Bazmcc

Not too bad. Time consuming. Loads of clips and tabs and screws everywhere, especially around the drivers side footwell. Obviously all the center console will have to come out. I just done mine but as I'm doing a dash and airbox conversion with everything out I had easy access to everything.

---------- Post added at 7:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 7:00 PM ---------- These are the standard MK4 pin and wire positions for all the switches and clocks. Obviously I still need to work out what is left to connect to the Corrado wiring system for the actual swap but having the MK4 list is a good start.

I've just came up with a good idea!!!!! but i'll need to test fit something first and then I can post up if it works or not.

OK so all the switches and column laid our where they should be looks a bit like this below. I'll post up the full lists later hopefully of what each pin goes to on a standard MK4 setup. Tonight I'll be filling in the gaps for all the wiring to and from the fuse box and steering column. I still need to seperate what will be left after that and i'll make up a loom to suit all those connections. I don't think there's anything major that I've missed but i'll fill in the last few connectors as I get to them.

Getting there. I'll post up full lists of each connector, pin and location.

Black carpet is in. Funny how carpets don't really fit properly second time round. Maybe that bloody glue was causing issues. Either way, it's in. I just need all the black clips and fittings now. I also want to replace all the crap fluffy sound proofing that's disintegrating around the top of the bulkhead and across the bottom of the window etc. I'll be using a sticky stuff a bit like dynamat except cheaper and better for molding round corners. I'll post pics of the carpet later. I've also started labelling up all the wiring for the dash instruments and switches again. Need to really get my head round it this time. I'll be using a spare MK4 fusebox as well as the corrado one. The MK4 one fits in nice and slick and tidy and stays out of the way. I might even swap over some stuff from the corrado box over at some stage.

I have a load of bits from my dash swap mate so if you need any bits that are the same let me know. Take some pics of your setup so we know which dash and fans you have.

So what bit of it isn't working? The temp control, the fan, the controls, the fan speeds, the directional flaps..... Have you checked the electrical contact strip behind the fan speed knob? Have you checked fuses? The heater controls in a corrado are utter utter crap. They will break at some stage. The other chance is there that your fan or resistor pack is dead too.

The first couple of pics of the column is my mates welding. He just tacked them together after he cut the metal for them. The bit with the smaller piece is my welding as I was cutting and refitting to test to make sure everything was where it should be. I got a couple more bits fitted last night. I took the dash back out and removed the crossmember. I welded on the 2 brackets for holding the steering column rear mount further forward. It's a bit agricultural but it's structural so I just made sure it was on without warping it too much. I think I'll send the whole cross member to get blasted now just to tidy it up a bit to blow off the surface rust. I'm sending the subframe and control arms etc all to get powdercoated anyway.

Just a small update. Steering column took a bit of work but it's getting there. By using the original MK4 mounting points I had to add some length to the main shaft to reach the firewall and a wee bit extra to the joint at the end so it reached down to the rack. 6" extra on the main shaft. 40mm on the joint. When This was test fitted the shaft was too low at the end and the joint was binding because of the tight angle meaning the steering could only move a few mm. To sort this out I had to move the back mounting point of the column. Here's a couple of metal strips I used to mock up the fitment. I'll weld proper bars on when it's ready to mount properly. You can see how far forward and how far up it moves the angle. To make this meet at the end properly I had to shorten the shaft extension as well and after a couple of test fits and rewelds I ended up being able to get away with a small 1" extension. It's just tacked in this pic for test fitting. Decent amount of clearance (or just enough).

Welded the seat rails up and did some test fitting at the weekend. Seating position seems to be pretty good. Just the front mount to make up for the front of the seats. I'll post pics of it shortly.

This is the adjustment I made to the inner rail at the tunnel. cut a bit off, sloped one side and tack welded the end back on to test fit. Welder is out of gas but i'll finish it this week. I also am using intake manifold bolts to hold the rails to the seat. Cut down and threaded them up a bit higher just for extra threads to run into. The front of the seat was very low and close to the front mount so I've made some makeshift spacers to hold the seat up. I'll maybe remake these from aluminium or something tidier looking. ---------- Post added at 2:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 2:01 PM ---------- Oh, and I'll mock up the front mount tonight and take some pics. I can do it without making a single cut to the existing frame or front seat mount.

Looks like these rails aren't exactly going to be straight-forward to fit. I can flip the rails 2 different ways but as the corrado normal seats sit quite low it'll have to be the lowest way up. I had to narrow part of the bar to make it fit in the tunnel side rails. I also shortened it by about 3/4". I'll take the seat to the garage later and see how it sits. I think it might tack weld the plate back on to the tunnel side as i'm happy enough with how far I've narrowed it. My main concern is the front mount being too high and catching the bottom of the seat. I might need to add spacers to lift the seat slightly. Fingers crossed it'll be fine.

