Corradam

Christ, I had no idea, my name is mud now. :pale: I bought that engine in good faith off someone on Ed38 forum, but my financial situation changed and I needed the money back for my Mortgage. I am so so sorry that this has caused you so much grief :(

 

I hope you managed to recoup some money off it. It sounds strange that you could not get compression, did you get the head skimmed when you changed the head gasket?

 

Again, so sorry, was not my intention to stitch you up, I am off to see if I still have the details of the bloke I bought it off to give him some grief. :mad2: :bad-words:

Compression was still over 50psi down on th number 1 cylinder after head gasket change! Think this would indicate a fairly serious bottom end issue or large crack somewhere. :brickwall:

Sometimes you've got to realise the fact you been ripped off and cut your losses, on the plus side the Corrurbo is now looking and sounding very healthy :norty:

We're nearing completion on a 20vt conversion for a friend using an AGU engine with K03s turbo and larger injectors (315cc I think). Management is via qpeng with a suitable map. After a couple of test drives boost seems to be peaking just above 20psi (seems a little excessive) before cutting back to around 16-17psi. Does this sound accurate or do we have a problem? All else seems spot on and very driveable. Any info really would be appreciated at this late stage of the conversion.

Dude chill honestly, the head was all but off at 11pm last night!! best case all it's gonna cost ya is a headset and head bolts, you know we we do it all outta love! worst case......we'll cross that bridge if we get to it! :confused4:

Currently part way through a 20v conversion on a '95 2.0 16v corrado, took the tacho wire from clocks, which is the green/blue wire in engine bay straight to the new ecu. tacho works without any convertor. Yours may have differant coloured wires being a 1.8, I'll check th qpeng guide if I get a chance.