Jim Bowen

thats what i mean too the little cone shaped thing with a grub screw to hold the cable and allow for adjustment

the bit was correct

i know what you mean, the EKTA is for a left hand drive car, i'll find my thread about it

lol i was tempted to polish them up so they look really bling but couldn't asred with the cleaning

they do look nice, but a little too rounded/soft for the corrado, they also look a bit too 90's, tsw stealth etc

certainly looks right to me. but i haven't taken the allen key bit out so not sure what it looks like without it

is this a sign of valve seals leaking oil into the cylinders? i'm not very clued up but think i've heard something like that

Just some more bits ill add to this thread, seeing as they arrived now. Brake pipe flaring tool, required if you want to replace your brake lines, Worth while getting a semi decent one if your not experienced, the cheaper ones are a bit naff from what i've read. This was about £100 off ebay and comes with the other tools, like cutter, bender, and derburring tool Brake pipe and unions, the pipe is 3/16" or 4.76mm, the unions are 10mm and i ordered some 12mm and some spare bleed nipples (not sure why i got the nipples as the brakes all have new ones anyway, does the master cylinder have some?) ordered from: http://www.brake-pipe.co.uk/

shame you can't have windscreen wipers anymore :lol: must be crammed in there that engine, suprised it fits tbh

the book says up to 3000psi :! so disconnecting the battery and pumping the pedal is a good idea before i undo anything? is that all i need to do or do you have to remove anything else? ecu related? my friend said he's done loads of brakes and never encountered this before

thats what i do too :lol:, tried the allen key and seemed like effort so just undid the whole thing instead. isn't too messy really

isn't the silver/metal bit shown with the allen key socket, the drain plug?

that looks amazing mate!!!! great colour and the wheels suit it perfectly :D how did you smoke the taillights or did you buy them?

that looks amazing mate!!!! great colour and the wheels suit it perfectly :D how did you smoke the taillights or did you buy them?

that looks the same as mine from what i remember

i've found the hard lines to be a bit of a state after 13yrs, so having to replace those as well now. bit of a pain but seems a worth while thing to do

just looking through a book and it says that if you open the ABS system a jet could shoot out that can maim or kill!!!! :lol: is it really that bad? it mentions a procedure about disconnecting battery and pumping the brake pedal 20 times? is this is the case its probably quite lucky that the nut i was trying to undone was seized anyone shed any light on this? anyone encountered the deadly jet of rado fluid? :lol:

sounds awesome setup, i take it you haven't got standard wheels to fit those front brakes? are you also planning to do anything with the "hard" brake lines? my tool arrived today for making flared ends, just waiting for all the pipe and stuff to turn up so i can practise

although in real life i put £2 on Alonso to win @ 33-1 :D pays for one brake caliper :lol:

Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! :lol:

i've just ordered what i need from here http://www.brake-pipe.co.uk/index.html as i noticed the site mentioned in this thread has no online ordering

this is a great post and should be put somewhere if it hasn't already :) am about to do this job next week

i'm not sure, i just got the part numbers given to me on here by supercharged (i think) when i went to VW originally the chap told me there was several different ones, i guess the later the letter in the number the later the model of car, maybe they kept revising the brakes? as i found ones starting with 1D0, 1H0, 1J0 etc ordered a nice brake line flaring tool, a skyes pickavant one, better be good as that was another £100 :(

is that a 306? what spec is that and how did it perform?

very strange, only lastnight i noticed that on mine, the very same bit, but has the pipe all connected to it. On mine the pipe just slips on and off with ease, there's no seal there really, i can fix it easy with a clip but wondered if that would of affected the car at all?