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The Rallye arbs are still available at the VW dealer p/n 357 511 409D
if you have any difficulty with your local dealer please contact me as I can get one for you.Q) Quote “Don’t suppose you know if the Powerflex kit for the golf rallye will fit the syncro?”
A) It will do apart from the anti roll bar bushes which will be to large a diameter.
I have contacted my local VW dealer and I just got this back from him
191 803 205C floorpan € 240,-
191 803 206A floorpan € 240,-
191 803 225 siderail € 22,-
191 803 206 siderail € 22,-Both left & right hand side floor pans are available & the prices are the cost in euros at the dealers without onward shipping to your adress
email with your landline phone nr if you need them
You may also find this of interest,
http://www.vwsyncro.co.uk/data/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1092Thats my set up as well, and it works very well with the stiffer springs, btw the rear anti roll bar is available from VW in three flavours, thats standard at 18.5mm, Rallye/Passat Syncro at 20mm and a whopping 25mm diameter bar for the Passat Syncro with self levelling rear suspension,
The most popular option is leaving the front bar standard and fitting the 20mm rear bar, this gets rid of nearly all the understeer and gives nice almost neutral handling! this by the way is a direct swap, you just change the bar and its 4 mounting rubbers, to fit the 25mm bar you need to weld bigger bracket holders to the rear axle carrier.http://www.vwsyncro.co.uk/data/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=459
Get the stainless body ones, they dont seize up as fast as you can see from the photo of the DIN testing
Patch it!
btw just out of interest where is the rot in the b/head?
apart from the lower corners the most common place seems to be right in the centre behind the exhaust manifold downpipe, why it should rot there as opposed to anywhere else I dont know, Possibly the exhaust heat? but I have seen three of them that had rotted through in just this position (including my own), as a temporary repair I just folded and stuck a piece of alluminium track plate over the hole using silicon! it actually looks as though it is a VW fitted heatshield, The motor needs to be out to give access for welding on the outside and I would remove also the plastic dash/heater assembly on the inside for as well for safetys sake,
I mean we wouldnt want an under dash fire would we!
not like our local VW garage foreman who was welding a plate under the wing on his own camper van and set fire to his wiring harness, fuse box and various plastic interior trim panels, oops, lucky it wasn’t a customers car eh?Yes you can get them from VW but they are not cheap at about 100 pounds a side! are they available in the uk as pattern parts? that would be a whole lot cheaper.
Ok, after reading your post again, the only extra things you will definitely need are a VR6 Syncro gearbox and transfer box as well as a pair of Rallye drive shafts, optional for the driveline would be a Rallye propshaft and viscous coupling, in my opinion this is a necessity with a VR6 Syncro conversion due to the extra torque produced by the 6 cylinder motor, which will shred the non Rallye donuts in very short order , the rear diff and driveshafts are identical for all models,
For the front brakes you can transfer the complete VR6 hubs (5 stud) and brakes,while at the rear you will need a pair of Syncro Caliper carriers to clear the rear 239mm discs, the smaller brakes wont fit over the drive shafts, you can press standard front 5 stud hubs into the rear swing arms to give you 5 stud hubs all round, you will also need to fit a golf2 16v GTI master cylinder to prevent excessive pedal travel.
The VR6 front suspension is a direct swap into the Golf2
for the rear you will need cut down Passat syncro or VR6 Syncro springs as the standard Syncro springs are not strong enough,
I think the engine mounts may need fiddling with but Im not sure, mind you there are enough people on here who will know though!Well stopping the on site e-mails didn’t stop the spam (I just got another 4 or 5)so I may as well open my e-mail window again.
When I opened my mail this morning I had 19 spam emails all sent within 5 hours and all unfortunately sent through our Syncro.co.uk site mailing list, so I am deleting all new members who have never posted and/or only been on site once and been inactive for over 3 months, also I have stopped members from emailing me direct through the site.
Here is the report on one of the the latest prospective spammers, oops I mean members, hang on no I dont I mean SPAMMERS!
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=221.10.55.227
From China this time, makes a change from Russia I suppose, hopefully we are catching most of them,
btw I went through the members list last night and deleted a few suspicious looking IP adresses or home pages, anything with a 217 (Russia) and now a 221 (China) adress gets fully checked out at the http://www.dnsstuff.com website.can we not make a new post of membership secretary?
a post whose sole responsibility would be to vet new members, any thoughts? and please dont say ‘well you are doing such a good job at it so why do we need a change etc’ [
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