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ok a little update the ball is rolling now and come monday there should be some more updates!! say goodbye to the nasty vw badge and the corrado badges and the swage lines.. fitted one of the rims..... what colour shall i do them?? looks like a barn find!!

had to have the tyres fitted today ,as i need to get the wheels back on the car asap so i can get the ride height dialled in just right, got to do this before any other body work commences just in case of the front arches might need some mods as the car is going to sit quite low i think........ the tyre i have gone for this time are 195/40/16 they are dunlop sp9000 look so much better than the toyo's.... also the american spec third brake light turned up today so that will be fitted at some stage soon!!!

ok so my car hasnt been touched this week so i fed the meter some more money and hopefully all will be well underway soon............... :sad: bit gutted as i had been really looking forward to some more updates..anyway i did get two of my wheels back today from having the lips polished... i had this great idea of stripping the wheels back to bare metal 1)to help the painter out 2)to help the polisher out 3)to get a better finish this didnt go to plan.... i used niotromorse and it really didnt have any effect on my rims it did however leave them very flacky and looking as though they should be binned and not refurbed.... it really was that bad..the alloy etching primer didnt want to budge and it looked awful............. so ni went to Andy handshw polishing in Brixham and he is an absolute ledgend!!!!!!!!!!!!! quote £20 per lip for the polishing £10-£20 per whell to strip back and make good ready for painting.. so got my cousin to pick them up for me today as i was real busy and Andy decided £50 all will cover the bill!!! here are the results......... before after..... the rears will be making there way back to Andy as soon as i have my new tyres.... to get the same treatment

rear drivers quarter being prepped had 3 little parking dents... doesnt show now though?? weird no filler either? unless because the paint is flat it doesnt reflect the light the same??? started to strip down the taqil gate today removed the tail gate lights nnumber plate surround and number plate lights also removed was the wiper arm and mechanism thats all i managed today, not much i know but apparently they are going to hit it hard from monday... got to weld up the badge holes and side repeaters etc etc it might start to take shape next week!!

dropped past killer paint today and had a look at the second spoiler... looks good!! i rekkon it would have looked awesome if i had nearly all of it done in metal plating and just a little paint?? but still ...looks good though eh! thanks john www.killerpaint.co.uk very impressed with his work and the price is nothing to be grumbled at at all!!!

couple little pics of some items i have started to collect... storm single wiper conversion ,looks bloody good quality in the kit, doesnt look to bad to fit either... must get the washer jets that go on the wipers themselves,as im removing the bonnet washer jets chrome door pulls this just makes the interior look a little more modern and gives it a little extra touch short black chrome bee sting aerial much neater than the original some powerflex bushes and exhaust rubbers... just waiting on T4 wing vent auto car bra bonnet washer jets DDI dials

i have also taken the front wheels off, removed the tyres and now they are ready for polishing, im going to have the lips polished and then the wheels painted to match the car .... i think it will look sweeeeetttt need to lower the front i measured it today the rear is from top of arch to floor 22" top of arch to centre hub 11" front is about the same coming in at 22.5" frmo top of arch to floor i need to drop the fron about 1" maybe 1.5" if i can get away with it...

ok folks i just managed to get some updated pics of the arches and thought id update this thread...

little update... took the rear spoiler to john hooper ..KILLER PAINT over in Dawlish he is awesome very well priced and his work is just simply stunning.... i had an idea that i fancied putting a chequerd flag over the spolier and having it ghosted on and thats what i got! the pictures dont do it justice at all!!! these pics are a bit weird it must be the light they were taken in or something... in some angles and certain lights you cant see it at all but in others it really stands out, but the pics i have taken dont do it justice i had the flash on and it really isnt that white at all..... it looks like this is most case's.. but does dissapear.. as soon as you add the flash it goes a bit weird....... i have another spoiler, and since i picked this up yesterday i have had another idea...(its not the most original idea as peopl ehave had different variants of this) same colour , blackberry, but in random places the paint flaking off revealing underneath iron/steel plates rusty rivets or the old white washed metal panels showing some old sign writing of some sort they airbrush guy suggested something like old german writing or an old esso or shell sign but making that look old and faded even flaking off in places but not have all of this showing because the blackberry has been painted on the top. he also said maybe a fun element by writing volkswagen scirrocco with the emblem again all faded or something as the corrado sort of replaced it?? maybe people would get it but im not sure... any ideas on this peeps as id like some thoughts before going ahead and getting this done..... john hooper killer paint painted my spoiler nice chap and very reasonably priced.... this costed £75. of the queens finest sterling...... :wink:

again as im just waiting for bits to be done i cant help but fiddle with stuff so the headlights were taken out as they have to be (these will be replaced in time with projector style lamps) i thought id give them a clean up and add a slight mod... anybody who knows corrado's knows there headlights are crap really crap.. these have just been taken from the car with flash removed lens and glad i did it was minging............ once in side the headlights , the reflectors arnt too bad but they are very fragile.. the chrome stuff comes off by just touching it lightly, so had to be a bit carful here... the pic below shows the spot beam and part of the main headlight, im looking at the line that goes between to make them look seperate.... so with a bit of permanent marker jiggery pokery i got a good result... not much of a mod but it does look different i think it will look smart once on the car....

we have an update on the centre console!!!! this is how it is currently looking... the paint finish is a lot finer and the shape is sooooo much better, i requaested that a perspex sheet be installed just under the heater controls 1) this tidys it up a bit 2)i can put some light in the top to illuminate the cubby hole underneath!! hopefully the black coating on this is thin enough for me to use EL paper behind the heater controls to illuminate the display.... EL is electro luminessant paper it is what is used on most modern cars now as a form of lighting very bright lasts a very long time and is the thickness of paper.... the console need just a little more work until it is completed but it is getting there!!

