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I blamemy 'google' phone for not bringing that up :mad2: Fanks :D

Thanks Martin :tongue: I'll be peeing all over your VR soon enough :norty: Yeah Jim, i think Stealth will be good, Im just looingto se if theres a smaller garage somehwee else that people have good experience of. Who are DG autotech? read good things on this forum abput them but cant find a website. I'vee-mailed TSR but they haven't retrned any correspondance!

Cheers guys, any more info on sub10motorsport? A google search brings up nothing. If I can hit that magic 3k all in mark ill be a happy chappy!

Hello all. I've spent a while looking into the various tuning possibilities for my Rado Valver. I've settled on a 20v turbo conversion for my wee nugget. Not the most original but seems to me, the most straightforward and most obvious choice. Fired off some emails to various companies and a chat with VInce at Stealth was the most fruitful discussion and he certainly left me with the feeling my car would be in good hands. However, i wondered ifanyone else had any thoughts or suggestions of places to go or costs involved. Im on a tight budget and being based in Edinburgh, I'll also have to travel some distance. I've had quotes of circa £2500 + Engine, Loom and ECU right up to £4500 + VAT + Engine, Loom and ECU. Some of the threads on here are quoting £3000 all in :confused4: I have neither the time, nor ability to take on such a conversion mysellf, so please, share yo0ur thought and experiences with me. And help a tight scot!

Aye man I did, it was worse. Ill try and take the helpers out and see how I can get it to sit

Haha yeh I used to be in the trade so I hasz lots of mates, unfortunately, this guy actually hates any car pre 2006 because bolts either seize or round off. Or both! Luckily, the guy that owns the place has a wee softspot for the kinda cars I drive :) free labour ftw! Still, its more fun doing it yourself, so this evening, in rain that would rival . . . . .well nothing it was just a light shower lol, I decided to raise the rears 20mm (on the thread), this appears to have angered my rear suspension and has become much noisier, so, off the road and hopefully tomorrow, I can sort it out before our local svag meet! (I'm so glad to have the works van at these times ) Adski, the rears are 8's on approx 20mm adapters (I haven't measured the adapters) and the front adapters look the same, but carry 7's. When I look at the math, it doesn't add up to me. If standard corrado sebrings are 6 wide et35, putting 8 inch et53 wheels was never going to work, even with 20mm adapters :( its obviously fine if you want to drive a rollerskate! Has anyone else ever encountered this issue? I put the d90's up for sale anyway.

Just Jizzed :luvlove: Awesome C mate!

The goodies should be on before the meet tomorrow mate, weather dependant! So, I fitted my front Coilovers last week with the aid of mynew buzz gun :) and when it came to doing the rears, the 17mm bolts were uber tight. One loosened off with some gentle persuasion, and the other jut rounded. Rather than mess about on the ground for hours on end. I gave up. its always the easiest way :rthumb: So i popped round to my mates garage where a little bit of heat did the trick. Oh and guess what else was there! Noice, Took her home and then left it for days on end doing nothing. Got my finger out yesterday and . . . . . Voila: The fronts have 20mm left on the thread, and the rears have no thread left. Unfortunately, this presented an issue of the coilovers rubbing against the wheel. So I put on some shiny spacers ,measuring 3mm a side, which certainly make it just driveable, but alas, I shall have to bite the bullet and raise it a little, maybe 20mm on the thread, and then see how we stand. If its still catching ill order some 5mm and space them 8mm either side maybe. Not sure how that’ll play because at the moment, the wheels catch the arch lip when it bounces around. I guess I’ll have to be sensible. I have some other wee bits and bobs I’m treying to get on tonight so its ready for tomorrows Urban meet, because I’m working tomorrow! Fingers crossed the missus lets me out to play! And the weather dries up a bit!!!!! Thoughts everyone?

This car makes me very happy :luvlove:

Cheers ri tin, yeh a g60 would be cool, tbh though, if I do anything to the engine, it'll probably just be a quick abf swap. However, if a vr came up at a decent enough price, it'd be rude not to. Just a wee update, Done this on Monday night with the anticipation of fitting everything else i have on the Tue/Wed, but i need a better 22mm for my top mounts so i'll do it all in one go wen i get that. Popped down to Kent's an started doing this Then keyed the surface and then this I quite like it, it'll certainly do for the winter :yep: I also found this on VWvortex while hunting the net for inspiration, It appears to be my car :) Moeto come :thumbs:

Nice one mate! :clap: Nice early spec car! Sebrings look good painted also! Glad you found a car you can hang onto mate, Its amazing how well a sorted 16v can feel! Cracking cars on the twisty stuff too!

