Kevin Bacon

Benefit = a lot more power

Negative = lag

Try something smaller like a GT28RS.

£492 on Amazon! - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bilstein-46-190093-Suspension-Shock-Absorber/dp/B00F5YTVME

There's 2 kits, 46-190093 and 46-190109, not sure what the differences are but both are suitable for the VR6 according to Bilstein.

They used to do 2 kits. One with cheapy shyte unbranded springs and the Pro kit, which comes with tailored Eibachs.

With 17s and 40mm (providing it's a true - 40mm vehicle drop), you'll get a 2 finger gap. On 15s, it'll look a lot lower. It'll drive better on 15s as well as suspension kit makers tune it for the car on standard wheels / tyres.

You're an experienced driver and a long term Corrado owner, you would know if 3 shocks were leaking!!

Just a polite warning about Eibachs / Konis on the Corrado. It's a very hard and crashy setup.

Personally I'd wait until it's all toast and then get a Billy B12 kit.

Seems like a CTEK charger is the only really worthwhile one to go for!

They don't like damp garages.

Halfords own battery charger is the most reliable one I've ever owned.

Halfords one cold cranking amps are a bit low. Think mine is 700a. I'd get the bosch. That's what I was about to buy but ended up getting convinced to go to some mates mates place and not been totally happy with it. Still plan to get a bosch or varta

I'd focus more on the Ah personally. Charge storage capacity is far more important than CCA. Big battery reserves = less work for the Alt to do.

Since Bosch batteries are just Vartas in a different frock, I just get a new Varta Silver Dynamic from Battery2U every 2 years. No battery has every lasted the full 5 years of the warranty in my experience. The static charge usually always falls below 12.6 after a couple of years. If your batt is showing around 12.3-12.4 a day after a full charge, it's time for a new one, because it will just die when you need it most (when it's - 10 outside) otherwise.

I think some of it is down to the schittness of the original sensor. The brass body just heatsoaks and skews the reading as you say. What's needed is a proper exposed thermocouple sensor as you say.

The intake sensor of the VR6 does the same. It heat soaks to way over 70 deg C when parked up after a run. You get back in the car for a run and get massively retarded advance but the actual air temp coming in is much less than 70 deg. And the sensor response is like 10 degs drop every minute. Rubbish!!

Still, it is an old car with old technology.

BTW. Buying a VR6 or any other kind of sport car who cares about MPG :)

Tight people do!

I had to say that in my EVO when power was twice than VR6 MPG was 1,5 times better than VR6.

But an Evo is 1.5 times more Chav than a VR6 :lol:

33 is easily achievable in a VR if you baby it.

I got 30mpg from my MK4 R32 recently, which isn't bad for a car 250Kg heavier and with a 400cc bigger engine :) That was a proper changing gear at 3000rpm and not breaking any speed limits tho!

Agreed. There is no way the oil is actually ~150 degrees. Not even my VR6 turbo got the oil that hot.

This is why VW dumbed down the gauges in later cars. No oil temp, no oil pressure gauge and water temp calibrated to always sit in the middle. If the info isn't there to panic about in the first place, there's no reason to panic :)

The discs are 304mm, and I could change them to 330's just with different carriers and rotors but I'm not sure ap sell the carriers separately. Might send them a mail. In comparison the Rotas had acres of clearance.

AP don't make the bells or carriers, BG Developments do. I contacted them directly when I wanted some custom bells for my 330 AP setup and they sent me a pair of bells of superb quality for a very reasonable sum.

If you stick with AP rotors (and you'd be a plum not to), the jump in braking power from 304 to 330mm is massive. As with all uprated brakes, it's the leverage of the disc and the pad compound that make the real difference.

As for the wheels, I find them boring tbh mate. Sorry to go against the grain but I much prefer your Rotas and as you say, you don't have any brake clearance issues with those! I don't deliberately steer myself away from things that are popular. If something has a form and function I find very agreeable, I'll go with it, even if every cat and dog in country has one. But CHs.... I just don't see it. As the OEM wheel for the MK5 ED30, perhaps, but on other cars....nah. They look dull.

The more that get broken the rarer they become, prices then rise. Just sayin'.

Exactly!

Break up the less presentable / uncared for ones for the greater cause!

As VW seem set on obsoleting Corrados off the road, it may be the only option in the next 5-10 years.

Dox, good info mate! I've not heard of that problem before. I meant to say the main "Oil filter" should trap any bearing dust before it gets up to the head, so that's odd, but definitely worth a check as you say. I've heard of them being blocked with sludge from very infrequent oil changes (mainly in maintenance shy America), but not white metal dust! eeek!

Oh and cheers! There's a lot of things we learn from these motors from stripping them down! Like the time I bashed the intake valves into the exhaust valves when I was turning the cams by hand. The things you learn through mistakes :lol:

Swiftkid, no worries. Those VVT units need to be turned back and forth a few times to get the oil out. Once the squelching stops and the oil's come out, you should then feel the full range of movement. Just remember to fully retard them before fitting the chain!

