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I'll take pics, although I may get the same company (Welland in Southampton) to do both the operations in which case i won't get them before they are folded...

Yeah I need to get them finished quite soon, hopefully I'll get all the design work and laser cutting files done by Wednesday, to get them for Friday off for folding on monday, but we'll see....they'll probably take months like everything else on this car........ Again thanks for the seats mate, hope your sister was ok about her wheelarch damage :oops:

Went up to colect some donor seats off Toad on Saturday morning who showed me his small collection of Corrado's in various different states!! Absolute top bloke, and I owe him for the seats, cheers mate :D Stripped the top part of the seat off, binning all the knackered foam and material. I then set about modifying the seat frame, sorting out which bits of the tilting and reclining mechanisms I'm going to use, which at the moment is all of it. So I drilled out the spot welds and rivets holding on the brackets for these mechanisms to later mount on the new seat back. Once i'd stripped off all the bits I needed I then got out the hacksaw and cut off the seat back just above the crossmember, to which I'll then weld on some brackets to hold the new seat back which will be made from laser cut 4mm 7075 aluminium sheet folded into shape. That's the plan anyway, it'll probably end up different!

There going back to being forward :D

Yeah it's a worn Master Cylinder mate, the piston seal is leaking, when it gets really bad you'll find yourself having to hook the clutch pedal up with your foot to pump it again before the clutch will operate properly- but it'll still get better after a few minutes. Still it means the clutch drags and is better fixed sooner rather than later.....

Seriously impressive work you're doing there, I'm hoping mine will look like that underneath one day, but I don't think that day will come very soon :( That 3M stuff is just what i'm looking for for a different project though, does it have a part number or official name or anything? Where can I get it from?

So that's Bananaman, a Hawian woman and Fred Flintstone is it? :lol: :lol:

I know ity's not a Corrado bay but any excuse eh! My old Mk1 after I converted it to a G60.

Watch the top gear Vietnam special, they give advice on there!!

Or if you have a local scrappie, you could get a whole load of them probably for free.

while the BMW is a very good car, BMW estates are just soooo common so looking for something different, and yeh i know audi estates are not exactly rare but with some nice wheels etc etc thay just so much better than the BM's. Oh right, i was thinking just the opposite :lol: Around the south you can't move for Audi estates, BM's are far less popular, especailly since Chris Bangle had his way with the styling.....

:lol: :lol: oh so true!!

330i touring? Or does it have to stay VAG?

Thanks bud!! Yes I am going to be doing them soon, have to go up and collect the donor seats off Toad in the near future... Not wanting to sound ungrateful but I'm not sure those Recaro's would suit the Corrado tbh, but it's the thought that counts eh!! :D Cheers

1.8t or sell it and buy a VR. :)

I thought the Mk5 looked just like a civic/307/focus ie a smaller mpv slopey bonnet shape when it first came out and never gave it a second glance, however many years later and I really like it, although I really rate the mk6, it's a real grower in my opinion. Personal tastes.... Brand identity is a big thing at the moment, especially for the VW group, keen to keep their customers going to their correct brand and catering for everyone, I don't really mind it TBH, it ultimately leads to better cars as development costs are kept down per model and therefore more thorough development can be done as a whole. A Mk1 Polo isn't a million miles away from a Mk1 Golf or Mk1 Rocco either is it.

I thought you might say that, I was thinking about it after i posted it!! Good idea about putting another pump in though :D

Thanks for the compliments John, mine used to be my daily driver, until it started to take too long to do the conversion, so I ended up buying a runaround for £600, and I'm still using it a year later.....to be fair the car has been sat with nothing being done on it for most of that time!! Ah yes fair enough, There's a Mk5 on on ebay at the moment.... Edit, or you could perhaps put on in your boot, and then use the tube running front to back to feed your bonnet jets.

I would ring round a few VW Audi Breakers looking for a TT loom mate, the Mk5 if definitely different don't get one of them, not 100% sure about the Mk4 loom but pretty sure they are the same.

I've got a Mk2 one Kev (see page 3). It fits perfectly in on the other side of the bay, even has a big spigot on the bottom of it which pops into to the hole on the Corrado chasis leg. It also has two pump housings, so if i decide to install headlight washers at a later date I can use the slot for the more powerful pump.

Ok no worries mate, I'm only going to great lengths because I'm always waiting on Jon to get up to the workshop, so I do what I can to get my Corrado fix :D If i wasn't I'd be going down the same route as you mate!!

If I remember right the R32 engine is 18kg lighter than the VR engine. Everthing attached and including TB to Exhaust Manifolds. Measured it on my old mans scales.

I did think about putting it under the hump in between the rear seats, but I didn't mainly because i want the finish to look very VW and not custom, although wern't you trying to keep your car OEM looking :grin:

:lol: You asked for that one Pete buddy!!

Not much of an update (as ever), been really busy on the house over the last few weeks. I've had to move the washer bottle and PAS bottle to make way for the airbox, so I went down to the scrappie on Saturday though and got some bits out of an Ibiza, took the battery/PAS tray out too as I'm going to fabricate it into a bracket that bolts onto the Corrado chassis leg and holds the bottle in same place as it's shown here on the Ibiza. I grabbed the PAS hoses too, which I think are going to be a direct replacement fit as the Ibiza has the same rack. Also grabbed a number of Mk3 loom clips and the Ibiza Cable guide in the pic to replace all those crap zip tie things the corrado has. Quite happy with the result because escentially I've been able to move the PAS bottle to the only free space in the engine bay (between the battery and the engine) using VW/Seat parts off the shelf except for the bracket. It all gets the slighly anal cleaning/refinishing treatment of course :roll:P210309_12.58.JPG[/attachment:bzswayh1] Sorry mate, i have no idea :shrug: But it was made for a Brembo caliper (usually all very similar) to match onto a Cupra R disc. BTW the drawing shows 95mm to centres on the VR hubs, should be 94mm :?