seanl82

As above, looks like its been done well and the rear end looks ok, but I wouldn't want one if it was sold.

Ah fair enough, no worries!

Prefer the red. Thats a ridiculous amount of stretch though, and I think you're asking for trouble.

Give your maf a clean with electrical contact cleaner too. I had exact same symptoms on my mk3 Golf but at 3k rpm and this was the cause. The contact cleaner fixed the problem. :thumbleft:

Sorry, it's matt lacquer you'll want for factory finish. :bonk:

She'd kill me if I got another! Very tempting though!

I have an airbox you can have for nothing mate, but the bottom part has had half on one side cut out to give it the induction roar. - again, previous owner being a cowboy. I'm not a fan of cone filters for the reason you are seeing, they really need to be boxed in and cold air fed due to heat soak. BMC CDA is the only filter proven to give both gains and noise, and pop up on ebay from time to time for £70 - £110.

It was me that had the leather on the bolster replaced, then coloured the whole interior. The only problem with it, is finding a hide with the same texture, which is very difficult. Thats the only thing noticeable on mine. I think yours is easily repairable though. Look on the furniture clinic website. Apart from the small hole, it looks like its only the paint on your leather that has degraded and that is easily repairable. A small repair patch underneath the hole, then a light bit of leather filler on top would not be noticeable at all. If you push a bit of filler up from the bottom where the bits around the stitching have corroded, I think that'll fix it nicely. The paint is then scrubbed off from the top, and you spray the new paint on then seal it with the lacquer. I sent them my headrest to colour match, and its perfect. If you use a satin lacquer on top, there's no way you would notice the repair on yours. I think the specialist was trying to drum up a bit of business tbh.

263s + fitting, and a remap I reckon is probably somewhere in the region of £700. Not cheap, and being the tight arse I am, I wouldn't do it for the gains they give. Obviously driveability will be improved with the remap as well, but you could get a good used stage 1 supercharger kit for not much more if you were that way inclined.

Cams Wayne.

That ones been on there a while. It the uber rare Recaro parcel shelf.......... They are available new through Vw heritage but are about £165!! I've been looking for one for a while too, and just missed out on an ebay one just before Xmas, as my phone didn't update the price in the last few minutes. I thought I'd won, but had been outbid and didn't know. It went for £36 + delivery in the end and I was gutted! Lol

Think he just means to fit some uprated cams. Stealth have a very good reputation for remapping the VR6. It's not an aggressive remap where you get large spikes of power, but it improves throttle response and the power curves are very linear so you get nice consistent gains all the way through the rev range. uprated cams will give you a little more as well but that's another few hundred on top.

Agreed, great formula oil, but I wouldn't use it just to top up what you have as it's quite expensive! I'd definitely use it when changing it out though.

Oh I get what you mean. Ok fair enough. :thumbleft:

Yes it is mate. lol. AVS Spares is also decent.

Oh, these are the little clips that hold the headlight surround on. https://www.vwheritage.com/shop/corrado/535941179B/headlight-retaining-clip-corrado-89-95/?crumbStartPage=1&crumbStartRow=1

Haha, if I showed you my bank statement, you'd put your car up for sale on the spot! I've spent quite a lot of money since I bought the car mate, but its a good un now.

Ummmmm, don't feel bad, but I paid half what you did, and the chains had been done 6 months before I bought it too.

Ouch, not cheap!

Where abouts is the car? The headlight shouldn't break removing it, but if the adjustment bit is too far gone then the whole thing will need to come out anyway.

I honestly know the feeling mate. I was lucky that it was a good runner, but I had more leaks that a pregnant pensioner, the bodywork and interior were absolutely shot, and I was also missing quite a few of the little things.

I've managed to fix two by kind of bodging/bonding the threaded part back on Gracie. How bad is it, do you have a picture to see if its salvageable?

Yeah thats the crack pipe with the drain plug on it. Just keep an eye out if I were you. Water pump is attached to the pulley to the left side of it btw.

Yeah crank seal. Just be careful if you remove it as the plastic is very brittle and they are known to brake at the bend. If it comes off in one piece the O seal should sort it. Oil cooler is separate from the filter housing. There are 2 seals for this, an inner and an outer where the securing plate goes on. Cheap enough and sold in quite a few different places. The filter housing seal I've only found available from VW or TPS though. Again, not silly expensive iirc.

It secures a cover behind the headlight which acts as a sort of air guide for the air box. That in the ebay link is the cover. I'll show you that on Sunday too mate.