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Very nice! Insurance quotes of 500-600 quid you can't moan about! Engine looks so nice in a corrado! Keep up the hard work matey!

At 30 thats not too good is it? Who have you tried?

Good stuff coxy! Let see some pics!! You sorted a 4wd controller out then for the haldex? B

Nice website.. Some really good pics, like it alot :)

thanks guys.. I will be doing a gearbox rebuild / VR6 gear swap shortly. Anyone interested on a write up? I will finish off what Jay started a little while ago and put it on the website - http://www.coupehaus.co.uk .. let me know. Ben

I was waiting for your comments re the engine bay painted in brown Paul.. :D Don't worry I'm sticking with Porsche Iris Blue and going with a simple clean colour for the engine cover, inlet, pipes etc. The idea is to keep it pratical and useable but just making it a little neater than before... 8)

Very shiny! I like it alot!

Wow.. hats off and major respect to him for doing that! I couldn't be arsed to go the hole hog I must admit. Well done to him ! Arches look nice as well.. in fact the hole car looks very tidy, will have to post up a couple of comments shortly on that thread.. ! But I see what you mean about the difference in colours.. won't really work with my 'back to basics' engine bay :) Porsche Iris Blue it is! :D Thanks for the advice and help guys! Will let each and everyone of you come out for a blast up the road when its done :wink:

mike_g60, It would look good.. hummm.. thinking now ! :D

CaiosG60 PWR, Nice thinking chap. I did have it in my mind a while ago.. I might try and get some paint made up and see what it looks like? The only thing against that idea is that if I change the interior the engine bay has to be done aswell :( (any chance you could send me a link to Dubwizz%u2019s engine bay on dubforce.. had a quick look but the search isn't working for me :( )

Nice pic of the x2 cars ! LOW !

Jokers ! :lol:

Bally, Is that a good shi* or a bad one? Phil, I think body colour might be a good call Shaggsy, I did try Matt black but it shows up all the imperfections, which is a shame! bristolbaron, Yep I tend to agree with you... Seems body colour is the way forward! I still fancy a bit of UPS brown I must admit :D perhaps with a respray of the car next year..huh? :wink:

Furk's, thought about matching the interior colour but... humm. not sure.. BcStudent, primer would be cool but nah.. :D Any further ideas on colour? So an update, Rubbed everything down with 400 W+D, filled any imperfections and rubber that down.. a couple of pic's before I go and spray the 2nd coat on.. Ben

Not good Sam! Hopefully you'll get a running car back. When is he hoping to get it done by?

Bally.. Does a stonking 20 hrs work in 2 days count! lol Update.. Once again my fingers have bones sticking through after a mammoth session on the car this weekend. I didn’t want to stop until I had a least one coat of primer on the engine bay. And I managed that at 8:15 this evening (Sunday). It still needs some filler here and there to tidy up the imperfections but I hope to have the undercoat all finished and rubbed down tomorrow ready for the topcoat next weekend hopefully. What colour should I spray the bay? Matching Porsche Iris Blue or something different? I was thinking perhaps UPS Brown?? Ben

cheers chap.. I have a bit of sanding to do tomorrow. Fitted that rack yet? yes James.. :lol:

thanks Bill. Yep if this doesn't help to increase the ponies then god knows what will! lol I've polished the whole 3" section aswell so there are no excuses for the gases to slow down!

I'm sure I'm about due for an update... I've got the downpipe finished bar welding in the exhaust temp + A/F sensor housings. Once thats done it will all be covered in exhaust wrap to help keep the temp down. You can see roughly where it will sit from the pic whilst also illustrating the lack of room with the propshaft roughly in place! I have started using primer filler on the chassis legs. Once dry I will rub them down ready for the normal primer. I hope to have the engine bay prepping finished off tomorrow ready for about 4-5 coats of priemer on monday (got the day off :D ), rubbing it down between layers to get as good finish as possible. I'm just hoping its a bit warmer tomorrow... Will keep everyone updated. :wink:

