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Awesome work Dave! I will send payment today, the first purchase for my R32 conversion (other than engine obviusly :lol:)

:shock: orgasmic is definitely the word Kev!! :lol:

I haven't actually bought my fan yet as not ready to start my R32 conv yet :( but put me down for 6.5"/11" pleeeease :salute:

Yeah that's exactly why I would still love to do a ferrari/lambo/aston one some day!

I have just bought a single seater experience at Silverstone for myself as it's on offer at lastminute.com for £119 when it's usually £169 which i think is cheap. It's basically in a formula ford with a 1.6 145bhp zetec lump but only weighing a few hundred kilos they are rapid, 5th gear raced one against a Ford GT :shock: I would love to have a go at a big supercar one some day but to me they are a lot of money and you only get few laps, on this single seater I get 2 20 minute sessions, first with pace car and second completely on your own to go as fast as you like :clap: so should be a good day I reckon!! I'm only going because my boss got it for xmas and was moaning about being on his own :lol:

Well like I said mate if you want me to have a go at fading them down a bit then by all means come over any time and I'll have a go mate. Can't really promise anything though, they look like quite deep scratches so it won't remove them but it might remove lighter parts and generally take the edge off the deeper ones.

Fcuk sake what a bunch of tossers!!! :censored: :censored: If it's any help mate i dont mind giving them a polish some time to try and make them a bit less obvious until you can get them repaired?

Loving it Dave, definitely put me down for one 8)

I really hope you don't have to sell Michael, would be a real shame that! :( I would hate to see your car go to someone with less enthusiasm and care than you have for the car, if it does go it deserves a good home! Hopefully things will work out for ya and it will be wearing RS's and being propelled by an R32 one day! On another note, thanks for the R32 :clap: I am so eager to get started but can't yet as need to get another car sorted to use!! :brickwall:

You are my hero Karl :notworthy: can't wait to see those babies in!!

:shock: Holy sheeite that must be insane!!!

Nice one Karl :clap: If you get it back over weekend all up and running, do you fancy swinging by mine on the way back to take me for a little spin?

Is that not the one he said he read Rob? Oh yeah, i only skimmed the questions so didn't read that! :lol:

Might be worth having a look through THIS thread as most of your answers have probably been brought up before.

Might be worth giving Vince at Stealth a ring as he is getting pretty clued up on R32 installs now.

Cheers mate! I just looked at your thread, should be an awesome car when complete ... good luck though :lol:

you don't know half of it mate, i still have another 2 lots of "special" front seats i have bought but can't decide what i will do with them yet. Pass a set my way perhaps :cheers: :lol:

Cheers guys, can't wait to be in the 24v club tbh! Jim i know you weren't having a go mate. I'll tell you why i decided to go R32. My engine is now on 154k and i use it daily and do like 15k miles per year or whatever maybe more! So it's not getting any younger. Even though me and kev have done the chains and gasket etc it's not going to live forever even though it could last a lot longer i know! My main problem is i am a complete speed nut, i have grown up with speed, i set lap records on go karting tracks when only a young lad but mainly i used to race motorbikes and tuned up R1's aren't slow!! :eek: And when i raced bikes and had bikes in general i was a complete idiot on them, it was win it or bin it (and it was usually the latter :lol:) so because of that i won't have a bike on the road, i WILL kill myself! But i also love my cars now, and unlike on bikes i'm not a twat in a car i drive fairly fast at times but generally i just drive but i do have that need for speed which is why i went for the VR. But the VR on its own isn't fast enough for me, i want to just press and have power ready and that's not the VR and sadly even supercharged it didn't get on with it quick enough! So i was going to go turbo and even started preparing for it, but to go turbo and have big power i would need to upgrade a lot more and it would end up costing a lot and there's still no telling how long it would last using it every day! Kev's is an awesome machine but it's been built up to that spec over time and he has tried everything possible to make sure it's reliable, and the engine is all pretty new anyway so i have no doubt his will last a long time! So for me the best option was R32, it's not going to completely break the bank, it's still a VR6 engine just a modern day version, mine's only done 6k miles so it's got possibly 200k of life in it! And because it modern and more refined it is exactly as Stan described much much more responsive with power in any gear, smoother, sounds awesome still, still good on fuel etc and that's just the 4motion engine with around 230bhp, so an R32 with 280bhp will be just the ticket imo, fast as fcuk and still reliable for many more years ... and i get to keep the beautiful corrado look 8) Plus i get very bored and this will give me something to do :lol: i loved doing the supercharger work so this will be so rewarding for me as will be doing 90% of the work myself really, roll on!! I already have the first part of the R32 in my car ... i nicked the alternator off it :lol: needed a bit of alteration though :wink:

