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I say follow the advice in the Dubforce thread; that is, contact Autoglass (or whoever it was) and quote the part number that you see given in that thread (I have actually posted the part number myself in that thread). Autoglass will then want something in the order of £500 including fitting, though there is discount for AA membership. Your best bet is to claim through insurance. My personal problem is that I need a new bonded one for my Syncro but it’s a bare shell at the moment without MOT. However, the car does not need MOT to have insurance. So if you’re in a similar situation as myself, you can still get it insured and then claim through the insurance, and have it fitted ready for the MOT.
Trev
I still have the same components available for sale (MK3 VR6 transfer unit, rear VC and differential).
Trev
I think I might have said this once before, but I find it ever so odd that another G60 Syncro should have a number plate ending “NRD” just like mine does.
Thanks Pascal, you’re very helpful.
Sadly I cannot look at this engine again until next weekend now, so I shall take some more pictures then and try out some of your suggestions.
The tensioner and cambelt are brand new, but they have been sitting on the engine for about two years.
Hmmm… you meantion ‘squealing’… but actually it isn’t really making a squeal noise, but it’s actually like a ‘whop… whop… whop…’ noise. Can you hear this?
Trev
Thank you taking a listen and for your suggestion. I do believe that the cambelt is clear of the plate, but I shall certainly check again. Though when I’ve had the cambelt touch that plate in the past, the noise has never been a cyclic noise, like this one.
True. The problem for me though is that it’s a 16V G60 and I wanted to retain the G60 TB with its recirculation port.
Excellent thread. I’ve kept meaning to read through it for quite some time and, with some time to kill at work(!), finally I have.
With regards to tight downpipe fitment issues on the RHD Syncro, I count myself so lucky for the fact that my Syncro is LHD, and I actually like it being LHD. It’s a good thing because eventually I’ll be putting a 16V into mine. Good work on how you’ve modified the tunnel.
I’m a little bit sceptical about the idea of using the G60 injectors and expecting the lambda correction on the Bosch ECU to compensate properly. My understanding is that lambda correction can only have a certain amount of influence on the injector pulse width and ultimately AFR. If you change a large factor in the system, such as injector capacity, can you expect lambda control to fully compensate? I guess though you’ll solve this though by running a new map to suit the injectors. As ChrisS already said in a previous post, lambda correction only provides minor tweaking to achieve the optimum AFR.
Out of interest – what’s the reason for not running the standard management on this engine? Sorry for asking this daft question but I don’t know much about the plans with the engine [
]I also read on one of the pages about the possible need for a throttle position potentiometer. I’m not sure if you’ve solved this or not now but if you do need a proper TPS (a potentiometer, as opposed to switches) I devised a nice way to fit one onto a G60 TB, which may be a useful method for you to use on your TB perhaps.
Pictures here:
http://www.introspectiv.eclipse.co.uk/16vg60/g60_tb_tps%20001.jpg
http://www.introspectiv.eclipse.co.uk/16vg60/g60_tb_tps%20002.jpg
http://www.introspectiv.eclipse.co.uk/16vg60/g60_tb_tps%20003.jpgI needed to do this for MegaSquirt on my 16V G60.
May or may not be of any use but hopefully will be to someone out there [
]The TPS is off some old Ford. Note that there is no play in the link mechanism, because the TPS itself is furtunately sprung-loaded.
I’ve also had a VR6 Syncro transfer unit and rear differential for sale for a long time, but the jaw-dropping sheer number of timewasters I’ve had over these has meant I just don’t bother advertising them anymore.
If I visit the lockup tomorrow I’ll get a picture of the backbox for you. If you like the look of it, I could arrange for ParcelForce or someone to collect it. It’d be handy to get rid of it because I need the room.
Trev
I’ve got an old but probably quite serviceable backbox that came from a standard UK-specification Syncro that I broke up a while ago.
I am located in Wantage, Oxfordshire (OX12). I am not available at home until the new year. But I am travelling up towards Coventry, then to Staffordshire, and then onto North Wales tomorrow if that is any help at all.
Trev
