PhatVR6

been there...it's the sh1ts....I feel for you. Had my first mk2 butchered by a certain well know leeds bodyshop. then got messed about by another dick in middlesbrough. I have no idea why I kept going back, but I reckon it took him about 4 months to paint my car. And when it went back in 2 years later for a new rear panel and wing and bonnet (after all the filler started blistering up left by the first tw4t) it took him a total of.......6 months......cheers mate...And then he just rushed it to get it done it he last 2 weeks he had it and made a complete bodge of it all. when I eventually stripped the car down to do a load of work on it, I decided to investigate a blister that was appearing under the rear light......I ended up putting a screwdriver behind the filler and chisellling it off, it was 5mm thick in places, and went right down the side of the rear quarter to the top of the wheelarch. I ended up pulling the rear panel, literlly, it was held on by about 6 tack welds, and it had NO paint on the inside, just the etch primer it comes fromt he factory with. I pulled it off, only to find the spare wheel well was completely rotten. The tw4t would have seen this when he fittted the rear panel but never even bothered to tell me. ....nice that, just took my money instead. I found out why, the boot floor was full of filler too. it'd been in a rear end shut so hard that it's kinked the rear chassis leg and split it open under the boot floor, and kinked the passenger side sill.....this car was HPI clear..... I eventually cut the whole boot floor out, straightened the chassis leg out (had to put a bottle jack in the wheel arch and jack it back an inch!) and that's when I decided to do the syncro conversion. It was either that or scrap the car. I never did get round to finishing it off, and I lost heart with it so much I sold the shell last week for £300.. I reckon I'd spend at least £4000 in bodywork over the years on that car, and another £10,000 on everything else I did to it. A sad loss. Luckily I've found a decent guy who now deals with my cars. Ian Ellis at MotorBody Cosmetics in Elvington. the guy is brilliant, cheap(ish) and sticks to the realistic timescales he quotes. 01904 608861 worth a call if you want a decent job doing. once you find a decent body shop it's working making friends with them as they are few and far between...

have a look at Mazda RX8 rear arches. like corrado, but bigger!

ooh, 3.6, looks VERY much like a 3.2 too! (so I reckon it probably could fit after all....)

they are vile.....

mint car, I remeber it well, been out in it a few times, quikest G60 I've ever been in. That exhasut used to belong to my mk2 vr6. I made the quickshift in that car too! Never dismiss a 5 door....you never know what they're hiding. cracking job of cleaning it up there fella!

yellow top is listed at £169 on the site.

main reason I want one is that it's going inside the car. these are sealed, and gel filled, no chance of any nasty acid spilling out. The performance side of thing is just for plain peace of mind......can you imagine getting to your car and finding the battery is flat.....and it's locked inside the car.....

I've been meaning to buy one for years and never got round to it. then after binning 5 knacked batteried the other week I've decided enough is enough. I've also asked about the billet alloy battery holders as seen in this months The Golf+ mag at £99. Kev, just interested to know why you went for the yellow top over a red top?

GROUP BUY NOW CLOSED.

it was lush. remember the feature, but never saw the car. I expect vince would know a fair bit abou tit's history.

ev

or you could just buy my interior....

lets see how much money they'll give me back now I've put a 2.8 in the mk4......nothing I bet....

yes, I do want to....but I ain't calling EIP, I'll make my own kit. anyway.....you haven't seen my latest mods......;-)

I only had my corrado on TPFT, I never really saw the point of fully comp. Paid about £260 IIRC. Then, when I swapped it onto the Mk4 3 months later, I HAD to go fully comp, and they charged me an EXTRA £770!!!!!!! HIC, greedy feckers.

that guy is mental, he must work on it 24/7! (well, more than one day a week like I do!)

syncro is mechanical haldex is electronically controlled. so no, you can't do it on a rallye, you'd have to remove a section of the prop.

well, it's taken me from !0:30am to 5:30pm yesterday, and 10am until 9pm today to remove the R32 engine and box from my mk4, fit a lcuthc and flywheel to the 2.8, swap the gearbox off the 3.2 to the 2.8, and refit the 2.8 into the car. and cahnge the sump over. So basically, a long weekend should sort an engine swap.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAA that car is a complete and utter pile of sh1t. it's a joke look at in PVW, and laugh out loud at the downpipe running UNDER the subframe!!!! also, the haldex isn't meant to run full time. it'll just overheat running it all the time.

Rallye lights aren't HID's (xenon) they are just projectors. although HID's can be fitted to them with a bit of work.

I missed it......I was fitting another sump to my mk4 (now a 2.8 again :-( )

actually, the OBD2 head is different. it has a big hole in the chain end, instead of the usually small hole that oils the upper chain. something to do with the "air pump" on some models, something to do with emmissions control.

Damn it, you're so modest! Take the compliments, you've worked bloody hard this year, I honestly can believe it's the same car that was outside my house a few months ago with a filthy G60 lump in a blue engine bay. (must be that TT cup holder I gave you ;-) )

I've seen a vid clip of a US corrado pulling up, stopping, then lighting up the rear wheels in an almightly burnout, then just slowly trundling off as it nothing was up! class. forget about haldex, or any of the 4wd systems. if you want rwd, use a system that was designed to be run in full time 4wd and fit that. can't see the point myself, why wouls you choose 2wd over 4wd? (ok, maybe for larking about, but for real driving...why?) Buy a BMW if you feel the need for RWD, it's just not worth it in a corrado when the 4wd fits so neatly.

ok then, move it please, as it's more of a "what's it worth" rather than a full on for sale, I just thought it'd get noticed more in here. (damn, I knew you'd pull me up for it!)