Leonard

Could be your ISV is past it and you need a new one.

Had some goods from Steesh who is currently breaking a Corrado vr6 Everything was as described and was extremely well packaged. Thank you Matt

Informative as ever :grin: I know compromises do HAVE to be made. But where I live the roads are really REALLY bad sometimes. You cannot really compare them to other parts of the UK bar Scotland and parts of Wales :lol: I took on board what you said ages ago about the KW V'3's being great with your lightweight 17's. However how bad are your local roads? Essex seemed like a F1 race track last time i was down there LOL Think you need to come for a holiday to the Peak District :grin: Before the internet you used to buy something use it find it was sh!t then sell it and then repeated that process until you ended up with the right tool for the job! I don't really want to do that with £1k suspension and £1k wheels :lol:

Not sure about the Pi but Eiback are terrible! :lol: I do wonder if I should just change the springs on my shocks. Did buy some H&R's but then sold them before I had a chanve to fit them :confused4:

No, I have just spent £900 on my clutch and chains though. So I am being sensible and saving up the money rather than sjust spanking my credit card like I normally do :lol: Plus its my birthday the week after that so will be a nice pressie to myself :grin:

It was meant to come with a from of the VSR as standard but the Corrado was already costing too much so that idea was canned. Also the VR6 engine is quite old so 190 bhp out of 2.9L was a fair old chunk of power way back in the days of 1992! Edited to add. If the VR had come with a 6 speed box then it should easily be as fast as the new Scirocco in a straight line. Matt

That does look really good 8)

I'm thinking there are a lot of Corrado owners out there who are suffering in silence! :lol: Wonder how many of the worlds finest front wheel drivers are actually capable of dispatching a rough B road at anything faster than dumper truck pace now :grin:

You do realise Corrado's are worthless at the moment, just dont by the Plasma tele for the new lounge :wink:

Aye! Bloody hell mate that is a big turn around. Hope everything is ok, well obvously it aint ok. But you know what I mean Matt

I see where you are coming from, but I honestly dont think it will offer the performance I am after. Plus I'm not really looking for a slammed look (as nice as that is sometimes) 30-40mm drop will suffice. Just don't want it looking like a MPV :grin:

Have you tried heating it up with a hairdryer first before peeling it?

What sort of drop would that be do you think?

LOL I think so. Well exactly I simply cannot put up with the dicomfort and slow speeds over 80% of the roads i travel for the thrill i do get on the other 20%. I mean my glove box keeps popping open for goodness sakes! LOL I really would go down the 16's route, but i really like my wheels and they took ages to find :( Perhaps rather than try and find a suspension compromise. I will have to have a styling compromise and search for some 16's I like the look of.... Thinking back though my 15's were almost as harsh with my current set up as my 17's are now. Do get the rears hitting the top of the arches every now and again though now :brickwall:

Which coilovers did you get and how bumpy are your local roads though? :norty:

:nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: There HAS to be a compromise! :grin: I only want to run 17's with a 30-40mm drop and be able to make swift progress on bumbpy roads. Its not like Im trying to send the car into orbit or anything :lol:

:nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: LOL Dont worry mate I am sure it wont come to that. Went to see Vince at Stealth last week and booked the car in for June so I cant sell until after that anyway :wink:

I am surprised the std dampers are up to the job of dealing with the stiffness of the after market springs. Do you not get really slow or limited rebound? If I did go down this route though are std original shockers not going to cost me a fortune anyway? I thought I remembered someone saying that they were 150 smackers a corner :shock:

I really want to stick with my 17's as they look pretty darn sexy :norty: However my Eibach springs and Koni damper set up is just way too harsh for where I live in the Peak District. In fact it was way too harsh with the std 15's on! So before I go out in the next couple of months and blow a grand on some KW Variant 3's I was wondering what other suspension people were running on silly bumpy roads. Please only reply if you live somewhere where the roads are sh!te :grin: Ta Matt

Ok may give them a shout in June. Elephant isnt bad as they charge me £290 at the moment for a 5k a year commute policy (Im 34)

Hey Jim So can you not commute at all in it then? Matt

I am almost 100% sure that this really does not work

Took my mechanic mate a good 18 hours to do everything. Chains, clutch, slave cyclinder, crankshaft oil seal etc

Awesome must have cost a pretty penny. But as you say if it makes you happy, then that's priceless 8) Still cant wait to see it all finished Matt