Dan7690

Thought it was time for an update as ive finally got her finished and back on the road after a lot of late nights and hard work. Heres some pics custom de-cat Prepped for paint base coat lacquered rear arches painted and crackle blacked bumpers smoothed and painted bumpers back on show time

Saw that at early edition. Looked really tidy mate

Thought I would put up a quick before and after as the engine is pretty much there now! Before After (the cover is going back to black)

Will anybody be coming to this?? would be awesome to get a good group of corrados up there and meet some local owners???

Shame mate, looks like you've done some serious work to yours! Would of been interesting to have a look and get some tips! Defently come along to the vaglogic meet in May though! Even if your not in the rado! speak to James about details, tbh il probly put something up on here too. Would be good to meet some local rado owners

cheers mate, yeah I was up there last year with James and a few others. Was you up there in your rado???

Cheers, yeah the red carpet did look good. Just wasn't my style, the carpet they put in does look spot on though!

Thanks dude, Now I've got the thread started il keep it updated. It should be back on the road in the next month so il keep the pics coming. There's a few pics I've missed which I might upload as well!

It's been a lot of hard work, it's nice to start seeing the end. There was times when I never thought it would be back together. Can't wait to get it back on the road :-)

how the engines looking now

various pics of her being stripped down in the prosses I started talking to anna from heritage about a new carpet she was making so I decided to go for it and sent it away for the work to be done. they did a cracking job (I didn't have red that was just them trying it out) The mats have been binned too ;) next it was time to concerntrate on the engine so I got in contact with John at JMR, I sent all my parts away to him to be worked on and the end result he pulled out was amazing. it was better than Christmas opening up the return delivery!! :)

Hi everyone, I've been meaning to do a build thread for a while now and im finally getting round to it as ive got a bit of spare time. ive already done a fair bit of work to it and im not far off getting her ready for this summer. will be really good to hear any feed back! (good or bad) so i'll start from the beginning when I first picked her up, she was pretty much standard apart from a cat back miltek and some nasty 17" wheels but overall was in great condition, loads of paper work and I was only going to be the 4th owner which filled me with confidence. The drive home was just over 200 miles and I enjoyed every second of. she didn't miss a beat and felt like she was getting plenty of attention. so first job when I got her back to give her the first big clean, I do this with every new car I get. it makes me feel like the car is actually mine instead of driving someone elses (HOPE THAT MAKES SENSE AND DOESNT MAKE ME LOOK WIERD!!). there was a little rust but thankfully no nasty suprises. So now she was clean and mine it was time to start thinking about what wheels and getting her sitting nicely, I spent hours of the net looking at other rados and different wheels and the Schmidt modernlines kept grabbing my attention, few days later a cheap set popped up on ebay so I snapped them up. they were in poor condition so I sent them away to aerocoat in Norfolk straight away for a refurb and powder coat, I couldn't believe the end result. I had to get these on ASAP as there was a show coming up so I order some coilovers and fitted them as quick as possible, the first test with the wheels and suspension did not go to plan!!!!! I pretty much destroyed my rear tyres within a mile. luckly they were part worns, so I raised her up slightly and we were away. there was still a bit of rubbing after realising the arches were the most solid thing ive ever layed my eyes on I decided to fit some camber shims to temporarily get over this problem. it did the job and gave her a nice stance. so these are a few pics from the summer shows I attended. So the show season was over, it was time to tuck her away for the winter and set to work. (sorry for blocking the boobie wall) seems like a long time since I saw her like this!! :( I aimed to achieve a fair bit over the winter but make sure she was ready for the summer. The list consisted of: Stage 4 supercharger quickshift Rs outlet oil cooler induction kit 68mm pulley cam belt decat service smooth front and rear bumper smooth side repeaters and replace with US repeaters sort rusty spots smooth side strips cut arches paint underside of bonnet powder coat various components upgrade audio

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I went to john recently for a service and stage 4'ed. Would defently recommend him, he goes the extra mile to make it look new. As for price it depends what you want but defenatly give him a ring!

I'm at my unit tomorrow so il take some pics.

I cut mine back and there was no need for welding, just make sure you seal them up properly to stop rust. If you speak to a proper body shop supplier they have much better stuff than you'll get in halfords ect!

Defenatly john!! Did a top job with my charger and bits!

I've had file part of the powder coating down to get the alternator in so it should have good contact but I'm going to send it away to a specialist tomorrow to have a look. Il keep you updated, hopefully it's nothing major

Is it a fairly simple job to do, I'm not to keen on sending it away again as i really don't want to have to powder coat it again?

I've recently had my alternator powder coated then rebuilt with new parts. But for some reason it's not charging the battery, I stuck a multimeter on it yesterday and it was reading 11.8v at the battery when running and 1.8v at the alternator terminals! Any body got any ideas what's going on????

Haha I did pretty much the same just not in my eye. Lol I ive heard the halfords truck bed liner is quite good so I'm now off to try and find that!

Yeah that looks really smart, I tried some vht stuff and I came up really glossy! Where did you get yours from?

I'm thinking about spraying some of my plastic trims in the textured crackle black but I'm struggling to find what product to go for. Has anyone gone for this type of finish? If so what did you use???

I'm after a few bits to finish off my winter project, these are the bits I'm after: K&N twin induction kit Smooth scuttle panel Decat pipe Red HT leads & King lead If anyone has these for sale of can point me in some sort of direction that would be great.