Yeah it was a struggle but we lifted the engine out the van, in the house, up the stairs and on the bed :lol: Cheers for the replies guys, Karl and Mick help will be very welcomed when i get started if even just for the company :cheers: I am really looking forward to getting started on it now! I won't be starting with the engine for a while yet as i will accommodate all the parts i need first so it's ready to go! So in the mean time i will do other jobs like rear axle bushes :pale: renew discs and bearings etc, fit ARB and give it a fcuking good clean inside and out! I will get some pics of the engine tomorrow to start it all off :D

To be honest i am just going to be glad to have something to do again as well! I have been soooo bored that even if i had my supercharger still working i think i would either be going turbo or R32 anyway just for something to do. Mind you it's not all bad being bored as i am pretty good on guitar now :lol:

Yeah i'm sure it will rekindle my love for the corrado again! I bloody well hope so anyway after the all the money i have spent/spending :lol:

Hi guys, Thought i would dig my thread back up as it's been so long since i have said anything about my car! Well last time i spoke on this thread my car was back on the road with the Rotrex all working fine thanks to the legendary help of the usual suspects Kev, Dave, Karl etc i love you all :lol: I then drove the car round Europe beginning of June and things went down hill for me :( the alarm failed, the windscreen wiper mechanism came apart during very heavy rain on an Autobahn :pale: but most of all my supercharger packed up whilst in the middle of bloody nowhere in the Italian mountains! I got it pretty much back to standard in the hotel owners garage with very little tools and after a lot of trips to the nearest VW (2 hours away!). When i got back i put it back to standard engine wise and then got a nail through one of my tyres on the BBS's so even went back to speedies. Since then i will admit i completely lost interest in the car and sadly it has deteriorated some what and is now quite frankly a piece of sh*t in my eyes, it gets cleaned once a month if it's lucky, the rear axle bushes are just non-existent really, i can't be arsed to spend money on tyres so its stayed on speedies, the exhaust is banging on the rear axle, it's pulling in all sorts of directions, the brakes are warped and so on :lol: To be honest it's not all bad as i could most likely sort everything out in a weekend with a bit of work and money but just haven't had the interest since moving to my new house (quite a down grade due to parent splitting) as i have a tiny garage which is full of crap so don't get the car in and I don't have a lot of room on the drive to do jobs anyway so nothing gets done to it and i just drive it to work every day! It's now on 154k miles and even though i am confident the engine is fine as me and Kev pretty much rebuilt it with stronger parts, it's still not going to last forever. The alternator has just gone as well :( sooo as you may have seen in the Parts For Sale section i am having Goldie's R32 engine off of him which i pick up tomorrow :clap: I am going to be using my old mans Audi for work and will be taking the Corrado off the road as i have hopefully secured a pretty big safe lockup with power etc to store it and do all the work in :D Over the next couple of months i will be trying to renew and generally refresh as much on the car as i can afford to as well as swap the engine to the nice new R32 one (with the usual suspects help in places hopefully :lol:) So watch this space for updates and lots of pics :clap:

Jesus Jon are they green enough :lol:

Looks tasty 8)

Sorry to hear you are having bad luck Pete! It's bound to happen though, no big job like this goes smoothly on corrados :lol: Just think of it this way, you are going to be getting and resolving all potential problem I might face so I will know what needs to be done :lol: Hope it gets sorted asap for you!