Today me and a mate attempted to sort out a boost leak coming from between the SMIC and the pancake pipe. There is a bit of pipe inbetween the two and a green seal had broke and it had been forced apart slightly. We took it all off, cleaned it up and replaced the seal which seemed to fix the problem. Went for a quick drive and could still hear the leak. Upon further investigation we discovered it is leak from the connection at the top of the SMIC as well. Curse of the crappy VW clip system once again!! So the plan now is to replace the crappy VW pipes and clips from EGR to the top of the SMIC with silicon hose and a new alloy pipe. That should shouls sort out that little problem.
Here is a pic of the 1st offending pipe:
After that my mate said he had an improved short shift which I could put on the car and see how I get on. This one reduces the throw between gears even more and made the gear box feel solid and tight.
The two shifts can be seen in the pic below. You can notice the difference in the pin location on them:
My mate has a garage full of bits and decided he didn't like my beige rear view mirror so hunted around for a spare black one he had and swapped them over for me. Looks much better!!
And finally here are a couple of pics of our 2 MK4's:
