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bumpety bump for the front bumper, tailgate complete and bonnet. Open to offers on these. I am looking to get the rotten chassis taken away ASAP, so if you can make it to Oxford and have a big car then let me know. Also a ton of interior black trim left. Would be a shame to scrap it all. Comer over for an afternoon and you can keep whatever you take off! (trim, not clothing). Jon.

Currently hoping that the weather improves soon! Seems the longer warm up time of the engine is seeing me averaging 32mpg when I don't pass 70mph on a 60 mile return commute. I was hoping it would be nearer 40mpg. I have theories about the slight exhaust leak reducing back pressure so that low speed cruising is actually worse for economy (or at least the same) as higher speed (i.e. 70-80mph) cruising is. So this week I will be sat at 70 to see if it makes a difference! Also realised I had left all those ^^^ spare hubs, driveshafts, calipers, brakes, and pads in the boot (along with a new clutch kit!) so have taken that out - I'm assuming it'll reduce the weight by about 50kg. Not sure why it was all still in there. Laziness I suppose!

Hi Doug, the software is Solidworks. Pretty simple and what i'm used to. Yeah feel free to use whatever, that's fine! Just to add a personal update - I'm going to ask my boss about possibility of using work CAD to continue designing this. They're not too keen about people bringing in memory sticks but I'll see what he says. Also, we have a fully kitted out machine shop downstairs below the mezzanine I work on - multiple 3-axis and 5-axis machines, and I know they have done work like this for other companies (can't say who I'm afraid) through machining solid billets, and even on the racing cars they used to run. In case you're confused, I've moved companies since this project begun...! I'll see what he says. The prices for machining from billet in Engineering Grade Alu will probs mean we'd need a fairly hefty amount of minimums (GB?), but I know that the machines are capable to run overnight to keep costs down by working outside premium hours. Possibility for FDM core prototypes too, but it's all speculation at this stage. No promises, but I'll ask.

any centre caps?

Finally got round to taking a couple of snaps of the offending hub: I'm pretty sure that circlip is doing it wrong... Now I understand why we couldn't swap the pads on this side. Offset!! Nowhere near 20mm, maybe more like 10mm. Either way bearing backing out of hubs is never good. So...crisis averted. Still quite shocked by this though!

if you have a golf haynes manual there's a good rule of thumb in there about setting handbrake cable tension. I think it says tighten them up so that when the handbrake is on 3 clicks then the rear wheels spin freely for half a turn (when in the air). something like that. I'm sure someone else will chime in.

Ok so the car had all the correct bits on it and nothing was damaged. ...The bearing hadn't been pushed home properly.... can you believe it! Hub has now been swapped, brakes bled and all is well. I'll get pics up tomorrow - bearing is about 20mm (funnily enough) away from the circlip groove and therefore spindle is sitting out by 20mm creating the wide tracked nature of the NSF. Never ever seen that before...! Slightly worrying that i'd been driving around with it like that. Seems the circlip between hub and spindle had come adrift so could well have worked loose through cornering or rough roads.

tends to be the window seals binding on the glass from my experience. Cheaper to replace the window mech though.

if it was me, I would have fixed the ABS before shelling out on upgrades. If you've adjusted the bias valve and the rears still lock up first then I doubt a new MC will fix it. What pads are on the back?

84 sounds like an ultra prototype! :D

Quick update: I did a 5 hour round trip (in rush hour :-/) to London last night and met up with Toyotec (Wolf R/ "Hoffed" fame). Was really good to put a face to a name and to find another keen engineering mind! He has donated me both hubs from his 8v car for a great price, and tired (but happy) I came back with them last night. They include stone guards, calipers, discs and pads so I'm planning to get them both fitted in the week along with some driveshafts and new ball joints while I'm at it. We decided between us that the NSF hub on the car must be from a mk3 4-stud as it very obviously wider track! I'd say it sticks out a good 20-25mm just by eye and has meant that my old tyre used to catch on the arch sometimes. I'm thinking I may swap them as a whole and then just bleed the brakes afterwards and get the camber adjusted again as the hubs are in much better condition than my ones.

Tom, where are you getting these cars from? Also I have no gravlax but I do have some imitation crab meat?

if you're local to oxford, you can come and take mine FOC.

Which model do you have?

Yeah it's normally the sensor in the top of the header tank that packs up.

