, also considering sticking a Nitrous kit on her too... I reckon 300bhp would easily be achievable with the bottom end I have with a squirt of Nitrous... ;)

Interesting link though, I'll have a read of that later... 8)

CTWG60 you ever see the experiment with a baked bean can, a length of steel tubing and a teaspoon of gun powder vs a teaspoon of petrol? Well worth a look if you can find it....

Stick a teaspoon of gunpowder in the end of a 1m length of steel tubing which has one end sealed. drop in a full baked bean can (must be a snug fit in the tube), ignite the gunpowder... the can will probably just about make it to the end of the tube... repeat with one teaspoon of petrol... the can will fire for a couple of hundred meters! :eek: :clap: :lol:

I'm not looking to increase performance, I just want to use the car without going bankrupt! :lol:

nobody else know anything about LPG + G60s?!?

Right, well my mate who's a mechanic has now confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the head gasket... so that theory is out... Hopefully get some time this weekend to strip the manifolds off the head and see if there's anything obvious there, and then take the cam and followers out to see if there's anything there too... :shrug: