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So here are some pics from today. It's taken me 2 hours to get them up and in some kind of order - seems that Imageshack has done a complete 180 from being a useful image hosting site. Never mind. As she stands today. Peeled the tarp back for some pics! Jack is in place to hold the engine but actually all the mounts are still on. Standard VR6 gas shocks all around allow for plenty plenty droop! Going to look seriously high when it's working again :/ NS hub. Older of the two, but still working well. Wheel spins so freely now. I think it might need a bearing but not sure. OS hub. Yep, it's an ABS one! lol. Must be off that scrapper car. It's had a lick of paint and a new bearing a while back. Corrosion of front members at battery end. Must be due to acid, surely? Overall view of the underside members. Deffo worse at battery end / NS chassis rail. Even the brace plate on the bumper is corroded! I guesd that could also be due to road conditions etc. A serious lack of space sees me removing parts from the C... and storing them inside! The seats are dead anyways, so I don't mind them getting messy. The rear of the interior. Lots of random parts. There's plenty of spares in the boot too, inc the replacement front members. An overall shot of the engine bay - plenty removed and plenty more to go! This is my main bodywork problem. The oles are big and plenty, and in places it's only the paint or underseal holding bits of it together. Definitely needs wirebrushing back to see the extent of the damage Inner wings also a concern. It doesn't look liked the worm has crept too much up the sides, so I'm hoping it's still catchable.

I'd guess there'd be no chance to ask for some earlies? I doubt you'd get enough interest tbh.

....I always thought the "crack pipe" was part of the coolant system :s

thanks for confirming about the carriers dragon green. I shall put them on the bin pile! :D I still have a set of VR6 calipers and carriers from Toad's VR6 aka the Hedge Wedge which I haven't really gotten around to doing anything with. Perhaps I wil resto them and sell the boxed G60 calipers i have.

Cheers Cazza!! That's great news. I thought it was the chassis rail bolts, thanks for confirming. Well, still no pics (relying on big bro!) but I cracked on incredibly today. I undid the front mount, but remembered that I actually need to take out those things called driveshafts from the hubs and gearbox if i wanted to drop the block and box out. So I started on them. Even though the car is up in the air, the wheels wouldn't turn. So I undid the hub nuts because I would forget otherwise, and then I removed the wheels. The discs had monumentally siezed in the pads. Luckily it's still the old 256mm setup as the brand new G60 calipers are still tucked away. I half thought i'd keep them for the Golf but that would involve swapping hubs also, and to be honest I think I need the 256 carriers to mount the G60 calipers on (can someone confirm?). Anyways, I managed to get the brakes unsiezed by taking the calipers off, and then obviously when I tried to undo the Torx bolts that hold the inboard ends of the driveshafts into the diff the whole lot would spin. Awesome. 8mm spanner to the rescue! I found out that wedging an 8mm spanner with the open end straddling one of the vented ridges on the edge of the disc meant I could brace the disc against the carrier and therefore the whole lot wouldn't turn! Result. NS driveshaft came out quickly after that. I did the same on the OS and had 2 driveshafts! I ended up cutting the 256 calipers off at the bendy hose and then tucking the stubs up out of the way so they wouldn't leak anywhere. I wanted to leave the 2 hard lines on as I still need to replicate them in copper nickel pipe. So I now have no front brakes of any kind and 2 driveshafts out. Once the bumper is off, it will be off with the clutch m/c and then the block is coming out! :D

i've been back under the plum today, I must be getting in trouble soon with the wife(!) but rain has stopped play for the moment. I'm quite close to getting the block and box out now. I've wedged the jack under the sump to support the weight as i undo the front mount. Then I'll take off the clutch slave cylinder from the box and try to move it somewhere useful - might have to take the hard line off also. The wires are going all over the place. I've swept them all over to the right on top of the box as I undo the completely crippled Mk2 style pas tank holder. That battery tray is fully rotten. About a 2" square hole straight through to the floor and a number of other corroded edges etc. The rad support is fully dead. The cross member is on life support and i'm going to pull the plug shortly. Just wrestling with how to take the front bumper off at the mo: Bentley doesn't seem to be hugely helpful unfortunately. I think i'm right in saying that the front panel and slam can't come off until the bumper is out the way? Headlights are already in the boot(!) So it's getting there quite well, considering i've probably only spent about a week of 1-2 hour sessions working on it. Having plusgas and Irwins handy definitely saves a lot of stress. Will have to retrofit the pictures to this thread.

I have some wheels, I think they are ATS bricks. Solid formation, kinda square looking with the texture of red sand. Could do 4 for £100 posted? let me know.

power now at 112hp... do you think that's a good mod then?

I used solidworks to draw it and then an add-on program called PhotoView 360 to render them in higher quality. the grey wheel with hub took about 10mins each side. I'd love to have my own legit copy but it's about £2k a year with license, so pretty much out of reach unless you're a real established freelancer. Alex, I may be able to do some Dundee Cake for you. Can you give me average raisin size and sponge density? :lol:

any idea if the 16v exhaust boxes would fit a mk2 golf?

Well done matey, makes a lot of sense! Besides, you still have your huge sideburns if any manly talk is banded about again and the VR for the occassional hoon! I've gone from a 90 Corrado project to an 89 mk2 golf daily..... i think i'm doing it wrong :/ Deffo looking into a small cc or diesel as a car for the missus though. PM me with price if you don't want to mention it here.

Ok ok time to fess up. It's not my garage, and nor do I have a set of Compos waiting to go on. It's a CAD render of some modelling I had done previously. I was playing around with the rendering software and it came out pretty well! Here's some more: FYI it's a Nissan Silvia spindle for a rally car I was fooling about with on placement a couple of years ago. It's a wilwood 6-pot caliper and a custom bell on an unknown brake disc (and yes, I did model all those little screws and the brake pads...!) ---------- Post added at 01:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:24 PM ---------- caliper carrier is missing btw.

.....Thanks for that! :-p I am glad that it comes off anyways. Bro is good! His exhaust is blowing a bit, so he's driving about in the Honda mainly doing about 7.2mpg. Perm 4wd.

The skateboard is engine transport; the jack is engine support! Cazza... remind me? :-s

Great news, and welcome back. I just have one question: You have a wife?

Well I did in fact work on the Plum again last night, and managed to get the head off (manifold still attached!) Sorry there are still no pics, currently waiting on big bro to take them off his SLR. Points of interest: intake valves all had a sandy hue along with sparkplugs so at least it was running well when the pump went...? I can't actually remember if I have driven it since the pump went! I'd have to scroll back through all of this thread to see exactly what happened. couple of piston crowns had a kind of shiny/varnished look with some bobbly bits on too. All black in colour. It almost looked like pock marks of detonation but can't confirm that. I haven't managed to check the flatness of the head yet (Haynes says it should be within 0.1mm but surely the head gasket can mask that???) as the light went and I'm not really equipped for it. Next is the fun job of stripping off the front end - headlights, slam panel, bumper, front panel to pull out the dead 'members with the block and gearbox held up with the jack. Then undo the two rear mounts aswell and drop the block and box off as a one-piece onto a skateboard (on gravel driveway) and disassemble off the car. Hero work. Pics asavp!!

I thought early dashes were grey? ---------- Post added at 12:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:57 PM ---------- In fact Cazza VR will know the switchover year.

I don't think they get that hot until they are driven hard as mentioned. That has been my experience with the 2 in our family. Well, 1 and a half ^_^

grabbed a set of compos in anthracite grey. I think they should look quite nice on the C! Thoughts?

I see. Doors are not early/late specific are they? :D I like your thinking!

DC is, but Motorway is only covered by the Pass Plus scheme IIRC. That is a good idea about braking Wendy; I tend to let the Golf just run down from the revs instead of using the brakes if I don't have to, but then drivers behind have no idea you're slowing until they gain on you!

I found the cloud reflections look kinda mauve in those first pics, and added with the knowledge of Jay's thread on requesting pics of DBP cars I just did 2+2. I find it hard to find panels in DBP though, that's a bad point if you have an older Corrado.

The leads look new, but I guess they may not be. I don't have the car advert anymore else I would chesk what was done as I'm pretty sure that it was mentioned on there. I sprayed the leads and cap with silicone spray last night, and it started fine this morning.....but i wasn't raining! ha ha. It's just rained this lunchtime, so we'll see how the drive back goes. I'll see if any of the leads are damaged/broken and test them out, and will read up about the MAF in the haynes. Cheers Tony.

So, I spent another hour or so on the plum last night (I think i'm getting the bug again!). Thanks to davidwort for his advice, I started taking off the exhaust at the manifold to downpipe join as the nuts were all still like new and I could easily undo with a 17m socket on a shortish ratchet. I coulnd't undo the frontmost line of 3 as the cables for the gearchange are in the way, so those need to come off before I do the other 3. I also managed to get the alternator off, along with the water pump (will keep for the Golf or perhaps the Plum if i stay with a KR engine) and also removed the airbox. The airbox removal was mainly due to space but now the radiator is all out I had a lot more working space. I've moved all the loom over so that it's sitting on top of the gearbox, so I should really work out what is what on that before I take too much stuff out! It'll be great to have the engine out, and be able to give the bay a good scrub. From the looks of it all my front end freshness has lasted well. Bro took some pics and an HD video of me waffling on about water pump bolts. I'll get it up for the insomniacs amongst you :lol:

Whether this is the OP or someone else selling this item, there is no details as to how it improves the engine or anything, just a notion that it is super rare and you should spend 1 month's wages on it. 2p.