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i total agree with you guys insurance companies are just getting stupid now and i most agree with VR6 if they want you insured under your name offer us the best price not what price they can get :mad: I tell you though im happy aswell that my parents made me insure it under my own name hence why i now have 6 years ncb's which i think counts as full but to still get done just because im a month away from being 25 is just damm stupid!!!!! oh well i guess were all fighting a lossing battle :cry: anyway not to change it to much does anyone know of a polishing kit please :wink:

come on guys you all cant be shy :oops: lol it would be nice to put some faces to your names so please keep the comments coming :D

Hello mate two things first of all because the change in the law's of insurance im going to lose alot of benefits i used to have so i might aswell for another month or so until i am 25 and get those benefits back, i.e. for example upto now ive always been able to drive other cars third party and now you dont get that etc. Also my car is going in for a full bare metal respray in about 4 weeks fingers crossed so theres no point driving it for a month and then having it off for a month So basically i havent got a car to drive at the mo and after 7 years of driving its the first time i have got a car and not being able to drive it :mad: lol So thats why im going to start polishing everything i can under the engine bay :-) So if anyone knows of a good kit i can buy etc to polish up please advise alex 2.1 16v (no off the road but soon to return :D ) ccgb1372

hello all the corrado is now finaly official of the road now :-( and i hate it after just one weekend seeing it sitting in the garage its pi$$ed me right off but hey thats life Anyway as its off the road now so im going to start poolishing everything i can under the bonnet so the question is where can i get a polishing kit from???? alex 2.1 16v P.S Also a word of warning to everyone under 25, Insurance compnaies/law has changed so you now lose alot of benefits I myself used to have and you can no longer be insured under parents name (not that i was doing this as i have 6 years ncb) but be awear!!!

hello all Looks like the weekend of the 29th/30th November is whats gettting the most votes so please keep your views coming

cool mate all support is alway great I tell you tuesday meet was amazing and the guys from The Golf loved it aswell Also 3 R32's !!!! in the same place :D Pics etc will be up very soon just having probs with the server alex

Hello guys Its coming round to 1st year birth of E1k monthly event held at Ace Cafe, London’s famous motoring cafe. To celebrate we are going to hold a Show n Shine just before those cars go under wraps for xmas and don’t worry there will also be a Rot Car of the day award and trust me my Corrado will be in for that :D To get everyone involved the public has to vote for the best/fav car of the day and then the judges will select the three most voted cars of the day and judge them 1st, 2nd & 3rd places with prizes for the winners (which I’m organising as we speak) At the moment there is two dates available for the event Saturday 15th November Sunday 16th November Saturday 29th November Sunday 30th November So please feel free to discuss which date would be best. Cars will be asked to register with myself before or on the day. The event will start at 10am with all votes to be handed in by 2pm. Everyone is welcome and any VAG car can enter. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Alex 2.1 16v

Hello guys Ive just got of the phone of the new editor of The Golf mag which ive been speaking to for a while as they just ementioned they will try to pass by tomorrow night and most prob do a feature on the event which Im very happy about :) so any support you guys can show would be excellent alex 2.1 16v ccgb 1372

i thinking its looking very nice :D Well done Jamie

hope to see some of you guys tomorrow night :D it be nice to show people corrados are back in force :wink:

rob they should be self adjusting maybe ull need to change the clutch soon

well ive sold a few of these kits to alot of people in london and non of them have complained at all!!!! I used to be able to get them for £375 each kit but a few people have asked me to do another group buy which would mean cheaper prices. Also ive heard through the guys at my meet that you can get them cheaper now a days so if anyone is interested ill look into it Darren are you selling these kits now? p.s ive still got to fit them on to my car lol

cool mate ill see you down there aswell this new site is looking really good in my opinion :D my mate is good with the old web design

Hello all Got to say a massive thank you to everyone that turned up last month, we had over 100 cars turn up I still get new people turning up so the word must be getting about :D Also I know the website hasnt be updated but as we speak im building with help of my mate a new one from scratch and its hard than i thought lol but I promise it will be up by this weekend (hopefully tonight) So it’s a quick reminder that on Tuesday the 28th October there will be the usual monthly meet starting from 7pm. As usual please come early for parking inside. I get asked a lot how long it takes to get to and its in west London just above Hanger lane of the m40 and about 1 hour away from Guilford, Essex Reading Etc all depending on Traffic and m25 unless your coming along N.circular. Also unless you’re travelling from south - south east London and going through the centre of London you will not be charged for the congestion charger which finishes after 6:30pm Visit http://www.e1k-acecafe.co.uk for more details and the postcode for next to it is NW10 7NN. I will also like to thank you all for respecting ACE cafe and the roads round it as we have no longer had any trouble so keep it up guys Thank you for reading this and hope to see you all down there alex 2.1 16v http://www.e1k-acfecafe.co.uk

