PhatVR6

I saw the car early on, but didn't find the owner unfortunately. I only got to speak to Mike Edwards out of all the Corrado club guys. I spotted Alex Pose Gil I think, but he dissappeared by the time I went over (mut have seen me coming!).

Not 4WD yet, but the 6 speed box with the syncro transfer box on it is bloody heavy as it is. Plus I still had a full interior, 2 people ,luggage, a full size 16" spare wheel, a trolley jack and loads of tools with me. so it must have been knocking on for 1300Kgs easy. diet time for the lardy corrado!

http://www.tas.uk.com TAS0624G is what you want.

I'll try that other one then. I did try unplugging the MAF, but it made it run like sh1t, so I ruled it out as being faulty. It's definitely not running full power, well, it might be, but I'm sure the corrado doesn't weigh 3 tons.

yeas, it's a syncro back axle, that's what they're all ike. It'd be pretty hard to do 4WD without going to IRS.

you'll want 215/40 16 tyres ET15 will be a bit much on the front on a corrado. ET30 on the front and ET15 on the back would suit it better, ireckon they'll stick out too much at the front. you'll have to raise your suspension too, or the arches will rip the tyres to bits unless they've been SERIOUSLY rolled. no, the brembo's won't fit. borbet a's,like most deep dosh wheels are utter sh1t for brake clearance, which is why I sold mine.

nothing comes up on VAG-COM about the MAF, but I have another I could try. I think it feels flat due to the lack of the VGI, and the lumpiness of the light flywheel.

I saw hundreds of the f*ckers at Inters. I didn't realise how common corrado's were! sweet blue g60 on the way home, lowered on wide BBs's, looked mint on the move.

My mate got pulled on the way in.....for "illegal" number plates and window tints. Nothing better to do..... He got let off though, used the excuse that he had to have the small plate on the front as when he puts the full size one on it obscures the oil cooler and it overheats, which is true. and the guy didn't have access to a light meter so he let him go. As fot Truvelo's, they do flash, one in front of me got a mondeo doing about 85.

Can't be the gearing. 6th works out almost identical to stock 5th. 4000rpm is 100mph. 70 is about 3000rpm. Hmm. not sure if the cleaner is any good, I just put it in as I knew the injectors had been stood a while so probably gummed up. I don't think using the 8v lambda probe is helping either.....time to get a new VR6 one.

Exactly. As if I'm going to have a lesser alram installed by some monkey with a bag of scotch locks just to please my insurance company. No thanks, I think I'll fit the top of the range alarm all by myself, safe in the knowledge that it's done right and will protect the car.

9.21!Mint! puts my 13.74 to shame :cry: 8's on the way then!

Well, I have been booting it (of course!) but even if I reset the MFA whislt cruising it only does 23mpg. I wonder if my injectors are goosed, I know they don't like being stood? I banged some Wynn's injector cleaner it to see if it'll clean it all out and improve matters.

sure, it's £100, but I bet it lastest you 3 years. now work out how much you'd spend on any other polish in that time. When you look at it that way it's actually quite cheap. your hardly have to use any of it, and it lasts longer too. Not to meantion the shine is 10 times better, and it's non abrasive so it won't wear your paint out either.

:( ah, the joys of being a VR6 owner once again......260 miles out of £50 worth of fuel.....optimax :cry: I managed to get 468miles out of a tank with the 2.0 8v! I never remembered any of my other VR6's being this bad, I swear I've managed 36mpg on a motorway run before now, certainly around 28mpg on average. Is 21MPG really as bad as it sounds?

The Corrado VR6 was always regared (and still is) as one of the best handling FWD cars ever built. All it really needs is the diff and a lsightly lower final drive and it's perfect, it doesn't really need modifying. But, seeing as we can't leave then alone, I suggest you try a torque biasing diff and some TAS top mounts, f*cking awesome!! the turn in on mine is so sharp it scares me! I keep having to correct my steering because I'm turning in too hard (expecting it to understeer a bit) and making the rear end step out. You really need to try this gearbox of mine, you really do. it might have cost £2600, but it was worth it. Oh, and I did metion that I'll be fitting 4WD too didn't I? :lol: speaking of which, nice syncro install on the car on the club stand by the way, very neat, the panel worked looked factory.

What does it run? I heard it ran a 9.6? is that right?

LOL! I wouldn't go that far! but cheers for the comment. It's taken me 3 years to finally shut people up about the myths of VR6's not handing (especially the mk2's). it's a glorious engine, I worship it, it's my mission to teach the vw modding world not to overlook it in favour of the 1.8T. Funnily enough, since I bought my Schrick and never stopped bleating on about how good they are, the used price of them has doubled! I see so many of you are happy with yours. Now go get your gearbox done. Stealth Racing should be giving me commision for all the business I've swung his way in the last year or so! I can't see too many people buying the lightened flywheels though.....well. not until they hear my VR, it's insane!! talk about a head turner, I swear people thought it had a V8 in it. I love it to bits (I just wish it was faster!). Bring on the weight saving and the nitrous.

