daveb142

Small update; Corrado is now back in a space in the unit. I'm in the process of buying new bits for it and a fair few parts have already turned up :) and ofcourse saving for the respray! Decided to upgrade the radiator to a Direnza high flow rad. Also tempted to get an oil cooler as was seeing pretty high tempteratures before...... Anyway, will update as I go along

You douche ;)

Hey Rob! I need to take a trip up to visit you soon and see what you still have for sale! Do you know if you can fit 16"s over these brakes? Hope all's well! Dave

extremely tempting....

So since the last update, i've replaced the other inner cv joint, got the center caps fitted and I have now taken her off of the road! Time for bodywork to be done, small fixes, upgrades and some changes :) Some pictures over the past month or two: From the SWDubs Mega Meet at the end of January: And with the current daily: Miss driving it already, however will be worth it when finished!

ah mother ****er mine snapped today :lol:

**** that's tempting for the whole kit..... What's the exhaust system like too?

Was great to meet you all! A nice little early morning meet, massive thanks to Daniel at DDS. After going out in Jason's 20vt I now need more power from mine :lol:

enjoy mate! shame about the wheel!

Went along to a charity drive upto Devon Dubshack yesterday, ending with a BBQ. Here's a photo someone took of a mate's Caddy and the Corrado on the way Think the other inner CV joint is on its last legs though haha.

Lol

Cheers Sean! It looks good from afar, but has been badly resprayed.... the roof and tailgate are the original colour. The rest has been poor done. With many runs, scratches and tape marks in it. You can even see where they sprayed it with the side trims on, then taken them off and sprayed over the top of it.... Also you can see the tape marks on the top of the pillars where the colour changes and around the windows where they were badly taped up. Filler and dents in the sill and filler in the rear arch! So will be a full respray and colour change I think haha! Yeah definitely man. Let me know when you come down!

Thanks man. Silver has grown on me, but it just feels a bit "meh" when I look at it haha. Cheers Rob! And yeah it's a good little Rocco! Yeah let me know when it is!

A mate of mine :) Not much going on with the Corrado lately! just being used as a daily for now and enjoying driving it! Fortunately most of the silly issues have been sorted :lol: Looking likely to be taken off the road at the end of January (when the tax runs out) and having bodywork and respray done. Have got a list of things I want to do / change at the same time. One of the main things being tyre sizes up front, needs less stretch! Really want to sort the ride height and get center caps for the borbets... Anyway actually washed it "properly" for once I had always thought the clocks were a bit dim....turns out only one bulb worked :lol: so sorted that the other week which means I can actually see the gauges. Then last weekend I got speaking to a good friend of mine. He's had his mk2 Scirocco sat up for just over a year and a half due to a carb problem when on the motorway / going up hills...anyway...one thing led to another... Couldn't resist for the price. Put a fresh battery on it and with a bit of easy start, fired up first time! Drove it off the drive and seems to run and idle fine :) Got it recovered to our unit and powerwashed all the grime from being sat up for a while. The only things that need doing are brakes and a track rod end for the MOT. Need to replace the fuel filler neck too! Anyway, this will most likely be my daily whilst I do up the Corrado!

Thanks Rob! Likewise haha. I've been around....although mostly working! Might be starting on the bodywork beginning of february....we shall see.

Not much to update lately, just been using it as a daily! Bought a new battery which is the correct size, put new bulbs in the clocks and that's about it! I'll most likely be taking this back off the road in february when the tax runs out to start on the bodywork etc. Going to sort the bay out as there's some bits im not happy with, re-do the boost pipes, maybe coolant pipes etc. Also need to replace my cam chain tensioner which I think i'll do quite soon! For anyone with 1.8t's, what sort of oil temperature are you guys getting? mine can sometimes hit 120 degrees :s Anyway, will add some pictures soon!

I'm using one of Matt's downpipes on my Corrado! Top quality work (Y)

I'm using mk4 golf gear selector and tower with polo diesel casing. Bolts straight in. Easy to do, great feel to drive with!

Amazing. Like everyone else has said, look forward to seeing more progress!

Matt Perkins vr6?

Apparently they are yes. They press up against the rubber seal on the back of the bearing. Just acts as another dust shield I guess! I ended up having custom ones made from a spare that I had lying about!

Cheers Sean! Yeah seems to be all well for now! So nice to drive atm! And yeah that was In place mate, that's what stopped the plug from falling out, just the top end of it by the clip had been knocked and come out slightly without me noticing haha. Something so simple that I didn't even notice!

So funny story..... Got to edition 38, next day car wouldn't start. Vagcom was saying that all of the sensors on the engine were shorting.... bit odd? Anyway I couldn't get it working so it got recovered home. After cutting apart my entire loom, checking all of my connections and finding that they were all fine, it turns out the the main engine loom plug on the back of the fusebox had ever so slightly come out. Therefore the first 3 pins on were not connected! One of these pins was the fuel pump earth trigger wire. As soon as I sorted that, the errors cleared and has been fine ever since! What a bleddy ballache :lol: Haven't done much to the Corrado recently due to working full time. Although one weekend last month I had to pull the engine back out. The bay also needs sorting out at somepoint, however will most likely be when I do the bodywork now. Anyway I decided to take the engine out as it was ****ing out oil from the turbo. I couldn't get the turbo off and out from where it was and needed to do the coolant anyway, so pulled the engine out and took the turbo off! Anyway it turns out the oil feed line to the turbo had two washers stacked on top of the connector for some reason! Probably something I should have checked... I replaced the washers with new ones, same for the coolant lines in and the oil return gasket was changed at the same time. Chucked it all back in, put in fresh coolant, bled the system then drove up the road. I decided to pull in a side street to check the coolant level when the starter motor started engaging. Luckily I was mid parking so turned the engine off. The starter motor was still going mad so I pulled off the battery lead. This was now 11pm and I hadn't eaten all day. All i wanted to do was to go home! I checked and double checked the connections, all were fine, yet each time I tried connecting the battery it would spark like mad and the starter motor would engage. It was then that I noticed a coolant pipe ****ing out coolant all over the body of the starter motor! ****ed off, I called breakdown, managed to sort a recovery for an hours time. Then realised my window was still down, so had the fun task of taking the door card off and using the battery and some spare wire to get it back up. Thinking back to it, all I had to do was fully disconnect the starter motor, but I was so tired I didn't even think lol. Anyway long story short, got home at half 1, replaced the starter motor, coolant hose and coolant during the week and so far all has been good! Have a picture of me on the side of a sliproad having just popped off the hose to the DV :lol:

By 2.0l 16v pressure plate bolts, i mean just the bolts. I used a vr6 clutch kit. So VR6 clutch, pressure plate and release bearing

You can use a 2.0l 16v or G60 flywheel. Use the flywheel bolts for whatever flywheel you use. Can get these new from VW but a bit pricey. I used the same clutch pressure plate bolts from my 2.0l 16v flywheel and you will need either a 2.0l 16v starter motor or g60 one.