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Sorry to hear that sambo, it always happens when you dont need it to dude, them rover 200's are cracking old bloke sunday back seat drivein wife car's, lol hope its a cheep fix for you?

HaHa sambo-jr thats a combined speed of 160 mph, i don’t hang about either, kind of why i crashed my storm ;-( man the roads round your way are well dangerous dude, i think i have seen a red golf pass me on the traws road at that time, and you’re not alone, i will be doing me engine swop out side too as my garage if full of motor bikes and other toys. i will keep an eye out for you. The build's looks good so far mate, keep it going ...

Some good advice guys, and VW_OwneR_85 your right I’m just going to bite the bullet and swop out the 1.8 for the vr6, I have 2 vr6 cars both runners sitting on the drive one the storm(crashed) and a blue one with a fecked front hub which also runs but the body is well ruff with rust round the boot glass rubbers and windscreen, lower quarters and inner wings, it’s a bit of a dog but has a good solid engine, I have sold this to a friend to restore, run out of mot two years ago and as I had a company car I just let it sit on the drive, and he’s not picked it up or paid me for it yet? 2 years????? So it’s time for doing, I’m going to make a start next weekend by moving the cars around so I can start removing the wiring loom from the storm. The blue one will come in handy as a reference point, I bet he aske’s to pick it up??? As soon as I’ve dropped the front and back off the storm and pulled a few box’s of spares from it the shell will be off to the scrap yard I will take you up on that advice Erny I will take a ruck of pictures prior to starting off too For me I think the hardest part of this will be the wiring, I have no issue with the mechanical side of things that’s just cut fingers and knuckles easy.

Nice job sambo-jr, joby gave me the link to your thread, nice job so far dude, guna be getting a lot wet n cold up your neck of the wood's real soon, need that garage building, lol im thinking of going down this same engine route with my new corrado, not sure if you have seen the tread on the crashing of my beloved storm and now the need for a more powerful engine for my 1.8 valve’er. Have you used the same original engine mounts on the sub frame or have you had to mod them to fit and the gearbox looks same, is the linkage the same set up? I work over in traws, if you ever need a hand give me a shout and I will pop over, plus I can get a look at it???

You know rado20vT its probably an early bonnet, is was said when i picked the car up that the bonnet was a riger but thinking about it its probably just an early bonnet and me and the guy that sold it me don't know nothing about bonnets, lol Good Question on the Indicators, when i picked up the car the head lights didn’t work, no main beam but the indicators worked well they clicked at the right speed from in side the cab, but when i was going round the wiring to sort the main beam turns out the fogs are now the indicators and the small side repeaters been moved down to the front valance?, all of which is a pain as i wanted to fit angle eyes, but unable to unless i can sum how open them up and fit a row of led's in there?????? so what would be involved in transplanting a 1.8 turbo 200+hp sounds ok to me

This is the car,(see attached) and rolling on German made AZEV alloys, which is nice, all this car needs is a bigger engine and i will be well happy, done the heater matrix yesterday, man i hate doing that job it's such a ball acke its untrue, No more foam bits hitting me in the face, lol

Joby im in Halkyn mate, So ok guys so the general consensus is it’s a big do-able job, what other engine options are there that would fit the 1.8 sub-frame then that would give the same performance or better than the VR???, I could maybe sell the storm to fund it. No to worryed about this car being factory, just running sweet and looking cool is fine by me.

Yep It would be easy to go out and pick up a non-runner VR, but I don’t have the funds for that, plus this new one has a nice body and will be just the ticket when it’s done, it’s going to have to be the hard way I’m afraid guy’s, I know it’s guna be a lot of work, but I have no option, if I do the engine swop first, that’s the big job done, not sure I want to change to the late bonnet as current one is a riger one so would be a shame to have to lose it??? What about the electrics and why do I need the clocks apart from the obvious knowing correct engine mileage??? and if needed then is it just swop out the clock or is it loom as well, it can’t be as straight forward as just clocks , can it, I hate electrics???

Hi guys Been a member of the forum a few years now, sort of skirting around the outside, I've owned 2 G60’s and 3 VR6’s one after another over the last 15 years I unfortunately crashed my beloved mint storm 2 weeks ago at 80 mph on ice and well it’s not going to go back on the road anytime soon, gutted, and I may have put it back on the road had the police not recovered it by its roof, so as I needed a car and nothing else will do and after looking around I find a H reg 1.8 with a nice riger body kit, bonnet, front end, skirts and rear badge conversion single wiper in a euro looker style, looks nice from the outside with good paint and a good starting point for a nice car with rot, but it’s macanicls are bit ropey and loose and not without is 21 years of fiddling and elec problems not to mention the usual popped heater matrix, which I am by now a master of replacing!!! Already swopped out the cloth for the leather interior, which looks good with the black plastics? Just need to pull the heater loom for the seats. After owning G60 and VR cars straight for so long I need to re engine this car, its just to light on the front end and has no top end grunt like I like with the VR, and im sure the 1.8 tuned up right with a few longer gears in the gear box would make a sweet set up, but as I have a just rebuilt vr6 engine in my poor poor storm as the donor and the front and back ends are straight. Is it a big job, Would it be a case of undo strut tops exhaust, wiring, cables, fuel/brake lines etc drop the sub frame, same on the 1.8 and roll in the vr lift up and bolt in, man that sounds so easy, Yea right, lol Not going to bother with the ABS Is it worth swopping out the rear axle or is it just a case of spindle and hub’s, brakes etc?

Thank guy's, just checkin as i have just put a new rad, oil cooler all new pipework, cluch, heater matrix, inner and outer cv joints and a 2nd hand 80000 mile engine, as when i got the car it had a blown engine and so a little over parnoid with every noise i hear and smell, so far seams to be running sweet, for the moment.

Hi guys now summers almost here and the suns out, the engins running hoter not sure about you but i drive with the oil tep up on the dash and the water temp on the clock, ever watchin um and keeping it below 85/90c, give or take on the water and today got the oil up to 110c what kind of temp is every one else runing and what is considered a normal opp temp for the vr6? cheers

hi all not long got my 3rd corrado, 3 months which is a m reg vr6 fixer upper. i have had 2 g60s and still have a 1303s bug, the g60s met with sticky ends :cuckoo: anyway i am working to replace all the drive train as i want it right and as good as new so far ive done new wishbones, track rod ends, ball joints, bearings, upper strut donuts new hubs new disks new pads and all new brake pipes also did the outer cv's last weekend doing the inner cv's on this weekend, then its off to get the tracking and camber done, to to make sure its all rideing true the problem i have is in 2 parts 1 the big nut on the thred end of the cv through the hub keeps comeing loose after about 100 mile on both sides, thers no split pin hole or tab washer to stop it working loose can you use lock tite on con some one tell me the the tourq setting for this nut 2 the camber has some how changed on the drivers side (toe out)but why i carnt see how it would i have pushed the ball joint in as far as it will go on the wish bone but still is out by say 15 20 mm any help would be happly recived kind regards simon