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Right, well if he hasn't bought a car yet, then my advice would be to buy the best possible example he could afford. There was a great condition blue 24v rado with black leather interior and 17" Azev As for sale in the UK for around 3750 pounds a few weeks back.. That's a very similar spec to my car. Not that i'd ever sell mine, but if I was, it'd probably command around $13 - 15k. The guy in the South Island, can't remember his name but it would have been the red 16v? Since then it was rear ended, and shunted into the car in front, so was written off and rebuilt using facelift parts from a g60 parts car ex japan. It's now been onsold to another guy in the South Island. More than happy to help if you have any questions further down track.

My 24v is a BDE. It's ready to come out of the car this weekend. And I managed to find a complete Mk1 TT motor in Japan which I will have landed in NZ for half of what it would have cost ex UK or USA so that's a win. That's a very generous offer though FishWick - thanks. I've got an R32 inlet manifold and steel sump ready to go on. No idea why mine seized up, no warnings, oil & water both full. Turns out it had been rebuilt before I bought the motor though (I didn't know that when I bought it), so it may have something to do with that. I had only done around 500kms after rebuild until it seized. A friend of mine here has the software to flash my ECU with a Viper Tuning R32 map so fingers crossed we won't need to even send the ECU away. Vince @ Stealth did the de-immo on my current ECU and I can't stop raving about how excellent & efficient their service was. photo-81 by tbagnz, on Flickr

R32s in australia are even more over priced than in NZ and I believe they have less than us (We had 32 originally imported). There has only been one wrecked, which got snapped up. There's a bare block & head for sale in Aussie for $3,000 australian, which would be 5k NZ by time it's landed.. In the UK I can find a complete motor for under 1k pounds..

I am from NZ. There were originally 13 NZ New Corrados, all 16v. There are around 8 other corrados, all imports. We have 1 g60 (singapore import in poor condition), 4x VR6s (two of which are storms), the other two autos. Around 4 NZ New rado's have been written off so in total there's around 17 left on the road. I've had three of them :) There's one 16v for sale at the moment for $9,500 in good nick. The listing has just expired. In a nutshell, it'll be a pain in the ass to import it. You won't be able to register it until it's 25 years old (classic). There may be a way around that but i'm not 100% on it, you'd have to research into it. But that would be to see if it's on the special vehicles import list (i'm pretty sure it is) but there will be another process for that. Otherwise you could import it and leave it in the garage until it's 25th birthday. If I was to import a corrado, i would make sure it's either a high spec VR6 or G60. Don't bother with a 16v as it's just not special enough. Resale value, depends on the car. NZ New will be more desired obviously, but there are only around 3 g60 motors in NZ (one in a car and two in bits). A G60 may command a higher resale price, as would a high spec 2.9 VR6 (we only have 2.8L VR6 motors here excl. the few VR6 rados we have). I recently sold a UK 2L 16v in good condition for $6500 and threw in a set of coilovers for it. That was a good price, but it wouldn't have been worth more than 8k on a great day. I bought my (originally 16v) rado for $5500 about 7 years ago, and another 16v in worse condition for $5,000 about 4 years ago. Prices have increased since then so for a great 16v car you would expect closer to 10k. If you can give me pics/details on the car he wants to bring with him I may be able to help a bit more.

Thanks for the link, will do some more research. I've emailed those guys, will keep looking also. If anyone works in the industry and can help, please shout out! I can have the motor sent anywhere within the UK, but not as far as New Zealand.

Hey lads, Over the weekend my 2.8L 24v VR6 managed to seize (500kms after transplant). I'm super gutted about it and am not even sure where it's seized yet, but it's time to move on and replace it. I'm in Auckland, New Zealand. I've found an R32 motor for sale in Warwickshire however it's collection only. Does anyone have any links/contacts that may be able to help with getting the motor sent out to Auckland, New Zealand? Any help is massively appreciated. We have no R32 motors or anything here so importing is my only option. Cheers

To be honest it probably wouldn't be cheaper, depending on the quality of leather. Also, if I retrimmed, they couldn't get the door cards the same as factory, and even if they could, i'd still have a grey interior with beige leather door cards & seats. I want every last little trim piece in beige, so it looks like it rolled out of the factory like that.