Hello Ruffy Dont think ill be able to make the next no rice but why dont you come down to my ACE-CAFE next tuesday also ive been up to Hitchin once as im from enfield n.london so its pritty close

cool its good to be able to speak to someone about these things Even thou after mareket ECU's are becoming more popular everyday now its go for people to see what others experience first hand

oh ok well i know its different interface but i cant remember but i though some of the spec was slightly different Also total agree with you that alot of people go into this blind and people get bad experince, like i tell everyone i speak to, is do as much research into it as possible, i kind of knew what i was getting into so wasnt that bad for me. also the dubsport mkII is a modified engine the engines ive seen vince tuning are standed TT 225bhp ones that he gets to run at 300bhp or over. Also im assuming by ur comments the dubsport mkII runs a ememrald system???

yeah i got a bit carried away there Totaly agree with Andrew on that unless you want a headache life stay with the original ECU system as that will work fine with the engine i mentioned above. Another way if you wanted to go is to use a form of digifant system which you would need someone to chip for your engine but even then you stilll might have some problems

well personally i think its always down to the person that tunes it I think Vince at stealth racing is amazing and certainly knows his stuff also i know your not going to agree with me after having a bad experience but personally i think the DTA is better than the emerald. Even the guy that built my engine has mentioned it but the emerald are easier to run on the 20v engines But then i havent seen any emrald run cars getting over 300bhp on a 20v engine when Vince can get that out of the right 20v all day long. thats how i feel about the system. also did you get yours done by darren in south london??? because i think he is the best with the emerald from what i hear

ok i understand that better Yes your correct about it running like crap dont worry ive had my fair share of problems but over time they can be sorted. Also with these aftermarket mapable system you can never have a base map because not one modified engine is the same as the other, but the are similar. Also the reason i didnt go for throttle bodies is there only good for track days for running the engine at the highest rpms. Otherwise for road/fun use the are crap. you have running problems all day long hence why i stuck to the original inlet. Its just not 16v ive heard this happen to even vr engine behave badly to throttle bodies. just out of interest what are you running on your 20v engine??

Hello andrew Yes there is plent of maps for throttle bodies running high lift cams but mines the first one running original inlet manifold and high torque cams. We did try to run one of these maps on my cars and it ran like crap each engine is individual so you still need to map/rolling road time. Also not maps are DTA some are on Emerald and others are mainly the more expensive systems like Motec. Also ruffy/Andu i dont understand your comments??? can you please explain your point???

im running a DTA with the original inlet and producing 190bhp as for torque in cant remeber from the top of my head. As for rolling road its going to take more than 2-3 hours it took stealth racing 6hours to do mine as there is no map for 16v in the contry but for 1.8T engine there are crap loads

well fry you have two choices building a 2.1 16v. the first one is the TSR one which only lets you rev up to 6500 rpm and only produces about 170bhp which persoanlly i think is completely pointless. The second one is what I have done. For this you need to start of with a 9A block get yourself 83mm or more pistons (standard is 82 or 82.5mm) fully balance it port and polish and youll end up with about 180-190bhp. My car is producing 190bhp but then im running a high torque cam (due to my engine is built to take a supercharger and i wanted to keep some smoothness) not a high lift (for more power) cam and im also running a DTA system. With a high lift youll prob get about 190-200bhp and youll be able to rev to 8000rpm like i do at the mo even thou ive put the limitter on 7500rpm. For prices im not going to post them up because even reminding me about them make me feel sick how much it cost but to give you a idea you could spend the same sort of money like getting a 1.8T put in your car or turbo charging you engine using audi quattro pistons which i think is a better option than a 1.8T conversion.

hello andrew Well there is a few main reasons why the 9A short block is prefered over the ABA tall block. First of all ive heard it runs slightly less compression and like you said it has longer con rods. So with this you cant get the engine to produce as much power as the short blockcan do. Secondly and my mate is a very good example for this, when we bought his corrado we got told it had a engine replacement but it was certainly a 9A block that was put back in by VW. We took the guys word as the engine number on the engine was covered in crud so we couldnt confirm this but he had recepts for the work carried out. Well a couple of months later on the engine decided to give way which turned out to be a piston just cracked to pieces. On taking the engine out we noticed it was a ABA block that it was put it and the work caried out was crap as they had to modify the engine mounts etc to make it fit. Being that the ABA block sits about 10mm taller they lower the mounts which was casing loads of other problems which were cured straight away when we put a normal 9A block back in. Also the ABA uses alloy head and pistons and not cast iron like the 9A so there not just as strong. Since putting the 9A block back in the car has run alot smother pulls alot better just because it wasnt the right engine. If they hadnt have played with the mounts and put it in then the engine would hit on the bottom of the bonnet. So either way a ABA block in a corrado is not a sensible choice hence why the 9A block is the first option all the time. just my 2p's worth

Hello fry being the only corrado (that i know off) that runs a 2.1 16v engine in this country i can safely tell you it will cost way more than £1200 to do the conversion. The best way to go for that monies is to sorce yourself a 9A bottom end from either a corrado passat or some audi thatr run the 9A short block 2L 16v engine. Then get your head fully rebuild everything and port and polish the head inlet and exhuast manifold and you should see 170bhp without probs alot of guys in the CCGB have done this and very happy with the results.