G60_Marc

Removed stock o2 sensor from de-cat pipe and fitted a bosch 4.2 wideband sensor in its place. Wired in wideband controller and gauge. Connected simulated narrowband output from controller to the ecu. Set co pot to roughly 14.7 at idle when the engine is warm. Glad to say that the car seems to be fueling perfectly. Next. :salute:

Fitted some new front pads, Ferrodo DS. Gave everything related to front wheel area a good checking over, all tip top. Bled brakes. Fixed a small fuel pipe leak near the FPR. Next :salute:

Made some smooth mirrors. Fixed a problem with the radio and then got carried away and decided to removed all of the factory speaker wires as they are not used anymore. Then decided to rewire and tidy up all of my dash mods as it was like a snakes nest in there. Replaced doth door membranes. Next... :salute:

Sometimes its like corrados know that they need some tlc and let you know. :lol: Friday, just as i was about to head off on a 50 miles round trip in the hammering rain my windscreen wipers finally gave up. They had been juddering all over the place for more than a year and i just kept putting off fixing them. On inspection today i found that all the linkage joints were dried up and full of dirt, as were the moving parts that the wiper arms connect to. Plus the extra pressure of the lupo wiper conversion so its no wonder the motor was having a struggle with it all. Stripped the motor down today and cleaned everything. The motor brushes were fine. Greased the gearbox and motor bearings. Cleaned the electrical connector and then put it all back together. Cleaned and greased all parts of the the linkage and found that under all of the dirt it was actually all in tip top condition. Fitted a new relay and a new fuse just for good measure. Adjusted motor rest position and fitted and adjusted the wiper arms. Wipers are perfect now :clap: as good as new, fast, smooth, quiet and no judder. Why did i put this off for so long! Next... :salute:

Autumn is now here and winter is on its way so i got a few things done that ive been putting off for ages. Fitted a new Gates cambelt kit. Got it from ebay for £14 best offer. here or here Fitted new ferrodo rear brake pads. (ebc greens fell to bits when i removed them!) Weather proofed and black detailed rear in-pro lights. Put my original black detailed headlights back on. (thinking of selling the black angel eyes) Repaired rear number plate plinth. Removed and greased internals of interior heater fan motor. (was making a noise) Repaired noisy power steering belt. Adjusted sun roof. (wasn't sitting flush when closed letting air in at high speed) Changed oil. Checked tyre pressures. Wax oiled inside of all wheel arches. Tracked down and repaired leak in boot area. Water getting in behind the corrado badge. :clap: Started making some smoothed wing mirrors... :salute:

Fitted my new 50mm front spoiler (cheers Andy665) as i was sick of my 90mm snow plough digging up the road and scooping up road kill. Bolted on propper now instead of with cable ties and wing and a prayer. :lol: Replaced rear brake lines with some copper ones. The old lines failed my mot. When i cut the old lines open they were mint with nice thick walls. :mad2: Replaced outer cv boot after mot guy ripped the old boot apart. :mad2: Stripped out dash ready for JSB shift lights to arrive. Skinned my knuckles a few times just for good measure.

Fitted sns 5.5 chip, bosch red 350cc injectors, alloy strut brace, relocated bonnet lifter due to clash with strut brace , re-routed vac lines, re-routed cable harness around drivers side strut top due to re-located bonnet lifter, modified jabba filter shied due to bonnet lifter, relocated dump valve closer to throttle body, taxed car, put 2 new front tyres on. Need to do the timing tomorrow, took it out earlier and its fueling much better than before = more boost dialed in on the greddy :clap:

Todays completed jobs. Got busy with the angle grinder and mig welder and knocked up a short shift mod ready for when daves16v polished gear surround arrives. I used newer bushes and a spring taken from a low mileage gear selector. What a difference its made! My gearbox itself is brand new from vw and the short shift makes gear changes deadly accurate and really solid and clicky, unlike the old mechanism. With some careful grinding of the tunnel lip in front of the selector housing to get the pivot rod out, i managed to do the mod from inside the car. It was tricky cutting, grinding and welding the various parts but it was well worth it. :clap: Also fitted a little sun visor above the rear view mirror, from a passat i think, cheers ebay.

Todays completed work. Fitted 2 new handbrake cables. Overhauled rear calipers. Fitted 2 new rear bearings. Fitted oil cooler. Relocated horns to behind bumber. Fitted a large flexi hose to feed cone filter cool air from brake duct. Tight fit :shock: good job front mount is solid :lol: Job dun :salute:

Boom boom pow! :D Three Rockford Fosgate punch amps. Rockford Fosgate high quality front components and cross over’s in custom made door pods Rockford Fosgate punch sub woofer in carpeted box with a rockford fosgate alloy sub guard. MTX-Audio stealth shelf. Fusion rear components and cross over’s. Timber carpeted boot install. Heavy duty audio power cable and gold fuse block. Polished stainless steel fire extinguisher. Varad U.S.A. Twin 1000 colour LED lighting bars. Hinged trap door in floor for tools, air compressor, jack, fluids, rags etc. Just enough room left for my babys push chair and a few bags of groceries :)

8v IHI VF34/22 Turbo (was G60)

A few things ive done so far... G12+ coolant. oil. new battery. new front tyres. ebc green stuff all round. new headlights. new fog lights. new fk grill. new inpro red/crystal rears. new oem clear side indicators. new oem chrome rear vw badge. new ariel. stainless steel polished battery cover. chrome polished inside door handles. carbon fibre gauge pod in cubby hole. carbon fibre radiator cover. inxx bonnet lifter. alloy strut top caps. 10mm blue 4 core HT leads (from inters) new w5dpo spark plugs. new knock sensor. tidied up engine bay wires. new expansion tank. polished up all air intake pipes a little. new rockford fosgate ice install. mtx stealth shelf. installed greddy boost controller above steering wheel. new afr guage. altered timing (it was pinking really bad) added an extra exhaust hanger to stop flexi banging on steering rack. overhauled calipers. cleaned and undersealed inside all wheel arches. fixed rear number plate surround. Fixed quite a few faults, switches, electric mirrors, handbrake tunnel surround etc. lots more Next up is a new windscreen and gearbox, the one in it whines when off throttle. I have a nearly new (2000 miles) 02A AYN code box to go in for now, still pondering CTN tho. UPDATE: Installed a brand new gearbox. A friend bought it new from vw but ran it with low oil which burnt out the input shaft bearing. I bought it off him and replaced the bearings LINK TO PICTURES OF STRIP DOWN AND BUILD UP

After having owned a white 91 corrado G60 for a while the charger gave out (on 200,000 miles, 1 owner from new, original charger!) and also a cyclist ran into the side of me denting the rear quarter panel. As it is high mileage and a bit tatty i decided to break her up for parts and a few weeks ago i bought this http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?17194-Monkeys-IHI-G60&highlight=monkeys+ihi since owning it i have re-wired the engine bay, slapped on some red and clear rear in-pros, checked all engine sensors isv etc and i adjusted the timing to stop it pinking. It runs really well :norty: Plans for summer: 440cc injectors 16v fuel pump Upgrade fpr re-map Oil cooler Gearbox The gearbox in the car is standard and currently at 150,000 miles, problem is it whines a little under de-acceleration . I have recently bought a new 02A gearbox code ATN and am thinking of putting some CTN ratios into it so the car has longer legs, it needs them!

It is possible to tune a G60 with an emulator yourself and burn your own chips for less than £300. You can also have switchable maps using the 2Timer plugin board. Info taken from ecuconnections com: Custom Mapping Digifant 1 with tunerpro Brendon Small there has made an XDF file for TunerPro RT for the G60 eprom (chip). Ive been playing with TunerPro RT and a selection on different G60 eproms this weekend using his XDF file and might get an emulator to fiddle about with at some point.

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. Next... :salute:

Yep i agree, bin them or rip out the dampers and springs if they are ok and sell them on as spares parts. I had the same on some fk ak's that were fitted to my car before i bought it. http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?14207-The-quot-what-I-did-to-my-Corrado-today-quot-thread...&p=634711&viewfull=1#post634711 Needless to say, when i jacked the car up and saw the corrosion i binned them very soon after.

Ive been doing the same TT, S3, R32 debate myself for the past few weeks. I then started to look at Audi A3 3.2 Quattros. Very nice cars with lots of options, 2 door, 4 door, S-Lines, Sports, DSG or manual gearbox, facelift front bumpers, ABT spoilers and skirts, Many different interior options, etc. They are more subtle than an R32, probably thrashed a lot less, low number of owners, Some nice 50,000 mile examples about and for reasonable money too. 2004 models seem to be the sweet spot looking at the spec vs the milage vs the price. Really liked the look of these http://pistonheads.co.uk/sales/2679142.htm http://pistonheads.co.uk/sales/2340286.htm http://pistonheads.co.uk/sales/2547332.htm

No problems here. Performance trim item with a carbon skin and a fibreglass frame.

I have had in-pros, fk's and sonars on the rear over the years. They have all ended up with moisture in them due to the way the companys bond the outside lenses on. My clear in-pros used to fill up with water. Dirt builds up under the edges of them causing the chrome/silver paint to come off and moss to start growing which is visable as the lenses are clear. This is hard to fix as the gap is less then 1.mm. They all have poor alignment with each other when the boot lid is shut. On some the fixings did not line up with the holes in the boot lid (had to file the boot holes bigger) Also the lights that are on the body of the car have no o.e.m. connectors to hook them up to the cars loom, the boot lid ones do. All my sets have either ended up in the bin or on the bay. Oem standard or modded get my vote.

Yep, genuine vw passat item and possibly quite rare too.The Passat and Corrado are very similar inside. http://cgi.ebay.de/VW-Passat-T4-Getrankehalter-Dosenhalter-Cup-holder-Grau-/230589812102?pt=Autoteile_Zubeh%C3%B6r&hash=item35b0394d86#ht_500wt_1156

I have a full working set here that was recently taken off my car so is all ready to be fitted. Only taken off as i upgraded to some ap 4 pots. 2 x Good working front calipers (in red) 2 x Front caliper mounting brackets 4 x Sliders and rubber boots for the above A full set of nearly new Ferrodo DS front pads (200 miles of use) 2 x Zimmernam front drilled discs, have wear but are useable 2 x Genuine vw front discs with some wear. (ill throw these in as a spare set) 2 x Goodridge braided front brake hoses. £150 posted.

Late or early model ?

Mine uses a mk3 golf setup with ribbed belt and pulleys, all G60 brackets etc are removed. Here are some pics of mine from Monkeys build thread. http://the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=27687&hilit=monkey+ihi+turbo&start=105#p689209

Good luck with the 8v turbo project. 8vT is great fun but can be a nightmare when things break. i will watch this one with interest. I have an ihi turbo 8v

I had a hard to find clunk once, my hub nut had come loose! Check the hub nut is torqued up to spec with the correct dished washer.