Purple Tom

Yeah, I bit the bullet in the end, it's not like I haven't spent enough already :lol: Like you say, it's not something to skimp on. I've bought some nice new Eibach springs and the rest of the running gear is brand new. Couple that with the £100-odd quid I'm going to pay at Stealth to have the lot aligned and I really don't want to be fitting second-hand front shock absorbers that could shortly need replacing, in turn disturbing the alignment! Good to know they're good though, cheers boost monkey :)

Oops...must have been that the old sunroof blew the fuses, maybe a bit stiff? I know who to ask if I need a motor though ;)

Thanks for the responses everyone :) Diesel Junior - hadn't heard of the Corrado database before, it's nice to see there's plenty more! I'd a feeling that there must be some in mainland Europe because of the amount of Corrado's over there but I hadn't seen any. Looks like there's a good variety of engine choice too, I like the PD150 conversion...if only I had the means :lol: Coullstar - I'm not sure either! I really don't know what its going to be like but I'm hoping it will just be a good frugal daily drive. It's going to be widetrack, have all new suspension components, decent brakes and a nice comfy leather interior so it should be generally a pretty nice place to be. I've just ripped all of the soundproofing out of the Passat (which was nice and quiet internally), so I've got an idea of how noisy it'll be. Power wise I know its going to be slow to begin with but it'll easily do 90mph on the motorway which is all I need to begin with. I can begin to chase more power/torque once I've got it reliable. TheDubFather - looks like you're a bit further ahead than me! Get yourself a project thread started! I hope to have a picture very similar by a week on Sunday ;) Mikkijayne - I wondered whether the same car was getting that V8, good luck with the conversion, should be awesome when its done! Reading some of your threads on other forums has really helped me out, so thank you :) I know what you mean about remapping the ECU...I plan on upgrading to VNT and an AFN ECU before much else but then I can have a go at remapping myself....can't be that hard can it? ;)

Please close this thread - bought some new ones from AVS in the end :)

Hi Jon, The steering wheel has sold I'm afraid, but I do have a good condition late-spec passenger (N/S) headlamp if that's any use to you? Here's a picture: Looking for £40 posted for it. Cheers Tom

Andrew - yes the seats are still available mate...PM'd

Hey, I've just broken a B4 Passat as the donor for my TDi conversion. The Passat has A/C and now I've removed the entire system I've found that its identical to the factory fitted LHD Corrado stuff, although obviously its for a RHD car. Looking at the way it fits it appears to mount in exactly the same way as the non-A/C heater system on a Corrado. I've saved the entire heater box, complete with controls, vacuum system, wiring loom, compressor and pipework. The only thing I haven't retained is the radiator as that was obviously the cause of a leak which explained why the A/C didn't work and why there wasn't any refrigerant in the system when I dismantled it. If anyone wants it then its FREE to the first person to come and fetch it. I'm scrapping the Passat tomorrow so the sooner the better really in terms of coming to get it. I don't want to scrap parts that could obviously be useful to someone so they're here for the taking for a short while before they start to cause a problem in the garage by being bulky and in the way. I contemplated fitting it all to my Corrado but in all honesty I've got enough on with the TDi conversion without worrying about trying to make A/C work as well :lol: My postcode is DE56 2JQ. Hopefully the bits will be useful to someone! Mods - feel free to move this if its not in the right section, thanks! Tom

Looks brilliant Andy, I liked it with the Brocks on but the Borbets suit it a lot more, I think they go with the dark theme of the car a lot better. Did the motor work ok mate? Tom

Stuey, I'm not 100% who manufactures them but I've got one that I removed from the VR6 I broke. It was fitted last year and I reckon has only done about 2000 miles at the most. It looks brand new mostly because it pretty much is! Here's a pic, if you're interested I only want £20 for it. Oh, and its a genuine VW item, not an OEM/pattern part. Cheers Tom

Iain - really sorry mate the sunroof motor sold a little while ago, didn't mean to ignore your PM's just had quite a few in one go! BUMP for the rest of the parts, need them gone and I'm open to reasonable offers. Heated front seats and loom now added....

