Ok time for another update, its only taken nearly 4 months
Done some small work on the car in the past few days.
as above car was delevloping a slight missfire under hard acceleration. so changed the sparks, they had done over 60k so i was happy, missfire more or less stopped but would still come back every now and again.
coming home from dropping the wife off one day at work, dropped to 3rd to pass some traffic and lost all power no boost and ECU light flashing at me. managed to limp it to a layby where i ran the diagnostic - multiple random missfire and missfire cylinder 2
popped open the bonnet to find coilpack was out - another common problem - had found then loose before but never fully off. so pushed down and drove home.
got to the last hill before hitting the town and again now power and light flashing at me. limped it home, 1/2 mile and found this
top all burnt - that was the white powder that i was on about in the previous post and was, im sure, white when i had refitted it not even 5 miles previous.
phoned up VW and gave them the part number and was told it was blocked stock and they couldnt order it :s would have to do it through audi. phoned them and they they said yup its blocked stock as its been replaced recently we have the replacements in stock. drove down and couldnt find audi, seen another VW garage and went in guess what they had them in stock as well, guy couldnt understand how the ones at dumfries couldnt find them.
order myself a full set from awesome gti for £90, VW were £38 a piece, and while i was at it ordered the hold down kit and a short shifter while i was at it.
Email the next morning saying that it would be a few days as they didnt have the shifter that i had ordered in stock but if i wanted they would give me the forge one for the same price - saving £25, yes please.
coil packs and hold down kit were fitted asap due to me finding some of the other packs were looking rough,
left it at that until today where i decided to tackle the short shifter and TIP that ive had since xmas,
what shocked me was the forge fitting kit.
3 pins - depending on what is fitted as standard to the OEM shifter
a 8mm locking nut for attaching the pin
small amount of grease
and this
yes a bent nail.
and here it is doing its job
i had remembered the link herb had put up a while ago about resetting the neutral position in the gearbox due to the cables stretching etc, and the guide said to use a bent nail or a 5 mm drill bit.
forge shifter against OEM
TIP what a pain this was both to remove and refit. read through a few guides all saying roughly an hour to an hour and a half to fit. more like 2.5 - 3 hours.
It was the tight on and had only been held in place by 1 cap screw. about an hour to get it off and the rest was trying to refit the new one.
eventually had to bend the hard coolant pipe about 1/4" to get enough room to line the pipe up with the turbo
All done now thankfully
2 side by side
fitted
engine bay as it now is
1st impressions, well ive only driven a mile from the parent back home as the rain was on.
TIP couldnt feel any difference but wasnt booting it as engine was still cold. did notice that the dv is alot quieter now
Short Shifter - at max its supposed to be 40% shorter, and you cant use it at max on some of the Mk4 gearboxes so rather than fit it and find that it didnt work on mine and have to go through it all again i set it up a smidgen off max but what a difference. its going to take some getting used to as it hardly moves now
and a last one showing the reason for the hold down kit
this is what i found when i went to replace the coils