The test mule. VR6 track toy

[PhatVR6 0]

As some of you will remember I bought my first rado around 6 years ago now. the other build thread for which including the trails and tribulations of it's build are well documented in there.

 

To cut a very long story short that project has kind of been on hold for around 3 years now, possibly 4! I bought a mk4 golf V6 4motion, which I sold to buy another Corrado, an Aqua Blue VR6. I idd a few mods to that, coilovers, polybushes etc, and even tracked it at Cadwell which was great fun, but a cheap Audi S8 came up for sale locally which I just had to have so after a few short months the VR6 was sold to make way for the limo. I pimped around in that for almost a year before I decided it had to go and I had to get back on track with the main task in hand, Corrado's.

 

So I bought a van.....wait, wait, there's a reason. To tow the track corrado around. That was 2 years ago, and I didn't realise just how much work was required getting a van up to scrath for camping and stuff, well it's nearly there now and put to good use, because I got so bored of driving a van I bought another Corrado :-)

 

The idea was to find a dirt cheap, even crashed corrado VR6 with a decent engine, something I could throw a load of my parts on and get back out there playing ASAP. I missed out on a few on eBay, some seemed to be going for as much as straight cars, then as luck would have it I got talking to a certain Jay Renshaw, who had decided to let his go. It worked out quite well for him to sell off al the goodies he'd fitted. so a deal was done and Jay dorve the car to mine and we stripped all his parts off. No rear axle, no suspension, no front brakes, no interior at all, no wheels, and a SERIOUS oil leak, and rattly timing chains. Time to get my hands dirty.

 

Excuse the tense errors, cut and pasted from other forums.

 

I started pulling it apart this afternoon. It's a weird one. It had full beige leather recaros, air con and headlamp washers (including the huge 7L washer bottle). and also had a transponder immobiliser, I've never seen one of those on a Corrado before.

 

As per usual, thermostat housing and crack pipe has crumbled away, chains need doing and gearbox has an almighty leak on it, but all that will be coming off.

 

I've put it in this thread as all the work I'm doing to it is essentially going to be ongoing development work which will eventually end up in the caged shell. This was actually the idea with the blue one I bought 2 years ago, but I had to give that up for the S8, that was too good to pass up.

 

[PhatVR6 0]

revised tensioner blade

 

Oil staining cleaning out, new oil seal

 

Fidanza alloy flywheel (6lb) and Helix paddle clutch

 

Quaife 6 speed dog box with Peloquin diff. I wante dot get this bead blasted but just ended up clagging on a load of silver paint to cover up all the orange and black.

 

new box in

[PhatVR6 0]

Slightly problematic day.

 

Got the transfer box on, but had to totally chop up the downpipe and alter it. And it seems I have the wrong through shaft for some reason, must have been a mix up when I sold off the Vr6 syncro stuff. so that's a massive setback, can't do much else without that.

 

 

And I've had to scrap one hub and driveshaft as I can't get the outer CV to seperate from the hub.

 

 

Oil cooler plate fitted

 

And tried a wheel on.

[PhatVR6 0]

bummer, forum doesn't like my images, gonna take me an age to resize them all :-(

[bcstudent 0]

Blimey. It seems like forever that I last saw your name on here! Welcome back :salute:

[herisites 0]

Good work :salute: Will be keeping my eyes on this thread for sure.

 

White wheels are very in now too, I fecking love my Rota's! 8)

[Danny B 0]

Welcome back, theres a few track corrado's on here now.

[Kevin Bacon 5]

Quaife 6 speed goodness :norty: :salute:

 

Agreed on white wheels, they do look the biz on Corrados :D

[PhatVR6 0]

The dog box is amazing. I wouldn't like to try the vwms shifter on a normal synchro box, it'd just crunch the gears. As it is now I can just ram the gears in. Comparing my graphs from inters with my mates vento (which now has my old Gemini box in it) he was losing upto a second on each shift (shows up as a flat line of no acceleration). I was generally only taking 0.2 seconds, some even looked almost seamless with only a barely noticeable blip in the acceleration. When you consider 4 gear changes in a 1/4 mile that's a lot of time to lose.

 

I'll put up more pics when I get time.

 

Currently fitting an uprated fuel system and hoping to be running at vagfest on Sunday.

[coullstar 0]

Followed this on CGTI. Love the work gone into it :salute:

[lilfuzzer 1]

:wave:

 

seen this at york a while back looking good mate.

 

Also were you at bvf at the weekend thought I saw you van?

[PhatVR6 0]

Been to York with it twice but always had issues. Wasn't at bvf.

[John-M 0]

Looks to be a thread to follow :)

 

Welcome back, btw :) :)

[lilfuzzer 1]

Been to York with it twice but always had issues. Wasn't at bvf.

 

Ah right thought I saw your van mate didnt see anyone around the van so glad there wasnt as I would have embrassed myself. :D

[blue95 0]

Welcome back!

 

Should be an intresting thread!

 

Incidently how muck does a quaife box for the rallye/syncro go for these days?

[PhatVR6 0]

I gave £2k for it with a helix clutch and lightened G60 flywheel. Sold that and the Rallye bellhousing. Mates just paid the same for one for his Rallye 1.8T. Dunno how he lives with it on a daily, you have to slam the gears through or it crunches. It must make his daily commute feel like a rally stage.

[blue95 0]

I gave £2k for it with a helix clutch and lightened G60 flywheel. Sold that and the Rallye bellhousing. Mates just paid the same for one for his Rallye 1.8T. Dunno how he lives with it on a daily, you have to slam the gears through or it crunches. It must make his daily commute feel like a rally stage.

 

expensive and not ideal for a daily....LOL may aswell forget that for mine then.

 

Gearing on thr syncro/rallye box is not ideal, is the skoda 1.8t 4x4 box 6 speed? I'm guessing you can stick the rallye transfer box on the skoda box to keep the whole thing syncro, rather than going the haldex route. Just after better gearing really.

[PhatVR6 0]

It's totally Quaife gearing, complete kit Inc final drive (4.165). Transfer box is skoda Octavia 4x4 so I can run haldex.

[PhatVR6 0]

New ally rad

[PhatVR6 0]

In the pits

[PhatVR6 0]

In action at gti international

[Abdul 0]

Great build fella, wish i had ur knowledge/experience.

 

What time did u get at inters?

[dirtytorque 0]

love the in the pitts pic.

Looks very motorsport.

[herisites 0]

Yeah looks awesome 8) love the white wheels, they're the future!

[PhatVR6 0]

Only managed a 14.0 at the pod and 13.992 at inters. Way off the 13.56 I ran at gti festival and 10mph down. Just too hot to run the nitrous with the jets I've got (they were worked out for an average day) Need bigger fuel jets.