Yes please. It's bound to help. Just slightly stripped. Here's my other thread: http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?66329-The-MK4-Golf-Bora-Dash-Conversion

Just thought I might as well post up the process for making these fit. These are the frames and slider rails made for a MK4 golf/bora. They're decent enough quality. They just need a couple of little adjustments. Here you can see that the main rails are a bit wider. It's probably about 3/4". I'll cut this and reweld it. I'll tack it and test fit before doing a full weld on it. This is the way the front mount is for now. This is the bit i'll need to change but not after measuring and test fitting after width of the rear rails are corrected. Anyone know how these are going to be fitted? Because I don't. I'll probably just use these bits to adapt it to fit the corrado front mount.

As long as it's large spline, yes. ---------- Post added at 8:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 8:21 PM ---------- As long as it's large spline, yes.

I recovered mine with black felt and professional upholstery glue:

One on the left is the seal around the top of the airbox where it touches the scuttle panel. The one on the middle might be for between the groove in the airbox where the main center flap is and it's covered/sealed by the plastic part that fits on the front. Or it might be for around the edge of where the fan motor/resistor pack is bolted in. The one on the right is for the bit that sticks out of the top of the airbox and directs air into the dash or ducting to the dash vents. Probably enough there to do the bit on the bottom where the footwell vents are as well. Either way you'll need to lift the dash and airbox out to fit them all.

Believe it or not they're just raceland seats. I was suprised by how comfortable they are and how good the stitching and everything is.

I know the simple answer is set them in and have a look but has anyone fitted anything similar? My corrado sort of has a slightly stripped out no dash scenario going on at the minute. Basically with the dash swap and everything I think the grey seats are going to be out of place. I'm changing the carpet to black as well. I got these cheap as chips along with a full set of brand new sliders and rails to fit a MK4 golf/Bora, and I thought I might as well use them as I'm not going to be putting them into my MK2 golf any more. I could make the frames fit a Corrado floorpan easily enough. So it'll save me looking for another set of something else and costing me more money.

Really sorry for the slow progress on this. I've been snowed under with other crap including a pile of wiring for other people. The only other update I have is that my engineer mate has converted his CNC mill from an old school AT PC format and controller boards to a Windows XP machine with all new controller boards, cabling, etc etc etc so the metal working bits will all be done fairly soon. I'll get the clocks LCD screen repaired soon enough too and hopefully we'll be back on track now in the next 2 weeks and I'll get some major work done. Stay tuned. I haven't given up.

I got the ABS controller tidied up and a few bits braided last night and I now have all the looms set where I need them to be. I've got a bit mixed up with a couple of plugs from the fuse box so I need to go over a few diagrams again but it sjould be easy enough to sort out as I think it's just the horn, and washer bottle and stuff that I need to plug in. All the braided looms now come in from the passengers A pillar, run along below the cross member, behind the center dash vent adapter and will run through a plastic conduit bracket on top of the steering column and go over the top of the fuse box and plug in as normal. The dash switches and clocks etc will have a slightly more seperated loom but will run along the top of the steering column with the rest of them and down into the corrado fuse box and part will go to the MK4 fuse box.

I'm leaving the lighting circuit as it is at the minute and them i might look into the change at a later date. But if you have an easy way to do it let me know and I suppose I could change it at any time. What bits do you need for yours? I have a few spares. Might be handier just buying a scrapped mk4 shell out of quiggs and stripping it. Wiring is a bit of a headache. Need to really sit down and get it sorted soon but the cabin to engine bay looms are nearly all done. Next will be the mounting of the mk4 fuse box and relay plate and i'll try and suss out each switch that's left. Working on the clock wiring at the minute too.

I've been putting off the lighting loom repair, extention and braiding for a while as it's quite a large one with a few crossed over wires but I got stuck in yesterday and got it finished. It took me pretty much all day though (between watching football). Still haven't got round to the engine build but I'm continuing to work on the wiring. Here's the lighting loom. It needed a bit of a rebuild to repair a few wires and a fairly extensive reroute and entension to get it to fit down the wings.

Yip, if I'm being totally honest that's pretty much the way I read it as well. But finding a full screen non-can set of clocks is pretty much impossible. It's the only set I've ever seen. I was confident that it could be fixed even if there was any issues. Lets hope that turns out to be the case. I'm hoping to be able to make some major progress over the next week with the wiring. The clocks are a secondary concern at the minute.