Bit of a dickhead though to lose it twice on the same corner, you'd have thought he'd have learned the first time!!

I have looked into the feasibility of the later 16v PD engines, along with the 6 speed box etc. The conversion is very possible however I just can't afford it. The donor vehicle alone would be way out of my price range so I'm just going to do the best I can with what I've got to be honest. Yandards - the DBW throttle is easily dealt with by swapping the whole pedal box from the Passat into the Corrado, this also sorts the clutch and brake switches out. I know what you mean about the overboost problem as my Ibiza suffers from the same issue, but the N75 valve is often the culprit and can be changed to hopefully solve the problem. The weak turbo issue will be solved when I go VNT but as I stated earlier I just want to get the thing running and iron out any niggles to begin with. My long term plan is to rebuild an AHU complete with some nice modifications but it all comes down to cost in the end! I plan on making the needles red in the clocks and perhaps altering the colour of the faces but its not a top priority at the moment, the mechanical side of it concerns me more at the minute.

Neil - having removed the dashboard from the Passat yesterday and the dash from the VR about a month ago I can confidently and categorically say no. They are totally different and the only thing they really have in common are the clocks. The Passat's dash doesn't even bolt through the bulkhead like on the Corrado, it just slots in to captive holes in the bulkhead and the majority of the securing is done via large pressed steel brackets that bolt to the inside of the bulkhead. Shame really!

Simon - sorry mate I got a bit distracted over the weekend and completely forgot about them! I'm at the garage tomorrow night so I'll do my best to look them out for you - sorry again about that. Tom

Neil - annoyingly my donor doesn't have the cup holder or the centre sun visor - I nearly didn't have it because of that but decided I better not look a gift horse in the mouth ;) Mark & Mark - thanks, it'll be hard work but worth it I reckon! Kip - thanks. I'm going to be using the VR6 driveshafts with new outer CV's as they're needed for the widetrack conversion. The 5-speed TDi gearbox has the same output flange size as the VR so they're a bolt-on part. Fuel pump wise I don't actually need anything other than the engine-mounted injector pump because that also acts as the lift pump. However for ease of fitment I'm going to retain the 8V in-tank pump and wire it through an intertia switch to an ignition live feed. Not only will this get around the problem of having to use a different fuel sender unit, it'll also mean that when I come to look for bigger power I won't have any issues with fuel pressure at all. The guy in america (G60ing) has used a G60 intercooler on both of his conversions and while I like the idea of it as far as OEM fitting goes, I'd rather fit a decent FMIC as there's loads of room in front of the radiator and I'm going to have to fabricate boost pipes anyway so I might as well do it properly with more power in mind later on. Thanks for the positive replies so far, I wasn't sure how a TDi conversion would be accepted in general because it's not exactly in keeping with all of the big power petrol engines. However I really like the idea of reasonable performance coupled with great economy, and I really needed something to do :)

David - I don't know if they are but I do happen to have a drivers side plastic housing complete with adjuster mechanism as someone else just wanted the reflector. Let me have a look at it tomorrow and I'll see what condition the adjusters are in - might be just what you need! Cheers Tom

David - I'm afraid I have none of those parts, not even the drivers headlamp. I do have a passenger headlamp but I guess that's no use? Rob - yep I remember, do you mean the funny shaped plastic cover that fits over the three engine temperature sensors at the front of the engine? If so then yes I do have that...£12 posted mate. Cheers Tom

