Sideways Steve

I'm with billcor on this one :) lol

I'm available pretty much anytime so just depends when others are available :)

Octobers miles away lol let's have one this month :) and another in october too :) ill come to both !

Well here's some photos my dad took whilst I was refitting the pulleys. I'll remember to take more next time for you all If I'm doing anything to it as I know folk like pics !! :)

Whilst that link is probably correct my source has said it is no longer accurate as the figure of 16 remaining came from a similar survey done about 2 years ago whereas that one in the link was started in 2004 so is quite old. I personally know of about 3 nuggets alone that have been scrapped since then :( Also that survey would include the Jasmine yellow ones whereas were just looking for nuggets which were only produced till 1991 and in 1.8 16v and g60 models. It's all quite interesting stuff though as I really would love to know exactly how many nugget c's remain and where they are :)

What a weekend ! Well I have had the suspicion over the last couple of weeks that something was still not quite right with the Raddo as it was very lumpy on cold start and I suspected that the HG was starting to go and that it had also been the root cause of all the cooling system issues I was having. I had a journey up to Aberdeen last week for work and as I passed Dundee my coolant level light came on for the second time since sorting out the water pump etc. What with having no visible leaks anymore I topped it up and continued on my journey. When I arrived at my hotel I decided to let the car cool then nipped back out and popped out the plugs to have a wee peek down the bores and see if I could see anything. The 4 plugs were all pretty similar in colour however plugs 2 & 3 were a bit damper looking than the rest. When I peered into the bores of cylinders 2 & 3 I could see fluid sitting on top of the pistons. With being away and not having any proper tools with me I found a long thin stick and poked it into the fluid so I could try and determine if it was oil or water. Sure enough it was nice fresh coolant which confirmed my suspicions were correct ! What has actually been happening is that when the engine cools the coolant seeps through the HG into the two bores mentioned but when the engine warms up and the heat causes the components to expand it seals the leak again hence why I was only loosing small amounts of fluid at a time and nothing was majorly overheating or over pressurising ! I had planned to be doing my clutch on Saturday anyway so decided it would be the best solution to just pull the whole engine out and do the HG and the clutch and give all the parts a damn good clean including the bits in the engine bay you can’t normally get to easily. I drove home the next day from Aberdeen and left the car at my parents in Inverkeithing. My dad was off on Friday afternoon so he got started and pulled off the front end in preparation for removing the engine and box when I came over on Saturday. As planned on Sat morning I got stuck in and had the engine and box removed and stripped down within a couple of hours. The HG was completely pumped and was actually showing signs of leaking not only into the bores but also out of the back of the block as well ! With the head off I cleaned everything up ensuring the faces on both the block and the head were nice and clean with no old gasket residue still attached. I checked the head for flatness to ensure it hadn’t warped and then reassembled it to the block with the nice new gasket and bolts I had bought during the week in preparation. At this point I also had the gearbox off and discovered that I was extremely lucky to have decided to stop driving the car ! The clutch was right down to the rivets but more worryingly when the clutch wears down that much the fingers of the pressure plate begin to protrude further out than normal and contact the gearbox bell housing which takes big chunks of metal out of it !!! I reckon if the car had been driven much further it would have actually broken through the gearbox casing and destroyed the gearbox ! There was a load of oily residue all over parts of the engine and box so I took this opportunity to blast it all with degreaser and pressure wash it all. The whole lot came up a treat and made putting it all back together a far cleaner job than removal ! Once it was all reassembled I also decided to fit my polished 50mm inlet manifold which had been lying about in the garage since I collected the car. All the new parts fitted and with the front back together it was time to fill with fresh fluids then go for a start up. As I had the fuel system in bits to swap over the injectors to the new manifold I had to crank it over a bit before it finally fired and sprung into life, but the best bit was that when it did fire up there was no more misfiring and lumpy idle ! RESULT ! After letting it all come up to temp and checking the fan cut in I took it round the block for a quick test drive. It now runs sooooo much smoother and the new clutch is awesome, I’m still trying to get used to it biting so well now though as the pedal feel has changed completely! For now once again I have a healthy happy Corrado :)

Trying to update the list now but I can't log in from my computer only my phone ! Very odd !!!

Haha yeh it's a yellow one mate :) jut been told of an elderly gent who has one up here so think we have found number 10 :)

Lol well if you frequent the Craig dhu your sure to see my car as I live directly opposite it ! Lol

So it would seem ! :) Those pics were taken just up from my house, I stay up the RAH end of town :)

Saw a Dark Blue C on the way to Linwood Phoenix Retail Park just outside paisley yesterday, I came off the roundabout and passed on the opposite side in my Yellow C and we both gave a wave :) Anyone from here ?

Thats exactly what mine was doing mate hence bending the bar worked well :)

A sniff test only works on the coolant mate and it's not leaking into the coolant at all for sure. I'll Inspect the bores when I get a chance, probably tomorrow :)

Thanks for the replys, I was about to reply saying the KR has no crank sensor but was beaten to it LOL ! I must admit I had head gasket down as a possibility and was hoping noone would suggest that as it kinda confirms where my head is at LOL ! However I will have a better look over it at the weekend and see if I can find anything more obvious however if the HG was on its way out it may explain why recently my crankcase breather seems to have began breathing much heavier. If the HG was on its way out and gasses were leaking into the oilway rather than into the water jacket, I would assume it would cause lumpy startup and heavy breathing ? Both of these are symptoms I am experiencing and both started around the same time.

Hey folks, this is an odd one, Last 3 days now when starting the C from cold it splutters to life on 2-3 cylinders and idles lumpy as hell till you give it a good rev, it then clears and runs perfectly. It starts like this every single time it has been allowed to cool down but as I say its only started doing it maybe since Tuesday. I have not really had a proper look at it in any way but does anyone have any ideas on why it would do this ? It seems odd that it used to just start off teh key effortlessly but all of a sudden im having to give it a big hefty rev when it fires to get it to run on all 4 cylinders properly. Engine is 1.8 16v KR, Low mileage with good compression and recently fully serviced with new filters, plugs, dizzy, dizzy cap and rotor arm. Additionally it just had a full tune up last weekend and it was commented on for how well it ran. It still runs perfectly once you get it to clear and the issue described above is the only symptom.