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the epoxy is a super strenght epoxy made just for bonding metals and plastics and also the rod comes through the fitting and into the hole so the peddle pushes on the rod and not the plastic. i cant run braid down to the slave cylinder because i am using a mk4 gearbox which has a push in fitting on the slave cylinder. i couldnt find anywhere that sells them so i got a hose company to make me a new one out of new hose and put the corrado end on one side and the mk4 end on the other. the difference that master cylinder made to the peddle is huge, the 4 puck clutch is a pleasure to use now :D it will be on the road next summer, the whole interior is getting retrimed over the winter and then mapping in the spring changing the pedal is an easy job, just a little fiddly when re-fitting the return spring tell me about it, many a battle ive had with those stupid springs :lol:

i remade the brake pipe that goes under the car started washing some of the interior carpet fitted boot carpet and weichers strut brace some of the trim in then i had to change the clutch master cylinder the old master cylinder the new one the end taken off the original the new master cylinder ready for the new end the end slid onto the shaft and secured with epoxy a quick lick of paint and fitted to the car and then back in with the intake pipe i went for the different style master cylinder because it gives me a much lighter clutch peddle. the light peddle makes the 4 puck clutch and solid flywheel alot easier to use and much smoother.

he didnt build the car, his fathers racing team built it for him and he is going to drive it. he also drives a e30 m3 with some mad engine for the team, he is meant to be a very talented driver :salute:

small garage mechanics are even worse over here in ireland you could be the head technician in bmw and they will still argue that they are right about something completely stupid, which means you have to take them out and prove them wrong which is always worth it for the look on their face and the fact that they will never argue with you again :D i was once told by someone supposedly very knowledgeable about cars :lol: that coilovers were for posers and that my car would handle better on factory suspension :cuckoo: . i soon had him running home to his mommy mumbling you were right, but not before he tried to accuse me of witch craft.

you need min 305mm 2 piece discs and min 4 piston calipers. people that say they have x amount of bhp and run standard brakes must not be driving hard enough. i can go out and warp the front discs on a 1.0l polo if i want to. get rid of those shit ebc brake pads please and buy some proper pagid rs29 pads, a 16" wheel is a good compromise. a friend of mine runs a k20 corrado in the irish touring car series and he is going from 17" wheels down to 16" you need to get the car as low as possible but keeping proper geometry with ball joint extenders and upside down track rod ends. no wishbones above horizontal :nono: check out scch for tubular front wishbones and a full kit to rose joint the whole car, it really makes a nice job of the suspension. it all depends what level of a car you want, just a normal trackday car or a weapon you can tear up the track with

my oil temp sender hasent arrived yet so i dont know but i have a 16 row mocal oil cooler right behind the grill so it should never go above the low 90's

wont be making the trip, no interior and hasent been mapped yet. the hole in the bumper is the only way to do it, fannying about with ducts just dosent work, the 23 degree intake temp speaks for itself. the intercooler is inside the top half of the bumper so i couldnt put any braces on the bumper bar. the bumper bar does not add any rigidity to the front chassis legs because you have the front engine support already bolted to the exact same place. the bumper bar is just there to protect things in the event of a crash. i got the can interface from sbd, i hate that stupid stereo jack that qpe use. i now have a proper connecter which is the same as the vag diagnostic port that i can mount to the dash.

i am putting black mesh infront of the intercooler to hide it, just havent got a chance yet, plenty other jobs to do first. cant comment too much on the driving experience as it hasent been properly mapped yet but so far seeing boost around 2k, suspension is very good and not too harsh, brakes are brilliant, the 4 puck clutch feels just like the standard one and the limo gives loads of traction. the brakes might not be to everyones taste but i love big brakes (you can never have brakes that are too big) and after all the effort of getting them to fit i wasnt going to hide them away with black. at the end of the year its getting mapped so i will finaly see some power figures.

its going to be on a classic policy.

a few pics from last weekend, just a quick wash for the show my can interface box arrived so i could connect my laptop up to the ecu all looks good, im seeing intake temps between 23 and 28 at the throttle body when driving and around 40 when stopped so it looks like the intercooler works well.