Hey, This little project has been in the pipeline for several months now, and a few members on here already know of its existence. However been as though I'm about to take the plunge and rip my Corrado apart I thought I might as well start a thread detailing roughly whats going on. Firstly, some of you probably know my 8V. It was my first Corrado, I bought it in 2008 and spent a happy year owning, maintaining and improving it. I then sold it to a local guy and bought a VR6 which I also owned for a year. However, moving into my own place meant I needed to free up some capital so the VR6 had to go. The day the VR sold I saw my old 8V driving past with a 'for sale' poster in the window. I followed it back to the guys house and eventually struck a deal to buy it back. Result - some capital free'd up and I was still in a Corrado :) Here's the 8V (and the VR for good measure): There's something else though, while running the VR I also had a brief fling with a Mk2 Ibiza TDi (90bhp) which I bought cheaply for the missus to learn to drive in. It was a great car, nice and torquey but still great on fuel (55mpg +) and with plenty of tuning potential. I sold the Ibiza to Matt (Leonard) on here just before buying the 8V back, but even though I'd only owned it for a short amount of time it had planted the seed of an idea in my head, here's a picture: Soooo...where was I...oh yeah, inspiration. I bought the 8V, ran it for a while and in September 2010 my Dad decided that he didn't need the Discovery TDi that he was using as a daily and asked me to help him find a more practical daily driver with a similar internal capacity. 'Passat B4 TDi' sprang into my head as I'm slightly biased towards VW and I knew that they could be picked up cheaply in reasonable condition - so an eBay search ensued and not long afterwards I found a 150k Passat B4 GL TDi a couple of miles down the road, with FSH and 2 owners from new for £400. It was immediately purchased and my Dad was a happy chap. I was also a chap with a head full of ideas, as while researching for Passat information on the internet I'd discovered http://www.tdiclub.com - an American website devoted to the VW TDi range of engines. While having an innocent browse I'd also discovered a member called 'G60ing' who happened to have built two Corrado TDi's over in the states. Reading his build threads over on VWVortex led me to think more and more about the possibility of doing my own TDi conversion. More research, including finding 'Mikkijayne' on this forum and Vortex, led me to discover that the ideal donor vehicle for such a conversion into a Corrado is a Passat B4 TDi - exactly the vehicle I'd bought for my Dad! The B4 is ideal because it is essentially a Corrado in all the bits that matter. The clocks are the same so are literally plug and play, the engine wiring loom is seperate from the headlamp loom (unlike the much more common Mk3 Golf TDi) and a lot of the other bits are a simple swap onto the Corrado, even as far as the fuel filter bracket on the O/S suspension turret. Further research led me to establish that the B4 GL TDi (not CL) was the one to go for, as that spec level featured the MFA as an optional extra, which I really wanted to retain on the Corrado. I established that if I could find a B4 GL TDi donor (with MFA) then pretty much everything would be a straight swap onto my Corrado, as they both run CE2 electrics so everything *should* work. About the same time as all of this was happening I had bought another Corrado VR6 which turned out to be a total rust bucket and potential moneypit. I soon decided that it wasn't worth trying to get back on the road and set out to break it. However, the widetrack running gear wasn't going anywhere as I decided my potential Corrado-8V-TDi would really benefit from being widetrack and therefore 5-stud, allowing a much wider range of wheels and of course the possibility of better, bigger brakes. So the VR6 unfortunately met a slightly sad end but parts of it are on probably 50 other Corrado's so its not all bad! Just after christmas my Dad asked me to help with the cambelt change on his B4, so round I went to help him do that... While working on it he happened to mention that the car was due for an MOT fairly soon and that it would need discs/pads/caliper rebuilds all round as the brakes were constantly seizing on. He knew all about my TDi plans and I asked him whether he'd be willing to let me buy him another B4 (in better condition but not necessarily a GL), so I could have his B4 as a donor vehicle. The long and short of it is that the answer was yes, I found him a really tidy B4 CL TDi in sherry pearl (the same colour as my Corrado!), and I ended up with his old B4 GL sat in my garage as a TDi donor 2 days after I'd finished breaking the VR6 and scrapped the shell :) Here's the MFA clocks with the MPG potential: So...my plan was this: Corrado 8V 