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Here you go http://www.mongooseexhausts.com/ . Used to have one of their DTM exhausts on my old golf and it was pretty good value but it was a wee bit of a bitch to fit since the company I got it off sent the one for the big bumper model (you probably didnt get the small bumper model) and the exhaus...

Just have a look http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... gory=32094 . Ill have 3 (1 under the bonnet, 1 in the boot and 1 as spare).

Dont know if its any help but theres a couple of companies over here (UK) that do systems for the legacy turbo, the cheapest being mongoose at around 500 pounds (the rest you really dont want to know the price of!!!!) for a full turbo back stainless system.

Lol, one of my neighbours uses me going to work as an alarm clock! Saying that she used to with my previous golf and its rather louder 3" system .

Its not all that uncommon for cranks to be made in more than one piece although admittedly far more uncomon nowadays due mainly to material improvements and machining improvements (imagine the deflection of a straight eight crank made of crap quality cast iron, or whatever he would have used, when t...

Thought Id mention that Im working on a boost controller that hopefully will be relatively cheap and easy to install using an already available pneumatic valve and will get rid of a couple of problems that I can see in Vrg3's ghetto one. Ill post more when Im sure the valves available.

Fair point to which I will answer, why on earth would you want to return to normal boost levels and mention the small thing called wastegate creep (unless of course a MBC lessens this effect of course ).

Okay then, Ive been looking round this forum for a while and seen all the posts concerning boost controllers and all that jazz and yet I dont see anyone mentioning directly swapping the wastegate on the turbo, or even for that matter just uprating the spring and diaphragm. So, to get to the point, w...

Or even better swap the plugs every time you change the oil since proper service intervals tend to be way too long anyway (and I did think it was every 6000 miles anyway).

Have you by any chance fitted new bushes of any kind as I had a simiar problem on a golf when I swapped the anti roll bar (swaybar to u) drop link bushes and didnt do one of the bolts up properly, give all the bolts in the area thats squeeking a good torque up as it can be hard to tell wether theyve...

Hey Golden Oldie, just to clear up the yankisms, a swaybay is an anti roll bar m8. Just btw, if your after only slightly stiffer suspension then you would probably be OK using stock Turbo parts. Saying that though I know I need stiffer suspension on my turbo but just cant find any aftermarket stuff ...

LOL, sod the rings m8, what about the nails :P. If you havent finished the job yet and havent put the new bolt in can I suggest that you beg/buy/borrow a tap to retap the crank, just to make sure that the thread in the crank isnt the reason the original bolt sheared off. Oh and if you dont have a ha...

AHA, thought you were all being racially prejudicial to orientals there (not that I am one like) but I am aware of the boy racer brigade, why else would I buy such a dull to look at car but to waste em without them knowing what hit em .

Been running a cone filter with the most aweful connection to the inlet proper that youv ever seen (beleive me its just appaling and must be sapping power) but that wasnt the cause of the trouble, it was just leaking boost/vacuum pipes. Also (having recently had various coolant leaks, blown radiator...

All I can say is I wish exhausts were that cheap over here and whats wrong with DTM exhausts, bit old hat admittedly but my golf has had 1 on for years and it still looks good! Oh and wtf is a ricer lol.

All I can say is I wish exhausts were that cheap over here and whats wrong with DTM exhausts, bit old hat admittedly but my golf has had 1 on for years and it still looks good! Oh and wtf is a ricer lol.

That would be me legacy92 and to dizzy, my hesitations went away every time I reset the ECU, only to come back a few days later, good luck tho .

I forget you lot have different engines to us lot in the UK but looking at that picture I assumed she meant the timing pulley anyway having not looked at the belt setup on my car before. Still, just dont do it! As I did state, the bolt will undo itself eventually and knowing sods law it will do it a...

Damn, couldnt edit that again :? . There is another option if you know of any small engineering workshops in your area. This would involve boring out the pulley and fitting a hydraulically locked bush into the pulley. These are like top hat shaped bushes that are locked in place when a set of screws...

Erm, piece of advise from an engineer, use a key (get some oversized keysteel and file it to the same shape as the knackered keyway and to fit the new pulley SNUGLY or itll just fret and knacker up again) to locate the pulley as if the pulley slips round (and it WILL do eventually using bearing fit ...

Bit of a long shot on the boost hesitation front but I had similar problems and managed to cure it by replacing ALL of the boost and vacuum signal pipes and making sure that none of them could leak (bit of silicone gasket on all nipples did the trick). Seing as youv obviously cut, t'd into or genera...

LMAO his device will actually work to reduce lag as its just a pressure relief valve and regulator arrangement which lets you set the point at which you want the wastegate to see the boost level, just what I was discussing with vrq3 a while back.

Lol greg, I meant watercooled engines, never been near the aircooled ones what you say makes sense but never saw any different piston options for those so forgot you can do that :? . Could be interesting to try a 2.2 short block with my 2L UK spec heads if I ever blow it up, it could do with a bit m...

The only problem with lightened flywheels (assuming theyre done properly!) are that the engine will lose revs quicker when you let the throttle off. Other than that theyre one of the cheeper ways of reducing your off the line acceleration (wont do much for higher gear accel though). Since the gearbo...

Its the front struts alright, they no longer damp (or dont damp enough) therefore you bounce. If theyve been on there from new as well then theyre definately shot, 220k is a LOT of bumps!