Jim

Great - will keep my eyes open for a thread update!

Don't suppose there's any plans to import some more of these? Was up at Stealth Racing today (getting my bonnet cable sorted again!) and looks like I need a new one. They said they'd be interesting in buying a few off whoever was importing them, as they said they get quite a lot of calls about snapped bonnet cables too - so I think you could easily shift another batch if you did buy more?

This makes for interesting reading too.. some facts about top fuel dragsters.. One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500. Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 11.2 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced. A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to merely drive the dragster’s supercharger. With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle. At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F. Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases. Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder. Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow. If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half. Dragsters reach over 300 MPH before you have completed reading this sentence. In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4 G’s. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8 G’s. Top Fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light! Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load. The redline is actually quite high at 9500 RPM. THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, & for once, NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000 per second. Mental.

Heh there's nothing intriguing - think he just means the YouTube clip I posted a couple days ago of it running at Stealth. Popping back to Stealth this morning. As is typical for a Corrado I got it home, went to open the bonnet, and the bonnet cable made a funny noise and no longer releases the bonnet! Had to prise the grille off (which thankfully I didn't gorilla too badly) and release it by yanking on the release cable up by the headlights.

Awesome clip showing what 850BHP vs 10,000BHP looks like on a 1/4 mile drag strip.... https://streamable.com/7pxa :)

Having just got my car back after a long spell at Stealth Racing, and with the old thread having got quite lengthy, I thought it was time to ditch the old one, and start with a whole new thread about my car. So this is my 1995 2.9 VR6 Corrado. I've had it now since April 2010, so over 6 years. In that time I've done about 40,000 miles and she now sits on just under 201,000 miles. It's fair to say that I've had my share of ups and downs, culminating most recently in a second engine rebuild after it became fairly clear that there were a few major problems with how it had been done the first time. Now, towards the end of June, I've just picked the car up and have a fairly lengthy running in period ahead of me! The car isn't really modified in any notable way - the engine is completely standard apart from being very mildly overbored to a 'true' 2.9 litre capacity with new pistons and with a K&N panel filter. The only modifications to speak of are a mild drop on some broken Bilstein B4 dampers, Eibach anti-roll bars, and uprated 288mm brakes from the MK3 Golf. It's spent no small amount of time in pieces over recent years having various jobs done. Off the top of my head, some of the jobs undertaken in the last couple of years includes: * Full top and bottom end engine rebuild, including re-bored block with 82.5 Mahle pistons, oil pump, water pump, all gaskets, all bearings, timing chains & tensioners, tappets, crack pipe. Fitted new OE VW engine bay wiring harness. * Powdercoated engine subframe. * Full Roose Motorsport coolant pipe set in black. * New VDO 4-bar fuel pump. * Fit refurbished fuel injectors. * Fit auxiliary water pump. * Fit new radiator. * Replaced heater matrix. * Fit new (rebuilt) alternator. * Powder coated, refurbished Speedline wheels with new tyres. In terms of what lies ahead? Well despite replacing the suspension a few years ago, I think the Bilstein dampers are dead as the handling is rather wayward. It needs some TLC in the bodyshop too due to bits of rust in various places, and some fairly heavy stone chipping on the bonnet and slam panel. The powdercoat job on the Speedlines is more of matt grey so doesn't look correct, so I'd like to revert back to the BBS Solitude wheels I previously ran - will try and acquire a new set of those. I look forward to getting out and enjoying some shows again! Cheers.

Yikes - what happened?

OK. I'm pretty seriously interested. Suspension on my car is gash and this seems an affordable way to get it sorted. Lets say subject to a picture of it not being TOO slammed, I'll take it. Be useful to know the model of the dampers too if possible? Cheers.

Sounds like Fay / Scarlet_vr6's neck of the woods - but pretty sure hers is an M reg? Anyway we have a dedicated thread for 'spotted' posts so will merge this with that existing thread.

No worries about the non-VAG part exchange. Always loved the E39 5 series! :)

Do you have a picture of the car when it had the suspension fitted so I can get an idea on how low we're talking?

It's not exactly a show winner, that's for sure - so I hope you didn't get showered in rust as you walked beneath it :) I hope now though that the engine is sorted it'll rekindle some enthusiasm and a desire to spend some money on tarting up other aspects / elements on the old girl! Any news on your motor?

Parcel Force and Royal Mail are a joke. I've had good success (and signinficantly reduced costs!!) shipping stuff with our couriers such as UPS, etc via Parcel2Go.

Welcome aboard :)

Thirded! These are great replacements. I'm sure Matt will still have some left.

Car is finished :) Picking it up later this week :)

I think that's just KW being greedy *******s, than relating to the exchange rate or anything.

Did notice that! Not overly concerned at this point!

Update on mine - been sent various comedy pictures this week of the guys 'working on my engine' (cue pictures of hammers, etc.. lol) but got sent a video of the old girl firing back into life today and sounding very nice and smooth :) Vince reckons it should be done by middle of next week all being well. Very happy :) Hope Vince won't mind me linking to the clip, which I've shoved onto YouTube:

'CT' doesn't mean a lot as a location for a UK based forum :) Guessing that means Connecticut, USA.

He voted to Remain in the EU. So probably not.

I wouldn't blame Scotland one jot. They've clearly said they don't want to leave the EU and that's add odds to what, apparently, the majority of the UK want.

Maybe it's time to emigrate because frankly I don't align with the majority of people in this country.

I'm quite sure they're a paid sponsor, Charlie.