remodeled bumper bar to fit around the intercooler steel attached to the top inside of the bumper because when i cut out the hole for the intercooler it went a bit wobbly tidied up the power steering pipes the first proper pic of the underside syncro shift goodness now inside the box i took the car for its first spin in two years, just around the yard, gave the engine a clean

i redid my headliner in black did some parts of the headlight reflector in black i got 15mm spacers all round to clear the brakes sandblasted the hubs and then gave them a coat of stone chip took the driveshafts apart and let the cv's soak in the parts washer its amazing the amount of dirt that comes out a cv when you clean it a coat of acid 8 the shaft and the cv's got a coat of stone chip and then i fitted them all the wires attached to the dash were re wrapped and then the dash was put in brand new genuine windscreen and brand new genuine trim the front suspension and brakes completed i have the 2 rear calipers fitted, you can just about see the 2 sliver bolts of the handbrake caliper the rear brakes give the back wheels a bit of poke custom clutch pipe made to go from the corrado clutch pipe to the mk4 slave cylinder forge recalculation valve the engine is nearly finished, just waiting for a few final bits

i have porsche gt3 front calipers on 340mm discs under a set of bbs rc's 17" x 7.5 i can get away with a 10mm spacer but i went for 15mm just to be safe.

this is the 4th generation rear caliper bracket and hopefully the last. started with some worktop to make a template which i can work from. then i made it out of mdf to check the design and make sure it will work. a big block of aircraft grade billet aluminum, 200mm x 250mm x 44mm roughly cut to shape and my template attached to it fixed to the bench and started machining it the finished product

havent had any time to work on the corrado because ive been working on my other car but im finally back at it. blasted all my calipers back to bare alloy. all the pistons were taken out and the calipers were given a bath to get them perfectly clean a few coats of primer between each coat of paint they got put into the oven to bake the color (porsche GT3 RS orange) and stickers put on a few coats of lacquer and 20 mins in the oven to seal the deal, very pleased with the results.

i got it from rally design

i had to make a new shifter cable bracket to allow the cables to take a different route to avoid the downpipe i had to have custom caliper brackets cnc machined because no one makes a caliper bracket with 140mm between the holes to fit porsche gt3 front calipers. they are made from calmax steel. if you dont know what it is look it up, serious stuff, not cheap tho my handbrake calipers arrived, i made a fully floating custom bracket to hold them. \ all the glass is in except for the windscreen which i have ordered and will be here soon. the engine is back in for the final time, in the middle of fitting all the vacuum hoses and the forge recirculating valve.

here is some pics of the car after i polished it

the speedo ordeal was the biggest headache in the whole world, well worth it tho, love the way the needle changes color at preset speeds. still cant believe its finished, came together very very well in the end. this car is the reason i have a corrado, still not sure whether to be happy or angry about that :lol: you should put up the pics i took when i polished it, really show the guys the color 8)

if you are getting tyres get michelin pilot exalto, the toyo t1r's are shit compared to the pe2's. traction is 10 times better and gets rid of the ridiculous under-steer the toyo's give

nice one :D thanks thats all i need to know

will a vr6 fuel pump fit a g60? thanks mark

i dont know how ye get away with running such small brakes on a track car. my brothers mk2 track car with a 196bhp abf has brembo calipers off the front of a seat ibiza, genuine seat 305mm discs and pagid rs29 yellows but it still has a habit of warping discs. even his road car with 322mm two piece discs and gt3 front calipers kept warping discs so now it has 343mm discs. i dont know, maybe over here we drive our cars harder :shrug:

220,000 miles on my 16v before i started the restoration, it still had its original engine and never had any major work on it, still loved to sit a 6-7k spinning the front wheels :D

ok just a small update ill start with the front engine mount, people say you can use the standard front engine mount bracket but its not true, it doesnt fit properly. heres the problem, there is no bolt holding the right side heres a bracket i had in the shed, first i wanted to drop the front of the engine by an inch this is the original position and heres the new position and now i have a bracket that bolts in three places starter taken apart and sand blasted back to the never ending story of my brakes, ive been chatting to some very knowledgeable guys and we came to the conclusion i need bigger front calipers so here they are. now when i say its a tight fit i mean tight fit, im amazed i can fit brakes that big behind 17" wheels ive done some more work on the rear brake/ hub setup and now i have gotten rid of the terrible roller taper bearings and now have proper cartridge bearings, i also have no caliper adapters so everything blots up simply and properly just like i should.