You mean the Inlet has plenty of adjustment and the Exhaust has little? Inlet can advance up to 52 degrees and exhaust can advance up to 22 degrees, so yeah, that's normal. The exhaust VVT unit doesn't move hardly at all compared to the inlet when you move it by hand.

I've put pictures of a correctly timed R32 on here and the R32OC and there are guides all over the place as well, such as this official VW one - http://www.cfiamerica.com/24V.html

Bin it. The rake of the rear screen doesn't need a wiper as the rear vortex doesn't flick dirt onto the glass like it does on the slab ended Golf.

The tailgate lifts up a bit nicer without the extra weight too.

Wouldn't be hard to re-drill a hole for the wiper in the future with a decent quality step drill.

I think he was expecting a stampede from the mere mention of the word 'Recaro'.

Got to be the most over-rated, over priced seats I've ever seen in my life. Escort RS Turbo Recaros. Now they are proper seats.

I'm not sure that sunglasses is relevant. I wear them all year round and they don't impair my vision, otherwise I wouldn't wear them. A/C dries my eyes out and my they are sensitive to glare. Sunnies therefore reduce headaches. There's a funny unwritten rule in this country that sunglasses and convertibles are for sun use only. Strange.

Yeah, run the wipers with the arms off.

You definitely have a heavy foot!

This one is much better made than the Milltek and doesn't drone either!

Swiftkid - yep, you are stuck with a floor mounted I'm afraid, unless you get the ECU Kip's using as I believe that motor is the same MK4/MK5 mongrel as your BDB A3 engine. Nice bit of fusebox inverting there Kip :)

You don't need to cut a hole in the floor, just the carpet and maybe a little bit of the trim under the bonnet handle. It's neat enough and tbh, are you ever going to put a 12V back in?

I think Matty has an AUE which doesn't have VVT. It just has a simple plunger that pulls the cams together (advancing) for EGR purposes when cold.

Shouldn't be any fragments up there as the filter traps any fragments that originate from the block.

In answer to the question and if it is an AUE, you'll want to check for valve clearances and also R32s use smaller head bolts. BDE heads go onto R32 blocks OK, but then the AUE is very different to the BDE, let alone the R32.

Ugly tailpipe??! That was one of the main appeals of the techtonics. Gone is the pretentious, big boy knobber shiney pipe, and replaced by a discreet pea shooter that makes the car look like it's a 1.6. Perfect for Stealth.

I had the same system on my VRT and I'm sure people behind me couldn't quite see the correlation between the acceleration and exhaust size :lol:

That's what makes me laugh about modern cars having two R32 style exhaust pipes. A lot of them are just diesels or 2.0 blando boxes. What's the point? Style over substance.

I removed the resistors from my spoiler module so that it came up at 70mph, which is a bit more sensible.

So much so that there were some nasty autobahn accidents which led to all Mk1 TT's being retro-fitted with them. Mind you Mk1 TT spoilers are fixed. It's only on Mk2 TT's that they are speed sensitive and rise at 74mph.

That was more about shyte driving than a flaw with the car. The stick on rear wing was just for publicity. The actual fix was to introduce mechanical changes to make the car under steer, thereby reducing the possibility of dangerous over steer. As ever, the system has to intervene to save idiot human beings from themselves.

The changes were a skinny rear ARB, softer spring & damper rates and new front wishbones with bushes that 'give' during hard cornering.

Audi destroyed all the MK1 TT wishbones as part of the recall, hence why Defcon came along to make bushes to insert into MK2 wishbones (which take MK1 bushes) to remove the understeer for people who can actually drive a car properly.

I didn't read every word of the advert but it sounded like some "plastering over the cracks" rudimentary paintwork was done by the previous owner. It kind of comes across as if he would charge £8K for it if the paint was perfect!!

100s of miles from Harrogate :) I would just use the standard heat shield modified to fit personally, but failing that, you just need a steel plate bolted to the head between the inlet and exhaust manifolds and try and shape it so that any rubber of plastics nearby don't get scorched too badly.

With the OBD2 thing, it's best to plug the entire OBD2 harness into your OBD1 fuse box and then things like A/C and lighting harnesses can be just tied up out of the way. I find the redundant wires are handy if you ever want to run wires into the car at a later date for things like gauges etc. I would try and avoid mixing and matching OBD1/2 engine harnesses if possible.

I don't think prices are on the rise, but maybe overly rich asking prices are though!

Rare. Why do people over use that word? Like all of a sudden the car is unique, made of gold, one of a kind. 'Rare' Recaros indeed. They're not that rare and they're not even good driver's seats anyway. Style over substance.

Yep, £5K for a VR that sounds ropey and has EBC Greenshyte brakes on it. Yeah, chop £2K off that and it's in the right ball park.