Kevin Bacon

Just saw that. The infamous 16" speedos and some familiar looking intake pipework for the throttle :D

With a linear pedal map it feels more like a VR6 and has a noticeable step in power at 5000rpm.

Still lingering......like a bad smell....that rancid blown up VR6 coilpack smell. I always got confused by the resident swamps, because there was a Swompy and a Swampy!

What's 35K bucks? £27ish K? Too expensive me :D It really is nice though! Yeah I check in from time to time to see how me ol Corrado fellas are doing!

I would go for the 225hp flavour MK1 Leon Cupra R drivetrain. You'll get the TT 'BAM' engine equivalent and the FWD 6 speed O2M gearbox. Win win. I believe an OEM O2M driveshaft fits on one side, but the other needs to be custom (shortened iirc), there are companies that can do that for not massive money. Alternatively the driveshaft shop in America can send you a pair of conversion shafts of the right length, which are super strong at the same time. This route does involve welding in some different engine mount brackets though because the MK4 platform uses the 'pendulum' mounting system instead of the Corrados 'support the engine from the bottom' method. Personally I would go the extra mile and do that rather than an O2J gearbox because the O2M is stronger and you get an extra cog. Just depends on budget and what you want from the car.

Wow. An example like that could tempt me back into Corrado ownership. That is a proper time warp car and worth the asking price imo. It's better to pay for a good one in the first place than buy a heap and spend £1000s getting it to that standard.

Not sure if this is a repost, but I stumbled onto pics of a Corrado with a MK5 front and Passat rear :scratch: A bit strange looking, but looks to have been done well! It appears to have been built by this company - http://www.inaga.es/

ECS are a good bunch, but order stuff through Awesome GTI as they are official importers. Saves you the agro of sorting that yourself!

One of the K04 TFSI engines! Serious grunt.

Oh and I forgot about CrazyDave's fan mounting brackets, which were good.

I had the 'Corrado plague' for 9 years and spent ridiculous sums on it! As Mic says, it's in our nature to tinker, otherwise we'd all be signing on the dotted line for a leased Audi A3 wouldn't we? It does change as you get older and life circumstances intervene though. When I had the Corrado, if I heard a strange noise on the way to work, I'd be on it immediately when I got home. In the GTI, I just think to myself "Yeah I'll wait for what ever is making that noise to break first and then I'll fix it". So don't worry, the cure for the disease comes in the form of old age, marriage, houses and babies......not that I have indulged in the latter 3, or ever likely to :D

They're just called 'CAB' on Burton power. Bizarre thing is SPAL and General CAB are both Italian, but the former don't last! Well, mine didn't. Could have been a bad batch but the Revotec chap said it was something to do with them not having a drain hole for water, so they rust out and seize up. Exactly what happened to mine. Yeah the fitting holes are the same from memory. None of the aftermarket fans fit like OEM Goldfinger. Normally they just come with plastic pegs that poke into the cooling fins of the radiator to hold it in place!

I got my SPALs from revotec originally, which were crap. The chap at Revotec said he'd stopped selling them when I wanted some more (coz they're rubbish), and moved over to General CAB instead. I had a couple of those in the VRT and they were very reliable. The SPALs lasted about 6 months!

Some R32 ECUs limit the engine to 4500rpm without a VSS signal, and yes it can be coded out. I'm assuming this MK1 Golf will be using a VR6 gearbox? If so, as quicky said, it has a gearbox sender on it to supply the rev counter, but you'll need to use the VR6 clocks as well seeing as MK1 clocks have speedo cables IIRC?

Nice! Really liking red rados at the moment.

I had gurgling noises too when I binned off that one-way valve on the TB hose. I think as Jim said, it's there to stop an 'air leak' between the over-flow tube in the radiator top hose, and the heater matrix.

Ah yeah, that is the twin charged one then and notoriously troublesome. Is 2.5K manageable and if spent, would you hang onto it? Yeah WBAC usually do knock you down on the day they inspect it apparently.

Yeah I've read similar too. Audi were replacing quite a few engines in longitudinal installations (A4 and bigger), so they clearly knew there was a fault. Their official statement on it was faulty piston rings, and were instructing dealers to replace the short block if their standard oil consumption test failed. Tbh I can't see it being down to improper run in, not the way modern engines are built (cylinder honing all smoothed off), but you never know. In some cases some people could have been ragging the t1ts off it from day 1, or just babying it too much.

Is this the 1.4 engine with the super and turbo blowers, or just the 1.4 turbo only? Tbh I think even if you replaced the engine, you'd still be stuck with a hard to shift lemon, because no one wants them due to the well publicised problems. Take WBAC's offer and run!!! VAG were supplied with chocolate piston rings for a while, which affected a lot of the DI engines. The 1.4 is a weird one anyway because once it's dismantled, it's scrap apparently. An entire replacement is the only fix. If my Edition 30 is anything to go by, it's one of the more reliable / better Turbo DI engines VAG do. Mine's been brilliant, and no it doesn't scoff oil :)

If you think about your Corrado most of the day, go out for joy rides regularly and lose track of how much you spend on it, you're definitely a Corrado enthusiast.

Bin the catch can and run the standard PCV setup mate. They're more trouble than they're worth. People in the TFSI tuning world get hard ons for 'PCV delete' kits and all they do is cause the engine to smoke at idle. Waste of time!

It is indeed! I used it in my MK5 GTI as well :) Well, the 5W40 flavour.

I was never into red ones but that looks spot on! ZW1s butch up a Corrado perfectly. An old school wheel, but somehow modernises it! I might just have to keep an eye out for your for sale ad :) Getting the modifying itch again. I quite fancy dropping a Golf R or TTRS engine into one of these!

After replacing EVERYTHING else, I needed a new rack in my VR to get rid of that vagueness. Tight as a drum after that. One of the parts worth checking is the steering column UJ. I had a very slight bit of play in mine, which over the length of the steering column and steering wheel circumference amounted to quite a lot of slack.

55! Doesn't that feel a tad mushy in the corners? Personally I loved the old balloon look of the 205/50s and it's a right pain in the back side they're being phased out. Damn people and their vanity for huge wheels these days!