Vacuum Lines....

**Crasher** · 25-10-2016,04:32 PM

Originally Posted by MiniMental

Very expensive for a full set though.

As one of THE biggest distributors of Powerflex, I can do you special forum discount, even if you are an environmental terrorist...

items in store on eBay!

**Gazwould** · 25-10-2016,05:01 PM

Bang for buck and no sword up your jacksie .

http://http://www.strongflexuk.co.uk/volkswagen/passat/b5-96-05-fwd.html?mode=grid

Also consider Audi A6 C5 Allroad upper strut brace or same brackets with a W8 bar .

S4 lower brace .

**MiniMental** · 25-10-2016,05:26 PM

I'll have a think about them, cheer chaps.

I was thinking about braces and anti roll bars. Thought about an S4 arb on the front... would it make a significant difference? I also saw somewhere about a bar that goes inside the torsion beam on the rear to make it stiffer but as yet, cannot seem to source one? For a car it's size, my wagon corners quite well but does roll a bit if you push it.

2005 Passat Variant PD130..

No school like the old school...

**MiniMental** · 06-11-2016,02:59 PM

Hmmm okay, I'm confused.

Just disconnected EGR valve whilst replacing some screws and clips on airbox/ducting.

Ran engine for 15 minutes had a quick run about. No workshop light? Should this be on if EGR is disconnected or does it take a certain circumstance for engine management light come on?

Also, just fitted my mud flaps finally.

hopefully car will last more than 4 miles before sides and back are completely caked in crud again.

2005 Passat Variant PD130..

No school like the old school...

**MiniMental** · 06-11-2016,05:18 PM

Okay fitted "EGR fixing plate"

which took all of 5 minutes. No eml for about 10 miles then came on.... but what a difference!!! Car is so so so much smoother and idles so smooth with NO WHITE SMOKE at all.... Turbo response is a lot lot better and did I mention how much smoother it is? I honestly never thought it would make that much difference.... I wouldn't say it's more "powerful" but feels sharper and torquier...

Cool, will live with eml for now, maybe a black smoke map with EGR "fixing" properties for £45 will cure the issue until next year when I can get it remapped on a Dyno.... What say you!?!?!? Lol

Aidan

2005 Passat Variant PD130..

No school like the old school...

**Crasher** · 07-11-2016,12:02 AM

And you wonder why the proposed legalisation for 2020 is going to be brought forward a year! Did you know the new London mayor wants to slap a "T" Toxicity charge on all non EU4 petrol and EU6 Diesel cars coming inside the M25 ring and that will mean ANY diesel car built before 1 September 2015? When that fills his piggy bank, how long before other, more Norven councils av tut same idea, you are all shooting your self’s int foot!

**MiniMental** · 07-11-2016,12:11 AM

Yeah I get what you mean. But if we all left our cars as they left the factory, that would still happen. It would still be a non EU6 Diesel car. Cost is irrelevant really, it will still be paid and life will go on. Same as when petrol prices shot up nearly ten years ago. Everyone panicked like the world was ending, now it's the norm. I could run my car on used veggie oil or buy an electric car etc. Will it make a difference to the world

? Nah, we will have nuked ourselves into oblivion by the time it made a difference or ran out of oil which renders the whole situation obsolete and irrelevant anyways really. People moan about EGR this dpf that... what about all the oldschool car that dot have them? Should they be scrapped or made to have one installed? Never mind thousands of ships burning thousands of tonnes of diesel a day pumping immense amounts of soot, nox, CO etc into the atmosphere 24/7

Don't hate the player, Hate the game

2005 Passat Variant PD130..

No school like the old school...

**Crasher** · 07-11-2016,12:39 AM

I agree picking on cars is ********, houses (especially those with wood burning stoves) produce far more particulate matter than private diesel vehicles but governments are terrified of picking on industry and picking on peoples homes.....well that has brought governments down, so they pick on the easy target, cars. nearly 30 years ago standards were developed that they thought would keep the particulates under control and it MAY have worked if so many people hadn't taken the systems off and in many cases made the cars worse than they would have been if they had just been as they were 30 years ago. Too late now anyway, the die is cast! I'm all right though, mine and Mrs Crasher's cars are EU4 petrol and so considered ULEZ suitable.

**Gazwould** · 07-11-2016,01:46 AM

" but what a difference!!! Car is so so so much smoother and idles so smooth with NO WHITE SMOKE at all.... Turbo response is a lot lot better and did I mention how much smoother it is? I honestly never thought it would make that much difference.... I wouldn't say it's more "powerful" but feels sharper and torquier..."

Glad you like your egr disable and blank , Aiden , another bonus is your engine oil will stay cleaner for longer without that horrible abrasive soot going in which also has a thickening effect on oil viscosity , another efficiency robber .

Excellent compression combustion for the first time in the awx's life .

**MiniMental** · 14-11-2016,06:34 PM

Blacksmoke map done. Happy. Not often I had esp light on in third before. Now it pulls and pulls and then pulls some more, the pulls and pulls a bit..... I know it's only a basic map mod and very generic. But 4th is now like third was before... I can't even imagine what a 200hp+ map would be like with BV43 etc.... Also can't imagine there would be much point without Quattro/4motion really. Would just start eating tyres above 200? (Not that that will stop me from finding out

)

When I get it on a dyno for a proper map next year I'll ask them to give me a printout of the blacksmoke one so people can actually see the graph... I'm curious myself....

2005 Passat Variant PD130..

No school like the old school...