I forgot to mention the handling! The turn in is AMAZING!! those TAS top mounts make a MASSIVE difference and are definitely the way to go on a VR6. Having the ATB diff back in the car is also a welcome return, and I haven't managed to get a squeak out of the front tyres yet except in 1st gear. I've ran VAG-Com on it, and all it flagge dup was a dodgy ABS sensor, and the fact that I'd cranked it over with no Crank sensor plugged in, and without the lambda, so I'll clear those and all should be fine.

I'm really missing mine......Need to get on with polishing it ASAP. Mine won't pull from 3000rpm in top now like it used to....in fact, for the first day I had it on the road I thought it was running on 5 cylinders because it felt so flat under 3000!!

Cool, can't wait to see that! Hmm, I might even enter mine then. It's just bracket racing isn't it? where you try and get as close as possible to your dial in time?

Well, after a 4 week total strip down and rebuild of my car, I finally got it going on Wednesday night, and I’ve managed to rack up 560 miles since then! First a bit of background, just to let you know what I’m used to and to give you an idea of what I’m comparing the car to. If you already know, then skip this part. I used to have a mk2 golf 1.8 8v. I had a 2.8 VR6 fitted in this 5 years ago. It lasted a year then dies due to cam chain tensioner wear and ultimately failure. I fitted a 2.9 VR6 to it and ran it for about 3 years as a daily driver, show car and sprint car. Managing a best of 14.74 in it before the diff pin let go and destroyed the bell housing, diff and clutch. So, I had the 6 speed built up for it, with the peloquin diff and syncro bell housing and 3.94. I got bored with fixing that shell up, so I bought another 2.9 lump and threw that in a tatty old stripped out mk2 purely to test out the gearbox and the Schrick manifold (which I had lent to a mate for almost a year as I didn’t have a VR6 on the road). This was a pure track and strip toy. Awful as a daily driver, having no heater or carpets, just a seat and the driving controls. I ran this for 6 months and clocked a 13.74 ¼ mile in it with a 2.034 60’, but never managing to crack the 100mph trap speed. START HERE------------------------- Anyway. The engine out of the first car, is now mated to the 6 speed, and in my corrado, along with the other mods in my sig, currently running in 2WD format. My first impressions were not good. It felt really flat, like it was running on 5 cylinders. Then I found but the gear linkage needed adjusting, as I was pulling away in 3rd! Immediately I could feel the loss of torque, as I’m running a stock 2.9 manifold at the moment, as the schrick is off for polishing. It’s not happy at all sitting at under 3000rpm, and I can’t cruise in 6th at 70 and accelerate smoothly without changing into 6th. I’m attributing the lumpiness to the 6lb flywheel. I really wanted a 9lb one, but after a lot of messing around I had little choice but to get the 6lb one as it was all I could get hold of. I knew it would make the idle feel lumpy, but I didn’t expect this to extend right up to 3000rpm! I hated it at first, but now I’m used to it and I actually love the character it’s added to the car. OK, so it chugs a little at low revs, but I’m hoping the vgi will iron that out a little, but it’s all worth it for the sound. At idle, it sounds like a V8, and really gets people looking and think (WTF IS IN THAT!), then when you pull away it’s like a WRX! But with the added top end howl that any VR6 with a decent filter and exhaust can make. The vibratechnics mounts are great. You only get a little bit of vibration in the cabin when the car is chugging at low revs in high gears (which can be avoided of course) The ratios are still perfect, even with the heavier car. In fact, had I not gone for the 3.94, I think I’d have hated it, and I don’t think the flywheel issues could have coped with the long gearing of the 3.3 R&P. Also, the shifter is a LOT smoother in this car, so I may give the B&M shifter one last try before getting rid of it. Of course, these were not ideal test conditions. The engine hasn’t been ran for 2.5 years, the car still has a full interior and there was 2 of us in it, complete with luggeage, a full size 16” spare wheel, a trolley jack, and a large metal tool cabinet. For this reason I didn’t sprint it. Weigh saving is definitely an issue and something I’m looking towards addressing next. I’m guessing it’s a good 40% heavier than my last car, which is why it’s not feeling anywhere near as quick. Plus, the exhaust is only a temporary fix and needs upgrading. I’ll run it at York next week and let you know the times. I’m predicting about a 14.4 at best.

What can I say...the most jow droppingly fantasic corrado I've ever seen! I never expected it to be so tidy. mucho respect. I hope you're running it at GTI festival and bug jam?

It's "supposedley" the same one.... Do a search on vwvortex for any threads buy me with B&M in them............

go buy the proper zymol stuff and see the real difference.