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Drill out the bolts head, then use a drill through the centre of the bolt with a bit that is smaller than the bolt. Then use a screw/bolt extractor to unwind the bolt. The bolt extractor is like a tap but with a reversed thread. As you wind it in to undo the bolt the tap's teeth bite in and grip. http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_trkparms=65%253A10%257C66%253A3%257C39%253A1&rt=nc&_nkw=bolt%20extractor&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14.l1581&_pgn=2

With the car lowered on its coilovers both the wishbone and tie rod then point slightly upwards. With the ball joint extenders the wishbones then points downwards again, very near the oem position. This should reset the suspension geometry and also make the anti roll bar and drop links work in their correct positions. Without flipping the tie rods upside down underneath their original positions to match the wishbones they would still be pointing upwards, not good when you hit bumps in the road as they then are pushed even higher when the shock compresses.

Fitted a bump steer kit. Ball joint extenders and tie rod end flip bushes. Fitted some ap racing 4 pot stoppers a few weeks ago also. A very tight fit behind 16" brock b2's, not even room for wheel balance weights. Cant wait to get my 17" RC's back from the refurbisher.

I have a set of 6 or 7 (cant remember) and a few centre caps for sale. I was going to refurb them myself as there are enough good ones to make a great set.

Fitted a bump steer kit. Ball joint extenders and tie rod end flip bushes. Fitted some ap racing 4 pot stoppers a few weeks ago also. A very tight fit behind 16" brock b2's, not even room for wheel balance weights. Cant wait to get my 17" RC's back from the refurbisher.

Today i removed my Jabbasport turbo exhaust manifold due to it blowing and the car being down on power. This is what i found... 6 years of abuse lol. Apparently the first manifolds that they made were low nickel content and prone to cracking. Anyway, I bought a new manifold from Jabba (£505! ouch) It has higher nickel content and an updated design, Oh and i have a few other parts to go on while im at it. Piper 260/260 cam. (BP270H) Piper vernier pulley. INA cam followers. Rotor, dizzy, studs, copper hex head self locking exhaust nuts. Ford racing 440cc injectors.

Cracking build there, i bet your well chuffed. That motor looks right at home in there.

Today i removed my Jabbasport turbo exhaust manifold due to it blowing and the car being down on power. This is what i found... 6 years of abuse lol. Apparently the first manifolds that they made were low nickel content and prone to cracking. Anyway, I bought a new manifold from Jabba (£505! ouch) It has higher nickel content and an updated design, Oh and i have a few other parts to go on while im at it. Piper 260/260 cam. (BP270H) Piper vernier pulley. INA cam followers. Rotor, dizzy, studs, copper hex head self locking exhaust nuts. Ford racing 440cc injectors.

:norty: , :shock: , :luvlove: Blimey that thing is rapid, nice find. :thumbleft:

Black gear surround with Karman badge £30 Rear strut brace £70 £100 Posted? Im also after a passenger side door seal if in a1 condition, thanks.

Did some prep work on my new summer wheels to get them ready for a refurb on Monday. BBS RC, 17" x 7", 4 x 100, custom spigot rings, 15mm front spacers, 20mm rear spacers, 4 new genuine center rings, nuts and badges. 4 new tyres. I also have some extra badges on order that have the bbs logo in silver with the carbon background and also some bbs short stainless valves. I had the old tyres removed so i could then sand and file the curb rash out that was done by the previous owner. Im very happy with the results as i managed to remove nearly all of the damaged. The refurb is being done by APS in Swansea and is going to be brilliant silver, spray not powdercoat. [ATTACH=CONFIG]47736[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]47737[/ATTACH] Next... :salute:

Past few days: Dropped the subframe and gave it a damn good clean. Fitted some powerflexed wishbones. I stripped down my leaking steering rack and rebuilt it with all new seals, greased it up and fitted new genuine vw rack boots and uj boot (no vw specific tools were required for the rebuild!) Also fitted a powerflex steering rack mount. Flushed steering system out with new vw fluid and filled up with new vw steering fluid. Re-fitted subframe, rack and wishbones. (car on axle stands and i was out in the dark with a howling wind, not fun) Adjusted the sterring racks tension. Fitted some new genuine vw cv boots. Tweaked up the rear bearings after a few thou miles of use. The steering rack looked to be only a few years old and was in mint condition internally. It looks as if the previous owner or rack fitter didn't use vw specific fluid in it which might be the cause of the seals failing. The steering now feels as good as new. PASSED MOT TODAY 1st time and 0 advisories :clap: i should flippin hope so too. :lol: p.s. I really enjoyed watching the car come backwards off the rollers when he pulled on the handbrake. My previous brake refurb, pads and cables has worked a treat. :grin:

