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Good luck Matt, it should all go smoothly :) it will be interesting to see your results

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im biooked in for my remap on the 3rd of July and will pop round after :D

depends on the size, what do you have in mind?

no problem Matt, i look forward to your results :D

great finish, what tint spray did you use?

As mentioned above the power was back with the standard cams fitted, and when i refited the 263's with a new trigger wheel and cam sensor and the engine still runs pefectly with a nice increase in power. Torque is back and it pulls cleanly to the redline. Ive had the cams in since Thursday and the power has been consistantly there. I also refitted a cat and now i have a lovely muted exhaust note again so can put my foot down with out drawing attention. So after this post i did not manage to pinpoint exactly what caused me to be down on power but its running fine now so i'm happy. Now to book myself in for a remap :D

I'm planning on getting a oil cooler for my vr6. i think i would like to mount it in the near side inner wing. Has anyone got pictures of theirs mounted in this location. I tried the search and just found pictures of installs infront of the radiator.

i bought a new chrome one from vw, this was about two years ago so not sure if they are obsolete. It was around £10 iirc

nice buy, GT2 aside the C4S is my favourite 996, wide body, no fixed spoiler and the red strip between the lights just make it stand out! have you got the PSE switchable exhaust?

Happy birthday and the interior looks amazing. My favourite factory interior

Ive sorted out the the problem with the engine cutting out when cold by fitting a new vag oil pump. But the car is still intermittantly down on power. The decat made no difference then i took the 263's out for a week and it was still down on standard power but the power seems to have come back in the last few days before i fitted the oil pump which is rather strange. Tommorow i plan to refit the 263's with a new cam trigger wheel and cam position sensor and hope that i dont lose the power so i can finally get the car remapped.

you could try ring engineering in hayes. I had a vr6 head skimmed by them last year http://www.yell.com/listings/DoFindListings/495614/RING-ENGINEERING/Engine-Reconditioning

The new style modernlines with the concave spokes have a lot more brake clearance than the old dished style. Bally has got his 4 x 100 et15 set to clear Porsche big reds. Might be worth dropping him a pm and do some calculations in comparison to his set up to see if the 5 x 100 et 25 set will clear. The et 25 casting is the one to go for if it clears your brakes as they sit much better in the front arches.

is there a reason the have to be installed a certain way? I installed them from the outside

nice, are they off the mars red mk1? I would fit 195/40/16 on the 7's and 205/40/16 on the 8.5's

your big brakes will look sweet behind them, my 288's never did them any justice :)

mine does that too, its really annoying

Shaun you know what i think allready, suit your car really well. Have you smoked your plates and re done your rear lights? Cars looking really fresh 8)

Bills and the German one are both looking good. The German one needs a badged grille imo

did you fit a complete exhaust?

Vince suggested trying another cat incase mine is blocked up. Not sure if its worth taking a risk on a second hand cat, so may fit a decat pipe. Anyone know where i can get a 76cm one from?

i did a compression test and i got between 150-170psi across all 6 cylinders. Thats 11 - 12 bar in old money . So compression seems fine :?

okay thanks for the clarification. My car has high mileage but i sourced a 80k engine an swapped it over complete last year. After fitting i did a compression test and it made 150-160psi across all 6 cylinders. I'm going to do a compression test tonight and see if theres any issues with the new head i fitted. Edit: in reply to Buttles, i replaced the cam trigger sensor with a new one when fitting the rear cam sprocket on to the new cams.

my engines in my bay with the gearbox fitted so i tdc'd cylinder one using the notch on the crankshaft pulley. and checked with with a wooden dowel through the plug hole. After my post above i turned the engine over by hand a few times to monitor the position of the intermediate pulley. The intermediate pulley lines up with the notch at 12 o clock with every 4 revolutions of the crank. So whats the significance of lining it up at 12 o clock? since the cams line up with every 2 revolutions, this would mean that even if the intermediate pulley was timed using the 6 o clock position with two revolutions of the crank it would be at 12 o clock and the cams would still be in allignment. Anyway ive got the engine back together with the intermediate pulley timed at 12 o clock, and the performance is the same. There are no fault codes so stumped what the issue could be. i want my missing bhp back :?