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Now that's what you call a race :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

That's exactly why I decided to buy an R32 as a daily driver and just bring the Corrado up to OBD2 which along with Schrick mani and 268s plus a few comfort mods will make a great car for sunny weekend use. I had planned a transplant but think I'll stick with 12V for the Corrado. The R32 is a fantasic total package, what's more it cost me £3,500 less to buy than the Corrado did and both were approx 5 years old when I purchased them. Leave it another year and they'll be cheap as chips, so what if it costs a couple of hundred quid a year more in road tax, compared with normal Corrado running costs that's nothing, if only I could do something about the 21mpg average we're seeing!

If yer'd asked this question while you were here the other day it would have saved me digging out the scanner! I've only got the 1994 brochure though, sure others have more details. And yes Storms all had leather seats, beige in the green ones and black in the mystic ones, I'm pretty sure that they were all heated too.

cheers mate, appreciate it, what u thinking i could try? Well there's a MAF and ISV in there you could try, mine was running fine when it came off the road so you can have a go with them. Are you working a funny shift this week? I'll be around most days cos I've got lots of paperwork to get done this week. :gag:

Hi Neil, The offer still stands mate, you wanna try any bits from mine from the inlet etc you're welcome. I'll be going OBD2 before I get the Rado back on the road so it's all available. I'm around the next week or so then I'll be back to Saudi for a couple of months, give us a shout if you wanna have a try with some stuff next week. Tony

Hi Neil, If you're stuck for it there's one on mine you can have as the Rado's off the road for the timebeing and this time I am going to get the OBD2 kit fitted. Only problem is that I'm not getting home from Saudi until Tuesday afternoon and my kid's in the children's hospital for an operation on Wednesday so I'm a bit tied up for a few days. Let me know if you can't get hold of one and I can try to help you out mate.

Possibly :grin: I've always been under the impression it was end of May, early June 95. In fact I bought my first one (Pearl Blue 16V just like yours and I wish I could buy it back from whoever has it now!) in November 95 and I knew at the time that they had already ended production. Of course none of this answers the original question about the cam chain does it? That one's easy, somebody at some time slipped in a Golf motor!

I believe from various stickers I found in it, she was built in Novermber 95 (registered Jan 96) But that would mean it was built five months after they stopped building Corrados?

Not sure I can answer too many of your questions, maybe even pose some more, but you say your's was one of the last VR6s, when was it built? Mine has 18/5/95 on the label in the boot so pretty close to the end and has a duplex chain for sure, see pic of head on very scruffy bench!

I'm with cheesewire, if I bought a second more economical "sensible" car for daily use and kept the Corrado for the weekends it would feel like I was getting one step closer to being me dad. I just bought a new daily driver so the Corrado can have a rebuild, it's an R32 :nuts:

I was trying the ignore that fact and it may never happen manouver :lol:

And although it may sound stupid, check you have trailers on your driving license. Surprising how few people realise that the law changed a good few years ago requiring you to take a trailer test.

The Corrado needs a bit of time spending on it, suspension rebush, OBD2 kit installing, probably a full paint job too after the arches are pulled a bit and coilovers wound back down. So it was time for a new motor. Think maybe I got a little carried away though, might have to buy a winter car before too long.

I spent a year working in Singapore and never saw one, nobody that saw the picture on my computer desktop knew what it was either. Guess it deosn't mean there were none sold there but they would of course have been seriously expensive in the nineties as a COE cost a fortune back then.

Then honestly you're better buying a scooby or an evo because unless you spend lots of extra cash on an S3 it's never going to compare. I'm a big fan of the evo having done engineering work on the Grp N ones for Ralliart, I've also driven a lot of road going ones too. A standard evo starts at over 280 bhp (even the evo 260) in a car built like a rattly tin can, the S3 is a solid well built motor with a turbo capable of deliering 265 at most, they simply cannot breathe any more than that. Buy an S3 for what it is and you'll be more than happy, buy one to keep up with your mate's evo and you'll have to spend the same again in my opinion.

Early S3's were 210bhp, later ones 225. Have a look on the S3 forum on http://www.audi-sport.net as there is loads of info on remaps. Early S3's are indeed 210 bhp but remap easily to 260/265 just as the later 225 models do. I had an early facelift model (there's a difference there too but only cosmetic) with a Revo map. Revo often don't get such a good press as the power is all made with sudden boost etc, I loved it, brilliant motor although a bit short on top end to be classed as a real sports car! Nowhere near as much fun as the VR6 Corrado on the twisties though, unless you spend lots more on suspension as they roll all over the place if thrown about. They are however a quality car, easy to live with and happy to sit on the motorway all day at big speeds, and you don't get out with a broken back as you do from a Corrado either. Think I'll try another Audi S myself but maybe more along the RS4 lines, fancy a bigger engine this time :D

OBD2 conversion. Re-bush all suspension. Pull arches to get ride height back to what I had with Speedies fitted. Full re-spray. Buy R32 as daily driver while Corrado spends next 12 months in pieces :shock:

Just type them into here: http://www.igorweb.org/equidec/ it gives a reasonable decoding.