Thanks for the comments. Fishwick - thanks heaps for your advice & help with the Stealth thing. Renshaw - I think 16s are the perfect size, and always wanted a direct bolt on solution without redrilling/adapting. So rs003s were my only option. I'm 100% happy with the fitment it now has. Each to their own I guess, 17s look great too but I prefer 16s on my car. I guess in the next year or so I'll have to buy a car from the UK and send it home to solve my interior needs. I'm after a car with beige heated leather, and it'd just going to be easier to import a whole car than it would be to buy the seats & door cards, then hunt for every other little piece. It must be a 2.9 VR6 or G60 also for resale value (we have 2x G60s and 2x 2.9 VRs down here) so would make more money back/cost less for the interior! Anyway that's getting a bit ahead of myself! Still need a VR6 badge front & back if anyone has any lying around?

Thanks for the comments. So at this point, I've bought 5 cars to get this car to where it is (actually 6 kind of...) The first was the black corrado, second was the E30 for the wheels, third was the facelift import car for the bonnet, fourth was a mk3 GLI that I bought for parts, I used the subframes out of that, fifth was just a Mk4 Bora V6 4 motion 24v that I just bought to make money off, but ended up driving as a daily for a few months, which was what sold me on this motor swap. Here's the other two unsung heroes of that story: And the 'problem' I have is getting worse..

Thanks for the comments. So at this point, I've bought 5 cars to get this car to where it is (actually 6 kind of...) The first was the black corrado, second was the E30 for the wheels, third was the facelift import car for the bonnet, fourth was a mk3 GLI that I bought for parts, I used the subframes out of that, fifth was just a Mk4 Bora V6 4 motion 24v that I just bought to make money off, but ended up driving as a daily for a few months, which was what sold me on this motor swap. Here's the other two unsung heroes of that story:

Oh, and when the road workers were resealing my street, I went out and spoke to them one night. Explained that my car was quite low to one of the bros and that it scrapes like a c*nt, and asked if he could hook me up. Next minute I had a custom driveway and they wouldn't even accept a box of beers!

I had the car ready for the show and that's how it sits now. I'm pretty stoked on the car now, all it needs is a full beige leather interior and maybe a turbo in the future. The interior will have to wait because i'll have to go to the UK and buy a car and send it home for that, haven't quite got $10k for that exercise yet! Anyway, if you're interested, here is a write up of our show on the hellaflush website: http://hellaflush.com/society/stance-off-12/ Be sure to check us out and like us on facebook too: http://www.facebook.com/stanceoff I'm also still ****ing all my money into the wind on wheels, here's another set of RMs that I'm nearly done. I'm about to try and buy another mk1 scirocco also as a daily driver so will put these on that! ---------- Post added 2nd March 2012 at 12:02 AM ---------- Previous post was 1st March 2012 at 11:53 PM ---------- Here's a little video of the exhaust note and another one of me pulling up the hill at the show And one of the show:

Just a few of the sets I had at the time Here's a little trophy I built for a show that we started called Stance Off (http://www.facebook.com/stanceoff) I then polished up the original 1" lips for the other set I had and sold them to a nice guy in Luxembourg with an E30 cabriolet. Then I found a little mk1 golf which had not been registered or warranted for 10 years and had sat in a field on Waiheke Island. It was totally illegal to drive it on the road, but I thought it'd be a bit of fun. Over the weekend, I transformed it into the "RatPig mk1". The pig part being the police theme :stickoutt I took the springs out of this thing, but it still wasn't low enough. So we chopped the bottom off the shock housing, dropped the inserts about 30mm lower (through the bottom of the shock), and welded the insert in place. The shocks were ****ed anyway so it didn't matter. Anyway, by that time, there was one little thing on each panel of the car that ****ed me off, so I went balls deep and had a full respray in the original colour. At the same time, I had all the guards hammered dead flat, removed the rub strips from the doors & smoothed the front bumper. Still unhappy with the ride height, I bought some new FK Konigsports from Venom in the UK. They are height & damper adjustable, and they go lower than the V-****s do. Nice. Oh, forgot to say I had a 24v VR6 motor and VR6 O2A box lying around that was meant to be for the mk1 rocco. But I was bored of the 1.8 16v so decided to whack it into my Corrado instead. This meant I needed a facelift bonnet, in a country located at the asshole of the world, with 10 nz new corrados (all with the early bonnets) and about two imported cars with the facelift bonnet. ****. Even Germany wouldn't supply me with one after they had quoted me $2,000 to get one. I was running out of options, but luckily I keep tabs on all the other Corrados in the country, and had remembered meeting a nice guy with a facelift 2.0L 16v. I had stayed in touch with him for years, always wanting to buy the car, but he didn't want to sell it. I thought i'd flick him a text and ask if he wanted to sell me the bonnet. 'Nope, but i'll sell you the car'. That night, I bought the whole car... just for the bonnet. I swapped bonnets, and a couple of other little bits, and sold the car three days later to a young dude in Hamilton. This was the car. For those who don't know - the facelift bonnet has a lump in the middle as you can see, which allows an extra 2" of clearance required for a VR6 swap. Motor in, bonnet on, things were underway. I had sent the ECU away to a guy in the Isle of Man to get remapped & deimmobilised. When we got it back and plugged it in, it wasn't deimmobilised :mad Turns out he had never done one to the point where the car was still running corrado clocks & key. So 13 days out from the SO2013 (Stance Off show) that I was organising, I thought I was f*cked. Stealth Racing to the rescue! Within 6.5 days, I had expressed the ECU over to them, had the immo removed, tested, and expressed back to me. I try to forget that I spent $400 just posting an ECU around the world! But I got it back in time for the show and the car was all go. The radiator came in from ECS in the states, and left us no room to mount the fans on the engine side. So we whacked two big 12" and 10" fans on the front side of the rad. These things blow way harder than any girl I've ever come across! The motor is 204hp standard out of a V6 4motion mk4 Jetta with 77,000kms on the clock. It's now running a remapped ECU, BMC air filter, new Sachs clutch kit, Powerflex nolothane bushes all round, mk3 subframes, 2.5" catback exhaust & solid front engine mount. I haven't had a chance to dyno it yet but I imagine it'll be somewhere around 220 - 230hp. I got the exhaust done, 2.5" cat back with one resonator & a small back box. It sounds awesome, doesn't drone at motorway speeds and is nice and quiet, but when you put your foot down you hear it alright... Then I found an oldschool NOS wooden BBS steering wheel, rare as a rare thing. I got it for $50 too! Put that on (excuse the filthy interior and missing dash bits in this pic) I also gathered together a full set of original half height centre caps for the wheels - quite hard to find. I had them polished and whacked some new badges in to freshen the wheels up. They look 10x better than the aftermarket ones!

So I bought this car when in 2005 when I was 16 - it was my first car. It's one of 13 New Zealand new VW Corrados (all were 16v), and now one of 10 left on the road here. It is finished in a factory option Helios Blue Metallic (LA5Y), which has a sweet violet pearl in the sunlight. At first I ***** it and thought it was the most ugly thing I'd ever seen, but then it grew on me. This is how it looked when I bought it, with 183,000kms on the clock. It stayed like this for a few years while I worked in a pizza shop saving zero dollars. (Pic is really small because I have no old ones!) A few years later I bought another of the NZ New Corrados. The intention was to take the bilsteins & -40mm jamex springs out, along with every other good bit I could find. Next up was a FK badgless grill that I bought on the-corrado.net. Then long nothing. It cost me enough just keeping the car tidy and maintained with genuine parts. Until came the idea of BBS RS. I bought my first set in the hope that they'd fit, not knowing a thing about stud patterns, widths, offsets, adaptors, redrilling etc. They didn't fit and couldn't fit. This sent me on a downward spiral of whoreism. I became probably the country's worst BBS RS whore, buying every set that I could sniff out of the woodwork. I even bought cars just for the RS that were on them! I went through so many sets of wheels, buying & selling to make a buck to fund more bits for the Corrado. But as I learnt about what was what, I didn't want to settle for anything less than a 16" 4x100 RS - the rs003. It took me three years, but I finally found a set in NZ and snapped them up before anyone else had seen them. Imported a bunch of bits for some friends and I from Germany And did a bit of a refurb on them. They went to 16x7.5 and 16x8.0. At the time I thought that'd get them sitting flush, but I was wrong. I was also broke, so it had to do for the time being. Some more 17" RS that I found for $300, probably around USD$150 at the time! This is how the car was sitting on the same -40mm jamex springs, but we had then chopped a couple of coils out to get it sitting lower. It drove like ****. ---------- Post added at 11:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:49 PM ---------- Then I found a '76 pre facelift mk1 scirocco - probably even more rare than the Corrado in New Zealand. It needed a full resto, but I had to have it to match the rado. Like brothers, they sat side by side for a while. I then moved to a flat with a MASSIVE garage because I didn't have enough room for both cars & work space. Then I found this BMW with another set of rs003s on it! He didn't know what they were, and I bought the whole car for $1200. I took the wheels off the car and sold the car for a profit :eyebrows These wheels were to become the newly refurbed, wider, better 003s that I'd put on the Corrado. I used the rear lips off the other set and put them on the front. I got some new 2.5" lips for the rears, new black/chrome 3D badges, new chrome bolts, new 1/4 height caps. The final spec was 16x8 et12, 16x8.5 et6. I ran them on 195/45 Kumho tyres, which is the smallest 16" size you can get in NZ. The front wasn't stretched enough, so I imported a pair of 195/40/16 Toyo T1Rs from Holland, they cost around $400 each. I also had bought some cheap (sh*t) V-Maxx coilovers by this time and wound them right down, but they weren't low enough.

Cheers guys, but the hole i'm talking about is the one in this image. How does the hose secure?

I am fitting a 24v BDE motor into my (ex) 16v corrado. I need a VR6 radiator for it obviously so am ordering this one from ECS. http://www.ecstuning.com/Volkswagen-Corrado--VR6_12v/Engine/Cooling/Radiators/ES3138/ Problem is, in picture 2 you can see the nice elbow fitting that allows a hose to fit. But in picture 4 you can see the other inlet/outlet that is just a gaping hole - no plastic fitting to put a hose on. Can someone tell me what the part is that I need to fit the hose here, or how it fits!?!? I need to order the rad. asap but can't do until I know how it will fit! Thanks in advance.

I need a pair (front & rear) VR6 badges plus postage to Auckland, New Zealand 0626. Hope someone has some for me :) Cheers

I've looked through many of your posts and I admire your build! Thanks for the heads up on the V3s, if I had the budget they would definitely be my first choice. Unfortunately the build is costing me a bit so I want to spend no more than $1500 NZD (780 pounds incl. postage). Any other pointers would be awesome!!

Hi guys, I have just put a 24v BDE VR6 motor in my corrado with 5 speed VR6 02A box. I was previously running (crap) V-Maxx coilovers with my 16v and wound all the way down I found them not quite low enough (and they were uncaptive). Wheels are 16x8 and 16x8.5 bbs rs003 with 195/40 and 195/45 rubber. I'm looking for height & damper adjustable coilovers, thinking perhaps KW V2s or FK Konigsports. Can anyone recommend any coilovers that they have used in a 24v rado? Must go low and must be height & damper adjustable. Here is a pic of the car at the moment with wiring left before putting back together. I'm also in Auckland, New Zealand so if anyone can recommend a place to buy from that has competetive pricing and will send to me here that'd be excellent!

Found the brakes locally. Still looking for a bonnet! Lump is going in tomorrow so will need it asap.

It's a 2.8 24v (BDE) out of a mk4 bora V6 4 Motion. So you guys reckon that my early bonnet should clear the motor fine if I cut the mounts down a bit and run a mk5 R32 sump? I was looking into one of those anyway because it sits quite low and don't want to risk it. Ideally I'd use the bonnet I have, it'll cost me near on $1,000 by time I get a facelift one imported!

UK is tricky, but the Americans think that America = the World and 99% refuse to ship outside of the States!! I'll have a poke around vortex and see if anyone is willing to help, failing that I'll definitely be in touch. I really appreciate help from guys like you!

Hey guys, I'm fitting a 24v to my 1990 and need a couple of bits: Late spec bonnet 280mm g60 front disks Must be able to send to me in Auckland, New Zealand 0622. Really appreciate help from anyone willing to help a brother out in the asshole of the world! Cheers

Do I need a facelift bonnet if I'm putting a 24v in? I am about to rip into the conversion but if I NEED the facelift bonnet I want to make sure I have it before kicking into it. Cheers

Is anyone running a mk3 power steering reservoir in their Corrado? Would love to see a pic of where & how it's been mounted.