PhatVR6

Are you on medication?

Stick with VW, SEAT build quality is awful, the interior plastics are so cheap and nasty. The mrs bought an Altea FR and isn't impressed anymore and we're both kicking ourselves for not staying VW/Audi.

Diff rivets were mire of a problem on the old 020 rod change boxes. The only failure I've personally had with an 02A was the diff pin snapping and flying out the top of the box, luckily it hit my strutbrace and not the bonnet. Got a vento vr6 gearbox here if you need one.

On my T4 it has a special washer with what I've been told are diamond fragments in it which sits under the bolt head and helps it grip, stops it coming loose.

It's a NOS sportsman fogger kit. Direct port, with a progressive controller. I did the 13.56 run with my NOS controller, currently borrowing a mates twisted sanity one but just not getting it to run clean.

Only managed a 14.0 at the pod and 13.992 at inters. Way off the 13.56 I ran at gti festival and 10mph down. Just too hot to run the nitrous with the jets I've got (they were worked out for an average day) Need bigger fuel jets.

In action at gti international

In the pits

New ally rad

What's the craic here, what's available and where?

It's totally Quaife gearing, complete kit Inc final drive (4.165). Transfer box is skoda Octavia 4x4 so I can run haldex.

I gave £2k for it with a helix clutch and lightened G60 flywheel. Sold that and the Rallye bellhousing. Mates just paid the same for one for his Rallye 1.8T. Dunno how he lives with it on a daily, you have to slam the gears through or it crunches. It must make his daily commute feel like a rally stage.

Nice to see it went to a good home, I drove it just before you bought it and there were a few issues which needed ironing out, as always with such a massive build. I know it's damn quick too, that engine was in my Corrado and my mk4 too, it's a belter!!

It'll all make sense in the end I'm sure.

Been to York with it twice but always had issues. Wasn't at bvf.

Weird! They can't be, the cross member I used was 2nd hand and they're all the same and that fitted. You must have cut too much off your chassis legs. Any pics? There's no underseal on mine now so I can get you any pics and dims you need.

The dog box is amazing. I wouldn't like to try the vwms shifter on a normal synchro box, it'd just crunch the gears. As it is now I can just ram the gears in. Comparing my graphs from inters with my mates vento (which now has my old Gemini box in it) he was losing upto a second on each shift (shows up as a flat line of no acceleration). I was generally only taking 0.2 seconds, some even looked almost seamless with only a barely noticeable blip in the acceleration. When you consider 4 gear changes in a 1/4 mile that's a lot of time to lose. I'll put up more pics when I get time. Currently fitting an uprated fuel system and hoping to be running at vagfest on Sunday.

The only problem is that the corrado rear panel is more rounded than the golf and the boot catch strengthening pillar gets in the way too. The chassis legs are the same distace apart, dunno where you got that info from but it's not correct.

bummer, forum doesn't like my images, gonna take me an age to resize them all :-(

Slightly problematic day. Got the transfer box on, but had to totally chop up the downpipe and alter it. And it seems I have the wrong through shaft for some reason, must have been a mix up when I sold off the Vr6 syncro stuff. so that's a massive setback, can't do much else without that. And I've had to scrap one hub and driveshaft as I can't get the outer CV to seperate from the hub. Oil cooler plate fitted And tried a wheel on.

revised tensioner blade Oil staining cleaning out, new oil seal Fidanza alloy flywheel (6lb) and Helix paddle clutch Quaife 6 speed dog box with Peloquin diff. I wante dot get this bead blasted but just ended up clagging on a load of silver paint to cover up all the orange and black. new box in

As some of you will remember I bought my first rado around 6 years ago now. the other build thread for which including the trails and tribulations of it's build are well documented in there. To cut a very long story short that project has kind of been on hold for around 3 years now, possibly 4! I bought a mk4 golf V6 4motion, which I sold to buy another Corrado, an Aqua Blue VR6. I idd a few mods to that, coilovers, polybushes etc, and even tracked it at Cadwell which was great fun, but a cheap Audi S8 came up for sale locally which I just had to have so after a few short months the VR6 was sold to make way for the limo. I pimped around in that for almost a year before I decided it had to go and I had to get back on track with the main task in hand, Corrado's. So I bought a van.....wait, wait, there's a reason. To tow the track corrado around. That was 2 years ago, and I didn't realise just how much work was required getting a van up to scrath for camping and stuff, well it's nearly there now and put to good use, because I got so bored of driving a van I bought another Corrado :-) The idea was to find a dirt cheap, even crashed corrado VR6 with a decent engine, something I could throw a load of my parts on and get back out there playing ASAP. I missed out on a few on eBay, some seemed to be going for as much as straight cars, then as luck would have it I got talking to a certain Jay Renshaw, who had decided to let his go. It worked out quite well for him to sell off al the goodies he'd fitted. so a deal was done and Jay dorve the car to mine and we stripped all his parts off. No rear axle, no suspension, no front brakes, no interior at all, no wheels, and a SERIOUS oil leak, and rattly timing chains. Time to get my hands dirty. Excuse the tense errors, cut and pasted from other forums. I started pulling it apart this afternoon. It's a weird one. It had full beige leather recaros, air con and headlamp washers (including the huge 7L washer bottle). and also had a transponder immobiliser, I've never seen one of those on a Corrado before. As per usual, thermostat housing and crack pipe has crumbled away, chains need doing and gearbox has an almighty leak on it, but all that will be coming off. I've put it in this thread as all the work I'm doing to it is essentially going to be ongoing development work which will eventually end up in the caged shell. This was actually the idea with the blue one I bought 2 years ago, but I had to give that up for the S8, that was too good to pass up.

Nice project. A word on brakes. All the factory ones are garbage.280,288,312,344. All crap on track. You need 4 pots as a must. I've got 355mm Alcons on mine and they are astonishing. They also fit under some 17"s. As kev says, handling is subjective, but if you are taking it seriously then look at what actual race cars are running, not what fast road car users run, it's a different ball game altogether. Where the ring us concerned that's not so hard on the brakes, concentrate on getting the suspension right to carry speed over the bumps and through the high speed corners. I'll update my build thread later tonight.

Update coming up. Unfortunately not a great deal has happened in the 3 years, but I have had 2 other Corrado vr6s, one which I currently still have and it has loads of the bits on it destined for this car. Will do a full update on everything shortly.

At your service :-)