arch pulling was next on the adgenda.............. this was a little daunting as i wasnt sure how this was going to turn out. as it happens Ben at PPI is a kin ledgend!!!!! we just lowerd the car and he made them fit ............. looking mean as hell here just a little worried now as to how low the front is gonna be............... so the idea behind all this is to make it look as stock as possible so this is a nice subtle mod, the bumper actually sticks out on both side of the car at the rear by about 1/2 - 3/4" so it made sence to make the arches flush with this... i can get my wheels on and the car still look cool........... these are the bogging up pics... **** myself when i saw this for the first time as it looks like there is a lot of filler there..... starting to take shape now.. the arches are almost done they are in black primer now as ben wanted to get that bit sorted before christmas... as you can see the bumper sits flush on both sides and it still looks stock........... i cant wait to see it in the flesh....

to get the look im after i had to roll the arches or so i thought. i hired the arch rolling machine frmo wheel power in torquay £25v for the week, got it home took it to garage and tried to fit it , some numpty bollocks had wound it up so tight to the hub on thier car it had squashed the bolt holes so you couldnt get the bolts in!!!! what a ****er so i spent ages filing it out so it was useable... any way this went from bad to worse........... we love arch rolling especially when it cracks the paint!! we love arch rolling even more when it doesnt even roll the arch!!! the metal is sooooo god damn thick on the back of the rado it just wouldnt play ball.... the machine left the arches distorted and with cracked paint i was so overjoyed.................. i must say i did heat the metal up it was in a warm garage etc etc it just didnt work for me.... anyway while it was there i decided to get rid of the rubbing strips... this left loads of ganky **** stuck to the doors and i had to use one of these to get it off this was all good until i found out that the passenger side had been painted before and whoever painted it once it had been laqured it cant have been left to go hard because the sticky strip had eaten its way into the laquer andc left what looked like blisters all the way down the door plus the laquer had come off too......... so as you can imagine i was relativly ****ed off by this point......

the list i have decided on is.... remove rear badges and emblems keep it smooth but retain the side panel joins to look original as poss re-paint bumper remover side repeaters colour code door handles fit T4 vent in drivers side front wing cut out front number plate surround plastic weld flush and fill smooth front bumper leaving lights indictors and fogs where they are. remove washer jets off of bonnet. remove side rubbing strips repaint mirrors basically paint the whole car apart from roof and tailgate.

after fitting the wheels i took it up to PPI to get them to have a look at the paint etc just to mint it this is what they did to the car..... all the yellow is aera's with either a chip , dent, scratch, or modification.... oh and dont for get the kin roof!!!!!!!!!!!!

so with the centre console still not finished and all the dash switch gear finished and not really much else going on i thought it would be rude not to lower the car...... took it to work and used the high tec ramp.. a forklift is a handy thing!!!!! got the wheels on eventually.... as stated before the fronts are 7.5" wide and the rears are 9" wide....... quite wide in fact got a few rubbing issues but i rekkon i can sort it....

this is what the DDI dials look like

got to say this does look a bit **** in the pics...and well it is.lol it is o.k but need s to be brighter this will shine once fitted with the DDI dials....

next up was the instrument illumination... sometime in the future i would like to purchase some DDI dials they are reverse lit speedo heads black white numbers but glow up at night... look good, i have the orange needles in my car they have a white backing and with the DDI dials they look awesome so i thought i would get some UV (ultra violet) led's to show the needles up even more, there are loads of different ways of doing this but i wanted easy so i just got the bulbs and relavent resistors and set about it.... here we have a 5mm uv (ultra violet) bulb and 300 ohm resistor i then took the original bulb holder out of the pod i always use the longer leg on the led as the positive leg... got to keep it nice and tight so it all fits in the original bulb holder the result is this this is one bulb and it takes three......

next mod was to sort out the instrument cluster... i really like the red led's in the switches they are now the same as the newer golf's/polo's audi's etc the next thing is to carry out the reverse lcd mod this is when you change the colour of the lcd and reverse the digits from being black to whatever colour you like... in my case red... normally the trip computer bit would shine green and the digits would be black but now i want mine to be black but the digits to be red..... understand??? il show you... first thing to do is take out the instrument cluster...(note the colour of the digits) then litterally strip it down take the casing off etc just to reveal the board in side please note this board has been partially converted, the lcd on the left has had the reversal work done, the lcd on the right is totally standard. here is a close up of the standard lcd on all lcd's there is a polarising filter all that is needed to be done is to take this filter off. get a stanly knife blade do not cut or break this filter. gently slide blade under filter and lift off it is quite tough as it is stuck down peel it off and then remove any glue with alcohol based solution make sure this is clean, now with all glue residue removed simply turn it upside down and place on the lcd!! you will see that it has turned black. like this. again the difference between the two underneath the lcd is a colour filter mine was green i just got a plastic red file and cut around the old filter and replaced it with the new one.. with it all put back together it looks like this... massive differnce i like it and again it is the same as the new audi's etc this mod cost me £1 for the plastic file and i got 5 in a pack!!!

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Hello euan did you get your rado?

Howdie dudie buddy Get up the pics man!!!!

YES I KNOW ITS NOT A RADO BUT SOME OF YOU MIGHT KNOW SOMEONE WHO WANTS SOMETHING EVEN IF ITS A FRIEND OF A FRIEND SO HERE GOES car still has tax and mot full black leather heated air con fully functioning ice cold ****e wheels (long beach) excellent tyres almost new a;; panels straight no rot all lights excellent engine and gearbox good working order too! full car available