pete_griff

another quick update on progress. got the tracking all sorted by the boys at vw; they were pretty patient with me considering they had to push the car everywhere and watch me back etc while i was driving the truck. got the tracking camber all squared with new camber bolts too. after that i went and dropped the car off with the vag-doctor down in bristol - what a nice guy! he was younger than i expected, but he's a real enthusiast; didn't mind waiting around for me to turn up at all and he had a couple of friends there to help unload the car. everyone there drove a vw! i only asked him if i could come down on friday (the day before!), so it was pretty good of him to make the time for me. he won't be able to get started on the car until the end of the week, but that's only fair really as he had no notice whatsoever. hoping to have the car back and all sorted within 2-3 weeks. i'll get it booked in for an mot so i can drive it away from his place, then just get the tax sorted and all will be good. once all the mot/tax etc is sorted i'll get it booked in at stealth for a remap for the final piece of the puzzle! :) here are a couple more pics of the car on the low-loader in the daylight, with me looking fairly pleased next to it :D

if you want a mean, hard edged look, then you could get them all done in black - preferably somewhere near a matt finish too... black wheels in that sort of style look good on a rado IMO (look at chazrad's motor), but you would want to get the whole lot done black i recon. IMO black/dark wheels with a silver lip is :pukeright: as they are i don't think they look too bling though (again IMO) - the corrado is a reasonably classy car, so i don't think that wheels of that style look particularly out of place (then again i do have RX's on mine, so i'm bound to be a bit biased) :)

cheers for that buddy - most appreciated! :) and yeah - i'm properly itching to drive it for the first time :D :D :D good to meet you a while back by the way, hows the nugget coming along now? as you can see i'm making good use of those oil lines you sold me, so cheers for that :) anyway...... this was the scene last night... IMGP0537.JPG[/attachment:20lftc6p] :D the car is now more or less done - i got the shifter assembly that i have been waiting for at about 13.00 yesterday, so i frantically rang around organising everything i would need for today and raced out to the car and got it all back together. the car is currently at my vw dealer getting tracked (dropped it off early doors this morning) and i'm going to pick it up in an hours or so, then stick it back on the low loader and drive it down to the vag-doctor in bristol. :D he won't be able to start on it for a week or so yet, but at least it will be there and ready to be finished off... hope to have it all sorted and on the road before christmas now - fingers crossed :D naturally i'll keep you all updated on progress; needless to say though, i'm quite happy and very excited right now :D

got a bit of a good update for you gents, but you will have to wait until tomorrow now as i'm off out. lets just say, it will be finished sooner than i had originally thought :D

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cheers buddy - i really hope so; seriosly itching to drive it now! :) fair enough buddy, didn't know that. i can't believe they are a year old - they are like new; great stuff :D i obviously want one. i'm going to speak to the vag-doctor when i go down there and ask him if i put a temp sensor somewhere in the oil circuit if he could wire it up to the MFA for me... i don't see why he couldn't do this, but i want to wait until i know for certain before i go putting one in. i'll probably end up buying a t-piece and piggy-backing off one of the oil cooler lines for the temp sensor if/when i install it... if he can't sort it with the mfa, then i might think twice about doing it, as i don't really want any aftermarket gauges in my car - big fan of the oem look. anyway, managed to get the oil cooler all mounted and plumbed up today, as well as getting the whole front of the car back on. successfully installed the modified take-off for my sender for my oil pressure gauge - hope it doesn't leak! i'm more or less there now. i got the carpet changed as i wanted to as well - only thing i'm waiting on now is for my now modified gearshifter to arrive, then i can whack that and my new cables back on, then the exhaust, then the last of the interior trim and seats. realistically as long as there are no major snags (fingers crossed here - it is a corrado after all!) it's only a mornings work, then everything my end is done. after that i'll trailer it to the dealers who are going to sort the geometry for me, then it's off down to see the vag-doctor. i go back to work on monday which is going to make progress on the car much more difficult :( i'm hoping that the gearshifter and a couple of other tiny bits and bobs that i need will be here by next weekend, as i can hopefully finish the car then, then see about sorting the tracking/wiring. it's all going to depend on time (which i never get much of on my weekends off) and availability of people to do the jobs for me... naturally i'll keep you all updated! :) here are a couple of piccies from today. it feels great to look at it and see that it resembles a roadworthy car again!

