GrahamU

I have thought about requesting similar others but I get the felling they could go the same way. I first thought about C20 DSG but thats on a Merc, there is C20 VWT or F20 DSG or C22 DSG all currently available to buy now but do not quite have the same impact

Feeling a bit peed off today, applied to the DVLA to have this plate and they put it in the auction, I could not justify paying that much for it when it started at 300 😞 with tax and costs it comes to £6500, I hope whoever bought it puts it on a decent car.

Err, get the seat in the right place first time 🙂

Started fitting the seats today, theory was to use some runners from a couple of old scrap seats, have 1 short bar on either side that the seat bolted to which would allow some room underneath the seat for someone feet sat in the back. This is what I started with Cut down to allow me to fit the new bars Cut my first bar and welded to the runner with a threaded bar welded inside Then the other side Bolted these to the seat and tried it in the car which is where I found a problem 😞 it seems that these seats are quite wide at the front and they hit the centre console so cannot go far forwards meaning the seat needs to sit off centre towards the door. Add to that, and probably not surprising, because of the length, there was some flex, and that was before my larger figure was sat in the seat. So, not to be beaten, a bar was welded between the 2 sides and new fixing points welded in, offset from the centre And with it fitted in the cars original runners Unfortunately I ran out of welding wire so could not make up something for the front mounting but I'll get onto that next week Hopefully by then I will have made my next big purchase for the car, stay tuned 🙂

I dont really know, but I would not have thought so, needs the signal from the ECU

It kept it cool last year and this is a better radiator so I hope it would be ok. The mk5 fan controller runs at variable speed depending on the temps so it should control the temps better than an off and on fan. If I see a small fan then I may add one if it has any problems

Was good to spend some time in the garage again this weekend, got the rad and cooler back in so I could rebuild the front end Next to finish the interior so it will be roadworthy again 🙂

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

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

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

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

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 🙂

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