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  1. Posted

    GSF do a radiator for the 2.0 16v - I bought one from there last weekend! GSF part number is 17333 and price is £39.50. Its used on a number of VW 16v's including the Golf and the Scirocco 16v.. its the same radiator for a 1.8 16v also.

     

    Had to buy GSF as mine was leaking pretty badly and VAG parts dept were already closed for the day. If you get a Valeo one then great - if you get a Flusser one like I did, well, the quality isn't brilliant (thread was stripping itself when we tried to delicately screw in the old thermostat switch) and everything didn't quite fit - but it cools as well as the VAG one did and it was considerably cheaper!

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    Well thats cool - covers pretty much all the main ones there. Even if you decided you wanted to replace a load of hoses and you could get 5 of the main ones for £100, and you had to get the rest from VAG, it'd be a superb saving and a worthwhile upgrade at the same time.

     

    Nice one! Cheers mate :)

  4. Posted

    Be my guest mate! :D Would be very interested to hear how you get on! Maybe worth checking with Vince as he might know for certain what does and does not work on the 2.0 16v?

     

    Thing is there is a fairly hefty price difference between the MK2 16v and the MK3 16v pipes. A bloke on eBay sells them and the MK3 ones are about £150 whilst the MK2 ones are "only" £100...

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    Bit in depth but this should pretty much cover it :) (the Systems Pressure bit - but the whole thing is worth reading)

     

    http://www.auto-solve.com/mech_inj.htm

     

    Was chatting about the metering head at the pub the other week with a few folks from here as I had no idea how it worked, and its a pretty fascinating and clever solution to a problem. Its a far more complex and intricate system than you'd think!

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    Not the answer you're after but.. there are some truely "special" places that coolant can leak away so keep checking.. failing that, get your compression tested as your head gasket could well be on its way out :(

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    Looking on eBay and found that you can buy a Samco set for Golf MK2 16v's and Golf MK3 16v's.. the 16v engines are all fairly similar on the Golfs and the Corrado especially with regards coolant pipes so wondered if anyone knew whether either of those sets would be correct for a Corrado 16v?

     

    Mine are all looking seriously past it.. with the cost of single pipes from VW, it'd make sense to just replace a whole load of them in one go for a lot less!

     

    Cheers.

  16. Posted

    I remeber seeing a picture a few years ago that Darren from G-Werks took of his car on a set of Mini rims.. so i they do go on, yeah.. but not sure about ET's and whatnot though!

  17. Posted

    I thought I had a good idea but went and hit up Wikipedia.. explains the difference between the two nicely:

     

    Dump valves are fitted to the engines of (usually older) turbo charged cars and sit between the turbo outlet and the throttle body. When transitioning from a boosted state to a closed throttle state (as in between shifts), due to inertia, the turbo continues to pressurize air, but the closed throttle prevents the compressed air from entering the engine. In this case the pressure exceeds the preset spring pressure in the dump valve and the excess pressure is bled off to atmosphere.

     

    Even with a dump valve the compressed air acts as a brake on the turbo (slowing it down), because the pressure on the backside of the turbo is at a higher pressure than on the front side (and the air actually wants to flow through the turbo backwards).

     

    A blowoff valve is a more elegant solution to this problem by allowing the turbo to "freewheel" when the throttle is closed (equalizing the pressure on both sides of the turbo). Unlike a dump valve a blowoff valve can be used at multiple boost settings without reconfiguration.

     

    Blowoff valves are sometimes incorrectly called dump valves because they serve a similar function, however they are very different solutions to the same problem.

     

    Even more lovely knowledge at the expanded section on Wastegates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wastegate

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    And you say that Greeny is blinkered.. ;)

     

    Date wise.. well i'm looking at a press clipping here from 1986 talking about the 2.4 litre 24v RV6.. if they were talking about it in the mid 80's, i'd say that it must have been in development in the early 80's ;)

  19. Posted

    it can trace its design back to the 70's

     

    The VR isn't exactly that much of a spring chicken rodders! Work on the VR6 began in the early 80's!

     

    I think they both have plus and negative points.. the sheer tuning potential (and sheer strength of the internals) for the G60 never fails to impress me!

  20. Posted

    Its weird about the Fiat 20V Turbo thing.. I did race one of these in my old G60, and make no mistake he was giving it beans.. but we stayed pretty level.. in fact I was starting to edge past him. I had to double check and peer at the badging before we waved at each other and I turned off just to be sure it was a 20VT, after hearing all the stories about them! Maybe he'd rebadged a non turbo or something?!

  24. Posted

    Worth doing in that sequence, yeah. The rough running could have been indicative of the fuel pump being on its last legs or the filter being so clogged it just couldn't get enough fuel through. Regardless of what you do, would strongly reccommend swapping the filter anyway.. they're not expensive and should be done as an infrequent service job - but never are!

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