GrahamU

Seems to be real quiet on here over the past weeks 😞

I've been overseas to the states with Indy cars again, couple of boring photos from that first

Honda showed their Indy engined truck

I dont usually get selfies, it always a bit un professional but I was working on Roman's car so seemed rude not to

I'm not used to taking selfies and must remember not to hold my head back as it emphasises my chins 🙂

Anyway, back to the world of Corrado

Gearbox is back together and refilled with oil, it needs filling from the drain hole on the bottom, there is an insert that you remove to empty and then you replace and refill, its full when the oil reaches the top of the insert

I'm still waiting to buy a TIG welder so can't put the front back together yet as I want to make some ali pipe work.

So started on lowering the gear shifter, had to remove the downpipe first then the heatsheilds, then saw that there was a good 30 to 50mm that it could drop before hitting the heatsheild, so will make a simple bracket to drop that.

While the gear shifter was out I have started the small change to improve the look of the gear surround, bought the centre console from a mk4 golf and a gear knob and indicator from a Skoda

tried to fit the centre under the dash and found it wouldn't fit to start with, I could only push it this far under the corrado dash

so at the point I'm thinking, I spent £100 on these parts, if I start cutting then they are no longer any good to sell on so had a long think then decided balls to it, I'll have a go

got it all to fit a bit better

Still needs some tweaking to make it look right but I'm happy with it so far

21 hours ago, fla said:

Graham i think you actually like breaking it just so you can fix it again!

there may be some truth to that 🤣

A sad day, taken to soon. 

I only met him once at a Corrado visit to Lotus then had a beer with him after

2 hours ago, EJ Taylor said:

Great thread Graham! Loving it. Just went back through it all. Keep it going!
 

Thanks, been alot of twists and turns but getting there 🙂

2 hours ago, EJ Taylor said:

Have you ever been to Bicester heritage!? It's awesome.
 

I have been there, went to a company called KWSP before they moved to Silverstone. 

Great place, so many little garages with craftsman working and some real sweet cars, the Porsche's by the cafe were something else. A meet there is a good idea

Did you ever sell it? what was it, pics not working

So a DSG mech is back in the gearbox with a new speed sensor for good measure, annoyingly I bought a new speed sensor for £100 from VW then found 4 more in various spares boxes in the garage that are probably fully working 🤦‍♂️

As it seems is gonna the way of my luck this year, the oil had not arrived so that is this weekends job so I can power it and see what happens.

I can then refit most of the front end, except I want to make up some solid ali pipes for the intercooler, but again, my bad luck struck and I am now waiting for the TIG welder I bought to arrive, apparently UK stock of this one ran out so they said it will be an extra 7 days to get one from china.... lol

In the mean time, I will work at lowering the shift leaver which should hopefully just need some spacers 🙂

I want to make the interior look better around the shift leaver, this is what it has now

But this week I saw this, 

I know this is from a Frankenstein car worse than mine but it has still made me think it may be possible to work into my design 🙂

Parts bought, watch this space

1 minute ago, G60MAT said:

 

No the Capri belongs to the seller.

 

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lol, An true Essex car in Chelmsford, kind off expected you to say that

5 hours ago, G60MAT said:

 

Welcome back

That is my dream garage, a Corrado next to a mk1 Capri (preferably a 3000GXL) is it yours?

gonna be watching this one, nice base car to start with and a engine that should make it alot of fun

Started working on the problems found whilst driving it over summer, first to tackle was the DTCs found in the DSG for input and output speed sensors

Stripped the mech from the box and removed the output speed sensor 

I then sent the mech off to be checked out at ecutesting.com for the input speed sensor

Then it went a bit wrong 🤬🤬 The mech was packed in a plastic bag, then in a box with 12mm polystyrene sheets on each side, 90 degree polystyrene corner packing, card board around the speed sensor that sticks out from the main body of the mech, more 90 degree polystyrene across the box to give more strength to the sides to protect the speed sensor, and finally bubble wrap to pack the rest of the space.

All that and DHL managed to break ..... 

ecu testing have said it needs 2 new solenoids and a new cage, plus the fee for the original repair which has not been confirmed yet.

This has put the cost up to £700 which is a little annoying cos if it had been ok it would have only cost the price for the postage, 

I've told them not to do any more on it and have got another one from a friend to replace it, fingers crossed that is ok 

Always good when you find the cause of a problem 🙂

More shiny parts arrived today

I didn't have any problems with water temp during our hottest summer on record, but this should be more efficient than the plastic version (45% better claimed) for the step up in power when I map it

Small update, the car has sat in the garage since summer, I took my golf out in the rain the other day then put that back in the garage and left it, that seems to have been a bad idea as the floor was wet around it where the water drained off and has made the garage damp, that has resulted in some mould on the Corrado leather steering wheel 😞

Its looking quite sad and dusty in there 😞

on a brighter note, father christmas was kind and bought me some more add ons for my tool boxes

Its almost full already 

I got a spot in the Corrado club GB calendar

and these arrived today 🙂 a pair of bad boy classic bb6 wingbacks

Work starts on making some small improvements this weekend to be ready for summer again 

Just for info, TT visors are bigger so the hole positions need to be moved but I did fit them

Even the light works when the visor is down 🙂

On 10/3/2022 at 9:31 PM, Cressa said:

I do love those stripes 👍

On 10/3/2022 at 11:23 PM, MJA said:

Loving that Graham. Stripes suit is really well as Cressa mentions. Special car that with all the (complex) work you've put into it.

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thanks, appreciate your comments 

Thought I'd add one of mine

Been away again so not had time to do much on the car but did buy an induction kit from an Audi from a local lad. Some small ammount of cutting and it was made to fit the Corrado so will have a lower intake temp now, not that the temp was that high before, about 5°C above outside temp so will be interesting to see any differences.

Anyway, while I was away I was playing with this, which was nice

And today, made some changes to the front indicators

Take an old headlamp reflector, from a bora in this case

cut it up

drill a hole in your good reflector holy grail headlight and glue the new lamp to it

which gives you this

Can still get to it to change

And looks like this when all back together, click on the pic

Nice classic VW show yesterday, some good cars there

I realise its a bit late, but this is mine, CD Tech speakers

If I were you, I'd just solder the wires from those tweeters to the terminals on either side of the connections then you can use the original wiring, any second hand tweeters you buy will be 30 odd years old so not great in quality

Very nice, finishes it off a treat

On 6/20/2022 at 10:33 PM, 1xshaunx1 said:

Good result, but aren’t you better off with -1 degree for a lowered car?

Yep, you are right, it was -1°, i missed the minus 🙂

3 hours ago, Crasher said:

The front camber on a Corrado should be -40′ except the VR6 which is -1° 20′

-1° is somewhere in the middle and probably within tolerance at most garages 🤷‍♂️ I'll find out for sure when I take it to be tracked

On 6/19/2022 at 6:35 PM, Wilko13 said:

Cheers guys a lot of hard work paid off. It’s funny as many people say corrados never seem to win awards so there is now hope for all us owners lol
 

When I took my Golf R to a show, a tdi with an R kit got a prize and it was said that he had made an effort where as mine was just a golf R with some wheels and lowered

I build a car with a few subtle mods, take that to shows and get nothing, where as a rusty polo with a pen on the roof so people can write on it gets a trophy

I think there may be some truth in the Corrado's never win, you did well 

P.S. yes, I am a bitter old man 🙂

well that does seem to have cured it 🙂 drove it another 50 miles today without any problems