jimmy83

A mate of mine (who incidentally is not on the forum yet, but will be soon hopefully!) came round in his newly finished vrt, so as the sun was setting, we got a few nice piccies of his and my corrado.

Right, time to dig this one up again. After trying many things to cure my cold running misfire, i will outline what I tried, and what the actuial cause was, as there seem to be a lot of 2.0 16v with similar problems. Right, so firstly, the symptoms were: 1.When starting the engine from cold, the engine would start first time, but only run on 3 cylinders. This would continue until the oil temp read 80 deg on the MFA. 2. The car would not rev cleanly past 5,000 rpm, and seemed to hit a flat spot. So, onto what I replaced in an attempt to cure it: Spark plugs, Dizzy, cap + rotor arm Ecu, Ignition leads, coil, lambda sensor, water temp sender ( blue one on side of head) injectors, Fuel pump, fuel filter, I also stripped, cleaned and checked for any cracks etc the entire inlet system, i.e, manifold, all vacuum pipes, fuel lines. Checked all engine bay wiring for damage etc... Anyhoo, after all this, still no progress whatsoever. At this point, I took the head off to see if it was something mechanical as opposed to fuel or electriacl causing the gremlins. Really REALLY wish I'd tried this first........Once the head was off, I thought I may aswell strip it all down and give it a once over. When I came to put the valve spring compressor on one of the inlet valves on no.3 cylinder, lo and behold, the spring was broken! Luckily the two parts had stayed put, and not rattled around the head! SO promptly replaced duff spring, put nes tappets in, and hey presto, good as new.......No misfiring, and revs cleanly to the limiter now. Aren't corrado's fun!????!!

I think the mk2 golf ones would be best suited, although I'm sure the mk3 abf ones would fit too, just the mk2 is closer? I'm looking at getting some of these soon jim, so I'll let you know, unless you try them first of course! Who wants to be the guinea pig?

Saw this driving through pompey centre on saturday, looks ace on the new rims.

Rado looks sweet! Is that your mk2 in the road out front too? looks very nice! cool rims too!

wow, first yellow 'rado that i've seen and thought, mmmmmm! wheels suit it to a tee, good choice!

The 5omm manifold will make the engine rev slightly better at the top end, i.e, get to the limiter quicker, but it will lose a bit of low-down torque. What would be great was if shrick did a variable manifold for the 16v! best of both worlds!

arse, just re-read all of this. In one sense, I'm glad my problem is shared by you guys, on the other, Its now going to be an expensive month.......

Yeah, i have been reading that article with interest too. the 2.0 16v 'rados seem to have a ccccrap selection of cogs as it is, and I think mine's due a re-build anyway!

surely if the internals of the bottom end are the same on all of them, a 225 bam is no stronger than say a 150 bhp agu?

bit like a giant remote control car bodyshell.

yeah, its basically a spaceframe chassis with a fibreglass body on top. I've seen these race, and they're pretty rapid, good p/w ratio.

is it only the later cars that have chips in then? mine has, it's a '95?

yeah, good point, I didn't think the 9a had a warm-up reg. Although, if he had it in a golf, it would prob be running on k-jet ( as in 1.8 16v engines) not Ke-jet (as in 2.0 corrado's passats etc...)

Again, agreeing with everyone else here trig. I don't think there's ever been a car that generates as much love/hate from its owners as a corrado! I bet everyone on this forum has felt like this at some point! Only seen the car once, and It's gorgeous, don't do it.........