1.9 TDi 1Z engine (90bhp - 142lb/ft as standard) Widetrack running gear front and rear Reconditioned suspension components 288mm brakes Mk4 rear calipers There are quite a few things to do apart from just dropping the engine into place. Firstly I have had as many of the widetrack suspension components and 288mm brakes blasted and powdercoated black (thanks Mark and Dave!): I've also been thinking about lots of other things, such as enlarging the fuel filler neck (diesel fuel nozzles are bigger!), fitting a front mounted intercooler and pipework as the Passat one doesn't fit at all, sorting out fuel lines, ensuring that the exhaust will work ok and of course making sure the engine bay and inner bulkhead is suitably soundproofed - I don't want a rough, unrefined car. Then there's the tuning potential. Advice from tdiclub.com pointed me in the direction of the AFN engine, which is a 110bhp lump fitted with a VNT (variable vane) turbo as standard. They were fitted to the Galaxy/Sharan/Passat B5/Audi A4/Seat Toledo and a few other models and they will work quite nicely with the Passat B4 engine loom. However they are £500+ on eBay and I couldn't justify that. So more research established that the AHU (Mk3 Golf, Mk2 Ibiza) engine (90bhp, no VNT) is an AFN in every way apart from the lack of VNT. I looked for AHU's and they fetch about £200 - even better. Then I looked at the difference between the AHU engine and the 1Z as fitted to my donor B4 and found out that there really isn't much difference between them at all - 3lb/ft and a small amount of difference to the internals. I decided that the best thing to do would be to get the conversion running and then worry about tuning later on - however a set of injectors will see me at 120bhp from 90bhp with no other modifications so that'll do to begin with. Couple that with a VNT turbo, PD130 inlet manifold, a remap and a couple of other small modifications and I should see 150-160bhp with approaching 300 lb/ft of torque which I think would be plenty for a daily driver. One final modification that I'm planning on doing while the conversion takes place is an upgrade to the later type ABS system thats fitted to the Passat. Its made by ATE and basically gets rid of the annoying ABS ECU (it's integrated into the pump) and the even more annoying rear brake compensator valve. The ABS sensors are the same as the Corrado and the bracket that mounts it to the bulkhead is even the same - job's a good'un! I'm planning on replacing all of the brake pipes anyway so it makes sense to quickly fit the new ABS system while I'm at it. Wiring should be fairly simple too as the Corrado and Passat are essentially the same in the wiring department. I took the Corrado off the road at the end of February in readiness for the conversion and happened to buy the old Ibiza back from Matt to use as a daily while I carry out the conversion - it all worked out rather well really! I think that's about everything, hopefully you're not bored to death reading about it by now!! This weekend just gone I set about removing the engine from the Passat, which was nice and straightforward: The Passat will be weighed in this Saturday coming (2nd April) and then the Corrado will be coming home as I've got the next week booked off ready to do the majority of the work. I'll also be replacing the heater matrix and a few other bits and bobs while I'm at it. I think thats about it - plenty more to come but its going to be done for Stanford Hall on the 1st May, that is my self enforced deadline and I really don't like missing deadlines ;) Thanks for reading, keep an eye out for more updates Tom

I don't have a wing but I do have the crank sensor, its almost brand new, see the top post on this thread - £30 posted if you want it mate.

I have the demister switch, £10 posted. I also have a headlamp switch but the rocker panel requires a repair (I have the repair kit from Dave16V just haven't got round to doing it yet) - £15 posted for that. £20 posted for the pair if you want them :)

Bora and Beetle steels will both be 5x100 so no problem with PCD. I imagine the offset would be ET38-ET42 so again no worries there. You'll just need to find out whether they'll clear 312's I guess.

BUMP - posts merged into one now with the remaining parts available...

Ritesh - I'm afraid all of those parts have gone, sorry mate! Tom

I was sceptical about using them as they are a freight forwarder (send lots of items and therefore qualify for bulk discount with companies such as DHL/UPS/HDNL etc) and working in the business previously left me wary of F/F's...however I've sent 6 items with them now and every one has been delivered with no issues so far, so I'd go as far as to say I would recommend them :)

Not if you use parcel2go.com and send it by courier - £7 and jobs a good'un... Thats what I did when sending the flywheel requested on this very thread ;)