No disrespect Jim, but in one short post you have completely encapsulated the problem the Corrado Club currently faces IMHO. There are loads of people out there (and on here) willing to take a pop at the CCGB (and I know you aren't one of those, but bear with me) but nobody has the initiative / guts / time / interest / stamina / intelligence or balls to actually take the thing on and pick it back up. I tried to have a go, but despite being pretty well known on the scene found the overall lack of support (with one or two exceptions) pretty bloody demotivating after a while. That combined with the continuing antics of a few time consuming difficult members meant what free time I had to spend on it at the time simply disappeared. I have observed over the years on here that for every supporter of the CCGB, there are also plenty of "knockers" - many of whom have never been members, or if they were never active in the sense that they never tried to contribute anything to the Club. This is not a problem restricted to the CCGB, as Club GTi, Club Scirocco and Club Polo have all suffered similarly in recent years. Since 1998 I have watch the internet grab the UK's VW scene and simply transform it. On the positive side there are now active, realtime discussion forums between enthusiasts. Communication is rampant and active, new people find it easy and free to join in, and help is available. However (in my view) there have also been some unwelcome downsides; people now just expect everything to be provided free of charge and without any personal effort being required on thier part. Suddenly the world is full of armchair experts who armed with an anonymous internet ID slag off the "do-ers" without ever once having to take the responsibility of ever being put to the test of making it happen themselves. Suddenly how passionate you are about the VW scene or Corrado scene is measured not in terms of how much you actually travel and contribute to it, but instead is measured purely in terms of how much time you can waste at work racking up posts on a forum saying sh1te like "wow" and "kool innit" with a poncy graphic attached to every single one. In addition, I would have to say that the proliferation of forums (and I'm not singling out the Corrado forum specifically in this respect) has in my view fragmented, rather than strengthened the scene. Everywhere you look at shows now there are almost hundreds of little splinter groups, all forum based, consisting of 1 bloke and his 4 mates who have a "forum". However every time a group falls out, the splinters simply go and set up new forums. The result overall is fragmentation, with legions of disparate groups who often exist for no other reason than to arguing the toss with each other over who is 'better' or 'cooler', who has better cars, or how much they hate the wnakers in the other forum they just left last week. Personally I simply can't stand all that bollox and that is why for the large part I've said "fuggit" to the whole thing. Now set against those comments the Corrado Forum has actually been lucky enough to attain a critical mass of active members, and that is a significant achievement. However the challenge which even the forum will eventually face is the one of coming up with new ideas, innovations, keeping interest high and preventing it becoming a stale experience. A further challenge for both the Corrado Forum and the CCGB would be to see if perhaps both groups could be united into one group with better resources and with a higher profile than currently exists. The problem is - no bu99er seems to want to organise any of it. I still love my 'rado, will still occasionally organise odd meets & events, and will continue to publicise them through this place and the Yahoo! group, and will really enjoy doing those things with my Corrado loving friends. The time we all had at E38 and Stoner last year was simply fantastic. However I for one am completely disinterested in trying to satisfy the apathetic masses, the non-doers and the armchair critics who proliferate the internet, but fail to make the effort to even get off thier arses and drive more than 5 miles from home to a meet. If this all sounds bitter then it probably is. Anyone who knows me more than casually will tell you I am a pretty positive person, but 7 years of being ground down by some oft he stuff I've described above would take it's toll on anyone. There was a time a few years ago when the possibility existed that the Corrado forum and the CCGB could have combined forces. However neither group probably realised at the time what each could offer the other. I have to say for my part that I contributed in part to that opportunity being missed, but at the same time I think Andi was as against it as I was. Perhaps the right person can be found to see if a way forward can be found to unite it all over again? With the benefit of hindsight I would certainly support anyone who tried to make the Corrado scene even stronger, as the car is so great it's worth fighting for IMHO. So - the challenge is there for everyone... anyone... is there a single person on here willing to try and put themselves up for the challenge of reaching out to all the UK's Corrado owners (not just those on this forum) and taking it somewhere new? Or are you all just going to argue on the internet about it forever? Please feel free to continue the debate... John [dons flame retardent coat] here here !! Well said John Munyard !!

Chris Eyre, A very interesting read!

Easiest answer is if it can be it will be chromed. rear axle?

kevHaywire, I didn't see that Mk1 I must admit.. must have been very fast.. I think the best example I can think of of a FWD vs 4WD is James's (from jabba) 340bhp FWD IHI'd mk2 golf vs my mate Karl (ex dubsport bronze 20vt, running about 450bhp at the time). They did a number of runs and I think James beat Karl on the day and got a staggering 11.6 1/4 I think.. he was running big slicks on the front, but none the less.. wow! 24V Renshaw, Jay, I remember talking to Maurice and Jabba last year when I was there and I think the Mk1 had rusted through and he was looking to re-shell the car. It might have been written off but I think most likely that it hasn't been re-shelled yet! It was pretty rusty when i saw it

Lets not forget the Audi Dylinx Quattro, which acheived 0-60 in under 2.5secs and a sub 10 sec quarter mile and the 600bhp R32 a couple of years ago... :wink: