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Thanks Leon. I managed to get the four bolts holding it to the bulkhead out (after much hassle) and the clip removed earlier, just stuck on the wiggling part. Any directions about that? I assume I have to tilt it to the right for the rear to have enough room to come free?

I cannot for the life of me get the brake servo out! There's no engine in the car and I've moved the M/C out of the way, but I can't figure out how to get it out from behind the shock tower. Any tips on how to get it extracted (pull it up, or out sideways, or down?) would be much appreciated. Cheers, Phil.

Awesome work, absolutely put me down for these. Or perhaps it's worth taking interest in another thread?

Hmm! Not 100%, but I'm fairly certain it's from a Corrado.

Well that's actually pretty relieving! I was worried I'd have to spend ages chasing wires, thanks. Good call with the Tesa tape, it's what my orignal dizzy loom had. Although, this loom was wrapped in what looked to be electrical tape, was there a difference between early and late, or perhaps this has been seen to before?

Hey folks, I'm converting my dizzy to coilpack and decided to re-wrap the new loom in self-amalgamating tape as a matter of course. Whilst rewrapping I found two suspicious looking bits of tape wrapped underneath the main loom tape. Now, the joins in these look to be very clean (as in, pressed into a perfect rectangle with each strand accounted for), but I was wondering if they're original or whether someone has been hacking things around? The first takes a larger black wire and splits it into three smaller wires (two black, one green and black). The second takes two red and blue wires and converts them into two more of different sizes. What do we think? Original for a coilpack loom? If not, what's the best way of connecting them properly? Cheers, Phil.

I was cleaning up the block the other day and I found some pitting on the head mounting face, which bummed me out. It looks like decking the block may be the only way to resolve that. I've chatted with the local engine specialists and they say it can't really be done without pulling the internals, yay. Obviously this means it's sensible to refresh those parts whilst they're out, too. So, in the interest of actually driving the damn thing before the decade is out, I, erm, splurged on a new-old engine to bung straight in. This gives me a chance to go a bit more in depth with the engine rebuild and I should have probably just done this from the start. Ho hum. I also thought it was prudent to get another gearbox as mine graunches going into second. I'm also nabbing a new loom, coilpack and ECU to go with the new motor to get rid of my distributer. Looking forward to a trip up to Derby to collect the whole lot on Saturday morning!

Hi Dave, would you be willing to do both windows for £40? Will be up this weekend for collection.

Hahah, that was a good laugh. Chufties all round with that sale price!

Very cool!

Hey chaps, I've just acquired what I though was the right part, but it has an A suffix, i.e. 1H0 919 506 A Any idea if this is correct for an early Corrado VR6 manual without A/C?

I drove a 997 C2S on the way to Le Mans. It was surprisingly docile, but given the Corrado is so low and they both have sedate German interiors, there's not a night and day difference in terms of occasion. A+ cupholder mechanism, would use again. Obviously it's in a totally different performance league, but possibly not any more fun on British B road. Now is a really good time to buy a 997 though, because PDK, the 991 is huge and now they've announced everything will have turbos and they're starting to creep up in value. A good 997.1 C2S right now is around £28-30k. The real answer is to have a project Corrado, weekend Porker; oh yeah, and a daily ;)

Chop in the Jazz for something fun (cough, GTI) and boost the Corrado! I wouldn't want to (literally) be the only Corrado owner in the village ;)

Love the ZW1s!

Bringing this back from the dead! Photo by a friend of mine at Silverstone Sunday Service earlier in the year.

Do you still have: The fan controller, the OSF metal bracket for the bumper and an ABS pump? Also out of interest how much would the all the Diavia gubbins and manual be? Cheers, Phil.

Thanks dude! Nabbed one from Amazon and got it set up perfectly. :cheers:

I decided to gently ease myself back into the joys of Corrado ownership. Cover swept back for the first time in a few weeks. Some simple tarting up with new alarm stickers and period correct Euro 96 sticker which I unearthed, still affixed to a can of Castrol, from my folks' garage! We're beginning to gather pace again. Cue trip to a local, and I mean local, engine shop to get my head skimmed and new valve guides & seals installed. It's essentially three very helpful men in a shed with some old Landies, Type 2s, Renault 4s and a Rolls scattered around them, but inside is crammed with lathes, mills and all manner of other machinery and tools. I'm not entirely happy that the corrosion hasn't been welded up, but it's saved me money and they've made sure all the bits that need isolating are sorted. When I suggested lightening the flywheel to the chaps at Meridian, they recommended I take a trip to Mass Racing to get it lightened and balanced. I didn't want to take pictures inside, but it's like an Aladdin's cave of classic race engines. They do a lot of historic builds, particularly V8s and in the proprietor's words "[we do] everything up to the flywheel, the rest is boring"! Some shiny bits and tools arrive. Checked with GSF to make sure it was a Reinz gasket set. Metal impeller pump from Febi! All OEM timing chain parts, aside from the blasted top chain, which is now out of manufacture. I think I may have gotten the last one of a couple of tensioners, too. Sorry about that :smug: Off came the rest of the front, visit to a sandblaster/powdercoater immanent. Now time to get this sucker out and on to the engine stand. Turns out it's not entirely easy on your own. Et voila! Finally, cue helpful landlord with JCB lifter to shove it in the barn. So, that's where I'm up to now. I had a quick go with the angle grinder yesterday and managed to remove quite a bit of rust without hacking my hands off. Hopefully now I've got the engine somewhere dry, I can really get stuck in and start the reassembly within the next week or two.

At this point we're about in the middle of summer, so cue some faffing about, visiting friends, holiday, a trip to Le Mans and generally ignoring the car for a couple of months. The car was ideally meant to be ready for the trip, but it wasn't too bad as we got to take a friends Beetle down instead. In comparison to last year's trip, sans A/C, it was all far too civilised. The GTI holding up nicely after covering 12k since February, eek!

Well, I finally uploaded all the pictures of the process so far. Naturally, the original scope of the work quickly escalated, so I decided to whip the whole lot out to give me the access I need to do a more thorough refurbishment and give some parts a lick of paint. I should really have just done this from the beginning! It started innocuously enough. Catch can should stop this happening again. "Lowered" the gearbox in a semi-controller manner and started tarting it up Next up was getting the head off, which is was in a very sorry state, look at that pitting! Pretty obvious the source of the headgasket leak. Methinks a previous owner didn't think any anti-corrosion was necessary. Crackpipe then lived up to its name, fortunately I'd had the foresight to order a shiny Gruvenparts piece to replace it. Since I was getting some parts brought back from the US, why not go whole hog and get ARP headstuds, too? This was also the point at which I thought it'd be for the best to really clean up the bottom end.

Thanks for the recommendation. Definitely! Will ping you a PM. I'd suggest going for a drive, but this happened yesterday...

Ah ha! I keep seeing your car out and about in Bottisham (where I live) and just happened across this thread. Certainly looks ultra clean whenever I see it, congrats on the MOT. Any recommendations on a local place? I've not been around these parts for too long.

Awesome! Going to be tackling this myself ASAP, thanks for documenting.

Looks great, your changes already make a huge difference. Looking forward to seeing future updates.

Hey folks, I was wondering if you could recommend a good engine stand and supplier, for working on the VR6? Any special brackets, etc. I'd need? I've also borrowed a friends engine hoist, but it doesn't have a sling/adaptor with it. Is there one you'd recommend, bearing in mind I've already taken the head off? Cheers, Phil.