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well I give up...he he now put her up for sale in piston heads etc and has said he wants a B5 Audi A4 for some reason...says he fallen out of love with the car, so I give up...

NFBR - I know the best would be to replace it, but its just been replaced and untill my brothers comp comes through from his crash back in Feb (not his fault... old guy passed out, hit him head on and smashed one ankle, fractured his heal, and his rist plus many other cuts, briuses and marks...ended up with 2 plates, 2 screws and about 10 pins to put his ankle back together) funds are tight for him, cleaning should prolong it untill the issue is fixed and then we will fit another new one. Mike_M - the valve will increase flow a little... but it wont be smooth flow, so it wont really be adding any power the party as it were.. Whinney - The ecu cant be mapped via the port is what I have been toid UNLESS it is a bosch ECU, which this one isn't, I have been told the ecu could opened and old skool chiiped as it were, but thats a lot of hassle and cost for bugger all gain. when the EGR is clogging it is dragging the idle down and causing lumpy running, I know its the egr as 1) the ecu has flagged the fault once, and 2) when its unplugged it clears up, but unplugging is not the answer) (I wont start on power runs on dynos, all I say is dont count your horses... I could find you a load or lose you a load depending how cleaver the dyno is (a proper dyno that coasts down to work out the losses is on the 6 figures and need alot of investment as these are what i see at the vehicle manufactures... but anyways) Back on track........do we recon then that getting the rear probe back in and spaced out of the gas stream will help clear things up so to speak.

I hate to tell you this, but the valve is there for drive by noise reasons...(my area of work... vehicle homogation testing) that valve will be there so for the noise approval the drive by figure is less that 74db(A) but when giving it the beans you want a bit of exhust noise to enhance the experiance... best way is a valve that opens. lots and lots of cars have... astons have a valve thats opened by a relay above x rpm in gear at x speed and x throttle position,... if you by pass the relay you get a better bark at all rpms (but it does put the emissions light on as I found out when I had one for testing lol)

the ecu cant be remapped, already looked into that. I will hassle him to get the second probe put back in and see how it goes... ill clean the pre cat one up too for good measure. hopefully this will sort the issues out and once again I will be proved right (I said from the day he fitted it to get the post cat probe put back in..)

THANKYOU!!! maybe now my brother will be belive me! he was on about getting rid of Rosie as she isnt running right (if he does I am having her back off him!) I have said that the rear probe is used to help control the trim but he didnt belive me (Eddie over on club gti also said this!) the post cat probe is also used to make sure the cat is working (which it isnt as its been decatted... but I have seen in america they space the probe out of the exhaust gas stream with ainti fueling spark plug spacers and this seems to allow the probe to sniff enough so it thinks the cats there! (I did suggest the best option was the 200 cel race cat that ashely sell that way he is fully road legal!) (and for exhausts on NA cars you need to tune the exhaust so the puleses help with scavanging, this will help draw the burnt gasses out and suck the fresh charge in... but this links in with cam profile, duration, overlap, manifold header lengths and pipe sizing (too big a pipe and the gasses slow down too quick losing power.... too small and you have too much of a restriction...but this is well above what most folks on here are doing to tune their cars..) has anyone else had any problems when fitting the ashley manifold? (the car did have the raceland manifold on it when I brought the car for the wife a few years back, but the last owner just left the lambda probe unplugged as it was under the sump on that manifoild where all 4 pipes joined together, and left the rear probe out as it was decatted... I extended the lambda probe wires and had the cat put back in and hooked both probes up, the car went OK but would flag up that the probe was taking too long to respond (which I could have poss fixed by heat wrapping the manifold... how ever I sold the manifold and put the OE back on, but by that time the egr was already coked up..)

My brothers fitted a ashley 4 branch manifold to his 2002 arosa sport, before it was fitted the old EGR valve was clogging up and causing issues (but it wasnt known that it was the EGR valve untill just before the manfold was swapped) the new egr was fitted and all seemed well, then he fitted the ashely 4 branch, and the problems started again.... he has fitted the decat pipe and left the post cat lambda unplugged, which isn't helping things, and within the last 2/3 weeks and prob 500 miles the new EGR has become clogged and stuck again.. I have cleaned it out and got it working but it isn't ideal. does anyone else have any problems when running the 4 branch? what have you all done with regards to the post cat probe? are other running a race cat?? any egr clogging issues? any advice or help would be apprecaited as it is starting to pee me off now! cheers Karl.

which EGR valve is fitted? any pics? and do you have leccy windows? if so how much for the drivers side switch (assuming its working?) I can collect as I work just outside nuneaton, ta Karl.

