Kevin Bacon

You will need a BUB pedal and both sides of the ECU harness. I wouldn't do this conversion again without a donor car to hand. Getting an engine from ebay with a missing or partial loom is a complete arse ache.

I saw one from the MK5 GTI community where a chap removed his A/C system to fit a bigger intercooler, and then complained about being too hot last summer. Double

Yep, worth fitting the OBD2 Golf system just to bin off the proportioning valve and the now obsolete pedal position sensor. Spot on with the pedal. The master cylinder fulcrum point is all wrong in the Corrado's pedal. It's too far down the pedal to offer any mechanical advantage as you say. Just means you have to push harder! You could take the pedal assembly from a later Golf (MK4,5, 6 etc) and bolt that in. The TTRS master cylinder is about 25mm and the VR6's is 23 iirc? So another good use of modern parts! Have you seen Project Binky on Youtube? Basically grafting an entire Celica GT4 running gear and engine into a BL Mini. That's what it's all about! Old and busted Corrado on the outside, new hotness inside and underneath.

I agree. I've never liked the current Scirocco. The engine in the R is great, but the rest of it is meh!

I thought a 325i Sport would be around the 5K mark. Wrong! Just looked them up......good ones are fetching £20K!!!! FFS, what is going on with the car market :lol: But yeah, if this was £5K, my eye would be well and truly caught! To think I paid 500 quid for one of these back in 2001. Loved that car.

I never had a VSR but I did have a Schrick VGI. Same thing really but not as OEM looking. The engineers wanted all VR6s to have the VSR as standard to make it more competitive against the 328i coupe, Nissan 200SX, Calibra V6 etc, but the accountants vetoed it. So we got a relatively torque light engine as a result. Well, the numbers are there but nothing interesting happens until 4000rpm. The VSR/VGI moves the torque band further down the revs but a remap is essential, otherwise it just detonates and the ECU cuts all the gains you would normally get from it. Still, VW didn't make that mistake again and all 24V VR6s got a variable intake! I was only ever impressed by one VR6 with a Schrick VGI, and it wasn't mine! That thing had torque everywhere and felt proper punchy. Mine never felt like that. It must have been a friday afternoon engine :lol:

Yeah, from memory..... 2 pin blue = engine ECU coolant sensor 4 pin yellow = Stage 2 fans and dash gauge - 105 ish degrees 2 pin black = Stage 3 fans - 115 ish degrees 3 pin thermo switch in radiator = Stage 1 fan and after run pump signal to fan controller - 95 degrees I believe the Fan controller takes a signal from the yellow and black sensors, and stage 1 runs autonomously. It's one hell of a system just to run some fans :lol: Maybe MK5 GTI fans would be a good upgrade. The controller is built into the fan motor and just takes one signal from the coolant sensor. Much simpler!

Thanks buddy :) Indeed! Maybe the wire was originally spot welded into place? I know that was a common practice back then! Some metals solder just won't take to!

535, wow, the nostalgia! Every time I went to the dealer, it was a lottery of 'on back order', 'obsolete' or '£500 + VAT'. I think we've had this discussion before, but car makers are only obliged to keep spares available for each model, for 10 years. But some brands actually give a damn about their heritage and fan base.....such as BMW. You can still get a lot of parts for ancient old E30s! The Corrado was a complete flop for VW and therefore they've washed their hands with it, which is a shame as it's the best looking car they ever made, by a LOOOOOOONG way. Someone needs to kick the management board's arse and tell them to get over themselves and acknowledge it for the great car it was, and make a MK2 Corrado.

Thanks for the warm welcome(back) everyone by the way :thumbleft: I've really missed this place! I've had a rough ride over the past few years, well ever since selling the Corrado back in 2012 actually (maybe it's the car's karma on me? lol) with a mixture of women trouble, a very unexpected family bereavement and redundancy (twice).....so yeah, the bacon has been a bit a bit soggy and not his usual crispy self. But anyway.....I'm planning on hanging out here more frequently going forward!

