Purple Tom

I'm on my phone so can't write a long reply but the camshafts are slotted at the end opppsite the chains. The slots are offset so if you rotate the engine and set the slots horizontally you'll be able to tell what position the engine is at. Hard to describe but if the lower edge of the slots are level with the upper face of the cylinder head then the engine is at TDC, if the lower edge of the slots are slightly lower (by 2-3mm) than the upper face of the head then the engine is 180 degrees out. You'll need a thin straight edge to tell for sure or even better one of the proper VR6 cam locking tools. Don't rotate the engine using the camshafts, only turn it from the crank. I appreciate you're working in a tight space but if you get the O/S wheel and arch liners out then it'll make it much easier. Take the plugs out as well, that'll make the engine easy to rotate as there'll be no compression. Tom

What engine is it?

Beastie - The doors are available yep, I'll get some pictures for you shortly. Jonnyo - I have all of those parts available, including the badges and all red rears. Would you like some pictures of the items? Cheers Tom

Go on then, I'll have one too, please PM me with payment details. Thanks

James, I haven't got any of the cream/beige bits that you're after as I've only ever broken black trimmed cars. What colour do you need the glovebox trim to be? I'm not going to be at the National Day, I've done what I can but the car isn't going to be ready unfortunately. I'll sort you out a price asap. Tom

That's the hill leading up to Adenau Forst which can be a very fast section of track as you carry a lot of speed down the long downhill section after the corner at Aremberg before climbing that hill. There's several small corners on the downhill but if you get it right without any traffic you can apex every corner in a straight line, by the time you get to the bottom you really are travelling and then it starts to climb up just where the Corrado first came into view, hence why it looked like it was going some - because it was! The right hander where it hit the barrier switches into a blind uphill left hander and I have a picture of my 8V (pre TDi) on three wheels there :-) It's normally Adenau Forst itself which catches folk out but I would hazard a guess that that's a local driver who knows the track fairly well given the speed he was travelling at! Big shame though :-(

Clumpy - no worries, I'll await your full list! Josh - yep, I've got the fans and cowling, all in full working order and good condition - let me know if you still want them! Al - I don't think I have a throttle pedal rubber...didn't think the throttle had a rubber cover on it? Let me have a look for a window switch too, I'll get back to you asap. Tom

Sean - think your questions in the PM to me have been answered! Only just got home to view your message. I'm going to start fitting the system to my VR6 tomorrow however I have obtained all of the parts from a B4 Passat so won't be able to advise much on the mk3 Golf incompatibilities although it sounds like EnthusiastOwned has covered it all anyway :-) Good luck with it when you come to do it! Tom

No message in my inbox from you Sean? But yeah, shouldn't be an issue to use the Corrado servo in place of the mk3 one, with the mk3 master cylinder as long as the mounting is the same however you'll need to blank off the port for the ABS pedal position sensor as that is no longer required. I'm only speculating on that thought because I've fitted (and am using again) the system from a B4 Passat rather than a mk3 Golf so I can't be 100% sure on the master cylinder mounting to the Corrado servo. Tom

Clumpy - have definitely got all of those parts, let me know a complete list and I'll get it all priced up for you. Cheers Tom