Im after a working EGR valve from a 1.4 16v (drive by wire model) and I also need a drivers side electric window switch, and a passenger side stubby mirror cover in reflex silver, if anyone can sort me out le me know ta Karl.

Ad never showed up to have a look even after sounding really positive... but you snooze you lose! deposit taken this morning.

open to sensible offers

ebay classfied ad up now - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180647649083 dontbe try try me.

the "jagged" bits is the oe under seal on the sill flange, all cars have it, you just notice it more on a silver one, you could smooth it right down if you so wished.

Arosa sport? http://forums.clublupo.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=77042 price is flexiable..

if your willing to travel come and have a look at ours...im sure we can do a deal, we are only 2 or so hours from you in Nottingham. its up for £3500 ono BUT if your looking for it cheaper im sure we can work something out as im willing to let it got for less with just the winter alloys and with out the hands free kit etc.

There will be a classified Ad going on ebay soon, so if your interested get in quick, feel free to come and have a look. my numbers 07920506220 also we would consider a p/x or swap for a 9N tdi (1.4 or 1.9)

would you consider travel? As the guy who brought my A4 got a cheap flight from aberdeen to east mids to collect the car

if your willinb to travel a little check my partners arosa in the for sale forum, very low millage and wants for nothing

if you can get a bit closer to 3k im sure we can do a deal on my partners mk2 arosa sport with only43k on the clock..check the ad in the forsale section

in reply to people who have asked, yes the pic above of the door card does have the handle on now etc, that was only when we offered it up. heres some better pics: Roof lining Millage if any one wants to come and see it at any time just drop me a pm or an email to beastieboys1981[at]hotmail.com and I will gladly give you my phone number and arrange something. cheers Karl.

no worries, hopefully it will go to a good home soon as I know Mels very sad to see it go but needs must

nope sorry, G60s are too heavy, not enough cooling and wont clear the big brakes either (the mk2s not exactly stock...)

The comps will either go with the car, or if some one wants Rosie with out them they will go on my mk2 sorry. tyres are all 195 45 R15s. The Yokos are hardly worn still got a good 6mm+ left as they car does very little millage most of the week, it has a run once a week or so to my work which is a 70 mile round trip. She also has a Parrot 3200LS colour screen hands free kit fitted, which I will let go with the car for the right price, and if it is removed it wont leave any screw holes etc so don't worry about that. The suspesnion was set up by NOttingham Alignmemt centre, hence why it handles like on rails!

My partner has put hers up for sale, veerry low miles! http://forums.clublupo.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=77042

The wife to be has put her Arosa up for sale, very very low miles! http://forums.clublupo.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=77042

Make: Seat Model: Arosa mk2 Sport (100bhp 1.4 16v) Year/Reg: 2002 (52 plate) Mileage: 43300 (Yes that is all!!) MOT: Oct 2011 Tax: April 2011 (but will add more if buyer wants) Good points: Super low millage, genuine 43k!! full service history, with all genuine parts, inc new discs and pads all round last spring and done about 4K since then! Lowered on coil overs, TA technics fronts with spax rear adjustable dampers, handles like its on rails! (it better than my mk2 track car!!) brilliant condition inside and out, door cards and roof lining have been recovered in a floral flocked pattern (see pics). it comes with a cat back exhaust system that looks like the GTI lupo ones, it has a bit of a bark but not over loud at all. I also have a BMC CDA to go with the car (currently runing the oe air box with a KN filter). The car is sat on Compomotive MOs with a set of very good Yoko A spec tyres, and I also have the winter Team dynamics Imolas. The car will be sold on the Imolas unless you want to pay the extra for the comps, in which case you have both sets of wheels. There is also a set of pop outs, a complete set with rubbers etc, all ready to go on and again these will be suppied with the car (I was planning on having them fitted when the weather got hotter) oe floor mats, Other plus points are OE CD player, electric windows, remote central locking, electric wing mirrors that are headted, lupo rear lights (wired up correctly)I also have the rear wiper motor and arm etc if you wanted to put that back on. Bad points: couple of stone chips, as you would expect from a 8 year old car, and windcreen had a small chip behind the rear view mirror which has been filed and repaired. other than that I can't think of anything. flew through its last MOT as you would expect. Location: outskirts of Nottingham, 10 mins from junc 25 of the M1 Pictures: Interior: (The comps are grey one now, the white ones were sold with my old mk1) (The RH cups have been sold now Ill get a pic of it on the winters) I will get some more pics in the next few days as the wife to be hasn't put many on line. Price: £3200 with just the winter alloys or £3500 with the comps and the winter alloys. Contact details: email beastieboys1981@hotmail.com, or drop me a PM (mobile etc can have had by dropping me a PM) Cheers Karl