corradophil

Undo the bleed nipple a bit to make the pistons screw back alot easier. Never seen than part on Golf or Corrado!

Mines a daily driver too 300-400 miles per week. Its what its made for, no point in it being locked away all the time. I'd rather use it and repair it when parts wear than have it deteriorate in a garage somewhere. I think you appreciate it more when it earns its keep as well as being a toy.

I had a good blast with a Red VR6 from junction 28 of M25 (A12) traffic lights on Saturday at around 6.30pm. I was on my way to VW action. Unfortunately I didn't expect the VR to be up for it, so I was pretty slow off the line, the driver did a good rowing action out of his window because he left me behind He was lucky, my 16v would've shown him :wink:

Try Elite in Rainham, they are wheel, tyre & exhaust specialists. Got mine done for £40 there.

Not changed wheels, I did spot another dark green one while I was there. Lots of people/cars although the majority were air cooled.

You didn't spot mine then. I was parked next to a smart silver BMW 3 series opposite the cars for sale, an then in cars for sale on Sunday afternoon.

I agree with what you are saying, but internaly they were identical in every detail. I'm sure if you examined the two I had you would agree, they are the same. It's down to personal opinion, but I dont mind having Mann written on my filter instead of VW/Audi if it saves me some money. My mums got a Renault Megane, the filter on that is about 1/3 of the size of Veedub ones!

I'd go for quantum silver and the cheap filter form GSF (Mann IIRC). I have acutally cut open a genuine VW & cheap GSF oil filter and they were identical inside, in fact the only difference was the text on the outside of it. Should be able to do oil & filter for around £15 using good quality parts. Its cheaper this way which meens you can afford to change them more frequently.

I'd be up for that too. :lol:

Have a look at http://volkswagen.msk.ru I got loads of info for mine from there. Some files in English, others not. Right click the link and click save target as, then browse to where you want to save on your pc.

I'm based in Burnham-on-Crouch which is about 1 hour from R.P.M. I found them to be very helpful and happy to offer advise.

My Corrado has a 9A from factory. I would put a lightened flywheel on, recently fitted one to mine, it livens it up a bit in 1st and 2nd gear with no side effects. Mine was £80 exchange from Race Power Motorsport in Dartford. I fitted the inlet cam from a KR 1800 and had no problems, worth doing. You only need change the inlet cam as the exhaust ones are the same.

The CD has 322MB of photos on it. If you want me to send a copy to host for the forum, PM me with postal details.

i'll have to check tonight, there are a lot of photos, some of which could be removed. Have a look at http://www.autostadt.de for a little more info.

Gman, Autostadt was excellent I spent one evening and one day there and still did not manage to see everything, the main entrance building has some really interesting things to see, about the environment, car manufacture and working at the factory. They have a car museum which includes non VW cars. There are sperate buildings for VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Bentley & Lamborghini. Its not directed just at car enthusiasts, its like a millenium dome focused on cars. I drove a Toureg on a 4x4 course too. Unfortunately the factory was on a months shut down so I could not tour it, but would have only been 15mins anyway so Karmann more than made up for that. The glass towers where the cars are stored are really impressive, you can see cars being delivered and removed from their parkings spaces and even watch customers collecting their new cars. Jim, The cars at Autostadt were mainly standard, the special ones in the museum I think they will probably keep forever, theres lots of weird and wonderful cars, plenty of air cooled and some South African VWs. Their std Corrado was a Green Storm which was sold in England and later bought back! One less for us then! I also went to Stuttgart for Porsche, Ingolstadt to the Audi Forum and Nurburgring. I'll have to put a post about the trip on here. I did the trip with a mate in his Vento 1.8CL slammed on 17s and covered 2000 miles in 6 days! If there is a way of publishing them, I could send a CD to the forum with all the photos from the trip.

Karmann had one in their private museum up untill about a month ago, its gone now, I had a 2 hour tour of the factory at Osnabruck, amaizing :mrgreen: I then managed to have a look around the museum which was very cool. They had a VR6 but the Convertable was removed a few days earlier. I also went to Wolfsburg for VW, they have a convirtable Corrado at their museum, which is just down the road from Autostadt. Its well worth a visit to both of these if you get a chance.

Yes, that was adjusted at the the same time as lowering-the wheels spin freely when jacked on suspension keeping it loaded.

I replaced my front wishbone bushes with bugpack ones and I am very impressed, no extra harshness and much more precise handling. The nearside front wishbone rear bush failed on my car, under acceleration it pulled hard to the right, and then pulled to the left when off the power, I had my dad sitting in the car in 1st gear loading putting load through the wheels i.e. feathering the clutch and the near side wishbone moved alot more than the offside.

I have this set-up on my Corrado, the ride is good, firm, but comfortable. I have had problems with oversteer, after alot of checks to make sure the suspension bushes/alignment is o.k.I decided the rear springs must be too stiff and replaced them with the original VW ones, with the height adjusted it is far better now. Also I have noticed the front springs are always coilbound on approx the 3 lower coils which is not necessarily good. Phil

Do you drive everywhere flat out to get the noise?? Check all the small vacuum hoses for spits/leaks and amke sure they are connected. I had one split on my std Golf 8v GTI and could get an average of 22MPG, fixed the leak and it was back to 30-40MPG.

Me power addiction - never :D I've tried loads of different ignition and valve timing set-ups, but all I can really do is move the power up and down the rev range. Fuelling - now theres a can of worms, my car runs KE-motronic with adaptive closed loop lambda control which in theory should sort the fuel mixture out. After discussions with various people including stealth and race power motorsport, both of whom have been very helpful, it appears there is nothing more I can do without going to throttle bodies or maybe K-jet. They both also were not supprised at the results I have got. Gonna give it another go hopefully tomorrow, but if I get no joy I think the KR cams will be going back in, then I'll have a smooth idle and a little low down grunt again. If anyone is in the Essex area around Chelmsford and would like to compare their Corrado VR6 or G60 performance to mine, I'd be very interested.

It may have been down on power, got to say it dissapointed me, but quite often I've driven cars which are supposed to be very quick and they've not lived up to expectations. I drove a 205 bhp 2wd Sierra Saphire Cosworth when I had an 8v GTI and that was nothing amaizing. Just really trying to make the point that maybe when modding your car your expecations could be a bit over optimistic, which makes you dissapointed with the end result, but when you have something to fast to campare it to, you might be suprised. I also drove a dog slow Mk3 16v Golf, my 8v Mk2 would have weed all over it, certainly in normal fast road driving. The Corrado VR6 was pretty similar in performance to a Mk3 Golf VR6 - I did expect a little more than that. My 2.0 16v has flowed head/manifolds, magnex, schrick 268/276 cams although they made sod all improvement over KR cams in my engine :( and may be for sale soon.

Smiff, I went out in a VR6 Corrado last night, and to my suprise the difference in performance is very small when compared with modded 2.0 16v, plus mine has a load of Hi-fi stuff in it, the VR6 didn't. Maybe we are being a little too harsh on the performance of our valvers. The performance difference is not enough to be worth me changing my car. It sounded lovely though. :D

I had std VW discs (239mm) on my Mk2 Golf, the brakes were far better than my Corrados VW discs (256mm) and VW pads and still better than Zimmerman cross drilled 280mm front discs and pagis fast roads all round :?

I've been thinking Corrado G60, VR6 or maybe Audi A4 2.8 Quattro, dunno yet.