My weekend warrior - 20VT from Israel

[Hairyarse 10]

Yes, nice scuttle cover ;)

[orons 10]

Order a new radiator:

 

 

Installed:

 

With billet radiator neck:

 

We had a problem with the new inlet manifold, it set to high and toched the hood, so we fabricated some spacers to the front subframe:

[orons 10]

Until this point was my project over the last year, the car is finally ready so me and bunch of my friend did a weekend trip including auto crossing in a deserted runway

Here is some pictures:

 

 

Back wheel in the air :)

 

 

My friend Corrado:

 

 

What i learned:

Need more powerrrrrr.

Need to raise the front a little bit, touching in hard cornering.

Maybe a stickier tires in the front.

Need to lower the seat, i'm 1.88 CM my head is in the ceiling.

 

That's all for now, will update as i go.

[orons 10]

Purchased new headlights, one regular and one French spec. Test fitted them, what do you think, regular or French?

 

On the table

 

Reflectors:

 

On the car;

 

[seanl82 23]

I love the french ones personally, but think they only work with certain colour cars. Fancy giving it to me!

[orons 10]

It's been a long time since I've update, so here is what's happened in the last couple of month.

My speedo cable snapped, so i finally converted my instrument cluster to the after face lift model.

 

New one:

 

Since I've bought the car i had problems with the cluster light, so decided to go with illuminated cards.

cluster open:

With metal rings:

Lights on:

 

While I've changed the dials i did the reverse LCD and painted the dials in UV orange.

 

Also install an EGT gauge, while searching on line so a gauge that with a little play will go in the stock Corrado blank buttons location:

 

[Jim 2]

Good work :)

[orons 10]

My Recaro seats was not in good shape, it needed a re-upholstery, I checked how much will it cost me to re-upholster them and decided that i prefer to add a little money and order new ones (also a good friend on mine realy wanted them to his mk2 Golf).

Another problem i had is that my custom seat rail was to high, i'm 1.90 c"m and i was hitting the roof.

 

So after a long search I found a used Corrado electric seat rail in a reasonable price:

 

 

And the new Reacros:

 

 

With the old ones:

 

 

And installed:

Edited December 27, 2014 by orons

[orons 10]

Now for the really good stuff

 

My turbo is the stock 1.8T K03, the power is good, but not really enough.

So i bought a K300 hybrid turbo for Beach Buggy turbos:

 

 

It came with bigger TIP:

 

3 inch MAF housing:

 

Bigger exhaust manifold:

 

Bearing gaskets and bolts:

 

Also got IE rods, AGU ported head and ported intake manifold (forgot to take pictures, and they are at my mechanic shop).

Just waiting for piston rings, the first ones i purchased came corroded (the package set in the rain somewhere between Germany and Israel...) :(

[orons 10]

Busy at work didn't have time to update...

 

First couple friends of mine took pretty nice pictures of the new RECARO's

 

Really please for the seats, very comfortable and grip me nice.

 

The replacement piston rings finally arrived. :cheers:

 

Got new oil supply line

 

Bosch green giants injectors:

 

After the conversion we lowered the engine, so my oil pan sits really low, ive bought a kit for ECS tuning for a hybrid oil pan (part aluminum part steel).

Link to the product:

http://www.ecstuning.com/ES2102397/

 

And actual photos:

[sexybourbon 0]

Very nice i like this motor id will shift when all thats.been bolted on

[orons 10]

Very nice i like this motor id will shift when all thats.been bolted on

 

Thanks bud!

[orons 10]

OK, last parts thread before installing it all... :D

 

Vibra-Technics motor mounts:

 

The front is competition and the others are fast road.

 

Power Flex front sub frame bushings:

 

Mocal sandwich plate:

 

And oil cooler:

 

Hopefully my mechanic will have some time and we will start with business.

[Peacedub 10]

Wow no expense spared on this project.....how i envy you! Very very nice, look forward to seeing the many more brand new toys fitted

[orons 10]

Wow no expense spared on this project.....how i envy you! Very very nice, look forward to seeing the many more brand new toys fitted

 

Thanks!

