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    This topic is covered in the FAQ section. CLICK HERE
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    HIC are good for modded Golfs. I got £420 per year on the cabby with any declared mods. I'm 34 living in Hazlemere with 7 years NCB and 6 points..
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    The 3.6 litre VR6 isn't just a bored & stroked 3.2 . It's actually a totally new engine with a 10.6 degree vee (as opposed to the 15 degree vee on all previous VR6 engines). As a result, it is a fair bit taller then the 3.2 (Someone on VWVortex has taken measurements to see if it would fit a mk2 shell and it doesn't ). In Europe the 3.6 is available in the Toureg right now and should be available in the Passat fairly soon. VW did try fitting the 3.6 in the Golf mk5, but it was just too big. There wasn't enough space left behind the engine for the (similarly huge) DSG transmission. Ins
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    200bhp

    antera309 replied to Andy Mac's topic in Engine Tuning

    This topic is covered extensively in these forums. Do a search and you'll get a lot more information than you will in this thread. For a really noticable difference on a standard VR, you need to do an induction kit, 268-degree high-lift cams, exhaust with decat pipe, then get remapped for the lot. This setup will give you at least 210BHP with a corresponding hike in torque. If you want more power than this, you should be looking at supercharger kits..
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    No sign of the R36 on there, but who needs it when you've got the R-GTi!! That is without doubt the meanest looking mk5 I've ever seen. Pleeeease VW - build this car!!! Full VWVortex article here: http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/vortex_news/article_1857.shtml Read it and weep!!
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    It's not the stripped-out lighweight version everyone was hoping for though.
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    The pic is indeed a photoshop of the earlier concept car, but the VW UK website shows this picture and confirms that the Edition 30 will be fitted with the 18" BBS RC-like "Pescara" Wheels. http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new_cars/forthcoming/golf_gti30 I'd quite happily buy one. 230BHP is not far off the R32. And that's as standard.
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    The mk3 VR6 responds well to weight reduction. I have a magazine feature on a mk3 VR which runs 11 second quarters just through reduced weight ( the engine was only mildly tuned - just a filter, exhaust, cams & remap if I remember rightly). It was quite extreme (boot floor cut away, carbon fibre wings, bootlid etc) but it's a good example of what can be achieved! Your misfire problem is probably just plugs & leads.
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    EXACTLY the same thing hapenned to me last month. Two blowouts, nsf then osf about a week apart. Failure of the inner sidewall both times. The only difference was that I was lucky and both happened at low speed. It turns out that my tyres had been rubbing against the inner arch at full lock (patches of underseal on the inner arches had worn off, giving the game away!) Chances are the same thing is hapenning on your car. I take it you have wider-than-standard wheels fitted, yeah? Take a look inside your front arches and look for signs of rubbing. Assuming it is the same problem, we can wor
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    I wouldn't have thought that this would be necessary on a new one unless there are manufacturing defects?
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    Right, the bar has been set. Someone's gotta outdo it. With a Golf. I'm thinking a lightened mk2 shell, a rear-mounted W12 and some turbos. Lots of them. And Nitrous. Anyone want to lend me £100,000 ?
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    I'm no fan of stretched tyres either. I'm a function above form kinda guy. A slight stretch can help with arch clearance when fitting wide wheels (hence allowing you to go lower), but the example above is going way too far. Stretching the tyres that much is not even safe - I have heard some real horror stories over on the Edition 38 forums.
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    If the puddle is underneath the belt area, the most probable source is the water pump - these are designed to leak water when they get worn out or broken internally. I guess this is to force the owner to replace it before overheating etc. starts to happen. The water pump pulley is the non-ribbed one just above the crank pulley.
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    Whip off the DOHC-VR6 engine cover and you should be able to see the vacuum solenoid, its actuating rod and the lever for the manifold flap in between the two inlet runners that go to the throttle body. This shows the underside of a VSR manifold, just so you know what I'm talking about!: Get someone to step on the throttle and raise the revs gradually. As soon as the engine hits 4000RPM, you should see the lever move. Let the revs drop back below 4000RPM, and it should move back to its rest position again. If it does this, your manifold is working and no further diagnosis is necessary. Alth
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    The Schrick manifold will work without a remap, but you will get more power & torque once the remap is done. The same is true with performance cams. If, say, you are fitting the manifold now and fitting 268 cams in a couple of months, it's not worth the cost of getting 2 remaps done - just wait until everything is on and have the ECU remapped for the lot.
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    Thanks to that group buy, Schricks are plentiful on the second-hand market to this day!! :-D
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    Very, very nice!
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    LOL - Highline!! It ain't even got air con or leather!! And obviously a VR6 with a filter & remap won't make anywhere near 243BHP, but then, you all knew that! At the end of the day he's shooting himself in the foot, because the winning bidder (if there is one) won't be obliged to buy the car if it is not as described in the ad. And eBay car ads aren't cheap.
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    That's a cheap Anni there. The Anni is definitely the best mk4 IMO - normal GTi & 4Motion models look too bland as standard and the R32 is stupidly overpriced on the second hand market (for the same price as an R32 you could buy an Anni and tune it to over 300BHP) No way, that b*tch is heeeeaaavvvyyyy!! Apart from the ICE install, it must have over 500kg of metal flakes in the paint!! LOL
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    Mine was gunmetal grey, but it was otherwise pretty much identical to Nick B's, including the Antera 309 alloys We also both had Schrick Manifolds fitted at the same time, after the infamous 35+ Schrick Group Buy that Nick actually started! [img width=500 height=375]http://it-rox.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/phots/cars/vr6/vr6_5.jpg (ahh, the good old days....) I actually sold that car to my Brother in the end, who kept it until the chains needed doing.... ;-) Saw it driving around in Wycombe last month, so still going strong! So you weren't tempted by a mk4 GTi then, Nick?
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    Hey Nick, how's it going mate? You were one of the first people I ever chatted to on the VR6OC back in 2004!! I didn't know you still had your VR!! What are you thinking of getting to replace it?
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    Already being discussed here: http://www.vr6oc.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?140174
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    Golf mk4 or Audi TT/S3 dash. Definitely.
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