davidwort

8v golf is a lot lighter than a corrado, by about 200kg, roughly 20% , plus the close ratio boxes on most of the GTI's are pretty spot on for the engine, the bigger heavier VW's of the day were geared more for autobahn driving and suffer through the gears a bit. My mk1 5 speed GTI was red lining by 115mph :) but it had a great close-ratio box. 1.8 16v engine is actually just as torquey through the rev range as the 8v and peaks about 10% higher. David.

Pain in the arse aren't they? Took about a week to get mine just right, seems to be the cams being pushed round by the valve gear when you slacken the belt that makes things tricky, you think you've got it right, then run the engine and it's tension changes. I found marking the centre of the tensionner against is outer part and moving it round a tiny bit at a time was the best way. David.

just for info this part number: 6K2422061B is also the part for Polo's from 97-2000 using the sports running gear (16v etc???) Caddys from 96-03 use 6K2422061C which although identical in appearance may have a different ratio lock to lock.

I find it quite refreshing to see a good condition standard car, whatever the engine, the C should always have been a bit lower than the factory made them, particularly the VR6's, so I consider 40mm lower to be 'standard'. There's few enough C's left on the road, and even fewer that are in good nick or haven't been 'MAXed' :(

:oops: apologies, the abs master cylinder is 358 611 019D and 23mm. It should be the same as an abs equipped golf, passat or vento of the same year though.

VW part number 357 611 019B 22mm master cylinder, same for all Corrado's, also fitted to mk3 golfs including mk3 16v. David.

take the hub off the car, buy a bearing from GSF etc. and then take it to a garage or machine shop with a press, bung them a few quid to press the old one off and the new one on, much easier than struggling yourself only to end up damaging the new bearing. David.

Whatever you do, make sure you fit a VAG metal headgasket, not a cheap pattern part that comes in some 2.0L headsets, only about 20 quid when I bought mine from VW. Your head should be checked for warping and only skimmed if necessary, there's not much to metal to play with on a 16v head. Porting and gas-flowing should ideally be done with the manifolds and can get you from 10-20bhp if done properly, if you do have that done then at least ditch the 2.0 inlet cam in favour of a mk3 16v or 1.8 16v (KR) inlet cam or you won't get the benetfits of the head-work. David.

As Geo said, a toledo UJ will do the job apparently, if you can't get hold of a later style 22 spline Corrado one, toledo's can be newer too, up to the mk4 golf based ones I guess, 1997?. I've found a 1995 50,000 mile Ibiza rack, but I'm still looking for a 2001 donor car ideally. David.

must be a lot of clear roads up around manchester :)

yeah, fine, the bottom end can take it, but KR or ABF inlet cams peak at around 6,000rpm so if you want to shift the power band up towards 7,500 you'll be looking at higher lift shricks or something, especially if you want to get the most from a P&P head. I have a brand new 6A bottom end, it came straight from the factory and is easily as smooth as my 'balanced' 2L bored KR short engine I had from TSR. It does pull strongly to the red line on KR cams with a 2L block and flowed head though, 176bhp and 154lb/ft at the last count, for a daily driver I wouldn't want to lose any bottom end torque with higher lift cams. David.

I've run mine on a mixture of LHM and Febi green fluid fron GSF for years with no problem for pump or rack, 70,000 miles and 10 years, car now has 145,000 on it, still original rack (bit of play) and no leaks, pump relief valve stuck years back so I got a new pump from GSF, but that was on the original VAG fill from the factory, nothing to do with putting green fluid in. David.

The sleeping policemen?

If you go to GSF it's the green stuff sold in half litre bottles, the ones I got were branded 'Febi' Just ask for PS fluid for a 1990 golf 2 if they can't decide what you should put in the corrado. If you go to Halfords etc, again it's the green stuff, same as Citroen Hydraulic suspension fluid (Castrol LHM is one brand) Halfords have an application chart on the shelf nr the fluids usually, that covers the golf 2 and corrado 16v. David.

audi 6A block from chassis no 8C-N 160 000 use ABF cams, in practice, very few I'd have thought, most will be just like the 9A, except the sump and oil pickup pipe of course.

I started to give up at the point a few years back when some of the members of the CCGB insisted that the focus had to remain on the mag and the events and not the web, lots of waffly reasons including liability for things people say on the web, blah, blah... But essentially they were saying not everyone has a PC and an internet connection, then I really started to lose interest, why can't people drive their Corrados to the local library FFS? The money, bureaucracy and general lack of communication was just so depressing. I'm not saying I contributed as much as I could have, really just attending meetings and paying my subs, but then the 'core' was a bit cliquey anyway. Finally, I think most club members use the C Forum here now anyway making the club pretty much obsolete in most ways. It's nice to have things in print, like RR days and other meets, but then the club hasn't exactly excelled at doing that either. David.

They're all the same exhaust cams (KR,9A, 6A) until you get to the very last of the 6A's and into the ACE audi 16v blocks, where they change over to the exhaust cam from the ABF mk3 16v block. David.

Well that explains the lack of a part number for the Corrado then. But it's all corrado's and not just the plus axle, as the early 16v corrado subframe definitely has the horse-shoe. David.

yep, that's the golf 2 part number 191 407 190 A, but it's not listed as a part for the Corrado on ETKA, only for the golf, although the Corrado diagram does show the part as they use the generic diagram for both. They never came with my new bushes and the original vag ones on the car didn't have them in, I had the car for 10 years and believe me, they were the original bushes! It's also interesting that polos, passats etc from around the same date onwards don't even have a part like that at all in their diagrams. On the suspension/steering noise issues, I totally agree that when cars have been lowered and fitted with a variety of new parts, some OEM, some pattern and some uprated it's likely that strange noises and problems will occur. I find it amazing that some cars handle well at all, as even with a limited drop on eibachs my car sits with the wishbones level, rather than pointing down as the design intended. Slam a Corrado on ride-height coilovers and your wishbones will be pointing skyward. David.

sounds like worn brushes (voltage reg/brush pack), but it could be diodes on the way out, if you don't get close to 14V across the battery with the engine running a diode may have gone down, in which case you'll need a new unit. BTW, I got quoted 60 quid once by VAG through VW Parts club for a 65amp bosch unit :shock:

I wonder if that's before or after they've realised how long they'll struggle to get the siezed track rods adjusted, they'll probaly add another 2 hrs labour to your bill then.

not strictly a mod, but a replacement windscreen from Auto-Windscreens was a big mistake. cheap boge dampers were a bad investment, wish I'd bought Koni's in the first place. yoko's that were OK in the dry but pants in the wet, thank god they wore out quick. A Zender rear spoiler that totally removed any rear visibility.

have you checked the VAG price?, sometimes they can actually be quite competetive, believe it or not :lol:

well, the rear glass is also bonded, so I'd rather switch tailgates, in fact if you remove the clip on inside trim and the outer rubber seal (just pops out) that's exactly how I'm getting a new one sprayed up for mine. the wiring can stay in place, even if you have to swap all the spoiler etc over from one tailgate to another (which I've done). I'd definitely rather swap tailgates than cut out and re-bond a window. David.

How low is your car? conventional alignment kit hangs over the wheels and can be a problem on really low cars, not many places have the kit to do a corrado that's 60mm or lower than standard. You could drive up to Stealth , north of Daventry at Southam and they'll use their expensive VW kit to do the job very accurately, but you're looking at 75 quid plus I think. Kwik fit etc, should do basic 4 wheel alignment for around 30 quid, which is fine for most cars. The independant garage I use is 'John Spademan's - Motor Engineers', tel. 262446, in Stony Stratford, but them I'm biased as my Dad works there :) - they got mine perfect though on 40mm lower eibach springs. David.