Don't get me wrong if a hatch came along at a good price I'd go for it aswell haha.

I bet it's nearly double the horses and a hell of a lot more torque haha

Not quite double the power, but more than double the torque. Makes that power much more usable

Bet I pulls like a train and doesn't start to slow down on very steep hills. I'm gonna for for tdi next I think better mpg aswell, better in every way aren't they

Pretty much! haha. MPI is simpler though. that's the only upside I can think of :p

Haha yeah the mpi is very easy to work on isn't it haha

Yep, there's lots of stuff under the bonnet in my Octy, not sure what half of it is! That won't stop me having a fiddle though

Can't bear a good tinkering session under the bonnet can you haha

Definitely not I don't like to have any little niggles under there.

I need to clean my throttle body out, its getting full of crap again :(, makes it run lumpier than normal and runs proper sluggy when clogged up

I cleaned mine, but done it just once now and it's still ok. And before that the TB has not been cleaned ever...so 14 years. So how does yours get so full of crap?

 

And you have to watch out if you are taking the TB out of the car to clean it. After I cleaned my TB and put it back in the car, i constantly got a fault code and the car was consuming more fuel. So I had to re-calibrate the TB and now its all fine.

I'm not sure I could be something else that's causing it. I need a new rocker cover aswell found a crack in mine so that won't be helping :( money money money never ends haha

Yeah I think that happens if you force the butterfly flap to move

Try to find out what could it be. My friend had the same problem on a Polo 6n, his tb was always dirty. And how the heck did the rocker cover manage to crack?

 

And yep, that's always the case when you are having a car. Always money money money...and since we all here are car guys there goes even more money on mods, rims, tyres...

Yeah im going to try find what it is. I don't have a clue haha

I know mate mainly on mods haha. My car might not be worth much but can't help but spend silly amounts of money on it

Love it mate, I have the same problem with my 1.4 mpi with the throttle body caked with gunk every so often....

Thanks mate

Takes the muck doesn't it other than the throttle body problem it's so reliable

I know mate yeah, mine started cutting out all the time, I thought it was the coolant temp sensor so changed that and still kept cutting out, until I took the throttle body off and cleaned it... It's never cut out since!

Mine kept cutting out the before I cleaned mine I was confused with what was causing it at the start tho glad it as something as simple as the throttle body tho

I need to change my console bushes aswell. Gonna upgrade to some PSB ones I think

I would strongly recommend the psb bushes mate, can't go wrong for £20 from eBay.

Thanks mate the original console bushes don't last 5 mins

Really need to get some decent updates hp on here

Not much of an update but here goes. 

Coil pack gave out yesterday car would only run on 2 cylinders so went and bought a new one fitted it last night after work in the dark.  She fired up on all cylinders straight away seems to run fine but seems like it's gone less torquey? 

Anybody have any idea why it seems like that? It's strange, it isn't just me that thinks it aswell the misses and my Dad both agree with me seems strange to me.

Anyway here's a couple pics i snapped last night of the beasty 8v engine, sorry if bad quality. 

 

 

 

Really annoys me how the bumper wont sit perfectly to the wing :(

 

Hopefully get the new rims fitted and new poly bushes fitted this weekend aswell so should have some decent pics up bought the BBS rims that were being sold in the for sale section, gonna run em as they are and refurb them start of next year some time

 

Cant wait to get these fitted  

 

 

Sorry for rambling on and most likely boring you half to death haha

 

Thanks for looking

Ah I have a funny feeling I'm gonna have to change my coil pack soon too :/ running like a bag of nails at the minute! How long did it take you to change over mate?

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Ah I have a funny feeling I'm gonna have to change my coil pack soon too :/ running like a bag of nails at the minute! How long did it take you to change over mate?

It's running a lot better with the new coil pack just seems to not be as tourqey :(

It took me about 15-20 mins max, it's a simple job mate. Just undo the 2 Allen key bolts at the bottom of the coil pack make sure you have a hand underneath when undoing the last one fully because there's a little beaker that falls out. Then pull old one off undo the connector (that's the bit that took me the longest, hate them type of connectors haha) then plug new one in and put the bolts back in (they screw into the bracket which falls out) very easy job mate

I had a real pain getting the bumper to line up properly as well, I ended up pretty much hanging off it getting it to fit. Managed it in the end.

 

Also props for keeping your engine bay so clean! haha.

I had a real pain getting the bumper to line up properly as well, I ended up pretty much hanging off it getting it to fit. Managed it in the end.

Also props for keeping your engine bay so clean! haha.

It's a right pain in the back side, il have another bash at getting it to line up when I can be arsed haha

Thanks mate altough I have never cleaned under the bonnet I don't know how it is so clean. Ain't gonna complain tho haha

Haha, fair. Mine was filthy thanks to a leaky rocker cover gasket. I never did get around to cleaning it...