good updates as usual coxy - any idea when it's going to be done now..... march?!? :lol:

got a bit more done yesterday - was really hoping to get the whole front back on yesterday, but no such luck. i have had to get a couple of 90 degree bends made up to move the oil pressure warning switch - the standard one fits ok, but when you try and screw in the sender for my oil pressure gauge in it's place it fouls the crack pipe; so hopefully with a bit if giggery pokery, i'll be able to get that fitted today. also, the route the oil takes in/out of the sandwich plate no longer matters now as i've mounted the oil cooler with the feeds at the top, so the pump will have no choice to push it round and there will definitely be no air in the system at any time. (it will hold the dirty oil when doing a change unfortunately, but there won't be all that much in there, especially not when you think that the r32 has a large sump capacity just like the VR). i'm pretty pleased with how the mounting of the cooler went as well, as it's in pretty much the most ideal place. it's only a small cooler as i shouldn't need anything massive on a N/A R32, but it will defo get plently of air where it is. had to get my oil lines shortened though - they were supposed to have come off a supercharged VR, but they were horrendously long; so much so that i could have had an extended bracket welded onto the outside of the nearside wing to hold it if i had wanted! either they didn't come off a corrado, or god only knows how the previous owner routed them. anyway, the main thing is that the pipes are like new and i had them shortened with the minimum of fuss. on that note - if any of you are near hereford/ross, i can't recommend a place called sutton hydraulics enough - absolutely top lads in there :D below are a couple of pics of progress. hoping to completely finish the front end today and maybe change the drivers carpet if i get the time.... after this it's just waiting for my gear-shifter to arrive back, then i can install that, the exhaust and the seats and then we should be good to go :D i won't get it finished before i go back to work now though like i wanted which is a pain as i will only be able to work on it weekends now; and that's weeklends when i do go home and don't stay down near work to see the girlfriend :| anyway; hopefully i might be somewhere near having it finished my end the weekend after this one... pics:

no worries my friend - hope you manage to get the rest sorted asap :) by the way, did i leave my white usb stick there??? i have a nasty suspicion that i did as i can't find it anywhere.... don't forget to keep us updated with pics :D

to fit the rear bushes, you can either do it the refined way as kip suggests with long bolts/washers, or you could just tap them in with a large mallett and some wood... and yes i found the arb bushes are a tw*t to get in; even the standard ones :)

bumpity bump - could do with an answer on this one soon... cheers guys, Pete

no it's not, but that won't make a difference to the route the oil runs around the block though surely?! like i said - rear-most hole goes to the oil filter; front-most hole goes the the block feed... cheers

:lol: i was thinking about adding another silencer to my system at some point - have got a magnex system with only two silencers at the mo. it was pretty quiet before with the VR and a panel filter - hope it's not horrifically noisy with the r32 and sports cats...

does anyone know which way round the circuit the oil runs on an r32 engine (presume it's the same as a VR...) if you look at the 7th pic down in the thread here - viewtopic.php?f=11&t=62901&start=105 you can see the take off from the sandwich plate for my mocal. the hole furthest from the front of the car goes to the oil filter and the one closest to the front of the car goes back to the block. i was of the impression that the oil would run through the filter first and then up on to the rest of the engine, meaning that it would come oozing up through the rear-most-hole in the sandwich plate as you look at it. wound it over on the starter a few times new to try and get it to pump some oil around to show me exactly what's happening with no joy so far. i've made sure there was plenty of oil in the sump and when that didn't work i thought i would need to prime the pump (especially as i've changed the filter), so i filled up the filter from the sandwich plate and also filled up the other hole in the sandwich plate just to be sure. after that when i wound it over on the starter, the oil was slowly disappearing down the rear most hole and not moving at all in the one closest to the front? i just wanted to know which way it runs round as i want to put the out-feed for the oil to the bottom of my oil cooler and the return line at the top; just ensure oil pressure is always good and the oil doesn't just drop down through the cooler until it's full - i want it pushed up through the cooler and then on round by the pump if that makes sense.... it might all be unecessary doing it that way (i honestly don't know for certain...) it just seemed to me like the most logical way to do it... all thoughts/answers/abuse are most appreciated! :) cheers, Pete

cheers buddy, i haven't booked it in yet as i'm unsure exactly when it's going to be finished... it's really honestly not that hard to do this kind of stuff, it's just about taking the plunge and having a practice at doing this sort of thing. i've not been to some college class; nobody has ever taught me anything about cars/mechanics - you just learn from haynes manuals and ripping them apart! best way :D

i would have said it was the leads, but thats only a guess....... i didn't know you were after leads buddy - thought you had some, otherwise i would have said something! i have some nice dubpower ones that i'll be selling that are only a hundred miles or so older than the coilpack if you end up wanting 'em....