Well, it really has been a busy few weeks. An exhaust manifold to turbo stud snapped due to a worn out rear engine mount which meant that the cylinder head had to come off (again!) to get access to it. While i was at it i stripped the engine bay loom out and removed all of the loom tape, cleaned every single wire, replaced many of the amp plugs, repaired many worn out old cables, integrated an uprated headlight loom into the cars original loom, rewired the injector loom with all new plugs and wires and removed the old headlight loom and o2 sensor loom. I diverted the old o2 sensor cables to run my wideband. fitted the complete loom into black split ducting. While it was off the road i decided to spend a bit of cash on her. work done so far: AP Racing CP5200 4 pot calipers. AP Racing brackets for Corrado 4 stud. AP Racing bells. AP Racing discs, 294mm x 28mm, 4 groove, 48 angled vanes. Goodridge braided AP to Corrado front brake hoses. EBC red stuff front pads for AP CP5200. 4 x 17" 4 stud bbs rc's. Aquamist 1s water/metth Injection kit. Mocal alloy catch tank. New vibra-technics front engine mount. (mk2 golf vr6 conversion type) New vibra-technics rear engine mount. (fast road) KW rear anti roll bar. Powder coated and powerflexed front wishbones. Greddy turbo timer. New reiger front grille with eyebrow. 2 New heated washer jets, genuine vw. New reverse light switch, genuine vw. £150 of mikalor stainless steel hose clamps. New cv boots, genuine vw. New steering rack boots, genuine vw. G12++ coolant. New oil filter, genuine vw. New oil. New oil filter housing, genuine vw. New knock sensor. Elring G60 head gasket set and Elring head bolts. New exhaust manifold studs and nuts. New turbo to manifold studs and nuts. New battery. Aluminum backed fiberglass heat shielding for harness and firewall. Lots of harnessflex engine loom split duct with y,t and amp plug end fittings. Lots of thin wall cable, various sizes and colors. Lots of spade type crimps. Lots of solder and heat shrink. 2 x 70A relays and 70A fuses and holders for headlights. New AMP fuel injector plugs and wireing (wired ready for future possible sequential injection) Waterproof enclosure for relays. Osram night breaker bulbs. BG44K Pro Grade Fuel Injector & Fuel System Cleaner. Cleaned and painted the engine block. Stripped, cleaned and rebuilt the rear calipers, now they work as they should. Adjusted the handbrake. Adjusted the bias valve. Fitted a new kenwood kiv-700 media headunit and a 160 gig black ipod classic. PICTURES 1 PICTURES 2 PICTURES 3 PICTURES 4 Probably a few other things i missed lol. My back aches but my "to do" list is slowly getting smaller! :clap: And next week im going to strip down the steering rack (oh joy of joys) Ive ordered a new full trw rack seal kit from vw but it is stuck in France at the moment due to the recent strikes :( Next... :salute:

Fitted some brand new late front indicators. So now i finally have the full set, mint late head lights, mint late fog lights, and mint late indicators. :dance:

Saturday: Clocked, built up and fitted a new IHI turbo charger. (IHI VF22 hot side, IHI VF34 cold side) On the way home from this years inters the old turbo blew its oil seals and shortly after destroyed its bearings which resulted in one jammed turbo, lots of smoke and oil dripping from the tail pipe, luckily i was only 19 miles from home. On closer inspection of the turbo last week it turns out that when Jabbasport did the conversion they did not fit an oil feed restrictor which is required on the ball bearing VF34 turbo to limit the pressure. No wonder it has always used so much oil. Spoke to Subaru who supplied more info about the correct oil restrictor banjo bolt. I changed the end of the braided oil feed line for an alloy banjo fitting (http://www.earls.co.uk) and fitted the Subaru oil restrictor banjo bolt. I also added an inline 25 micron alloy oil filter to the oil feed for good measure. Fitted new heat reflective pipe jackets to the turbo water and oil pipes while i had it all apart too. Sunday: I took the car to VAGfest everything working great. 4 runs up the strip. The new turbo seems to spool up sooner and the car now feels much smoother and responsive. :cheers: Next... :salute:

