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The crank floats on oil supplied to the bearings, its not supposed to touch the bearings at all being a lead based alloy they can't take any heat. The oil pump doesn't create the oil pressure, the close tolerances of the bearings does this (think of a hose pipe with your thumb over the end, then remove your thumb), once the bearings start to wear pressure begins to drop, which acerbates the wear on the bearings. Oil leaking past the bearings then doesn't pass to the upper parts of the engine and makes that noisy. If the bores and pistons are good I'd look for a good used crank (2.8 maybe?)

I've never seen shells as bad as that, normally its just the white metal and copper coating, the steel shells themselves are normally intact

Thick oil is compensating for the worn bearings when cold, if you continue to run it and it is worn big ends you'll score the crank making it an engine out job and total strip down for repair. Sump off and conrod caps off to confirm worn big ends if it was mine

Big ends and main bearing shells are copper coated before lead based white metal is coated on them Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

These cars don't idle well if the battery goes flat, if there's no induction leaks the cure is to use the car and allow the ecu to relearn all sensor values. Are you still in Middlesbrough? Just in case someone's looking for one, there's a lad looking for a VR6 in the classified section.

I now regret not replacing the sponge on the airbox flaps when I did mine, it contributed to me breaking the flap dial on my car a few years later due to how stiff it became

You can ruin a sealed type wheel bearing by undoing the CV nut and allowing the cars weight on its wheels. If you've ever pressed one out you'll know it takes very little pressure to reduce the bearing to the sum of its parts

Not sure if the mods can find your details? http://the-corrado.net/member.php?2050-Tomson

Have a good look at the thin wire to the starter solenoid, mine broke off my MK4 Golf recently, the wire looked attached but it was only the weatherproof seal holding the wire into its socket and it fell to the floor on removal

Wings are good sellers if not rotten? Interested if they're silver?

http://www.themodernclassiccarco.com/sales/944s2alpine/944s2alpine.html

Petebs car http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?86795-My-1-8t-now-with-recaros-and-bbs-rs My claim to fame is that I supplied the door cards for the car (not sure if he used them TBH)

Does the pump not prime when starting from hot? Why the need for a check valve then?

Where did you buy the starter?

Its a 4 stroke engine, so 2 complete rotations of the crank is just one rotation of the cam, the cam sensor is more accurate for timing than crank sensor (longer cranking if the cam sensor is faulty), does OBD2 use the same cam pick up on the cam as OBD1? The cam sensors are different OBD1 / OBD2?

Its common for the bulb to blow on the dash light, start the car with your foot on the brake pedal, can you feel it pulse as it does its pre start checks?

How fast does the engine crank on the starter when hot, have you tried a cam sensor? Other thoughts could be MAF or lambda, if the MAF is under reading air ingested it will under fuel too? If lambda senses over fuelling it will cut down fuel injected too? Do you own a strobe light? Its easy to see a spark and quick to connect even when suited and booted

Its a tenner per year, usually you can save more than that on insurance if you're a member of a club, I rejoined a few years ago but my membership has lapsed again now

WOW! What a good place for a Corrado Forum meet? Any chance of repro Corrado panels as a side line?

Pics are easy to upload with the tapatalk app

Brave, so very brave........

http://clubgti.com/showthread.php?271437-MAN-in-Shed-cylinder-heads&highlight=man+in+the+shed+heads All his work is word of mouth, no website, advertising etc

I used to store my transformer inside the drum, so that would have fitted too

If it's collection you'll need to state your location?

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