Its not so much the colour match mate, (I've actually just tried a test patch of nugget and it seems fine) its more the complete morons that work there! Service is terrible, and the staff seem to be in their own little worlds! For instance, yeserday, at 4pm iarrived at the parts counter to order 3 cans of Nugget yellow. 'whats the code sir?' 'Lk1B mate, Nugget Yellow off a 1990 VW Corrado' The guy stood there in front of the screen for a good ten or so minutes. So i asked him; 'you having any luck mate?' ' nah . . . . Can't seem to find it closest i can get is VWLK1B but its not Nugget Yellow' Now even i can see thatsnot the closest, thats the code. so i daid 'can i have a look please mate', He kindly obliges and alows me to see the screen. In plain writing it said. VW LK1B Nugget gelb :cuckoo: 'Now i don't want to think outside the box mate, but maybe Gelb, is german for yellow, and that is in fct, the colour i require' 'oh yeah' says he. 'It might take me a while to mix this paint sir' 'what time do you finish?' '6pm' 'what time is it now?' '20 past 4' 'how long does it take t make up 1 tin' 'oh about 10 minutes' :censored: :brickwall: :help: 'so you think you'll struggle to make 3 tins in an hour and 40 minutes?' Long story short, i left him and he thought he should be able to just make it but they might be too busy, I could almost see the hay bale fly by as i left the near empty shop. He phoned me an hour later with a status report saying they were going to clean the store so couldn't make my paint today. 'sorry mate, did i miss something, did you say the 35 quids worth of paint i ordered and paid for in advance, won't be ready, because you have to clean the store?' 'its no my faut mate, just what ive been told, I've made one tin' 'look mate, i want this paint tonight, you've got 40 minutes surely, thats enough time?' 'we need to clean the store' 'look mate can i speak to your superviser? I appreciate its not your fault so gimme the guy thats making you clean the store' anyhow, i get the uperviser on the phone and he tells me the customer comes first and all but they're really busy so theres no way they can do it tonight but it'll definately be ready first thing tomorrow morning. Well i was working today, so decided to get that out the way, then drop by and pick up the paint. 13:30pm. In i go to get my paint. :wave: Hiya, 3 tins of paint reserved for me, bruce kerr. In walks yesterdays monstrosity of n employee and starts chuckling away to himself and i can see him whispering in someones ear, 'did you make up that paint'. the answer was of course, a resounding no! I have NEVER bit my tongue so hard! :brickwall: :brickwall: :brickwall: :brickwall: :brickwall: well, at least i've vented my frustrations on here!

Cheers Mr Stubbs! your a hero, The search function is my friend eh! :epicfail: Cheers Danny! I'm Painting a bumper right now, and my god am i finding it difficult! :brickwall: Still, IF i can get it right, I'll be making a saving i suppose! Halfrauds aren't helping though :censored: Wish me luck!

Cheers mate! Shame your selling, but needs must eh!

You've lost me there mate :shrug: I happens to have another bumper im having a go at painting tomorrow, so if i can get my lights t sit correctly in the bumper, happy days. If not, i won't be too bothered, I forgot how refreshing it is to have a nice early spec'd rado. I've been busy collecting parts, so early next weeks should see me and the C set up the way we want to be until next year when respray funds are all savd up!

Nice car matey! Liking the rims, are they Carmonas or somethin?

Nightmare news mate! Car looks stunning all the same, reallylike that colour, i haven't seen many that colour before!? Where do you get this Lamin-x stuff? Did you paint the inserts too? I really like the moodiness it gives off!

My Condolences for your loss! I've just finished reading all 90 pages of your last corrado :luvlove:, I was interested to find out about it when i read your bit in Mass Dubate, i see why they called you 'Mr Corrado', or words to that effect! Good luck with this one!

Didn't know that mate, thanks! the wings will still need replaced though. good to know about the bumper!I presumed the lights were the same but the retainers inside stuck out further if you catch my drift? Ha, my missus didn't think she liked yellow cars either, till i bought one, now she wants one!

Cheer up Si, upwards and onwards eh! That is one very clean looking G :notworthy:

Iconic wheels mate! Love borbets. Cars looking proper 90's! I likey!

