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Not sure if they'll be of cars mind. I think Carl and sqealieboy are on some sort of gay mission to get loads of c**k shots in the men's toilets [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23]

Well the car was bought as a shell then some friends and me worked on it, its not too bad considering its the first real time the engine and gearbox has run in a year

Hi Chaps. As Mike Brewer would say ''I've got a right dilemma'. There's a video of my car doing over 120, the police were involved, it was even on the radio. Should I put it up on line or keep it to myself, what do you think?

Cook's pretty much covered it all

Harewood tomorrow! [emoji41]

It will be. I'm glad I'm not camping this year

Did some work on it today, first was to modify the heat shield so that it would clear the turbo compressor housing outlet and the wastegate. A bit of guess work and some careful grinding sorted that. Then I had to move one of the coolant hard pipes that is attached to the heat shield so that it would clear everything. Here is how it came out I then made up the turbo oil feed and coolant lines. Turbo oil feed uses a M10x1mm banjo at the oil filter housing, I used -4 teflon line with a black PVC coating for an OEM stealth look and at the turbo end I used a 7/16"x24 stainless banjo with a b

Vr6oc car of the month The person behind the car. Name: Alex Mooring Forum user name: al_mooring Age: 25 Occupation: power station operative Location: North Lincolnshire Hobbies: karting, mountain biking Likes: oreo's Dislikes: bang tidy stickers Car questions First car?: mk1 Renault Clio 1.2 Current car?: bmw e90 330d and the mk2 Dream car?: La Ferrari Other cars owned?: 3 corsas, b4 Passat, 2 mk3 golfs, 2 clio sports, Astra Vxr What got you into Dubs?: always wanted a mk2 golf since passing my test but then bought a mk3 gti for my second car and fell in love Best feature on your car?: 4wd

Thanks both, just ordered a 90' elbow from ASH. cheers s

There's loads of stuff on eBay to make this kind of thing up, that's where all of this came from It's all from a company called auto silicone hoses, or ASH for short and its all good quality stuff and well priced[emoji106]

It's the same up here Ben. It's meant to be nice on Sunday tho

There is a lot of different opinions as to when this pump should be running and if it's needed at all. After much reading and revision I managed to get to the bottom of it. The vr cylinder head also acts as an exhaust manifold for the front three cylinders and so tents to run hot. The secondary pumps job is to assist the circulation off coolant around the head during running and for a short period after engine switch off to stop any localised overheating. the purpose of the after run feature is to keep the coolant circulating around the head while the hot engine cools. Without this the coolan

More progress For torquing the cam chain sprockets, they are torque to 44 ft/lbs (if I remember right) and then 90 degrees, so I made this little paper disk that has 90 degree lines and sits over the bolt head, mark where one of the lines meets the cam sprocket, then tighten the bolt until the next line lines up with your mark. I got my turbo drain fitting welded into my sump. I used a -10 AN aluminium weld on fitting, some black hose fittings and some stainless braided teflon line, all purchased through Torques on eBay who have an amazing selection of fittings etc. and great service.

the best option is to go with OEM parts. VW updated the upper chain tensioner guide and tensioner bolt. as far as I know there are no aftermarket solutions to the wear/tear on timing chain guides.

Got some more done today! Head and block surfaces were cleaned of all remaining gasket material and then wiped over with degreaser. When I stripped down my engine, I noticed that to get the cam locking tool to slot into the cams, the engine had to be rotated approx 5mm past TDC. I wanted to know if the TDC mark on the front pulley was correct, so I used a dial test indicator zeroed at maximum piston height on cylinder 1. I then rotated the engine backwards until the piston dropped 0.01" and marked where the notch in the front pulley was. Then rotated the engine forwards past TDC until