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Confirmed :salute:

O-town is where the cool kids hang out 8)

The silver pipe with the blue ends is the fuel rail, and the braided hose going into it is a fuel line :salute:

id love them dude, they are pretty well stuck on tho. how muh would you want for them? cheers Andy How does £20 + postage for both of them sound? I'll go take some pics :salute: Edit: I used the butter knife technique to get the strips off, not many mechanics know about it but it works well :lol: 3 of the clips pinged off into the garden though, and one was KIA :sad: Pics... Passenger side Drivers side brushed down the dust and took a pic. Close-up, rubber still looks in good nick. Cleaned up well too.

Woop! Good work Chris, that's awesome! must be good to have it all finished now. A sub £1500 24v conversion sounds pretty good money! :shock:

I have both of these (offside and nearside) on some spare early doors I have in the workshop. Would you like them? :salute:

Ah yeah, see your point. That will mainly be the rad support panel and the cross-member though. If I replace those before the engine and the bolts are single-use, I may just have to buy new bolts when I put the new engine in. But that will be years from now.

Ooops, forgot to peek that following morning! I will do it tomorrow morning... ha ha... honest :cuckoo:

25% of the overall vote atm mate, not too bad!

No that engine isn't going in anytime soon. The engine in the car does 34mpg on high-speed cruises, barely uses water or oil and so it will be staying in for a while :salute: hence why the stripped engine is stripped :grin: I don't mind putting it in my workshop though, I hope to sell tons of bits I don't need asap for many reasons... space being one!

Thanks bro :grin: I'm not sure what you mean by sort? I certainly don't have any money to do anything major to it, but if you'd like it out of your guest room and in my workshop that can be arranged! :cuckoo: :lol: Ain't that the truth :roll: Still, I went out for a drive tonight cos outside smelt nice in the rain ( :camp: :camp: :camp: ). Did a couple of laps of the ring and pootled around at an avg. of 46mph which was quite nice. Flat cap, leather elbow patches and John Denver CD on order :cuckoo:

Even further than he is :( I don't think crank bolt is two-man, my bro managed it on his own I'm pretty sure. try the size smaller on the irwins, you might have to hammer it on though. I've done that a bunch of times, those gripper sockets really are very strong! do you need a new stat housing? I can send you one FOC :salute:

I didn't realise those beam sleeves came out! Cheers for the photos, and keep the updates coming! :clap: :salute:

OMG :shock: Waxoyl Attack PRONTO...!

Went out to the workshop :lol: today and a spider has decorated my new subframe with a huge web! Cheeky little thing :bad-words: Uh yeah... that's pretty much the update for today. Really must put that on sometime.

Trying to think of the part you mean. Any pics?

For example, you shouldn't need any imperial (inches) sockets or spanners as everything on the Corrado is metric. Some handy bits you might have: 30mm socket for hub nuts, 34mm spanner for track rods (if you're gonna play with the rack) 22mm drop-ring spanner or drive-through socket for top mounts, 7mm allen key/socket for top mounts, Spring compressors, 2ft breaker bar, Piston wind-back tool (for calipers), 11mm spanner for caliper bleed nipples, Ball-joint separator (for lower ball joint from hub removal, and track rod end from hub removal), Torx bits (I forget the sizes) for inner driveshaft flanges and cylinder head bolts. They're just some bits which I've used recently which are really useful if you're planning to do a lot of stuff yourself :salute:

no, the links are dead.... Richard?

Depends what you wanna do buddy. You can obviously spend thousands on tools and still only have a part-complete set.

^^^ Good points Toad. Putting anything in front of the radiator will restrict airflow, that is the law of physics (unless someone has made an ethereal IC? :lol:). Clearly, different people consider such quantities as "airflow restriction" in different ways. The anal engineers (like me :grin: ) will obviously consider anything in front of the radiator as a restriction to airflow (spiders web, piece of dust in the air) and others will think that stacking tons and tons of things in front of the radiator is fine as long as it doesn't overheat. SO it's all opinions really, good job none of us share our cars and have to agree on plumbing huh! :norty: :lol:

Fair enough matey, if you're happy running a U bend then it doesn't matter. After all you said you're not after power so it should be ok.

Between the mk2 Golf haynes and the Bentley Corrado manual, I reckon absolutely everything on the car is covered :salute: 1.8 16v engine isn't covered by Bentley, so I use the haynes for that and for other UK-biased parts of the car.

I don't have a clue about VRs :shrug:

Oops, not many house have 3 phase in! Probably won't be long until power sub-stations will come along as a kind of car docking station to charge them up for you. Solar panels on the roof too? :nuts:

Ah, thought I recognised the karmann username :salute: