corradophil

Thats it, a Kubelwagen, I kept thinking Fridolin, but they are kind of older more round looking van things.

Very nice Notch back, I used to work with someone who had a dark blue one lowered on polished wheels (not sure what wheels they were). It was a 1600 with twin 45 Dellorto's. He used that as everyday transport.

I've had no problems with my machined VW flywheel since fitting it 2 years ago. IIRC it is 5Kg and the car is still perfectly smooth in traffic jams with on/off throttle driving and a perfect idle too. Racepower motorsport did mine.

Cool, I've never heard of these before either.

zacon, Firstly, make sure you are 100% certain the cams are timed correctly to the crank, the marks are there on the flywheel, on mine there is a small cast lug at 6 deg BTDC and a machined groove which looks like an arrow at TDC. As sciroccotune said the aux pulley drives the oil pump only, so that does not matter. I take it the engine turns freely without any evidence of valves hitting pistons, turn it over by hand so you will hopefully feel any resistance. Assuming that is all correct, and you have fuel and a spark, I would try adjusting the distributer position to change the ignition timing, this will need setting up anyway once it is running.

For crank position, take the bung out of the top of the bellhousing on the gearbox. There is an arrow on there at TDC, which when aligned with the small cast pointer in the hole in the bellhousing. Do you have a Haynes manual for a Passat or Mk2 Golf GTI, it explains it reasonably clearly in there.

It will be as reliable as your original setup. Its a VW cam designed for the the 1.8 version of the engine. Assuming the cam is not damaged and is intalled correctly you have nothing to worry about.

Lovely cars, I hope one day I will be in a position to own a Porsche. I've even been to Porsche in Stuttgart. I tend to see Boxsters as a poor mans 911, but also know they are a highly capable car which usually gets very good reviews. I'd be more tempted by an older 911 as vr6storm was. The combination of being a VW and also being a bit of a poor mans Porsche is what made me want a Corrado.

On Saturday I drove passed a hand car wash place based in a dissused petrol station, there was a Black Lamborghini Gallardo being washed. It made me smile, there is no way I would take my Corrado there, let alone a Lambo.

Definately don't skimp on buying decent quality bearings. GSF rear bearings last a few months on my car. Make sure you go for SKF, FAG, Timken or another branded make bearing. The company I work for are agents for a German crane manufacturer and they only use FAG bearings in their equipment which has to be to the highest standards for safety reasons.

Supercharged, Yes, I might give him a try, I've met him a fiew times via here and Seatcupra.net. I know there was a pollen filter for the MK2 Golf, I've seen photos of it. It looks like a charcoal filer out of an extractor fan, flat and clips in a frame which replaces the leaf guard. I'll upload a photo of mine so you can see what I have done.

Not according to my dealers, I did ask, as I was under that impression too. Maybe my dealers are just rubbish. Actually they are completely hopeless and have messed up more or less every parts order I have placed with them. Oh well, I have a custom pollen filter now :lol:

I wish I known about the Jetex one sooner. I bought a pollen filter for a Peugoet van from Halfords and my dad fabricated a steel mounting for it which funnels the air to the fan - Lots of work. It keeps the interior cleaner, and helps keep pollen levels down, although this time of year you have your windows open anyway. After 2 months it was clogged up with dirt and that stupid fluffy stuff that floats around from trees and plants :?

I agree with Crasher, your best bet is to get a manual. Theres many steps to doing it, and I wouldn't want to miss anything by writing out a long list. Basically remove the inlet manifold, remove the cam cover, slacken timing belt tensioner, remove timing belt from exhaust cam pulley, Carefully remove bearing caps for both cams. The cams are very hard and brittle, so it is good practice to undo the caps bit by bit so the cams lift up evenly. Put new inlet cam in place of the original using the same timing marks and re-assemble. You may want to consider changing all the lifters whilst it is in bits. Assembly is basically reverese of removal, but you need to make sure you get the timing set correctly.

15.6, mine would have probably still struggled to keep up :lol:

Still not bad then. I saw you coming round to the start and was telling my mate about your car and how it should be pretty quick, and then you didn't go so well :oops:

Looking good, saw you run at Santa Pod at the GTI Festival, were you having problems? Wasn't as fast as I expected on the run I saw you do.

How about when you re-connect them, does the pinking return?

I've got a 2x2 adapter an opto isolated interface and a USB adapter for use with my laptop, cannot get anything meaningful out of mine. It tries i.e. you can get it checking the ABS, but it comes back with too many faults. I'm using Vag-Com 311-2.

Crasher, Is your a 2 x 2 plug or the serial connection for the OBD? I've got everything for OBDII for my Leon which is now sold, and have been trying to get it working on the Corrado, but I'm not getting very far with it.

:lol: Sounds like something out of Starwars! Well, mine set as per my instructions and the manual, I've played with different settings and it is best at 6 deg BTDC as described. It was set like that when it made 162bhp on the rollers, so there can't be much wrong with that. What equipment are you using to do all this?

I really like the S4 Avant, I'd love to have something like that for every day use.

I had a look last night and you set the ignition timing at idle with everything connected, so nice and simple. Yes I remember having to disconnect the blue temp sender on my Golf and timing it at 2500rpm. For a Haynes manual you do need the Passat one, it has the 9A with Ke-Motronic. There is also a Volkswagen site in Russia where you can download manuals, can't find it at the moment but if I do I'll post it here. Sounds like a nice late car. My long term avereage (MFA set to 2) is around 29MPG, so it may not be that far out. On a run if I try and can get an indicated consumption for around 35-40MPG.

Lippy, It doesn't have a TPS as such, but the equivalent is the switch I mentioned on the throttle body, which tells the ECU that the car is at idle. Interesting what you mention about the ignition switch, the contacts inside the switch are the problem. They are very cheap to buy and I think there is a fitting guide on here. Obviously if that fails you lose ignition, I've had one fail, the ignition came on no problems, but you could not crank the engine. You could buy a switch and plug it in temporarily without fitting it, just have it hanging from the steering column, that would be an easy way to see if it is this.

Seat Leon Cupra R, Civic Type R. Although for that money I'd want a 6 cylinder really, so an S4 would probably be my choice.