Seen this Corrado before ??

[carpoid 0]

Anyone know anything about this ?

 

Its not a model or sumet is it ??

[bigtunes 0]

Some guy flogs the body shells on ebay, they fit a certain sized Tamiya chassis, looks like it could one of them.

 

Few of the guys on here have them, whole thread here: R/C Corrados

 

Edit: Actually on closer inspection what I thought was an aerial sticking out the back is the edge of a disc its sitting on! so probably not a R/C Model!

[Mave 0]

i cannot remember but im sure i got a picture of that thing doing 288kmph

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

rly

[Jim 2]

I don't remeber the significance of it, but that car is definately something important / interesting to do with Corrado history! I'd love to know more about it.

[carpoid 0]

Same here Jim, would love to know about it, notice those exhausts !! Wonder what was done to it?? Could be 16VG60 maybe?

[Jim 2]

Well i'm interested to know a few things about it....

 

I don't know what the vents are in the rear window?!

[mk1g60 0]

would the things in the rear window be for putting fuel in?? endurance corrado by any chance?? :lol:

[Andy665 0]

It was a record car built by Volkswagen,completed 13,033 miles in August 1988, its still an 8 valver but tuned to 220PS.

 

These are the stats from its runs at Ehra-Lessien, converted from kmh to mph

 

1 flying lap - 164.29 mph

6 flying laps - 160.70 mph average

500 kilometres - 163.15 mph average

500 miles - 162.51 mph average

1000 kilometers - 163.61 mph average

1000 miles - 160.73 mph average

 

The holes in the rear window are indeed for re-fuelling and it was also running a four outlet exhaust system.

[CTWG60 0]

Found This...................bit more info.

 

Record Corrado

 

 

 

In the first day's of his career de Corrado had a

special endurance test. In august 1988 VW wanted to

claim 6 international records because they wanted to

expres the power of this new VW sprinter. On the

20.853 km long speedcircuit of the Volkwagen-testtrack

in Ehra-Lessien a 220 hp tuned version of the Corrado

G60 went into close surveillance of the FIA

(federation Internationale de L'Automobile) from start.

This Record-Corrado set the 6 speedrecords for cars with

'blown' engines with an engine in the class of 1.5 - 2.0 l.

The next times and distances were extablished:

 

1 hour 262.865 km/h

500 km 261.033 km/h

500 miles 260.701 km/h

1000 km 261.711 km/h

6 hours 257.122 km/h

1000 miles 257.165 km/h

 

To get these average speeds with zero start,fuel stops and

driver changes topspeeds of around 270 km/h were needed.

The basis was a 160 hp strong serie model of the Corrado

G-60 with controled 3-way katalysator. The power-growth of

the 1.8L G-60 engine till 220HP with 6400 rpm's was mainly

because of modifications of combustion, fuelmixture, valves,

rods, G-laderpressure and a double exhaust with 2 lambda

controled katalysators. More technical changes were not only

because of safetechnical reasons such as safety cage secure

fueltank and a fire extinguish installation also a special

gearbox adjusted for slicks and the lowered and aeodynamic

optimalised bodywork of the Corrado.

[carpoid 0]

Good stuff, very interesting. Thanks for that

 

Matt