Last Thursday was spent changing over the front sub-assembly. As with the rear axle, the aim was to recover the one fitted to the car so it could be refurbished and then refitted, along with all new components, bolts and fastenings. So this work is just an interim position. It was a long day, starting at 10.00 and finishing at just after midnight. Not finishing was not an option as the garage space was needed on Friday morning.
I have been fortunate to have access to a professional garage w
Right, on with the refurbished rear axle with new discs, bearings and bushes. This is a temporary measure while I refurbish the axle that was on the car which is not as corroded and will look as new when coated. Then it can all be refitted and the initial one used for the Silver VR. Double the work, but the car needed to be mobile for the MOT and due to storage demands.
Given it looked as though nothing had been undone in 17 years, all went well except for: stripping the head off a sub axl
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recently purchased my first corrado.. needless too say the poor thing has been neglected for many years and im working to bring her back to the beautiful car i know she is!
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i need help deciding a color scheme.. i picked up a complete blue dot interior.. just cant decide what color.......
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Fitted a bump steer kit.
Ball joint extenders and tie rod end flip bushes.
Fitted some ap racing 4 pot stoppers a few weeks ago also.
A very tight fit behind 16" brock b2's, not even room for wheel balance weights. Cant wait to get my 17" RC's back from the refurbisher.
Today i removed my Jabbasport turbo exhaust manifold due to it blowing and the car being down on power.
This is what i found...
6 years of abuse lol. Apparently the first manifolds that they made were low nickel content and prone to cracking.
Anyway, I bought a new manifold from Jabba (£505! ouch) It has higher nickel content and an updated design, Oh and i have a few other parts to go on while im at it.
Piper 260/260 cam. (BP270H)
Piper vernier pulley.
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Howdy folks,
Nice weather this weekend so I decided to take the time to remove the front of the car.
There seems to be alot more wrong than I first envisaged... :(
[ATTACH=CONFIG]46550[/ATTACH] started by removing the head lights and the fogs. The screws that hold the glass fogs in are fudged and so was the drives side head light centre screw so it took a while to get to the picture above. Ended putting a screw driver through the back of the drivers side head light in order to get it
Did some prep work on my new summer wheels to get them ready for a refurb on Monday.
BBS RC, 17" x 7", 4 x 100, custom spigot rings, 15mm front spacers, 20mm rear spacers, 4 new genuine center rings, nuts and badges. 4 new tyres.
I also have some extra badges on order that have the bbs logo in silver with the carbon background and also some bbs short stainless valves.
I had the old tyres removed so i could then sand and file the curb rash out that was done by the previous owner.
I
Past few days:
Dropped the subframe and gave it a damn good clean.
Fitted some powerflexed wishbones.
I stripped down my leaking steering rack and rebuilt it with all new seals, greased it up and fitted new genuine vw rack boots and uj boot (no vw specific tools were required for the rebuild!)
Also fitted a powerflex steering rack mount.
Flushed steering system out with new vw fluid and filled up with new vw steering fluid.
Re-fitted subframe, rack and wishbones. (car on axle sta
Well, it really has been a busy few weeks.
An exhaust manifold to turbo stud snapped due to a worn out rear engine mount which meant that the cylinder head had to come off (again!) to get access to it.
While i was at it i stripped the engine bay loom out and removed all of the loom tape, cleaned every single wire, replaced many of the amp plugs, repaired many worn out old cables, integrated an uprated headlight loom into the cars original loom, rewired the injector loom with all new plugs
Fitted some brand new late front indicators.
So now i finally have the full set, mint late head lights, mint late fog lights, and mint late indicators. :dance:
Saturday: Clocked, built up and fitted a new IHI turbo charger. (IHI VF22 hot side, IHI VF34 cold side)
On the way home from this years inters the old turbo blew its oil seals and shortly after destroyed its bearings which resulted in one jammed turbo, lots of smoke and oil dripping from the tail pipe, luckily i was only 19 miles from home. On closer inspection of the turbo last week it turns out that when Jabbasport did the conversion they did not fit an oil feed restrictor which is requir
Polished my eibach strut brace up.
FItted bonnet bra to my carbon bonnet, had to drill 3 tiny holes into the fibreglass frame to fix the bra hooks into. :eek:
The reason for bra is that i had a incident on Monday with a square lump of rubber about the size of a fist bouncing up the fast lane of the M5. A car was on my tail and there were cars to the left so i could not take avoiding action. I collected it on the front lip of the bonnet whilst doing 70mph :censored: Bonnet survived but
Fitted an eibach alloy front strut brace 8)
Struggled and swore a few times taking off the nuts from my old brace. Ended up taking the front shocks off for better access.
Fitted a pair of late front fogs (gleaming mint condition pair, cheers asdf) also fitted some sonar clear late indicators. I just need to get some tinted lamin-x for them all now to match the headlights and to protect them, they are a also a bit bling against the tined headlights.
Fitted a vibratechnics gearbox m
