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  1. Posted

    How about a bit of market reasearch. How much would people pay for a Climatronic conversion kit for the C.

    I think the easiest way would be to supply all the required pipes, wiring, brackets and relays etc.. but not the compressor, condensor or the control panel and matrix, which could be retrieved from breakers yards, e-bay etc..

    J

     

    And hopefullly a cut-down kit for those of us lucky enough to have a/c already and just want the cool panel and better controls ;)

  2. Posted

    Do it yourself, if your half competent you should be able to do it in a couple of hours, if its not makin any noise I wouldnt change it might last for years so why spend money when you dont have to unless your one of these "gotta replace something freaks" :-P

     

    Because a split CV boot is an MOT failure....

  5. Posted

    Right then, ladies and gentlemen, we're back on track with the dials group-buy.

     

    From the previous thread, it was narrowly decided that the dials will be black and black by night also, but glowing markers, numbers etc in the usual Indiglo style.

     

    I am hoping the actual design will be similar to this:

    http://www.dubdesignindustries.com/cata ... 0rings.jpg

    or this, but lighting up white, rather than blue:

    http://www.oichan.org/mods/gauge/gauge.htm

     

    There will be a couple of alterations though:

    -- Water temp in deg C

    -- Speedo in MPH, with small KM/H markings too (probably an inner-ring). Because of this, the 'Corrado' emblem will be moved to the rev counter, just like the original dials.

    -- Petrol guage will remain indiscriminate, so that they are compatible with 12 and 15 gallon tanks.

    -- Go upto 160mph, as per UK guages

     

    There are a couple of other considerations too:

    -- Again, you will be buying 2 sets. This just makes the group-buy simpler for the numbers, and the majority of us will be able to shift the other one - lets just not all flood ebay at once, eh?!

    -- Not suitable to 1.8 16v owners - your rev counter goes to 8k

    -- Needle illumination will be confirmed and sorted by Henny. We'll make sure its a complete package as possible so resale is not difficult. A small extra cost may be involved in this - but it should be minimal.

    -- If you want to buddy up with someone to go halves, do it privately. Don't bog up this thread with requests.

    -- Total dials available will be 50 exactly, so 25 sets.

    -- Prices will be confirmed nearer the time, but its likely to be the same as the original thread: about £40 gets your the pair. Money will be up-front before manufacture can proceed. We will be given designs, etc, beforehand though - don't worry. We might have to pay import tax too, so there might be a couple more quid to consider.

     

    Dick Dastardly is the front-man and doing the leg-work for me (I'm getting old... :lol:) however I'll still be handling the money-side of things, just as a familiarity point-of-view.

     

    Please PM Dick Dastardly to be placed on the list. Everybody from the old list will needs to reapply, as we need to assertain who's still interested since the dials are black. Again, please don't clog up the thread with 'add me please!'.

  10. Posted

    HP is the same, its a standard.

    But its the corrected values you get off a rolling road.

     

    UK (SAE) rolling roads work on a higher standard and are stricter.

    US (STD) one's are notoriously more generous.

  12. Posted

    Thanks for the recent little flux of donations, guys - it is very much appreciated!

     

    And I'm glad you like the error 404 page ;)

    She doesn't get much airing since forums don't normally generate 404s, but when she does pop out, my god is it good... hehe.

     

    P.S. Those who have donated and I haven't made a 'CF Donator' please drop me a mail, since sometimes its not possible to work out who is who when you don't have a name on your profile here and the email address I get the donation from isn't listed! Cheers :)

  13. Posted

    Time to add my 2p.

    Got the Clifford 300 on mine, and its been fine.

    Its suprising the rep the Clifford has, and everytime someone goes wrong with the C and, say the ignition, or the doors, or the windows... the Clifford ALWAYS gets blamed, but not once has it actually been the culprit.

     

    I even had an RAC man leave me at the side of the road, as the fuel pump wasn't working. He said it was the alarm and not his problem. I rang the RAC, complained, got a more competant engineer out, who found a faulty earth on my fuel pump relay.

     

    The only problem I have had was the aerial to the alarm came out on like day 2, but just use the keypad to override the alarm and they fixed it in 5 mins when I went back to where I got it from. Nothing since, and its now 2 years old.

     

    As for the Toad, I thought I remember hearing they do bugger all when someone actually tries to nick your car?

     

    Remember Clifford will also pay your insurance excess if your car is stolen and the alarm is by-passed: they are that convinced it can't be done.

  14. Posted

    raddo_g60, everyone else has asked, so I will as well: what is your location?

    And Darren's lead time at G-Werks is never that bad, I'm sure they could squeeze in a diagnostic soon enough for you.

     

    How many miles on the clock - do you have evidence/receipts of a charger rebuild? Should be done every 60k miles.

     

    No harm in trying the fuel filter firstly though. It smells a bit, but only takes 5 mins to do.

  15. Posted

    I think we mostly decided on which design would look best, but the thing that concerns me with your site, zarman, is the cost....

     

    Unless you can offer us an excellent deal with regards to ordering about 60 at once, it would still remain cheaper for us to go directly to the original manufacturers - although the time frame would probably signifcantly larger.

     

    I will have to have a talk with Dick Dastardly as I'm essentially handing over the leg-work to him ;)

  16. Posted

    The garage charged me a total of £196.

    Thats including VAT, fitting of discs, pads, callipers, brake lines, rear bearings, new OSF CV boot and the rear plate lights fixing, and the MoT (only 24.95 - bargain!). They were actually working on it for 5 days in total. :shock:

     

    Henny, yeah, exactly what I thought. Though we'll see how they look in 3 months time when they start to oxidise!

  17. Posted

    Hello all.

    Haven't really been online much recently as a few of you have noticed, but I am still alive and I do still own a Corrado 8)

     

    She's just back from getting through the MoT - failed first time round on the rear number plate lights not working. The garage found the spllit in the wire and soldered it up for me. All cool now.

     

    She's also been treated to new brakes all round, since 200,000 mile calipers and sliders tend to be a bit crap. Still on the original carriers though.

     

    Now have Mk4 Golf alloy rear callipers, new std.front calipers (which I painted red one boring evening, lol) and groove black diamond discs & pads all round, plus Goodridge hoses.

     

    The brakes are spongey at the mo, but thats expected with such a hard disc & pad setup. They do need warming up before use and have only done 500 metres of the 200 mile bed-in ;) (Very local garage!)

     

    Though apparently, once past the sponginess, the brake meter on the MoT tester flew round very strongly - so brakes are way over spec.

     

    Here's some cam-phone pics if you're that bothered.... ;)

  19. Posted

    Or..... we could do it during the day?

    Last Inters I was bored after 3-4hours, and if I've gotta be there for 2 days, I might as well make the most of it!!

     

    Seeing a C pulled apart would probably stir up some interest too!

  20. Posted

    Well its probably going to be pissing it down, we're camping so we're not gonna get any sleep anyway - so why not just spend it doing something :)

     

    Whip the seats out, put them in a tent, then you can get about three people inside, 2 by the doors, and a couple under the bonnet...... so, no prob :lol:

     

    Shall I order a new matrix then??

     

    I've got it all bypassed at the moment, so if it does go a bit wrong, I can still drive it.

    And anything that gets broken can just be bought the next day at bargain prices. :)

  24. Posted

    The more VR's we see the more potential we see to turn that old touring engine into a 'Super tourer' :lol:

     

    Oh, who started that ball rolling then? *cough*me*cough*

    Don't forget I'm getting the first V-Werks project ;)

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