Yeah, the pictures......they're a pain. Flickr works well for BB Code linking and they don't limit it, but the free account only allows 1000 photos I think. Other options are Google Photos or Microsoft's OneContrive but you need to create a public album and stick your pics in there, but they might not allow embedding, so you'll just get a clickable link instead, which is poo pants. In plain English, embedding means linking to your photo on a forum, but each view is now becoming a chargeable resource. This is why attaching a pic to the forum from your local PC was such a great (and rare) feature on here......but that comes with a storage overhead unfortunately. If you see a humourous pic you want to embed, simply right click it and 'Copy image address' and then paste it in between tags as the other gentlemen and gentleladies said. Piggy piggy bacon pork piggy

Nice. I'm a big fan of the BBS on Corrados! It's such a classic look! Years ago, when T-rex was roaming the earth looking for fried pork products, a member on here fitted MK1 S3 front struts to his Corrado. My plan for a Corrado would be to literally weld in a MK5 floor structure to it, and fit all of the MK5 suspension. And then worry about the wider track afterwards with flared arches :thumbleft: That may sound far fetched and overly ambitious but 3 things are worthy of consideration - 1) Anything is possible with a welder. 2) Years ago, when Woolly Mammoths couldn't decide whether to have ham and cheese, or bacon lettuce and tomato in their sandwiches, someone in Europe drilled out all of the spot welds on a Corrado floor, and welded a Rallye floor in it's place, thereby facilitating some 4WD goodness, OEM style....... and 3) where there's pork, there's a way!

Yeah you can pilfer from MK4, MK5, MK1 and MK2 TT and also the Cayenne 3.2 V6. In fact, the intake manifold from the Cayenne is better suited to conversions as the throttle is on the same side as the Corrado's :thumbleft: The MK2 always did enjoy parts availability! I think VW can't wait for the day when every single Corrado spare part has banished from existence!

Yep. They've just built a humungous warehouse that the yocals call 'The sugar cube' here in Ipswich, which has totally ruined the valley views from my back yard :censored: It's basically a delivery hub for Amazon and all the stuff that comes off the boats at Felixstowe port. Guess what is right behind said warehouse? A huge freight train hub. Do they use it? Do they feck! The whole town is totally jammed up all day, every day with unmarked white vans, HGVs and light trucks delivering Asos and Amazon shat! And of course, the traffic is further worsened by said drivers having to collect 100s of Asos returns from post offices! My missus is guilty of that. She orders about 5 sizes of the same garment, just in case, and sends back the ones that don't fit, ffs :lol: The internet and computer software are ruining us as a species. The sheer volume of displaced employees taken over by machine learning is going to be a massive problem in the next decade or two. I'm glad I'll be dead before the planet really hits rock bottom :lol:

Audioscape door pods......they were the days! I can't believe how much those things improved the sound quality! Shame they're not around anymore. That's a good plan giving it a full restoration. Looked after Corrados are still fighting off the terminal rot admirably though. The 16V will be worth £34,555.28p in about 10 years, so keep hold of it! SUA is miles away from me unfortunately, otherwise I'd pop along! Now, if it was Stratford Upon Bacon......I'd be there even if it was 10,000 miles away :lol:

It certainly seems that way! It always was the best forum for knowledge sharing and banter :thumbleft: I honestly can't get rid of the ED30, but it's probably because it's not standard and therefore more fun to drive! I also keep toying with the idea of another Corrado but I haven't got a garage to sprinkle it with some good mods. My vision is to basically plonk a Corrado shell on top of something modern and fruity, and wide arch it!

Who ordered smokey bacon? My Bacon account is now sorted. The Earwig is squished!

Just drop the engine out and throw new belts on. Supercar makers always make such a big deal of servicing, but it's just bolts and engine hoists like any other car. Yep, fuel bags do indeed expire, but not just Ferrari. You can get aluminium replacements now though. Bags are for old people who **** through tubes.

Good luck. Obsolete.

No, you don't need the corrigated pipe. Just leave the BMC as it is, the responsiveness is a lot better. It's a really good filter on the VR6, so I'm surprised your responsiveness hasn't improved. Probably a bad MAF. VR6s are notorious for it, as are most cars using the stupid over sensitive sensor.

Passat Estate is the one you want as it has the same panel profile as the Corrado. And yes, Passat sunroofs suffer the same nearside cable snapping as the Corrado.

I would never use cheap copper pipe for a fuel line!! Jesus christ what are people thinking! Definitely not my work :D

Me neither. White is for washing machines and dishwashers, not cars. And dear god does white accentuate panel gaps.....just look at them!!! I forgot how bad 90s panel gaps were! £12K for a minter isn't so unreasonable, but we all know where the hidden rot lives. I bet they haven't checked all the key areas.

Absolutely. Car makers do not use solder in wiring harnesses for a reason - vibration related metal fatigue. Mechanical connections only please, and as the good sir suggested, Duraseal is the best there is.

No such thing as an OBD2 2.9 manifold. As you are in the states, your MK4 V6 'GTI' came with a plastic variable intake (same as the Schrick VGI essentially). Fit that, the ECU and Throttle body and you're golden. Way more responsive low down than any 2.9 stuff.