Thanks for the comments guys! Yeah my last c cost me a bit as well so I'm prepared for it, I learnt a lot on my mk2's and much of this is the same I guess, just worried about certain parts being scarce! The final price was 1250, which in essence, to me anyway, is really 600 or so. I paid a grand for the vento and the mods I did to that were practically free as I was breaking a mk3 with highline spec and nicked the best bits. Having swapped cars about and getting cash in my favour, and then selling the mk2 I've faired rather well! Of course it was £67 for a battery and £30 for an alternater from the word go! But you don't buy a 20 year old car without expecting to maintain it I guess, and after all, its not like I'm spending £300 a month for 5 years on a charcterless car! the D90's are 8's out back, look to be 25mm adapters and 6 (I think) on the front with approx 20mm adapters. To be truthful, they're in pretty bad nick. The OSF has a huge chunk out the rim, well maybe not huge but a fair size. And there's a slight crack on the NSR. The NSF has a very slight flat spot on the back of the rim which isn't all that bad but enough to give a slight vibration at 70MPH. I'm just gonna blast some black over them and run them for the winter, then come up with somethin nice in the spring :) Going to collect some goodies from Jenks tomorrow evening, and hopefully, when I get home, mr postman will have arrived with some shiny new equipment that shall diminish the gap between tyre and arch!

Hello all, Not sureif i posted much about my last 'rado on here, but thought i'd maybe socialise a bit more! few of my mates are on here and rave about it! Best give a bit of background i guess. I'm 22 and hail from edinburgh, My local club is the fantastic SVAG :clap: and my introductory car to vag was my first ever C. 1989 16v in Tornado red I loved it loads but alas, it was telepathicaly liked to my bank balance and after a lot of cash spent, I ultimately had to let her go due to a rather unhealthy MOT fail. My mate nicked it for a bargain and is still pottering about today! The money i COULD have spent on fixing the corrado, was instead spent on this VR6, which was poverty spec to begin with but ended up highline spec and RR'd ate at 188bhp! I loved this car and swapped it for an A6 TDi, it changed hands a few times and recently, blew up after some little twerp loered the hell out it and burst the sump/Seized the engine :bad-words: The A6: Which i hated and swiftly did a deal for this Which i loved, but sadly, it stoppd me concentrating on the smal bumper mk2 i was rebuilding with an ABF,So i decided it had to go ad the funds would e ploughed into my C reg golf. :nuts: Then i seen a beautiful corrado for sale in the colour i always wanted :camp: . With a chunk of cash considerably less thn he asking price, i decided to chance my luck! These were the sale pictures With a price agreed, I bit the bullet and commited, told him to buy tax and I arranged transport to Dumfries. Bashed on down to Dumfries to see it. Its not as clean as it looks in the pictures and the gent had said the battery was dead, so I did the sensible thing and tried to get more off, but he wasn’t for having it. I was getting it for a steal so I cared not a jot and off I drove. Whacked in 30 quid and bashed on up the A74, as I got onto the A702 (Biggar road) it developed a misfire, as I trailed my mum, she phoned me and I told her “keep an eye on me. Its misfiring and might cut out”, Minutes later . . . .It cut out. The alarm light flicked on and there was no power. I put 2 and 2 together and figured the alternator mustn’t be charging. God bless Adrian Flux for providing Free breakdown insurance! Got it home and the next day I had to sort out an alternator and a battery. £100 later and we were up and running. Couple of pics with my old golf and after I polished it At kents All in all I’m pretty chuffed. With the hassle I’ve had with the 2 golfs, its nice to be back in a stable car. And one that my neighbours can’t complain about! Going through the receipts, its had thousands spent on it so I’m gonna hold onto this one, I’ve had too many cars in the past year and this ones a keeper. I’m giving up on going fast, so I’ll leave the engine alone until it NEEDS attention. The bodywork is really a priority so I’ll save up for sorting that out. Both front wings are rusty. The top of the windscreen is bubbling. The bonnet is stonechipped Someone has taken the door trims off, and ripped off the paint too, then touched it in so the passenger side needs attention, The drivers rear quarter is dented and scratched Paint has chipped off the panel below the tailgate The paint above the drivers door on the main pillar is faded beyond repair as is the front bumper. So really, with yellow being such a difficult colour. Its likely ill be saving up, circa £1000 to get a half decent respray. And if I do that, it’d be rude not to get a VR6 bonnet, later spec wings, Lights and front bumper so I can get flush indicators! That’ll take a while! I don’t really like the D90’s, they’re just not my thing. So I’ll probably be replacing them with some TH Monos at some point. That is all! Thanks for reading

Spotted the v belt and ribbed belt difference when I looke at my abf one! Thanks for the reply mate :) now up and runnin with a new alt and battery!

Hi folks, Hoping for a quick answer to this, Does anyone know if I can fit an abf alternater ro a kr16v? I just purchased my 2nd rado today (its a nugget :D ) and it cut out on the way home :( the seller had had battery issues, but as it actually cut out during driving I'm presuming there's a charging issue. I have an alternater from a 2.0 16v mk3 engine and I just wondered if anyone knew if it would fit my 16v rado. I want this nugget running! Woop woop! Thanks all