Joe M
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I wouldnt try that with normal coolant, the stuff in your link is designed to be run at 100%, most coolants arent.
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antera309, what disks did you get?
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I asked Stealth about that a while ago and was told there no longer available. There is a quaife gear kit out there but from what ive heard its nowhere near as strong as the gemini kit was.
Think the quaife kit is about 1600 fjust for the gearkit, labour on top of that.
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If your rev limiter is set to 6400 then your current top speed is 150 if u can hit the limiter.
With a 3.68 it will be 138, a 3.94 would give 129mph.
A good change to make is add a 3.94 diff but also a 0.76 5th gear, this will give the acceleration improvements your looking for but also decent cruising revs ant top speed (142).
Id only go for the 3.94 if you have an early vr or a remap for the 7000rpm rev limit though, I plan on getting the 3.94 diff and 0.76 5th if I keep my car much longer.
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Toe in on the front wheels greatly improves turn in and gives more grip in the corner' date=' it does make the steering at higher speeds very twitchy though and will increase tyre wear.
Apparently in a fwd car it will also give more grip on standing starts as the wheels will be pulling forward and flexing the bushes so they will both be pointing closer to straight ahead wheras with neutral toe on a standing start the wheels will have a tendency to toe in.
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u mean toe out??
Yip. !shy
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Toe in on the front wheels greatly improves turn in and gives more grip in the corner, it does make the steering at higher speeds very twitchy though and will increase tyre wear.
Apparently in a fwd car it will also give more grip on standing starts as the wheels will be pulling forward and flexing the bushes so they will both be pointing closer to straight ahead wheras with neutral toe on a standing start the wheels will have a tendency to toe in.
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Yeah, corrados are set to 1.2 as standard so it certainly wont do any harm.
Mine is set to 1.7 with a degree of toe out added as well.
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Ignore the speed sensor one, it just appears as the engine wouldnt have been running when you done the scan.
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Will this kit (intercooled set up) be available for the corrado as well?
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If its brand new as you say id buy it at that price anyway. You would make money by selling the ancilliaries and engine over ebay/the various forums if its no good to you.
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You will also need a set of front brake hoses from the later (late '96 on) gti/16v/vr6 golf as they connect to the caliper with a banjo bolt.
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The schrick is actually an advantage on track, especially when combined with an atb diff.
Ive found in the past without the schrick that certain 2nd gear corners the revs would drop a bit low and the car would bog down, and theres no way I would have went for 1st. Also, some longer 2nd gear corners ive sometimes found the engine bouncing off the rev limiter before the exit wheras with the schrick its fine leaving it in 3rd giving a higher exit speed.
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Not booked in or anything but have been thinking about it. There night they done earlier in the year was a good one.
Any idea if theres places left?
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Keep an eye on your oil level over the course of the day. make sure its always near or slightly above max. I managed to spin 2 big ends with it at a quarter.
Is it the Star P trackday your going to?
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Get it at the same time as the ATB, the final drive gear bolts onto the diff itself so if you get them done seperately you more than double the labour.
I regret not getting the fd changed when I got my quaife. !sad
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I was with Greenlight paying
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What companies are you with? Elephant wont continue to insure me if I go charged, I know anorak is with HIC so ill give them a go but who else?
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That used to be the case but most modern rolling roads use more complex calculations and partly measure the drivetrain losses with the coastdown method to give an accurate, repeatable flywheel figure.
If you look at wheel figures only you wouldnt know if the mods had made any difference as theres a lot more variables including air temp, gear oil temp and so on.
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There only as good as the person that maps them, same as any chip.
I think Stealth use Unichips.
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Started with Toyo Proxes T1-S, 2 sets. Very grippy and predictable tyre wet and dry, but a bit soft for my liking, could feel them squidging about and they wore down quickly.
Moved onto Fulda Carat Extremos, not too different in grip levels from the Toyos, but not as soft. Wore well driven normally but hard cornering tore them apart.
Now got Bridgestone RE 720's and am well impressed. They grip better than both the above and wear extremely well. Done 3 trackdays on a set now and they look almost new at the back and only a bit worn at the front. A bit less predictable than the Toyos but there a very good tyre and id get them again.
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Probably a combination of things on yours then, map not quite perfect, some issue somewhere, how many rolls of dynamat?
Did you ever have it on the rolling road?
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I find the schrick 268/vgi combo excellent. Provides almost exactly half the gains of a charger.
Kev, the chip on yours was done for standard cams iirc? You would probably have been more impressed if the map was done with the cams.
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surely putting heat wrap on the manifold will keep the mani hotter thereforew reducing air density thus reducing power??
On an inlet manifold you want it colder for that reason. On the exaust manifold you want the exact opposite so that the gases get pushed out easier or something.
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I had the same problem, couple of bits of wood to jam it and an impact gun as you mentioned above done the trick.
Also had problems with the waterpump, think I snapped 2 screwdrivers and the edges off the pump trying to lever it out.
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Changing from 205/50 tyres to 195/50 changes the rolling radius, it gives the same effect as changing the final drive in the gearbox so does help acceleration.
Obviously its better to do this with the actual final drive though.