Do it at the same time you're doing the chains, you'll have more room in the bay then :norty:

Well done that there dinkus man, that's loads of the stuff I've posted in the past, recognised me abs pump first! Knew you'd been bitten by the bug, when you ripping the car to bits then? :norty:

From my personal experience with fitting climatronic I would say that if you buy a Corrado air con system as a base you'll end up selling it on again as it bears no relation to what you're looking for, or scrapping it because most bits are already past their prime. I'm not being negative here regarding your choice of parts, believe me that along with TT wipers I think it's the best thing I've done to the Corrado, I'm just trying to save you the grief of locating a decent Diavia install (if that's possible) to find it's no use: The airbox for cc has the majority of the motorised valves already built in to it, along with lots of cabling etc. It runs a different fan i.e. not the standard four speed set up from the Corrado or Diavia set up. The intake is different as it has a re-circulate valve built in. Refrigerant pipes would be no good as they would be too long and most likely have the wrong fittings to mate with the airbox you need. I used the original Passat VR6 pipes and with a little creativity they went into the engine bay, also the long runs are in ally tubing rather than rubber so IMO look tidier. Wiring loom for a/c again is designed to run only a/c, you're going to need a lot more signalling to run cc and therefore best start with a cc loom. Relays, take a look on here how many people have had trouble with diavia a/c relays and ask yourself if you wanna buy into that? I you have the late VR6 fan controller installed already then some of the relays such as compressor clutch are already there in your car, you just have to connect in to the spare pins. My install came from a 96 Passat VR6, I'd say it's possibly best to use something later as mine is pretty basic with most flap valves controlled by vacuum from the inlet manifold. Later versions had more electric valves so a later nineties Golf/Seat one might be a better bet. As I said before I'd also look out for a condensor from a later model, the one in my Corrado must be almost double the size in every direction to the one I had in my S3! For wiring diagrams I borrowed a genuine Passat folder of VW diagrams from my local dealer, they had long since lost the Corrado one but they are basically the same loom and so give you a good base to work from, Bentley drawings are basic at best. When I get home from Saudi in a couple of weeks I can scan copies of what drawings I have and send them on if you're interested, IIRC I've got the Passat ones I used plus a set of Golf drawings from around 98 somewhere in the garage. Try Carl bigpants as he has something of a knack for locating this type of stuff, plus he knows what and how to strip from a donor car so you've got all the bits you need :notworthy: I've still got my second wiring loom from him (the OBD2 one) sitting in my garage waiting for me to get enough time in UK to install it!

There's maybe a little more to it than that :norty: I'm not, it's pretty major surgery and unless you've already got half the engine out, the front end off and all the dash out it's a bit daunting knowing where to start. Well worth it in the long run though, stick at it, you'll be fine. Myself, I'd skip buying a Corrado air con system, they only replace the fan box anyway, and the climatronic uses a whole different animal. Start with a climatronic install from a Golf/Passat/Seat, chances are you'll get something that's not already almost 15 years old. If I ever do another one I'd also look at a much later condensor (rad) as the one I used from a Passat VR6 is huge

I'd go for the ECU Reset, sounds like the best bet if the battery's been flat for a while, consider it a good reason to go out for a blast! Oh, and welcome to the forum :wave:

They were given to the UK dealers who had sold the most Karmann models in the run up to the launch of the VR6 rado IIRC. There was no price set and a wise dealer may have put them into their collections of VW memorabilia for posterity, of course they saw the chance to make some cash and sold them on. If that is Jeremy's old one, and it's most likely as it's the only one to have changed hands recently, I was seriously thinking about buying it at the time he sold it on but decided one old VW was enough for me and there's no way my wife would have parted with the green one. :D

Wot he said. Motorways have one 70mph lane, an overtaking lane and a second overtaking lane. If people cannot be bothered to get out of either overtaking lane after completing their manouver I will pass them in any of the other lanes, no flashing headlights, no right indicator, nothing. The "outside lane train" generally moves along at less than the max speed limit anyway, left lanes are often faster. And don't even get me started on the ignorant a***holes that move into my way purposely when I'm "filtering" on the bike :censored: :bad-words: