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I have a 1993 2.0l 16v corrado, its a good car but not much go, so I would like to give it some go but not down the full rebuild route I have been told that a good exhaust with cat bypass pipe with a good airfilter on the induction side will make a reasonable performance upgrade accompanied with a golf 16valve inlet cam?? is this correct?? what are the difference's with camshafts? I have also found that there are different size inlet manifolds 40mm, 42mm, 50mm, what size is fitted to the corrado?? Any info would be a help Cheers

Ive bought a 94 2L 16Valve corrado, I think its a little thirsty for a 2L car, Iam getting 19-20MPG round town but on a run it rises to 28-30MPG, its been well looked atfter with full VAG service history, with just over 100,000 miles on the clock. This is all with a light foot!! I had a scabby 2L Cavlier for a workhorse with 150000 on the clock and that did much more than the Corrado to the gallon, even with 3 in the car.

Hi all To the guy who's brother is getting a Civic My other car is a track day project 205 GTi 1.6, she made 115bhp on the rolling road with 98000 on the clock and full Peugeot service history with 2 lady owners, so it was well looked after until it came to me, and the only mod is a cone air filter, anyway... Loads of the local boy racers have civic's, preludes etc etc and the little pug could match most of the civics and 2.0L preludes to 80ish MPH, it has lost badley to a 1.8Civic VETC thing but as a rule it would just pip a 2.0l Prelude to 100 then the pug is all out of puff One guy followed me in the petrol station babbeling about that the Pug must be modified to be able to beat his 1.6 civic thing....I just put it down he had 3 chavs in his car and I had a DVD from Blockbuster!! So my new wheels(2 weeks ago) are a 2.0L 16valve corrado which feels much quicker than the pug after 60 MPH you should have a good chance of beating a 1.6 civic or a 1.8 but the 1.8VETC model will skin you. Iam loving the corrado, as the handling is just fantastic even the Pug dosent handle as good, but its only let down is power, it has the torque but by 6500rpm it seems just off the boil where as my Mk2 16v golf felt strong to 7000rpm limit but the Corrado looks the dog bollocks.........

I didnt know the blocks were different on the corrado, I assumed it had the tall block fitted, is it the 1.8 taken out to 2.0 for the corrado?

I can see why VW put the power down on the corrado when they were new, if it had 150bhp it wouldnt be to far behind a G60 in performance, so why by a G60! Iam hoping its something simple like a throttle body change from a golf. I had a 205 gti 1.6 as my last car and that would be in front of the corrado to 60 or 70 mph but by a ton its out of breath and the corrado would be well in front by then but again i would put that down to the pug being made of tin foil and blue tac, with a fantastic little engine The corrado is an excellent car and ive only had it 4 days looking foward to many more

Dose anyone know why the 2.0l 16 valve golf has 148bhp and the corrado only 136bhp Can the extra bhp be released easy enough as I have just bought a 94 corrrado 2.0l 16 valve and its been well looked after with full VAG service history with 2 women owners with 100,000 miles on the clock but my Mk2 golf 1.8 16valve felt faster with 157,000 on the clock Thanks