Author Topic: Vr6 motor from carado into mk3 vr6?  (Read 2211 times)

Offline leigh_harty

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Re: Vr6 motor from carado into mk3 vr6?
« Reply #10 on: 24 August 2012, 16:23 »
Thought so it's like a spacer plate then similar to when you reduce the compression when you turbo a vr?

Yes but not as much as a spacer plate
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Re: Vr6 motor from carado into mk3 vr6?
« Reply #11 on: 24 August 2012, 20:18 »
Mk4 US spec only head gasket was for a VR6 12v not the 24v as we got in the UK, and the head gasket is thinner, upping the CR by 0.5 points.

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Re: Vr6 motor from carado into mk3 vr6?
« Reply #12 on: 25 August 2012, 09:48 »
Mk4 US spec only head gasket was for a VR6 12v not the 24v as we got in the UK, and the head gasket is thinner, upping the CR by 0.5 points.

Hence why ecp won't bloody sell them :angry:

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