Chris

thats good news, cheers for that. did you by any chance get a part number, if not should i being asking them to look for a battery bag/case, im not sure what they refer to it as

finished the barrels again, and fitted the new stainless lips. buying a decent camera is currently on my shopping list coz my phone camera is :censored:

that woud be awesome. thanks Jim

im trying to find a car battery bag/cover, the leather/fabric type with poppers holding the top down. i cant find one any where! all my local scrapys have the batteries away when then come in so none found there, and ebay has only turned up one result which was unfortunately too big for my battery. i even asked halfords and places like that, they had no idea. Dare i ask a vw dealership? any ideas guys? im after something like this

will US spec vr6 samcos fit a UK vr6? sorry if this is a stupid question i know they have a different product number but someone mentioned they might fit so had to ask incase as i dont know. uk kit is made up of 7 parts and the us kit is 8 parts from what i can see. any help / advice?

well that was abit of luck, it would have been a $h*t job. keep it as a spare, you never know, can guarrantee youll be paying through the teeth for another one if you ever needed it

good choice! wana see some photos with them on. how did you get on with the power steering rack by the way i forgot to ask chris

looking nice dude. keep up the good work. nice to see people bringing c's back from the dead :)

i should pay more attention to these threads! lol, ill let you know when i need spoon feeding again. :)

quick question about this, im interested in this install too but simply for aestetic purposes, not fussed about the a/c. could i hook this thing up to just run the fan speeds and the hot/cold like my original now broken heater controls. if so how hard is it to do? any problem areas i should be aware of?

Hi, Which one did you get? 500kg? 1tonne? etc? Cheers i got the tonne one, they should both be the same price though about £150, may as well go with the bigger one there is a long reach one too which could have come in handy for me a few times but its personal preference really.

not all coil pack vr's have built in immobilisers, my 94 vr conversion didnt. good luck finding the problem though dude, hope it all works out

No. Machine mart sell them though. thats where i got my clarke engine lift from, its a good lift and not too expensive either. i'd recommend it

looking great dude! well have to sort out some kinda meet sometime this year

cheers mate, glad the sunroof came out nice :) well up for a south coast meet! im definately going to road trip this thing across france and possibly germany this year

its dead easy mate, hardest part is picking your vr

looking very clean! love the colour :)

cheers for your comments guys. hopefully ill be making it to some meets this year. well it was crashed into last year, prepped and resprayed last august, then my 2l 16v ecu decided to cook (it had an aftermarket chip in it) the circuit board was proper black! so then it sat in my back garden till i decided to go the vr route. the engine conversion itself didnt take too long, 3 months of weekends whilst i was sourcing parts aswell. the car was sprayed at causeway repair center, totton, hampshire. i knew the main guys son so he did me a great deal. cheapest ive ever seen a full spray job go for. and they have done a spot on job! id highly recommend them

ive got a shed load of copper to get rid of this weekend so if i get chance to pick the cat up from my dads ill let you know how much it goes for without the middle man.

hi have you checked the spoiler control unit? its the little black box behind the dash, behind the headlight switch roughly. mine was working as it should before i changed my dash. i decided to use the spoiler control unit that came with the new dash, and when i finally got on the road with mine, the spoiler would only go up manually on the switch, it wouldnt raise automatically. (try this maybe) i got up to speed put the spoiler up manually then slowed right down and the spoiler automatically went down as it should. this should show that its just a faulty control box. i put my fully working one in and its fine now. the fact it goes up and down on the switch is a positive thing. seems to be a common problem ive fixed about 5 of these now for friends by replacing this unit.

so ive been on here for awhile and i havent really posted any photos of my corrado. thought it was about time i uploaded some :) this is a progessive gallery, please bear with it, the first photos are crap but had to get the whole story across. i bought it afew years ago after deciding i'd had enough of my scirocco, got it cheap from a friend knowing that it was very reliable. heres some of the first pictures (sorry there in black and white) the paintwork was ok but not like it is now. a brand new bmw then decided to clip me on a blind corner awhile back (i was pulling out, he was doing more than the speed limit) i was gutted! my first accident in the only car ive ever really wanted (apart from a mk1 scirocco :D ) the damage.......i was very lucky really, only body panels needed replacing, nothing else moved, oh and of course myself and the c*@t bmw drive werent hurt at all then had to decide should i lose it or restore it. i decided to restore it, a decision i regreted untill my respray was finished (that paid me back in full!) the rebuild.... did the clutch, headgasket etc etc after that. the bay was a state!!! also put a pretty much perfect condition full late black interior in at this point didnt take any photos of it though :cuckoo: then came the prep work for my respray, had a big tent up for the car n everything, did it all myself to save the pennies after the respray.... :D the vr conversion, lost the 2l 16v and completely re-did the engine bay (sorry about the poor quality photos, i had the use my phone camera for these as my proper camera broke) near everything has now been replaced for new or completely reconditioned and recoated to keep my 4 stud bbs rm's ive used 2l 16v hubs, hub carriers, arb, cv's and drive shafts on a vr sub frame. vr brakes all round, i kept 16v rear axel too. its being run on the 16v fuel pump aswell. replaced every bushing for polybushes, deleted the abs and replace all the brake lines + all round braided lines. coilovers, top mounts, 6-2-1 s/s manifold + exhaust system, s/s decat etc etc..... these are the buget coilovers which have swamped the market recently, worth every penny! my mate has fk coilovers(high sports i think) you dont notice the difference, plus you cant complain when they come with a 2 year warranty aswell after sorting out the 5 clogged up injectors i got it running, i was so happy, the fact the engine had been sat for about 3 years and still sounded new was amazing, no funny noises at all! running smooth aswell! my lucky day! sporting my mates polished audi wheels as the bbs's still arent finished yet (not really my cup of tea these arent) after putting the rear audi wheels on it went for its first vr mot, flew through, didnt have any worries really, everything was new. this is how it stands today, bbs's still not done but will be in a few weeks. ive poured my soul into this car since the crash with a very tight buget, and its almost there :D im no expert when it comes to cars but having done pretty much everything myself apart from the final coat of paint, polishing the rocker + manifod and pressing the polybushes i dont think its come out too bad at all. you could say, another corrado saved looking back at the first photos low enough for you!? this may have to change :) wana say a big thank you to everyone who has either given me advice, sold me a part or bought a part off me to aid funding this obsession, you know who you are. youve helped put a big smile back on my face :D :notworthy: again sorry about the photo quality they really dont do it justice

hi, has anyone scrapped a genuine cat recently? was wondering how much they go for approx. at the scrappies...? i heard there worth a little bit of money

i found out what this drive shaft was by the way. its a torsion shaft of some sort which was appartantly used on overseas g60's (golfs i think). not recommended for use with a vr6 :) i havent had any probems yet, but then im not thrashing it. thought i'd post this up incase anyone was still curious edit *** it was used to prevent wheel hop under hard acceleration

thats wicked, cheers bill. ill have a look at it over the weekend

just wondering which were the best insurance companies with regards to temp insurance policies cheers, chris