Ritchie's Corrado R32

[RitchieR32 10]

Hi there!

After a tip from FishWick I sighed me up for this forum.

I've been here some times before but I never registered.

 

A bit about me:

I'm Richard from Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

I work at a quality control laboratory at a big phamaceutical company.

I bought my Corrado in april 1999 (yes, that long ago!) and I used it to go to work.

It had 120.000km on it when I bought it, now it has 215.000km, but with a new engine in the front.

The project started about 3 years ago. Due to personal things the project has known some delays.

Now the Corrado is almost finished, I does need a custom chip and it has to be retested to change the engine code and horsepower on the carpapers.

 

Enough about me... here are some pictures:

 

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Greetz Richard

[Jim 1]

Beautiful! Welcome to the forum :)

[C5 OEM 0]

Stunning...!!!welcome to the forum

[stevef182 0]

Awesome, really like it. Welcome.

[Kevin Bacon 5]

Such a nice car and was the inspiration behind my stock Corrado airbox. Welcome Ritchie! :D

[24V Renshaw 0]

It's no good I am going to have to go R32. Nice work!

[joebloggsVR69 0]

is niiiiice, I liiiike

 

:)

[Kevin Bacon 5]

Ritchie, get the sound clips up with and without the exhaust bypass :thumbleft:

[RitchieR32 10]

Check my signature :dance:

[Stonejag 10]

Very nice car :thumbleft:

 

Don't suppose you've still got the carbon VR6 cover? My plastics have gone all crumbly and that looks great!

 

Stone

[RitchieR32 10]

Thanks for all the compliments! :smug:

 

About the carbon cover, I still got it. But it needs some work.

If you would be so nice to email me so I can't forget, I'll sent you some pictures.

[Kempy 0]

sounds epic!

[Swompy 0]

Looks and sounds amazing mate :D

[coullstar 0]

Very nice touch with the OE exhaust flap. Not listened to the vids yet (at work) but I can imagine what is going to be like. Is that a 3in sytem with one silencer?

[quicky1980 0]

very nice! how did you wire up the rev counter, Ive used an adaptor but there is a slight delay between blipping the pedal and the needle moving and its friggin anoying!

 

And welcome

[Danny B 0]

Very neat :thumbleft: welcome

[Kevin Bacon 5]

very nice! how did you wire up the rev counter, Ive used an adaptor but there is a slight delay between blipping the pedal and the needle moving and its friggin anoying!

 

And welcome

 

Don't get that problem with a standalone :lol:

 

Know what you mean though. Saw the same behaviour on Rob's. Another MK5 ECU thing unfortunately.

 

If you ever stumble across a MK4 ECU, buy it! Buy it immediately!

Edited November 26, 2011 by Kevin Bacon

[dannyboy 0]

Welcome buddy,beautiful conversion looks like it belongs there!!

 

Ill be driving past Eindhoven next month.Dont like the antwerpen ring road, its a pain.

Have you started to terrorise the public with your beast yet?

[8vMatt 1]

Awesome noise! Makes me want to forget about going OBD2 and start looking for a donor R32 or Audi. Hmmm.

[dannyboy 0]

Is that mechanical flap for a active exhaust?? thats a nice touch and very well built exhaust.

[VAG-hag 0]

fantastic car!!welcome to the forum........

[RitchieR32 10]

@24V Renshaw: Compliments for the (ex?) Corrado!!

I recognize it from PVW! Nice to see you on the forum here

I'm a big fan of PVW!

 

 

Thanks again for the compliments!

 

For the rev counter I used a converter witch converts the frequenty created by the coilpacks to a signal that the VR6 normaly gets.

Works perfectly!

 

The exhaust was welded by a friend of mine. With the engine I bought came allso the exhaust from the Golf mk5 (except the end muffler).

We used the front to create the downpipes:

 

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After that came a flex piece and the 200 cels high flow cat, after the cat came a long muffler:

 

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Then the end muffler with the flap.

When the flap is closed the exhaust flow goes through the muffled piece,

with the flap open through the not muffled piece.

The flap is controlled with vacuum by the ECU, and/or in my case manually

 

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Don't mind the rusted rear suspension, a complete "new" one is ready to be installed,

with H&R 25mm anti-rollbar, Powerflex rubbers, camber plates and all other stuff NEW

 

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[KipVR 1]

Great car you have there Ritchie, do you mind me asking where did you get the exhaust flap from? The Mk5 exhaust?

[RitchieR32 10]

I bought a mk4 R32 exhaust for the flap. I allso used the vacuum reservoir with magnetic valve from the mk4 R32.

But I think the mk5 uses the same valve and vacuum steering.

[KipVR 1]

Ahh ok, thanks!