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Pretty much the only 24mm on the entire car Yeah it does feel a lot better, the steering is obviously slightly heavier and the turn in is so much better simply because you don't have to turn the wheel twice to go anywhere. I couldn't for the life of me adjust the front coilovers, bearing in mind we've done all this work to the car and the wheels haven't been off it for almost two years...Steering rack, subframe, all the bushes, top mounts, never had the wheels off haha - Aluminum spacers are great, no worries at all. Although for 20mm you don't need the two bolt type spacers, just hubcentric straight drilled ones with longer bolts will do

2.0TFSI; AMAZING engines. Friend of mine has a Mk5 Golf GTI with a TFSI, totally standard car with a stage 1 map and it is 253bhp and 290lbft. So smooth to drive, and does an easy 35mpg. High pressure fuel pump cam followers need to be regularly changed (every 12K according to some experts) but otherwise a great engine. - Feels great with the new rack, totally transforms the feel of the car. Thanks for sourcing it for me

The locking nuts on the track rod ends. Couldn't get them undone on the new rack.

A great day with Mr Mil. I dropped my rear beam and lowered the bum a bit. We fitted this. The toe was ever so slightly out... And as Phil had left his 24mm spanner I had to drive it home with the wheels pointing at 10 and 2. Scary as fock. Stopped in at Kwik Fit for the most expensive twenty minutes of my life, especially as I did half the work... So now I have a quick rack, and Phil has a rack for his Golf that doesn't leak. Winner winner, chicken dinner.

Obvs a crank goes in tandem with the rods when stroking. My point was more that without changing the stroke it is very retarded and cash consuming to change the compression ratio by only changing the rods The best pistons for a 1.8t on a stock turbo are AGU pistons, which create a 9.5 ratio on standard 144mm rods, and are available for 50p.

The con rods in a 1.8t generally have the tensile strength of paper clips, launch control or high torqe/power generates high cylinder pressures which annihilate rods almost instantly. Pops and bangs with a boost building launch control basically does this - You NEED rods for that because the erratic change in cylinder pressures will bend rods within seconds, and send them into a different post code. The launch control I have is just a pussy style rev limiter like hitting the limiter normally. But set at 4400rpm and only cutting 50rpm not 200rpm so it doesn't bounce like a normal car on the limiter. Pistons = compression ratio, rods - stroke. Compression ratio is kind of tweekable with rods if you are stroking the engine, but not commercially available rods that Seamons will be buying.

I cannot recommend enough that he lowers his target figure; 235bhp and a nice 290lbft is reliable and so much more enjoyable. 240bhp+/as much as the hardware will make will just ruin it and you will forever be fixing it for him But yeah rods sounds good, I'd pay £500 just for the pops and bangs without the added benefits that come with rods Launch is like anal sex, nice once in a while to remind you how great it is, a naughty treat. But if you do it all the time you'll die of aids.

Those brakes of Prawns are pretty bad ass if I'm honest, either Phil or I will be getting his hand me downs. Just got to fight for who gets them. I went out in Phils car the other day, now he's got flat shift, launch control and much improved mapping. It's f**king awesome, videos to follow.

Went to a local meet, saw Robin. It was nice.

Rainbiz's car is a great colour, it comes up really well. Colinite worked well on it when you first got the Leon, and it lasts ages.

Did the MAF, plugs, front bumper and stuff this morning. I'm royally ****ed off though. Last night I sanded down and painted the bumper, it looked ****ing epic and I was really looking forward to getting it back on. Polished it up this morning and it looked really really good. Was walking to the car with it this morning with the bumper and out of nowhere the most aggressive gust of wind came and it flew out of my hand and went twenty feet down the road and now it's ****ed again Proper freak weather, there isnt' a cloud in the sky and there has been no wind all morning. Out of nowhere this mental gust of wind came, it actually made me stagger it was that strong. Mother ****ers Car's driving well though now, although the front dogbone bush has gone a bit slack. Got the LCR rack to go in this weekend, and winding the coilovers down a bit more.

Shit. Lol! He has had the carbon bonnet for pretty much two years. It was originally on my old A3, but Prawn being the piss taker he is swapped it for a standard bonnet because the carbon bonnet made the car look chavy...Flol.

Warrens wangers.

You need a new washer bottle fat boy. And there is one of the Forge tab covers on E38 for £18 posted.

Depends on the application.

Washed with fairy liquid and a cloth, wheels cleaned with a brillo pad and bumpers and trims sprayed with GT85?

Did you take any pictures after you'd cleaned it?

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I hugely agree. Got into a car and it was already tuned and Dilated were playing, didn't even realise it was R1 until an hour later when Grimshaw started with his annoying voice.

Did anybody hear this stand out moment for Radio 1 this morning? Almost an entire hour of non stop tunes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0187sv6 A rare thing indeed, but I actually popped a tweeter in a company car listening to that this morning. Did it make anybody elses day?

That bar is WAY over priced. There is an H&R one on there for £90, sure you aren't confused? I Was offered a Whiteline 23mm adjustable bar for £50 last month. Keep looking I say.

Fair enough, I know very little about the engine but everything around it is the same. You say its f**ked, which is a red rag to a bull.

I have just the thing for the Golf...I'll sort it next week. Farcela G3 and a hand cutting sponge, it is amazing for unloved cars. Cuts the scratches right out and gives a great base for color correction.

My drop links will be fine. It's a problem which clearly doesn't exist, I might even disconnect the front roll bar entirely. What are you doing tonight Rainbird? Fancy going to Wetherspoons for a burger? I'm bored as f**k. I'm going into town tomorrow morning and need to go into work at 4 so I could always stop by on my way back from work? I'm going to shorten the center section tomorrow as well, it's loosened up and the exhaust is actually wonky now.

Just a bit more spam from me. Tomorrow I am DECKING it, as low as it will possibly go whilst still moving.