hey all, just another quick update.... after getting my exhaust manifold all welded up i test fitted it for the first time with the engine in the car the other day. i was originally a bit worried about the small amount of clearance between the rack and the manifold, but we tried hard to allow for this when it was welded and it's paid off a treat as there is a fair bit of room which i'm happy about. the only snag though is that despite my friend welding it very carefully and spreading the job to avoid any movement of the various bits; the flange on the end of the manifold to go onto the cats moved slightly. this meant that one of the lambdas fouled the centre tunnel; :( there wasn't much clearance anyway during mocking up, i did try and give the centre tunnel a little loving with the hammer, but it wasn't going to move enough and was pretty rough so thankfully i quickly stopped that plan. (will have to remember to get some waxoyl over the hammered area!) i decided to get the lambda bosses moved on the cats; the fabrication place i used did a cracking job very quickly for me and now the exhaust sits perfectly in the tunnel with no clearance issues anywhere by the looks of things and looks a real factory fit, so i'm pretty chuffed :) fitted my new parcel shelf supports, (old ones were past it) new speakers and modified the parcel shelf to accomodate the strut brace. all looks as it should, so again pretty happy with that. my friend who works at the dealers very kindly borrowed some of the 2-pac bonder they use to bond car panels together to sort my cracked inlet manifold. i plastic welded it up myself first, then we went over the top of that with the bonder. it's not pretty, but it's made the manifold as strong as it originally was and i won't have to worry about leakage. also you wouldn't notice the bonder with the manifold on the car unless you went looking for it , so i'm not too upset that i didn't spray it up or anything. got all the drive belt, PAS pump, alternator etc on now too and plumbed up the FPR, some coolant hoses and the PAS. also test fitted the front strut brace i got and it's not even for a VR as it wouldn't clear the coolant header tank! got onto the people i bought it off and they will try and sort me with a new one soon. i originally bought it under the impression it would be one like mr haywire has, as i recon that would fit ok - hopefully i can manage to get hold of one..... hopefully going to look at sorting some brackets and mounting the mocal tomorrow, then will get the rad back on and plumb that up along with the mocal. it's getting pretty close to me finishing my work on it and being ready to go and have the wiring done, so i'm allowing myself to start getting a little excited now :D pics as usual :)

great to hear it - happy days! :D i will be test fitting my new wipers today, so i'm hoping that mine aren't too much hasstle. glad hear you got it sorted :)

hey there buddy, the calipersare looking really good - will defo bring mine over to you when i get them done for a bit of a sanity check. glad you are happy - they look fantastic :D

personally i'm a big fan of blaupunkt, i've had several of them now and i've never been disappointed - vey nicely put together. alpine are great units, but i find that the buttons not only loose their feel but work much crapper as the unit get older. don't get me wrong; the unit has to be pretty old and used a lot for this to happen, but all alpine button go crap eventually without exception - never had this problem with the blaupunkts - they're german too! :D

:lol: :lol: :lol: must point out that there's nothing at all wrong with rice however (some brilliant cars), just the 'clientelle' who drive them :? top post :D

loving the melted kuhmos! :lol: the reason you're possibly getting such a roar is the dia doesn't have the continuation of the inlet tract after the airbox that the cda does. with the CDA you can fit the flexi bit of air ducting that will quieten things down a bit. i haven't heard what an r32 sounds like with a nice long inlet feed attached to a bmc cda, but i'm hoping it's nice and discreet as that's what will be on mine and i hate unecessarily noisy cars! your motor is looking good though matey - good progress :)

Think I know a few peeps at Oxford Brookes. Got no idea how big it is so don't know if its likely you'd know them. One is obsessed with his Uno Turbo. :camp: :awesome: so when the turbo spools, it'll pull the shoddy rusted chassis apart! :clap: We had a talk last thursday night about performance aspects of cars, and how you can't just sling a set of springs on a car and expect it to handle as they ideally should be matched to the damper rates etc. Then he referenced Halfords / Ripspeed spring kits and how chavs think they're amazing when they put these on. I kid you not, one row of people sat behind me looked like this: :oops: :lol: :cry: :lol: :oops: :scratch: :oops: :confused: :pale: :oops: :mad2: :lol: :oops: It was awesome.[/quote:1g3rvdk0] haha :lol: - that's brilliant about the 'candidates' behind you! - i love talking to people like that who will believe anything that the marketers tell them! i overheard a bloke in the pub a while back claim that he had a 200bhp 205 gti - it still had the 1.9 engine in, with no headwork, bottom end work, forced induction or anything - but according to him "it would eat porches for breakfast!" :lol: - you just can't write it! anyway.... tried to give you a ring ref brake lines a mintue ago - if you get in touch with me (the sooner the better) then we can sort something out. i'll be going home next around thursday and i'll be wanting to crack on with my own car as much as possible before i go back to work; but i'm sure i can spare some time to get you squared away if you let me know when you want to do it..... hope all is well anyway, wait to hear from you.... (good updates as usual!) Pete :)

haha, thank you - i get that a lot - if only people really knew the truth :lol: i think manners go a long way today when most people are as rude as buggery; it's not exactly a big effort to be nice!

not pleased to hear that for you buddy - that's crap! also i'm just waiting for delivery of some that i ordered at the end of last week from VAG parts - so really hope i don't have the same experience :? really hope you manage to get it sorted buddy.....