Polished my eibach strut brace up. FItted bonnet bra to my carbon bonnet, had to drill 3 tiny holes into the fibreglass frame to fix the bra hooks into. :eek: The reason for bra is that i had a incident on Monday with a square lump of rubber about the size of a fist bouncing up the fast lane of the M5. A car was on my tail and there were cars to the left so i could not take avoiding action. I collected it on the front lip of the bonnet whilst doing 70mph :censored: Bonnet survived but smashed the clear coat on the front edge. Do corrados attract bad luck or is it just me lol. Fitted some new number plates as the old ones had water and dirt inside them. Fitted some silver bulbs into my clear front indicators. Gave it a good clean, t-cut and a vac ready for the trip to inters tomorrow. Meeting up with Monkey (Dave) the previous owner at inters. :thumbleft: Next... :salute:

Fitted an eibach alloy front strut brace 8) Struggled and swore a few times taking off the nuts from my old brace. Ended up taking the front shocks off for better access. Fitted a pair of late front fogs (gleaming mint condition pair, cheers asdf) also fitted some sonar clear late indicators. I just need to get some tinted lamin-x for them all now to match the headlights and to protect them, they are a also a bit bling against the tined headlights. Fitted a vibratechnics gearbox mount. Cleaned and oiled my cone filters. Next... :salute:

Fitted some genuine VR6 front top mounts, bearings and top plates. Wired my audi LED needles to come on with the ignition. Fitted an audi red led ciggy lighter (cheers Supercharged Junkie) Fitted an Audi R8 oil filler cap. Replaced my smoked EL auto-gauge oil pressure, boost and volt gauges with smoked EL auto-gauge oil temp, oil pressure and boost (cheers Supercharged Junkie) My existing gauges only had a 45 degree sweep on the needles so were hard to read. The new ones have a 270 degree sweep. Next... :salute:

Old pic from last June, one of my faves.

Fitted late style headlight glass to the headlights complete with brand new plastic surrounds and smoked lamin-x. (Many thanks StormchargedVR6) Removed eyebrow spoiler. Fitted my wideband gauge into the drivers side air vent. After owning the car for over two years i finally decided to scrape off the Nürburgring track sticker from the back of the car that was stuck on by the last owner. Polished up area where the sticker was with some t-cut. Next... :salute:

My old fluro orange painted corrado needles with a uv cold cathode lamp above... (soon for sale) Audi l.e.d. needles fitted. The needles are not as bright and glowing as the picture looks as i took the pic in low light and its the best my camera could manage :shaking: To fit these i had to cut the centre white illuminated ring of the ddi's out with a craft razor to allow the led's of belizeanguy's gauges to poke through. I also had to sand a little off the tip of the speedo needle as it was was touching the alloy bezel rings. All in all a tricky mod, 6 gauge faces, 6 pairs of cables, plus the cables for my jsb shift lights. I hope i never have to go into the clocks again! :grin:

Looked at all the dust on the car and decided i couldnt be bothered to clean it again, damn volcano :lol: Fitted VR6 style carbon fibre bonnet. Removed my MTX Audio stealth shelf and Fusion component rear speakers (for sale soon) and fitted an orignal corrado black rear parcel shelf and shelf supports with pyle speakers in them. Fitted red led illuminated needles to the dash gauges. Many thanks to Chris for meeting me with the above items and a pair of bumpers neatly packed into a 2 door mk3 golf early on a Saturday morning at a motorway services. Top bloke. :thumb right: While i was at it i also fitted some brand new early style headlight glass to each light and re-bonded the black surround to the glass at the bottom using some strips of black stuff from my work that is near identical to the orginal vw black goop. Next... :salute:

Over the weekend i fitted some weitecs , my babys recaro seat :thumbleft: and removed my fk's :shock: 5 year old FK AK coilovers! the dampers inside were fine with no leaks. Picked up some early lights up on eBay for 99p, nearly brand new glass in both and reflectors/bodies/adjusters/surrounds are mint. Next... :salute:

Fitted new top mounts on the front, repaired the power steering bracket for what seems like the :censored: ing 10th time :lol: Next. :salute:

Spent the afternoon out in the sunshine cleaning and polishing inside and out. Removed red and clear in-pro rear lights and fitted some original lights with a red top tint and a high gloss lacquered finish. Fitted some passat rear door handles and latches (cheers chiller1) and also fitted some genuine vw latch covers. Really happy with the end results and as a bonus the passat latches have child locks which will come in very handy when my little un is up front. Next. :salute: