davidwort

No, the 9a has a cat so you'd need a cat bypass pipe too fit a kr, alternatively get your cast iron manifold gas flowed for similar results or better and non of the drawbacks of non oem parts

yeah I see what you mean, my 16v is on standard 195 tyres but the eibach springs does make you clench for the road surface ahead, but the 8v on new shocks and standard springs is not bad at all.

It's about balance and feel too though isn't it? why an mx5 that's not particularly fast can be a hoot to drive. I like driving an 'easy' modern car if I'm just driving from A to B, but getting back into a Corrado makes me feel like I'm involved in the driving, I can feel the road through my seat and the wheel and it's a fun thing to do. One of the reasons I love 80's and 90's VW's (but not the mk4 golf and beyond) is that they had a good balance of power and handling, even driving a 1L polo was fun with 45bhp on 145 tyres.

what's the part number on it then?

you'll accelerate slightly quicker on 195's too as the rolling circumference is slightly less ;) does the VR6 door sticker have the tyre pressures for 195's, if so I think it would be pretty safe insurance wise as was clearly a factory option, if you're very paranoid you could always let your insurance company know, I doubt it would make any premium difference, how does it work with 'winter' tyres?

I think I have a Passat one, it's possibly slightly different in appearance to the genuine Corrado one, I'll take a pic of the front and pins at the back if I can find it this evening.

do you mean a headlight level adjuster?

and neither require you to actually have a Corrado :D

I didn't read that as critical in any way Jim :shrug:

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Nothing quite like the rattle and smell of diesel and the 4k red line :-)

Corrados only had grey and beige ones, must be the amusingly named mk3 'beaver' colour :lol: [ATTACH=CONFIG]75948[/ATTACH]

there's a fairly recent thread with results from professional ultrasonic cleaning, flow rates and patterns before and after, some needed doing and some didn't, depends on what fuel they've been run on and any contamination they may have got over the years, you should be able to check spray pattern and delivery roughly by pulling them out of the manifold and bridging the fuseboard fuel pump relay contacts and spraying into jars. Might still need new 'O' rings if you pull them out though. here you are: http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?t=66805 page 5 for some printouts of results

or fit some glass protection film which looks almost invisible and will protect them and the fogs and indicators unless someone throws a brick at you.

Some great work going on there, love to see that sort of work going into a corrado, keep sharing the pics and progress :-D

so you got your taste for car modifying from the austin allegro! :) you don't hear that often! It's a right of passage though I reckon, messing with your first cars, I've lost wheel bolts from leaving them loose, bent valves from messing with cam belts, electrocuted myself with the HT circuit and nearly passed out from syphoning petrol (from my own car BTW!) I've not set fire to anything though...yet.

Wow!, never seen a tyre in that state before. Given that sidewalls are continually under stress flexing with every revolution I'm not totally suprised something like that happened though being stretched out as they seemed to be.

So had it just had paint then? Says it had come from the body shop. Lovely finish though have to be careful about going through the lacquer I'd have thought, definitely a skill there using power tools that could wreck the paint pretty easily.

Do you have any idea what's in it, I put some through when it's on offer but I've never noticed any difference really.

Hot air flap gear may have jumped a tooth and isn't shutting off the flow of air through the matrix completely, need to remove the passenger under dash tray and look at the plastic gears on the bottom of the air distribution unit. have a look at this thread I started when fixing mine: http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?t=53013

Clutch and flywheel should be the same, not sure the abf will be suited to the 8v ratios though, it's a high revving engine and needs a lower ratio box, a kr (1.8 16v) corrado box would be ideal, lowest ratios of all the o2a cable change boxes

H4 bulb in main reflector does dip and main (2 elements) then theres a single element bulb for the spot

I use those too, both on an original vw setup and a relayed setup, they are a good improvement but really 'shine' with relays and at standard wattage they are both legal and cooler running

100w bulbs get very hot and will accelerate reflector damage if used regularly, I wouldn't use them without a set of relays on a loom tbh, apart from not getting the max from them with the voltage drop you get through vw's wiring and switchgear, you could get an electrical fire from the headlight switch which is weak anyway and definitely not designed for the extra current.

Abf is essentially a tall block 16v with different injection, very similar to the 4 cylinder corrados,, it does sit slightly higher than the Corrado 2L 16v 9A engine but it's not a lot and the Corrado 8v downpipe and exhaust should be fine mated to the abf exhaust manifold. I'd get as much of the abf looms as possible, I think the mk3 uses the transponder ring on the ignition switch much like the late corrados so you should be able to interchange most stuff and use the Corrado dash. there's a couple of people on here with abf engines, they may be able to help more, then there's the abf into mk2 info on club gti to trawl through. 8v mounts will be fine, just use the 8v brackets on he abf block. definitely do a full abf conversion, nice engine and a minimum 160 bhp easily, most make more than vw stated but vw was conservative to keep them from looking too close to the 2.8 golfs output