Actually i'm at the finish line... Just got to sort the body work and i'm done, or do a haldex conversion :)

[Peacedub 10]

Thanks!

Actually i'm at the finish line... Just got to sort the body work and i'm done, or do a haldex conversion :)

 

You will never finish, there is always something else to add or tinker with. A haldex system would be awesome then you can properly wind the boost up. DO IT DO IT DO IT!!

[orons 10]

Hi,

 

Long time with no updates... so here we go:

 

Finally all the parts arrived and my mechanic had some free time.

 

All the parts:

 

Head is out:

 

New head:

 

Pistons and rods:

 

Oil pan:

[orons 10]

Motor mounts:

 

 

Turbo and manifold in place:

 

Oil cooler:

 

Duct for the oil cooler:

[orons 10]

From i've bought the Corrado it came with a nasty hit on the front bumper and lip, it looked like a fighter that been in to many fights :scratch:

 

Here is a picture after a little straightening ive done a while back:

 

 

I've ordered a 70mm lip from Spoon but the bumper and the metal piece that hold it to the bumper.

 

 

Now straight:

 

[orons 10]

More updates.

 

After my turbo build finished, i needed a tune to match, i was going to keep my AGU ECU but in the last minute I've got a really good deal on a Motec M84 ECU from a friend and decided to ditch the "stock" ECU and go with a standalone ECU.

The ECU and wiring harness:

 

 

In a moment of temporary insanity i decided to get a dash display, i thought i have to many gauges and they were scattered all over the dashboard..

So iv'e ordered an AIM MXL dash.

 

Test fitted

 

A friend of mine got it to work with the Corrado cluster (with carbon).

 

Final result

[orons 10]

Video

https://vimeo.com/124086167

[orons 10]

Hi all,

 

Been a really long time since the last update, finished the tuning, the car made 247 WHP and 35 WTRQ (KGM)@ full boost (1.4 bar)

 

 

With low boost (0.7 bar) car made 197 WHP and 25.5 WTRQ

 

 

While tuning we found that the current intercooler is not efficient enough for this power, more about that in the next post.

[orons 10]

While tuning the car we saw that even in low boost the intake temperature rise a lot during WOT (more than 40 degrees).

My intercooler is a budget brand (Chinese) and was sort of adequate until now.

The problem is that the Corrado is really ****ty car for force induction because of the lack of space for the intercooler (especially if you want to keep the original front bumper like me).

So after a lot of measurement I've order a Garret intercooler core and Treadstone end tanks from the US.

 

 

Old vs new

 

 

Fitting the end tanks

 

 

Test fitting

 

 

Finally a bit of paint for stealth

 

Pretty please from the final results but not 100%

 

I'm curious about what setup do you use in the UK...

 

Now the intake temp only rise a 5-10 degrees so the performance gain is notable.

[orons 10]

Again long time with no updates....

 

Long time i wanted to do a 5X100 swap (plus suspension), so a while back i started collecting the parts for it.

The first thing and the most crucial was wheels (i'm a wheels whore, i think it's my 4 set in this car... :) )

I managed to find a used BBS CH wheel in Germany at a good price and sent it here.

 

They were already refurbished:

 

But i didn't like the color combo with the car, so i had them repainted (powder coating)

 

And with new rubber:

 

New center caps and valve cover

 

Because the front suspension is different i needed a new anti-roll bar, so i sold my to a friend (also with a Corrado) and bought a new KW anti-roll bars:

 

Bought a used front subframe:

 

The plus suspension is more than 2cm wider in each side and because of my Porsche calipers i needed spacers (10mm) so needed to find a solution to the front wings, found a company in Germany that produce wider front wings from fiberglass, they took a beating in the Israeli mail :(

 

And the most fun part (which is not really needed) a carbon fiber hood

 

To be continued...

Edited November 23, 2015 by orons

[orons 10]

So we started with the wings fitment

 

 

Installed

 

Hood:

 

Look how much wider the wings with the old wheels:

 

Because the wings are wider they don't sit nice with the front bumper, a friend of mine really wanted my bumper (because it's from a US Corrado) and gave me a good price so i got a new VR front bumper.

The package was huge

 

 

Assembly

 

New vs old

 

And how it sits now