Hey tony, yeah doing well thanks! Have some recent updates which I've been harassing CGTI with. Managed to get a new FPR from a guy on there for £20, and replaced it along with the S-shape fuel line. Used std 7mm ID fuel injection hose and managed to get that replaced as it was cracked to hell. The rail feed line seems to be weeping at the rail end even after trimming back, so I will probs swap that soon. tbh it's not as much weeping as just about leaking enough to see a wet patch on the rail as opposed to dripping/weeping. Car now starts within 2 turns of the starter and idles much much better so I'm a happy bunny. Along with getting the CO done on friday it's running a lot better and doesn't pop after even high rpm WOT gearchange (although I did manage to get it to do it in 2nd this morning - perhaps exhaust blowing issue) And now onto the bad discovery - seems the old girl has had some crash damage at some point in the past. Luckily seems all mechanical parts. Here's the story. I noticed that my NSF wheel was balding on outer edge so I got the garage to check it when they tuned the mixture. They said that whilst they were doing the tracking (and replacing my balding relatively new Uniroyal rainsport :/ ) they noticed that the subframe was bent. I had a look and knowing my way around the frame a bit after the Corrado resto I see what they mean. The two ears where the NSF wishbone bolts into the frame/chassis were bent down ever so slightly. I probably wouldn't even have noticed if they hadn't pointed it out. I'm guessing someone has gone hard into a pavement or something in the past. The other connected problem was to do with the brakes. They said the NSF pads were low and I said I had some pads in the boot which they started to fit. Only they couldn't get the pads on! Seems the NSF hub isn't the correct one (despite looking right) as the outer pad couldn't be swapped as the caliper was sitting way out on the outer edge of the rail (239 setup so integrated caliper carrier) and they said it looks like the outer CV on the driveshaft may have been catching on the hub too. The problem I have now is knowing which part is the odd one out from that corner! Is it the hub? Hub and caliper? Is the wishbone bent? It's all a bit of a mare at the mo. Luckily the pads aren't low enough to be dangerous and with the learner driving I do in the morning it doesn't really worry me. I'm currently looking for a replacement NSF mk2 8v hub (all the same IIRC) so I can at least replace that and go from there. I haven't actually had the wheel off and given it a good look as my trolley jack finally died after about 10 years. I need to get both front wheels off and compare everything. OSF is absolutely perfect, and they said the new pads on that side would go straight on. Another issue was that the guy doing the tracking said that it seemed like the NSF wheel was sitting out into the arch further - confirmed by me catching that wheel on the arch from time to time. So the engine and car are running great as a whole, I just have a small issue with that front corner...!

stone guard.

Part number: 357199273 Should be same on all 4 cylinder manual Corrado engines :salute: (So that's the KR, PG, 9A, 2E, and ADY blocks)

Mate, that is amazing you got out of that one! I think you got someone watching over you! As mentioned well done for getting out before something big like the 6 series tank came along. No doubt that did most of the damage. It is hard intentionally hitting an animal. I remember hitting a ringtail monkey when I lived in Barbados, the second I got back the dogs were all over the front bumper! I guess they could smell the impact or something. Shook me up for an hour or so. Never hit an animal before. Cows and Deer would go up and over the bonnet and through the glass. My uncle had that happen to him :-(

I was going to say check the brake servo vacuum line to the manifold! You can get some generic stuff I'm sure, as it doesn't need to be super high pressure for fuel or oil or anything. not 100% on what side ID/OD the pipe will be i'm afraid. I'm sure someone will know though.

Don't think I ever had a working boot light! ---------- Post added at 12:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:39 PM ---------- Mine was upgraded to the all black trim at some point, so no grey speaky trims I'm afraid Mr Cake Man. ---------- Post added at 12:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:40 PM ---------- Bonnet and tailgate going on Ebay this lunchtime.

you could try VW heritage but be prepared to spend £££

I have PAS pipes for sale. £30 collected else I might be able to post?

Cazza, think that felt strip is on the removable trim panel on the tailgate? If so not seen that panel for many years. Andy, that went with the clocks yesterday! You really should just come over sometime. The car will need to go shortly and when it does a lot of parts will be getting binned. ---------- Post added at 01:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:39 PM ---------- Update: headlight loom is not work keeping due to a rubbish uprated loom being spliced into it.

Go "Law Abiding Citizen" on their ásses.