Sean's (& Ed's & Scott's) Astor GTi6

[Ed Doe]

Right guys, small update.

Niall, Fooby, Scott & Kim came over Saturday morning to help me swap the beam off the new 6 with the VTS beam which came off my old 6.

What a complete twat of a job.

We'd accidentally clipped one of the brake lines on the vts beam when removing it from my diablo, so that needed to be swapped off the astor beam, then the union on the car wouldn't come off so had to be removed with molegrips, then one of the bleed nipples snapped so we had to swap a caliper off the 6 beam onto the vts beam.

Then it was a pita getting the exhaust back on and the clamp bolted up as the threads had been cut so short.

Honestly I got a quote from Lynx for 150 to do it, and f*ck I wish I'd just taken it to them; it wouldve been worth every bloody penny!!

Anyways, all done now, and *touches wood* all working brilliantly. The gaz dampers on the back make a noticable differerence, and the vts beam is just epic, soooo much better than the 6 one!

Massive thanks to Niall & Scott particularly for helping me out when I got menstrual! It was such a stressful afternoon in the end; I hate resorting to mole grips etc, and after removing the wrong rear caliper from the 6 beam I was justabout ready to set the damn car alight!



Anyways; I'm gonna run it gently for the next few days and monitor it all closely.

I have however noticed a couple of problems with the car generally.

I think the icv is dicky; the revs fall quite slowly occasionally, and sometimes it stalls after revving it just after starting it.

Also I think I've got a problem with one or more coilpacks; its shaky at low rpms when accelerating.

One symptom I'm not sure about though is a slight hesitancy to rev after blipping the throttle: and a slight hesitancy on light throttle when manouevring; it seems to hesitate then jerk forwards...

Any thoughts anyone? Its not a major thing but its peeing me off; is it a potential tps issue? Or just a combo of the dicky icv and coilpacks?

Any ideas would be massively appreciated!!