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FAO Ben(Polopowah)/ Anyone with a mk5 :/
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:33 pm
by Alex_6n2
Just got my car back from the garage where Ive had my new gearbox fitted. I fetched it myself from a breakers and it supposed to be from a 1.4 but its got much shorter ratios than my old box
70mph with my original was 3000Rpm but now its 4K
Is this the same as your 1.0ls?
Just want to make sure
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:32 am
by jon_poloV
sound about rite? perhaps you should contact the breaker or at least get the num ber off the box and ask vw,
Jon
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:57 am
by polopowah
i can confirm its very similiar to my rev range now mate
-Ben-
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:36 pm
by Alex_6n2
aye cheers
Its nothing bad, just wanted to know. Kind of annoying it being more noisey with the extra revs at 70 but i never go stupidly fast most of the time so my top end doesnt bother me
The extra acceleration is fun tho
Need some grippier rubber now
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:35 pm
by polopowah
hows the de-chaving coming on mate?
i would catch up with you on msn but i'm hardly on now being back to work and all
-Ben-
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:27 pm
by Alex_6n2
Aye its all sorted now
I wouldve come to the meet and show you lot but I couldnt make it
Shes got standard bumpers all round now, kamei front grille, smooth Gti front bumper with all the GTi lower bits inc fogs, smoked side repeaters, twin exhaust, Brock b2 super cups and a Gti front splitter
Just need some coilovers now and to get my rear bumper smoothed
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:46 pm
by DanDiesel
sounds like the de-chaving has worked a treat!! good to hear
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:49 pm
by Alex_6n2
heh
I did post some pics up a while back, im gna clean the car tomorrow so Ill take some fresh ones and post them up
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:49 pm
by Alex_6n2
the box will do 110 bouncing off the limiter
Thats only as fast as i got my last one but it wasnt in the red
All of the above was done on a race track
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:02 pm
by polopowah
sweet
-Ben-
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:52 pm
by Alex_6n2
Find a big enough hill and you should try it ben
Race track hill ofc
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:37 pm
by JWC
Mine is a 1.4 16V and it revs at just over 3000 at 70. So that seems a bit confusing.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:39 pm
by PhilGTi
Doesnt yours rev to 7k tho?
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:01 pm
by JWC
No. It revs to 6K, then has a software determined 'soft-cut' to prevent it going beyond 6.2k
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:46 pm
by Alex_6n2
JWC wrote:Mine is a 1.4 16V and it revs at just over 3000 at 70. So that seems a bit confusing.
Same Gearbox as my old one then.. which seems right as my 8v doesnt have the muscle to get right to the top with that box