Hi, I've been on this forum for a few years now and some of you might remember the Corrado TDi build I did a couple of years ago, and my old aqua blue VR6 which I owned back in 2010 (both links in my signature). Following selling the TDi I bought myself a 2004 BMW 330Cd which scratched a bit of an itch that I'd had for a while, however it wasn't really very 'me' so I sold it not long afterwards and purchased a 2002 mk4 Golf V5 to run through the winter. By this time, fuel economy wasn't so much of an issue and the V5 was a very nice car to drive - refined and comfortable and overall very good indeed. The engine had plenty of character however I figured that for similar money and similar fuel economy I could easily get back in to another Corrado - so the hunt began :-) It wasn't long before one became available down in London. It was up for a good price but was advertised as requiring some TLC on the bodywork. I went down to look at it and the description was accurate - it was mechanically pretty good with a good amount of history however the bodywork was poor - it needed some welding and a full respray to get it back up to standard. It did however come with a full heated leather Recaro interior and various other goodies so it was duly purchased and I drove it back to Derby - here it is: Immediately after getting it home I put it in the garage and started poking around underneath. Unfortunately the bodywork revealed quite a lot of underbody corrosion, particularly on the N/S and on both rear wheel arches. There was corrosion around the rear beam mounting points and also around the rear panel. I soon realised that perhaps it wasn't viable to spend a lot of money on a respray for a vehicle that wasn't in the best condition underneath, even if it did have plenty of new metal. About the same time as this a friend of mine, Ian (B41LEY on here) told me that circumstances had changed and that he was looking to sell his Corrado which had been laid up in his Dad's garage for 18 months. An idea was formed and I went to have a look at his car. It's a 1992 'K' distributor VR6 in moonlight blue. He had spent over £2k on an engine rebuild in 2009 and money on various other bits. A good look underneath showed it to be in pretty good condition bodywork wise, but it was unfortunately suffering with lacquer peel in quite a few areas following a blowover respray at some point in its past. However, it was available at a good price so I decided to buy it and make one good Corrado out of the two :-) I debated for a while about what to do about the paintwork but in the end I thought I'd bite the bullet and pay out for a full respray. Once money had been handed over for the car I set to work stripping it down ready for the respray and discovered that it really was in good condition underneath - Ian had never run it through a winter and I don't think the previous owner had either, as a result the only bit of corrosion was at the front of the N/S/R arch as per most Corrado's. Here's a few pictures of the car as it was when I found it in the garage: Here's a sample of the lacquer peel: A couple of days work later and I got everything stripped off it ready to take it to a paintshop that I'd found locally: It was dropped off at the paintshop ready for a full windows out respray in the original colour, it wasn't long before they got started: They said it would be a couple of months before it'd be ready, which was ideal as it gave me time to decide what to do with the red one. After a bit of soul searching I decided to break it. Not only would it provide plenty of parts for other Corrado's, the leather interior would go well in the new Corrado and it would also have been a LOT of work to get it up to MOT standard and even then it wouldn't have been worth much to sell. So I started to break it and started to make a list of what I wanted to do to the moonlight blue one. ---------- Post added at 12:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:40 PM ---------- So, with the blue one up at the paintshop and me starting to break the red one I decided what I wanted to do to the blue one in terms of spec. I’d been collecting and hoarding parts ready to fit to a new Corrado-shaped purchase at some point so this what was I was looking at: - Passat moonroof – I bought one cheaply and rebuilt it using repair parts given to me by Daves16V. - 312mm front brake conversion - 256mm vented rear brake conversion with mk4 Golf type rear hub conversion using Polo stub axles – (more to follow on this) - Recaro black heated leather interior - Teves20 ABS upgrade (same as I did to the TDi) - Coilpack and OBD2 conversion - Internal relay headlamp loom upgrade I started to gather the bits and bobs needed and I’ll update this thread as the build continues over the next 7 days. To cut a long story short I picked it up from the paintshop on Tuesday 9th July, all freshly painted. Here’s a small selection of pictures from the paintshop: The only work I had done on it was the deletion of the rear wiper – there was a small bit of corrosion around the wiper hole so I decided to do away with it altogether. The car was already fitted with a third brake light in the bootlid as well. Here’s a couple of pictures of it on the trailer after picking it up on Tuesday: I’ve been spending the last few evenings slowly getting it back together and I aim to have it up and running, including getting it through an MOT, ready for the national day next weekend. In that time I am going to do the ABS conversion, brake upgrades and get it MOT’d etc. Not too much to do but enough to keep me busy! Thanks for reading!

Hi Jas, Welcome to the forum :-) It is indeed still available if you're interested. Cheers Tom

£60 posted to Devon for the splitter - it's delicate so I'd want to wrap it properly. Cheers Tom

Yep, ECU itself :-) I have two, let me know if you need one - £25 posted (£18 part, £7 postage). Cheers Tom

I do indeed - in fact I have two complete centre tunnel trims, all in good condition. If you're interested then let me know. As an aside - the shell has been scrapped now so I have piles of parts left over, boxes and boxes full. Please keep asking me for other bits that you may need, as I'm bound to have them :-) Cheers Tom

To be honest I've never heard of an ABS modulator so it might be worth confirming with the garage exactly what they mean. The only thing that it could be is the brake bias valve on the rear beam but that isn't really much to do with the ABS, just an integral part of the braking system. Tom

Yeah I've got both, just removed from a VR6. Both in good working order and I'd do the pair for £50 posted - price breakdown: £20 ABS pump £18 ABS ECU £12 postage Let me know if you're interested. Cheers Tom

It would have done yeah but I had no interest so I'm afraid it's all gone to the scrapyard. Sorry.

Do you mean the ABS pump unit or the ECU? Tom

Yep I've got a set of Weitec Hicon GT's in vrry good condition that I've just removed from a VR that I'm breaking. No leaks, all adjusters working, lookibg for £260 posted. Cheers Tom

Yep, I've got a very good nearly new one. Was saving it for a rainy day but I'm going moonroof shortly so have no need for it. £30 posted for it mate. Tom

Ian - thanks for doing that, you didn't have to interrupt your holiday, I just wasn't sure if something somewhere had been misplaced so you didn't actually have my details etc. I'll sign up now, it'll give me something to aim for to get it done! Cheers Tom

Hi, I signed up to the new CCGB forum on Saturday and renewed my membership (£10 taken out of Paypal straightaway) so I could register for the National Day as I'm aiming to get my Corrado put back together for then, but my membership hasn't been approved yet. It did say that it could take up to three days however I still haven't had anything and I've obviously now missed the deadline for signing up to the National Day :-( Are there any CCGB moderators or staff on this forum that could get it sorted for me? I know Judith/Kip are on here but I don't know if they have any access to the forum for that kind of thing. Thanks in advance for any help Tom

Hi Jacqui, I've got a couple of these - what colour do you need? Cheers Tom

James - no problem, sorry I couldnt be of more help. Tony - PM'd regarding the sunroof. Just a quick update - this car will be going to the scrap man on Saturday coming - I'll obviously be saving as much as I can however there are bound to be things that I leave in place. If there are any random bits of obscure trim etc that people need then please shout up soon so I can get it sorted for you. Cheers Tom