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LC5F's Graphite Blue GTI - Pilgrimage to Caffeine & Machine
LC5F:
Today -
Installed under seat drawers yielded from a recent scrap yard trip.
Fixed a clunking noise in the nearside door that occured turning left/right and a speaker crackle in the offside - both were the speaker cable adaptors similar to type shown below flapping about - some double sided number plate pads stuck them in place - no more clonk / or crackle:
Plus I had a little windfall a few weeks ago, invested in a GFB DV+ - pleased to report improved boost as expected, on off throttle greatly improved
LC5F:
--- Quote from: Pudding on October 22, 2021, 09:53:14 am ---Nice :happy2:
Yes Magnaflow and Borla cats pass MOTs no problem. Being American, they have to be California compliant......the strictest air quality regulations in the world.
Years ago, boring story bro, I built a Corrado VR6 turbo and the only aftermarket cat that got it through an MOT was a Magnaflow cat from a truck. A large square one, not the barrel design like the one linked, but that one looks great for building your own DP :happy2: Notice how cheap exhaust parts are in America compared to rip off UK!
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Pictures?
pudding:
Nice one with the speaker crackle fix. My passenger side has been doing that for years but I can't be bothered to take the door card off, or is it a door skin off job?
Here's a few.
I went through the whole modding program with it, starting with n'asp mods, supercharger, turbo and finally an R32 conversion.
The turbo conversion was just stupidly fun. I limited it to 400hp to keep the gearbox in one piece and it lasted 60K miles like that. Other guys at the time (over 10 years ago now, sheesh) were running 500,600 and more from the same turbo (Garrett GT35R) but were eating gearboxes, CVs, driveshafts every few months.
After a bit of a stupid mapping error on my part, I blew the turbo engine. Rather than rebuild, I fancied a change and chucked the R32 in, but in hindsight it was a bad move. A really, really boring engine. R32 conversions were popular at the time because 12V VR6 parts were scarce (even from VW) so I sold it on easily enough.
Fun times, but never again :grin:
LC5F:
--- Quote from: Pudding on October 27, 2021, 01:45:53 pm ---
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Cheers - Nice colour - always had a soft spot for MO's too.
Actually - forgot, I have a mate up here in Scotland doing a big turbo 12v in a 4-motion Mk4 shell - he's very talented, adapting 1.8t management to run the VR6
pudding:
Thanks :smiley: Ice Grey Violet is one of my favourite VW colours. Not sure it would sit well on any other car but it certainly suited the Corrado.
4WD definitely recommended with a VR6 turbo, so that's a good move by him for sure. That's an interesting choice of engine management and kudos to him if he gets it to work. I used a standalone on mine as I preferred the freedom to tune it myself rather than having to drive for hours to a dyno.
OEM management has all the difficult tuning absolutely nailed out of the box (cold start, warm up, idle, part throttle, onset of boost etc etc) so I wouldn't recommend anyone mess with a standalone to be honest :grin:
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