VR6Pete

they the same for VR6 too? how much?

I'm in kidsgrove! Taken my last ones autoflair other side of Hanley before.

Im waiting for more photos :)

Pete

Good work my man! I take it that tache of yours is for Movember, or are Tom Selleck & Burt Reynolds really your role models? :lol:

 

It's amazing what a bit of elbow grease can do. My 32 engine was all corroded up and looked a right nasty mess but as you say, with some heavy duty scrubbing it all comes up a treat!

 

With your OBDWan Kenobe conversion, were the key and coil reader from the donor car? That's odd you got an authorization error. With mine I just taped the key inside the reader and cable tied both up behind the dash somewhere!

 

Oh well, Uncle Vince will do the biz and you won't need to worry about that anymore and the other good bit about that is the chip holder will be put in, so any future remaps will be quicker and easier.

I wish I could take credit for that photo being me, but it's not ;-) Its my mate who came up to help with the conversion from VR6OC :) yeah it is slowly starting to look better than it was when I first got the car... looking back, its hard to beleive it was in the state it was! but with some more TLC, another corrado saved with a view of keeping it and doing it properly!

LOL - OBDWan Kenobe conversion :) yeah was a little dispaointed that it didnt work, it all came off the same car... picked up all the OBD2 stuff, ceramic coated 6 branch manifold, vibra engine mounts / gearbox mount for 300 sheets a couple of years ago.... pretty sure its wired up correctly too. very strange... i'll have one more look tonight and refernce Daves info from his build thread, but pretty sure it's the same...

ECU has just been picked up, so fingers crossed it comes back soon, Vince is a star for sorting it me, I do remember he hates doing the imob delete stuff as it bores him, getting limiter raised to 6700RPM too to match original ECU so all is good in the hood when it comes back, assuming it starts :) figured out why my alarm wasnt arming / disarming, it was due to a low battery in my fob, must have had something pressed on the button when its been in my draw... never mind :) but still got intermittent full closure issues... windows dont go up, nor do the doors lock etc.... god knows whats happened there! may have to get a pro in to get that as dont re-call removing any wires relating to the clifford alarm!

good point about the chip holder.... will be taking it for mapping some point next year after ive got some 263's in :) schimmel of course...

Pete

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Hope you have it running soon Pete. Good work.

Cheers for the Comments Dave :)

Well, its been a funny old weekend....

First of all on Friday I received a phone call saying the 3.68 FD gearbox had been stolen, so that was that out the window this weekend, which in hind sight was good as the work to do the OBD2 upgrade was under estimated...

Here's a tip for anyone who turns their OBD1 corrado to OBD2.... get the imob delete done!! As I had all the imobiliser bits, it should have 'just worked' famous last words.... We had issues with the imobiliser kicking in... almost text book...

This arrived Friday, lovely bit of kit for those who dont have one, well worth getting (cheers FishWick)..

Taking the front end off was needed as I have a new lower inlet manifold inlet manifold and needed to fit my new alternator pulley.... it also made it alot easier in general :)

so, here we have a photo with inlet manifold off, all the OBD1 engine harness removed.... tony had a lot of fun trying to get the servo out so could get the loom through the bulk head :)

While my mate was making up the loom, I started replacing the lower manifold and removing the alternator to replace pulley and the bolts...

Beleive me when I say this cheeky smile didnt last for long... it was a bit of a nightmare creating the new loom.... :) so many plugs as the car the OBD2 golf the loom came off had air con...

Replacing the lower manifold was easy enough once everything was off, cleaned everything up, replaced the rocker cover studs and installed some stainless nuts...

The old stuff had seen better days...

here we have the alternator all refitted... which was no easy task!! and took some gentle persuasian to get back on.... I also had my pulley vapour blasted and gave the alternator a good clean up using scotch pads...

Ok, so we now have everything back together.... and ready to fire it up...

it started, but then cuts out with a VAG-COM error;

Saturday,12,November,2011,21:51:33:23162

VAG-COM Version: Release 704.1

The VR6 Owners Club

Address 25: Immobilizer

Control Module Part Number: 1H0 953 257 B

Component and/or Version: IMMO VWZ3Z0S2042493 V00

Software Coding: 09600

Work Shop Code: WSC 00516

2 Faults Found:

01176 - Key

65-10 - Unauthorized - Intermittent

00546 - Data wiring faulty

27-00 - Implausible Signal

so, not alot we could do, we decided the best plan would be to get it all back together and make sure aux pump, fans etc... all kicked in, we tested this by bridging the pins on the thermo housing plugs, refitted the radiator, re-wrapped some of the existing corrado loom to make things all neat and reinstall engine plastics...

So, things that remain:

- Finish wrapping looms, getting some screw on cable ties to reattach loom across the bulkhead and around the suspension turrets.

- Imobiliser delete

- re-fit fuse box / shelves

- re-fit seat

- re-attach bonnet cable

- Cross fingers it starts...

The only other major issues is now with my Clifford alarm playing silly buggers, my full enclosure no longer works off the button so will probably need a specialist to be involved to sort this.

so if anyone is good with alarms, please let me know :)

Also replaced a dodgy exhaust clamp and bled up brakes, clutch ABS etc... so thats pretty much it for this weekend..

Big thanks goes out to Dave and Nate for assisting over phone / email over the weekend...

Cheers

Pete

Stoke on Trent

I think the lowers are all the same from obd1 / obd2 :) I've got one in my garage, its a bit dirty could do with a good clean but 100% OK in terms of the bolt hole for the dip stick tube etc...

got a rocker cover and obd1 inlet manifold complete with ISV etc.... collection only though im afraid.

Hi Dave,

Thanks buddy, yeah, ive not got anything apart from the one rusty one I offered to send you as a template :) so not got nothing holding the top of the rad in at the moment.

looking forward to seeing your install pics :)

Thanks again buddy!

good work Dave, thanks for your help over the weekend, ive got my ECU boxed up so hopefully should run when its back.... mine does fire and runs for a second then cuts out when imob kicks in... tried adapatation tonight to no avail... cant wait see how mine sounds once it finally runs :)

only thing left for me is to clip the loom back in one I get the cable ties and to fit the L shaped top radiator bracks once you've managed to see if you can knock some stainless things up for them! then good to go!

Just put a gruven parts one on my new radiator too, looks a little more robust than the fragile plastic one, hope yours does you good :)

thanks again mate for the help :)

Cheers,

Pete

Nice one mate. I'll have a go of that tomorrow!

Never heard of that mate? If you have any more info that would be good... I do have full vag com here...

ECU is off to stealth tomorrow for imob delete...

After a lot of help from Nate and Dave over the phone / email for which i was very grateful for :) we couldn't get it fired, enenthough it was wired up correctly...

Everything else is in bolted back up.. Aux pump / fans seem to work when bridging the thermo plugs etc... Just a few bits on loom to tidy up / clip in...

I should have been doing my 3.68 final drive gearbox too but some lowlife stole it from my mates shed....

Pete

cheers mate, will take another look write down what we've done and give you a call.... it can only be one of 4/5 wires wrong i suppose... cant really afford an imob delete atm which is why i got the bits I needed from the same car :) but restricted by time today...

Help guys :)

Got everything sort of back together now... but the blooming thing won't start.... I've connected the immobiliser box / coil etc... as suggested by dave, but VAG-COM shows the following error:

anyone got any ideas? Its sort of put a complete stop to things at the moment until i can get it running... don't really fancy getting the imo delated from the ECU....

Saturday,12,November,2011,21:51:33:23162

VAG-COM Version: Release 704.1

The VR6 Owners Club

Address 25: Immobilizer

Control Module Part Number: 1H0 953 257 B

Component and/or Version: IMMO VWZ3Z0S2042493 V00

Software Coding: 09600

Work Shop Code: WSC 00516

2 Faults Found:

01176 - Key

65-10 - Unauthorized - Intermittent

00546 - Data wiring faulty

27-00 - Implausible Signal

Whoops. Wrong section...

any update how u resolved the error relating to the imob data wiring faulty error? git same on mine doing obd2 upgrade...

cheeers

Help! Struggling get the servo out to feed the new loom in... Any tips on getting it out?

I want to remove my underseal next year and re do it all, very interested in what process you follow removing the old stuff etc...

Pete

personally I'd get a machine polisher on the paintwork... ive seen some pretty bad instanced of face which looked awesome after a detail!

my mate did this red"pink" corsa not long ago.... he's no pro, but it came up a treat....

Before:

after:

considering how bad it was before. you cant grumble...

before:

after:

possibly blank would be better for me if its in good conditiona scarlet_vr6? whats the condition like?

can you please post up some photos matey? :)

I'll have these in a couple of weeks once my OBD2 upgrade has been completed, can only offer collection only from Stoke though...

Pete

Sounds positive. Any chance you could post up on that thread before next weekend as some of the information you have found out may be useful.

I'll bare that in mind for next weekend, if you do have some success from Vauxhall, please let me know if for some reason i'm unable to re-use mine...

how is the OBD2 upgrade going?

Pete

my middle box is on the verge on of rotting through, buy my rear box doesnt look too bad!!! just the pipe going into it is a little rusty, but I love the look of the OEM tail.... :)