Re: Corrado Calum found an uber cool rado

[Wild-Animal 0]

Hey i have had a corrado for just shy of a year as I bought it on my birthday, for my VAG history well I had a polo if I showed picture of that I would be thrown of the forum. You could go round any corner at 5 mph and the rear FREE tyres would be screaming at you :lol: was to be a feild car until someone tried to hot wire it for some reason, o well lucky the battery was dead.

 

Since I have had it, not alot has been done until recently oh yeah it a g plate 1.8 119000, couldnt resist having one after spotting a couple of them they look so good.

 

Immobiliser fitted profeesionally, then he wondered why the fuse box was looking a bit funny, as it was upside down. So the Electrician sorted that all out.

Timing belt change

Water pump replaced.

Central locking pump replaced

Bump strips taken off

Uprated headlight loom

 

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Recently the engine has been removed hopefully get some pictures of the removal,

just planning on cleaning the bay up

Re tapped all of the wiring loom with some proper tape

New power Steering pipes

Changed the power steering rack, got one of the forumn as VW wanted £950 for the rack on its ownits and they could not even guarantee it was the correct rack. For some reason?

 

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Okay, i started to take things apart decided take the engine out to clean things up and change a couple of things

 

eham sort of engine crane

 

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Okay so i got the subframe off I work as a Blacksmith so i blasted everything at work, we have a heavy grit not sand blaster so I took my time and made sure there was no rust left on the pieces glad I blasted it myself as it took a while even with the heavy grit.

 

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Then proceeded to Zinga the heck out of everything and then primer then under seal thew coats of each...

 

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Re tapped the wiring loom and have some rusty bits to sort out started on the battery tray just made a plate up at work, work in progress and the lucky sill someone could not operate a jack properly!

[streetpreache47 0]

nice clean rado that pal,

 

I have never really looked back from getting mine! Love it,

 

I like how standard your car looks, especially the cool steels!

[streetpreache47 0]

PS what do you use to clean your engine>?

[Wild-Animal 0]

haha safe to say the engine came like that!I am cleaning the engine while it is out with Jizer, you could try that. Thanks for the kind words!

[Wild-Animal 0]

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could you guess my age ? :lol:

 

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[Critical_Mass 10]

:lol: good effort mate. I like the front view. But the wheels make me laugh :lol:

 

Could you send me a slice? :norty:

[Wild-Animal 0]

A slice, I need the cake to put the car together! :D

[Wild-Animal 0]

Hey needing a little help, the existing steering rack seals were shot as fluid was leaking so in the rebuild I sourced a second hand rack, was told the rack would fit the car as it does ,once I had changed the splines form the inside the rack that connect onto the steering coloumn as they were differently splined. The prob was when I built the car up the wheels, they would no where near track up straight. Checked the lengths of the track rods and they were different, the second hand rack arms were longer by say 50mm. So i ordered not through VW (cost a bomb) but at Dingbro new track arms and they arrived and yet still longer than what originally came off? But the track arms were the same length as the track arms off the second hand rack?

 

Any info would be so much help!

 

Thanks

[Wild-Animal 0]

I got the steering rack rods sorted out just need to get it a MOT a couple of things it failed on headlight pattern and handbrake not working enough, the amount of time the dude had a look at the car and the time he took i am glad that was all !

 

I have been getting distracted as well! :D

 

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[big ben 10]

what, riding a girls bike :lol:

 

only joking, looks nice

[Wild-Animal 0]

Haha girls bike pfff nothing girly about the price of that bike :eek:

 

Oh yeah my car has passed its M.O.T also solved the problem of starting the car when its warm by changing all of the injectors to new ones !

I have a new accumulator to put on it once i can get a bit of pipe from the fuel filter to the accumulator sourced

 

found something cool on piston heads

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2206063.htm

[Wild-Animal 0]

So i got the accumulator changed to a new one, i have noticed the difference well other than one looked like a bag of rust

 

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then in with the new one also replaced the pipe from the accumulator to the fuel filter

 

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The brackets got the rust buffed off then zinga'd and anti stone chipped put back on with new washers and spring washers as i did not want to over tighten them due to the rubber bushings they sit on.

 

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[Wild-Animal 0]

With it all back in situe, one of the studs did snap on me so i had to drill out the stud and replace with a shiny bolt,

 

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My trusty jack :norty:

 

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The accumulator got a good thew coats of anti stone chip, keep it in tip top condition!

Also some rust got attacked at the rear end

 

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So next plans are to get the tank straps off blast them at work along with the rear bumper bar, its a heavy grit blaster works alot better on removing rust than a sand blaster, only thing is i am thinking every single one of those bolts are going to shear! :shock:

 

during the build

 

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[Kempy 0]

nice work butty

[Wild-Animal 0]

Our new lot of snow there is gonnna a be a whole lot more !

 

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The throttle was sticking so badly i wasnt sure what it was so i done some investigating. The cable started to fray a bit and it was ctaching on the casing of the cable.

 

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So i trimmed the sharp pieces of and greased it up as a temporary measure .What a difference ! its so much more responsive :clap:

I cant wait to get a new one on .

 

The prob was mainly when changing gear the car would rev up between gear changes as the throttle was not backing off quickly enough a bit annoying when you are trying to keep a Type R from overtaking :norty:

 

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I also made a panel to stop the water sitting ontop of the battery

[colinstubbs 0]

good stuff mate 8)

[Rinse 0]

Nice work! Looks pretty clean, hopefully see if kicking about Edinburgh!

[Wild-Animal 0]

So keeping myself busy with firends cars and my own, my friends Capri needed some welding done especally on the headlight holder, the A pillar, front vallace and also the floor. Well basically its ford ....

 

So got that all sorted. He recently got the car resprayed in Matt black so its looking smoothe

[Wild-Animal 0]

So I have fitted a new fan to the radiator this is a pic of the old one, the whole fan assembly was moving backwards and forth so at some pint it would have self distruct, so I changed it before that happened.

[Wild-Animal 0]

I removed the fuel tank and the rear bumper. Then blasted the tanks straps and rear bumper bar, treated them to some Zinga and under sealed twice. Replaced the bolts also.

Since the tank was off I gave a good clean outside and inside removing any bit s rubbish in it.

 

The car was never the best to start when it was warm so a while back I changed the injectors so it starts fine now when its warm. You can see a picture of an old injector it looks pretty past it. The injectors must have been leaking.

 

Still the car was not the best for starting when it was cold, so I have replaced the in line fuel pump, the lift pump, fuel filter and I had changed the accumulator a while back. Now it starts a lot easier from cold yeppee

 

Since I am heading up uni at sunny Aberdeen I changed the rear brakes from the Mk2 rears to the Mk3 rears, safe to say the difference is huge on my last M.O.T I had big problems with the handbrake efficiency. So I changed the discs as well and fitted a new heat shield. So there is a picture of the old calliper which I will be glad never to see again !

 

Also I fitted the in line fuse for the headlight switch it only took a couple of mins to do.

[Wild-Animal 0]

So the fuel pump and the lift pump. The lift pump was tricky to change there is a metal coupling that holds onto the lift pump connection so make sure your not in to big a rush in changing it as I had to take my time to removing the old one carefully.

The in line pump was okay to change, I made sure I got a Bosch one as I wanted to make sure it would give me the correct pressure.