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Thank you for the compliment mate, it's not often I get the chance to do something like this, so I'm putting a fair amount of effort into it. I can't wait to start bolting all the shiny bits on, the biggest problem I'm going to have is remembering where everthing goes on a car I took apart nearly 2 years ago.... :D

Finally finished cleaning the underside, going to do the engine bay thoroughly tomorrow. Then it's up on the ramps to take the subframes off and finish with stone chip etc. A few pics of how it now looks after three days (maybe more like afternoons with long tea breaks!) of scrubbing...... On the last pic the os shock isn't on the rear, can you tell :D

It's been started!!!! Looking forward to seeing the car progress, you must remember to take lots of pics....if for anything the thread makes a good record of stuff you've done 8) PS The lambda's are on there way!!

I would allow about an hours labour, the slave cylinder takes 5 minutes, the flexi even less! But the master cylinder is a little more tricky and then you have to bleed it.

Try one of the mail order places like venom motorsport.

If you're on a budget, you're best off without coilovers, they'll just be in the dustbin with broken seals in two years time.

I had to cut/grind the heads of the bolts off mine and then use a soft hammer to bash it off the remaining studs, the ally was well and truly corroded around the bolt shaft.....

There are three types of Lambda's Non heated 3 wire (not really used any more), Heated four wire, and wideband 6 wire. The difference between a wideband and a normal 4 wire is that it has an electrochemical gas pump in it which to cut a long story short enables a much faster response time. The extra two wires are for the +ve feed to the pump, and a resister that draws current to keep it in a constant state (it's this current that provides a reading in the same way a MAF works) :D

WOW :suprised: didn't see that one coming :D , Scooby, Corrado 3.2 and then an Evo, that's some list you've got going there mate! hate to see your servicing and fuel bills to see your gfriend! Mind you i've not got over 22mpg out of the 330 yet! But then it hasn't been out of town either. You'll have to take me out for a spin when you're down this way!! No iff's or butts. :D

Here you are mate! it's not fully welded up yet, but you get the idea :D yes you must pop in when you've got the integra, will always love those cars, I miss driving one :( ahh no problem, it'll be all finished on Monday :D

You can buy most of it at halfords mate :D

Hi Judith, when I'd finished the build of the engine interior etc, i was going to take all the door cars etc off and wax everything, I was hoping not to find too much stuff in there!! You can get the cradles from Frost, they'll easily take the weight of the car with the engine in, you just have to make sure all the oil and petrol is drained before you tip it! The only downside to them is that you have to keep the rear beam and the front subframe on which is a bit of a pain. See my thread in my sig for more pics Tha's exactly what I've used! Although i've then got the VW schultz on top of that and then mystic blue over that....Agree with you about the other places but was only really talking about the underneath of the car.

Here are some pics for you mate. LH & RH wideband lambda's. You can tell they are widebands because you have an extra 2 wires (6 in total) in there for the ecg pump, a wideband sensor is much faster acting than a regular lambda. To change the plugs as Kev says is really easy.

What you need is a big spot light with a toad on it instead of batman, when you turn it on, we all come to the rescue. :D

Yeah that's what I said when I started out on the conversion, but it was also going to take two weeks......... :scratch: You still talking about cars here chap :D :D It will be once I've come up with my Polisher and buffed it up a bit. :roll: Coat and gone.

Ok I've just spent the last few days inspecting, cleaning and prepping the underside of my Corrado. Up until Nov 2007 it was a daily driver, after which it has not seen the light of day until last Monday. I've never garaged it in the 8 years i've had the car, because i've never owned a house with a garage. :( It was garaged before I had it though- up to 60k. It's now on about 120k. I have found several rusty areas on the underside of the car, if I'd left them for another 2 years of normal use they would have been holes needing welding etc. As it is I've caught them all in time and there is nothing on the car that a wire brush attachment and some rust killer can't cure. The worst bits were as a result of poor handling of the car- the jacking points were used without rubber pads- bloody tyre fitters. Heavy guage so didn't affect the areas too badly. Right up inside the rear wheel arches needed a fair amount of attention, what would look to be just a small fleck of rust, would be a 2 inch diameter patch, all happening underneath the sprayed on seam sealer, which is brilliant at preventing water ingress until there is a leak path, at which point it prevents the water from getting out too. You will find water creeps along panel seams. The car is sprayed with seam sealer at the factory - not stone chip although the two are similar in appearance, however not many people have seam sealer spray guns- so VAG issue a shultz gun alternative (what we call stone chip). On the rear arches there was nothing like enough seam sealer on the top of the turret (where the shock goes through), both turrets were reasonably rusty, although it's quite heavy guage steel there. There are also wax injection points (black blanking grommets that havent been seam sealed over) in the wheel arches, all around the grommet holes needed attention. Lots of the clip studs had rust climbing up the studs and then spreading out- again you couldn't see it until you'd scraped it away. Particularly bad where the fuel filter is. Given that my car is one of the later ones to be built, you might want to take a rear wheel off, jetwash and clean the arch and then have a thorough inspection........ Anyway, just thought I'd share the info :D and if there is any interest, I may well offer a cleaning, repainting and rewaxing service.

Cheers Chris! it would be nice to meet some of the people on here, so i'll probably take it to one or two shows towards the end of the summer. :D

That is absolutely stunning! Cheers Tom! Wait till it's finished being cleaned on both halves (I've only really done above the tunnel) and all the patches sprayed, then it'll look properly good, and I won't want to drive it in the wet, which i told myself it would never come to :roll:

Everything has been powdercoated except for the wishbones which I bought new from VW, and it's already chipped off them in places, so I might take them off and get them done too! But powdercoating itself isn't that brilliant on steel, really good on ally bits though. the best option is to shotblast and then 2k paint, but that's really expensive :( I don't plan to use the car a great deal though- more as a weekend toy rather than my daily commuter like it used to be, so it doesn't really matter. :D

Day 2 of cleaning, starting to look much cleaner now having used the degreaser on it. can't wait to finish all the painted bits. Still have to let it down and raise it up from the other side to do the other wheel arches and sill. PM'd you monkey, glad you like the thread!

The rear ones are post cat, and not necessarily required, they just tell you if the CAT is ok. The front ones pre cat and wideband- they are required for the engine to operate. You should try and position them on your new manifold within a few cm of the donor vechicle's position. I have a pair of widebands that came off a 3.2, £70 for the pair posted. They came on a downpipe I bought and surplus to requirement. I also have one rear lambda ( I just sold the other one today :( ) for the same car.

What's wrong with it?I always thought the paintwork looked really good on it, it's what made me like red Corrado's infact.

Shame on you! Yeah you can buy them from Frost, £380ish I think - so quite expensive. It's not mine but Jon's, he might well hire it out, I'll ask him for you.

I have no idea, just presumed there was a guy called Mr.Grumpy! :D Edit, just looked online, it was sold by a shop called Mr.Grumpy's for classic car restoration, the 80's equivalent of Frost today. :D

So you're over the crazy period and settling to enjoying it for the summer? Spot on.