GrahamU

Bit late for this but a bonnet fitted in the back of my old mk5 golf which is smaller than the A4 :)

Wow, nice collection Griphite

Stunning

Was looking around the office today thinking we have some nice toys laying around, such as this on my desk:

Ex Marussia F1 steering wheel I built and have now modified to loan to a different team (not F1 this time)

And this

Wheel from an old Toyota F1, so quite old now but still looks good in the office

Anyone else have anything interesting laying around ?

The standard bumper does look better in silver

great looking car

I was talking about this with John at JMR, he has converted his to Audi handles and said it is a little complicated to set up, small ammount of change can cause the problems you have said.

Might be worth dropping him a PM and see if he can advise you.

Ah, so they wont touch the car, I thought you meant the OEM ECU

I heard the likes of R-tech wont go near other peoples modified cars, they spend more time fixing the bodges before they get a chance to start tuning and most 1.8T swaps have faults caused by missing sensors and the other ECUs

Looks good, nice work

Cant find you number so I've messaged you his mobile, probably best to speak to him yourself, I dont want to misslead.

Do the other tuners say why they wouldn't touch it ?

I'd still go OEM, you have enough tune-ability for what you need, reliability of knowing the ECU is run on thousands of cars and full easily accessible diagnostics for any problems

I'd then speak to Dan at Uber tuning, he used to do the mapping for AMD amongst others and is in Brandon so not to far

http://www.ubertuning.co.uk/

He did my Golf R and several mates R32's and 1.8Ts

Oil temp does rise slower than water, so dont worry about that

95 to 100 seems high for water though, I'd expect 90

You don't need help, just a bigger garage ;)

Immobiliser ?

Although I had the standard Lambo poster on the wall what I really wanted were:

Mk1 Capri 3000GXL

Mini 1275GT

Ford Model A coupe (American Graffiti style)

47 and on my 3rd since 1998

  STU175 said:

not the one next weekend as im at gti international but hopefully the one in september.

when do you think yours will see the road again?

Depends on how much time I have to spend away with work, I'm hoping to take some time of over summer and crack on with it, I'd like to get everything sprayed so its just a matter of putting it back together over winter :)

  STU175 said:

Hi Graham. i can atleast put a face to your name now, you should have introduced yourself.

some awesome corrados there

I will do next time, you going to low collective this year?

What price you thinking for the headlights posted ?

looked good today, think we spoke briefly when John was explaining the best way to strip a door down :) .

Was a good turn out for the Corrados

Had the pleasure of seeing this in the metal today at the dublogic show.

Was good to talk to you John, congrats on the prizes, well deserved, your car is inspiring

  Geeba said:

Nice!

 

I was thinking about vented rears from a 4Motion Mk4 golf or TT - but I want to keep the car looking original and I dont think it will fit with 15" wheels :(

Cant see why they wouldn't fit with 15's, they would still be smaller disks than the fronts. I dont think you will need it but for the worst case you may need a small spacer to move the rim out a bit

nice purchase, although, like you I would have swapped the wheels (and the lights ;) )

Yep plan to be there but not in my Corrado :(

15 years is some going, I can imagine alot of pain in that time, but it looks great

  odub said:

The LEDs were can bus supposedly.

Ha Ha, love that phrase, even though they have nothing to do with the CAN bus (even if you had one)