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by SCOTMCDOT
Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:55 pm
Forum: Engines
Topic: Overheating etc.
Replies: 1
Views: 1086

Re: Overheating etc.

Mine has started overheating today. Temp got right up in traffic so i turned on the blower full but it made little difference. I got to work and stuck a paperclip in the connectors to the heater switch and the fan came on so its not that. I would automatically then think it is the heater switch, but...
by SCOTMCDOT
Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:51 pm
Forum: Engines
Topic: Over-run
Replies: 7
Views: 2434

Re: Over-run

Will get it tuned then. Have noticed it pinking a bit in the last few days too :roll: so its pointing in that direction.
by SCOTMCDOT
Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:50 pm
Forum: General Scirocco Chat
Topic: Spotted
Replies: 1856
Views: 468375

Re: Spotted

White Mk2 parked down the calls in Leeds last Saturday. Cant remember much about it as i was a little tipsy :beers:
by SCOTMCDOT
Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:11 pm
Forum: Bodywork, Trim and Paint
Topic: Rear wing removal mk2
Replies: 8
Views: 3984

Re: Rear wing removal mk2

Is your name really Jimmy Conway or have you got it from Goodfellas? :mafia:
by SCOTMCDOT
Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:58 pm
Forum: Engines
Topic: Over-run
Replies: 7
Views: 2434

Re: Over-run

Mines a carb, possibly a carb problem?
by SCOTMCDOT
Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:30 pm
Forum: Engines
Topic: Over-run
Replies: 7
Views: 2434

Over-run

Where i have started driving my Rocco again recently i have noticed that i am sometimes getting a small amount of over-run when i switch off the engine.

What causes this?
by SCOTMCDOT
Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:42 pm
Forum: Running Gear
Topic: how low can i go
Replies: 12
Views: 4777

Re: how low can i go

Lowering a car is difficult to get right in my opinion. The shorter springs need a different spring rating to the original springs. This has to carefully worked out to compensate for the lack of length and to ensure that roadholding is improved but ride is not ruined. Remember you are driving on pro...
by SCOTMCDOT
Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:40 am
Forum: Using the forum
Topic: Post pics, sig pics and avatar sizes
Replies: 63
Views: 41738

Re: Post pics, sig pics and avatar sizes

Its the same with pics on the Imp Club forum (which is run on phpBB too). Its a pain resizing the photos and because of this a lot of people dont post them and just put on links or no photos at all, which is a shame. If you load them onto photobucket and click edit, you can resize them easily to the...
by SCOTMCDOT
Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:39 pm
Forum: General Scirocco Chat
Topic: Introduce yourself
Replies: 1193
Views: 294285

Re: Introduce yourself

Scotty here. Rocco is back as being main car (still have the modern but work local now so dont need it) so will probably be on here a fair bit more. Had been a bit quiet whilst it was laid up over winter.
by SCOTMCDOT
Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:46 pm
Forum: Mk2 Scirocco
Topic: Show us your Mk2 - picture thread.......
Replies: 815
Views: 240903

Re: Show us your Mk2

My dirt cheap Mk2 now with added MOT.

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