davidwort

checked with the old guy today, John Spademan Motors charge £25 for 4 wheel laser alignment and I can set the camber with you before you get that done. welcome to pop over any time and see the old banger :) weekends prob best oh, I've got all the correct geometry settings from the Bentley manual too, they're kicking about on the forum somewhere too I'm sure.

Jason, I can check the camber for you anytime, have a home made setup that gets it spot on (on my 40mm lowered valver). If you want the toe and tracking checked and adjusted I'll ask my dad what they'd charge in Stony, they have a basic 4 wheel tester (well strictly 2 wheel as the corrado rear can't be adjusted) and providing your track rod adjusters aren't siezed it shouldn't be more than 30 mins labour I'd have thought. I've done my valver on this many-a-time and it drives spot on after we've set it up. David.

This problem usually occurs when the motor commutators are worn, so changing the brush pack doesn't always help. Remove the brush pack and have a look at the commutator segments, brass bit where the brushes make contact, you can sometimes revive them by sanding them flat with some coarse then fine wet and dry, they get quite grooved over the years and should be smooth to form a flat contact surface with the carbon brush.

or a few pence cheaper from toolstation and it's fairly light too, must be some kind of aluminium alloy and it works very well too

I dynamat/brown breaded the whole of the inside of the doors (inside face of outside skin) and that takes a lot of road noise away, basic doors only have one small pad to cut down the worst of resonation from the factory, you can also do inside the rear side panels. Makes the doors feel much more solid and does cut down road noise a fair bit. under the floor, back seat and rear floor I put an extra layer of dense felt (like the standard corrado sound absorbing under carpet felt, but without the bitumen layer which is heavy - I ripped it from old scrapped cars) and this made a big difference to the noise my stainless exhaust system makes, don't put felt anywhere where it can get wet obviously, like inside the doors, but it's great everywhere else, you're limitied a bit to how thick you can get it under the standard carpets though! The dynamat type stuff is really best at stopping resonation on flat bare panels like inside doors, felt is better for sound absorbsion, look under the dash of a corrado and you'll see VW put a big thick felt pad under there to quieten the cabin from the engine, as well as plenty under the carpets.

had those on the golf from new, they are low rolling resistance tyres and from my experience as well are low grip tyres :) fecking aweful on round abouts etc, only positive was they were fairly quiet in a straight line.

just make sure your handle pops back in place when you get in the car, yesterday I drove out of a parking space and my door gently swung open :shock: fortunately I caught it and nothing was in the way, but if I hadn't turned left out of the parking space it could have done it at the first left road junction

do the decent thing and put the VW engine back in a VW, VRS engine into the 8v, it's the only thing that makes sense :)

does sound like the amp in the base is shot, they provide very good reception when working so I'd look for a new one, there are some very good pattern bases around for less than 15 quid (that include amps) and as the same basic aerial is used on a wide range of manufacturers cars you should be able to find a cheaper new alternative to VW. Just vmake sure you get one with the correct power connection lead, there's an early and late type.

ah, one of the few benefits of having a late corrado on standard, tractor height suspension :)

you should be able to pick up a new bosch sensor for somewhere between 35-50 quid, and if the old one's got over 100K on it I doubt whether it's ever going to be revived once the metals inside it are contaminated. Best thing to do is take it to an MOT tester and get them to run the MOT emissions test, both emissions and lambda value will be given and if the lambda wavers about, even if the emissions are at a level that would pass an MOT, I doubt whether anything other than a new sensor will cure it.

new 195 uniroyal 'wet' tyres on mine and it's been very good, only time I've really lost grip is over enthusiastic pulling out of junctions, but to be fair most FWD cars are fairly good in the snow unless they have wide low profile tyres on for the weight of car, saw a fair few BM's and mercs struggling today and my boss who has a new A6 TDI hire car (which should be better with FWD) struggled to get off his drive then got totally stuck just spinning on the spot, traction control on or off :lol:

how about letting 1/3 of the pressure out of your rgular tyres, should provide slightly more grip, not suggesting you do 80 on the M-way with less than 20psi in them, but to get out of trouble or on snowy roads? any thoughts?

Err, surely not? I think finding and then importing one will be much more of a hassle. Henny has one. http://www.the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31059&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 no, you just cut a hole in the tailgate and fit the VW light, that's all Karmann did,it's a pretty nasty afterthought IMO doesn't look great in the flesh I just got one of these off e-bay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0534654388 for 6 quid delivered it's pretty neat, won't be using it's legs to stick to the window though, just planning on using the LED array in the tailgate top trim like kev's done.

yep I had one of those on my 8v when I bought it, the ones from AVS were fine though, only about 7 quid each IIRC

not at all, plenty of 9A 2L cars have had a KR inlet cam added in place of the flat 9A one (exhaust cams are the same) and it gives good results, a 9A head is very similar to a KR one, that will make next to no difference.

nearest to what you are after is in the 16v section of Club GTI, KR head and cams on an ABF bottom end and an ABF head and cams on an ABF block, don't think there's a lot in it and any difference is probably down to the ABF head and valves rather than the cams.

one of my favourite alternative desriptions for a gearbox,'torque multiplier' a revvy engine with the right gearing can transform a car, often really overlooked in road tuning, of course the other side to this is the comparison of torque figures from rolling roads for different cars, most are run in 4th gear as that gives similar ratios generally, but I've not seen a rolling road that allows for actual gearing ratios to be added to even out results? I guess it's just not normally needed when tuning one vehicle? I'm sure an R32 would still eat a 215bhp vr6 even if it is a fair bit heavier, 24 valve engine and a six speed box, not to mention the torque spread from variable valve timing and inlet. Oh, and there's two types of tuning company, ones that trade on quoted BHP figures and those that build a reputation from satisfied customers :)

:lol: VW wiring doesn't get much above that voltage to the lights anyway, don't all corrado's run on dim-dip and dim-main beam all the time anyway!

I reckon that's too cold for efficient running, what was your water temp?, the head could be too cold to make full working temp and the car will be possibly be running on warm up range of mapping. Can you not partially cover the oil cooler fins for the winter, cardboard etc? I've said this before, on 8v GTI engines I remember my dad saying that full engine dyno tests (engine out of car on a controlled test rig) they did, showed those engines developed maximum power with the oil temp at 106 degrees, on mobil 1 I believe.

I'll get my coat... :lol: yeah thought I'd really killed that line of discussion, I know it was crap but I was sooo bored at work, it's either that or I buy more crap from Amazon I don't need.

I've got two, a 20 year old and a 16 year old, the 16 year old has had most attention lately, after a bit of work recently she blows on all speeds now.

it's low and you drive too close to the car in front :)

any cable change setup will do, mk3 golf GTI/VR is basically the same as Corrado, and a mk4 golf setup could be used (and is a better design, need matching box tower) most options will require some modification to fit at gearlever end, especially mk4 setup, but all doable, think you'll find a corrado gearlever is too short for a golf/jetta for a start anyway

narrow tyres and a bit less tyre pressure makes a big difference, I remember driving about in an old mk2 polo in the snow all around the country lanes near me, only time we got stuck was when the snow compacted under the front and lifted both front wheels off the ground :lol: can't beat 145's on a 13" rim :lol: add the extra traction from a purpose designed winter/snow tyre and I can see why you're laughing watching 4x4's crabbing sideways up the gentle hill past our nearby school is well funny, they've got such fine tread road tyres on, the 4 wheel drive is next to useless