StueyB

Some serious progress dude, loving the balls out approach your taking. Will have to swing by some time and have another nosey if thats kool?

In all honesty getting both would give you the most flexibility but neither will guarantee to solve your problem. Adding coilovers in most cases with give you the ability to adjust the height the car runs at allowing you to adjust arch gap accordingly. I'm assuming its been lowered using a spring and shock kit which are generally fixed up front and may or may not have some fixed adjustment at the rear. Getting your arches rolled whilst being potentially problematic on older cars with old paint, rusty arches etc will give your wheels more room to move up and down without coming in to contact with your arches as long as the offset isn't so great that the top of the tyre actually sticks out of the arch. I don't think either one is the definite answer, your probably best taking some pictures of the car as its stands and posting them up. Hope that helps. Stu

Yeah kinda what i'm doing it for really, compliments and encouragement are always appreciated tho. FYI loving the grill, will feature in the update shortly. Cheers for comments, I'd gone past the point of crying the 2nd time a low loader was involved, was just laughing it all off by then. Oh and big shout to the Northampton Fire Service for jumping out of their fire engine on the A45 roundabout and helping my push the car to safety, that seriously must have been a sight. Fireman says "What's up mate?", I respond "Broken a driveshaft, fancy giving me a push?" Fireman says "Gone on then, come on guys!" :lol: You can sssh-it mr mario-no-thread. Rest is coming just got remember it... :cuckoo: Nah he's too busy changing his oil! :lol: Good thread Stuey and I think it was me that said bolt on something shiney, break something oily... This time... Green wheels = Possible head gasket! :brickwall: Now get back to adding to this thread you Wheel whore! ;) Think he's waiting to buy all your leftovers Andy? Snail-pace progress thread? Tis all good fun Jon, think the green wheels pushed the shiny curse to the limit just because they are eye blinding green. More updates when i get a mo.

Right so i've neglected to update the thread for like ages and now this has bitten me in the arse as i've lost track of things i've fixed / changed / modified etc but lets see if i can catch up 6 months or so in one post. Ran out '08 in the rado with no serious problems, i say no serious problems but i think most would count cracking your sump as one. I kind of knew this was inevitable running the car silly low, i just couldn't resist as i'd never had coilies before. On the way back from Edition '08, tired, hungover, wet from the autojumble and with a car still full of rado parts, I didn't see the tarmac lump coming: Thankfully I was breaking a car with a friend and so the sump was stolen and problem was fixed. Having turned down a set of DZ Exclusive's in favor of the leather, I some how found myself contemplating buying some wheels in a car park in Guildford. Good ol' No Rice. Even got to trial fit them in the car park to make sure, which was hilarous. The package kinda sealed the deal: wheels, tyres, adapters and bolts all thrown in. Literally the full package making life easy for once so handed over the hard earned. For those non wheel-whore types who are interested, they are 8x16 Mercedes SL (iirc) wheels from around '90-'95 with 195/40/16 Toyo T1-R's fitted with H&R 5x100 - 5x112 20 & 25mm adapters + Mercedes wheel bolts. Very happy with the overall look, hadn't even thought about Merc wheels as a possibility, just got chatting with previous owner and before i knew it we were undoing wheel bolts. Wheel dilemma solved! Xmas rolled round and I got this bad boy as a pressie from my brother. Wanted a BMC quite badly having borrowed mariojoshi's for a few weeks, it seemed wrong to give it back and not get one. Wanted to stray from the norm a little so managed to track down the special edition version. Fitted on Xmas day: I keep hearing a phrase lately which i really think should be stamped somewhere on corrado's now they are getting that bit older. "Buy something shiny for your car, expect something of equal value to break." 2008 turned out to be a a year of corrado ownership bliss, minor rolling maintenace and a year's happy motoring. 2009 started badly and continued to be expensive. The car ended up on the back of two low loaders in the space of month. Firstly a small electrical fire took out a whole section of wiring loom which ran from the boot to the fusebox causing the reverse and brake lights to remain on with the ignition and lights turned off. The 'fooked' loom was painstakingly replaced courtesy of the breaker (splicing in later style diagnositic plug section among other wiring changes). This required half the interior to be removed. All fixed we thought, no such luck, with the car being a late '95 it features the transponder chip and box which due to the the wiring damage screwed itself and decided to not work properly. Car was taken to Autotronix in Bedford to have a new ECU, transponder chip and box and all remaining wiring tidied up to get the car running again. - Not cheap and frustrating as I / We (brother being techy) felt useless not being able to fix it. This meant no car for best part of two / three weeks whilst they sourced to the correct parts to resolve the problems. So in the mean time i borrowed my friends Polo GT to get to / from work (the beast in its full glory): Mega thanks to Alex aka JackBlack for the lend of, got me out of serious transport problems. Got the car back at the end of January, drove it to work for the week, great I thought back rolling...until late friday evening after work. Got about a mile from work, launched off from a roundabout a bit quicker than i should have and CRACK-BANG-No drive. Turns out I had taken out in the inner CV joint which in turn I think snapped a drop link which in turn had taken out the outer CV boot of the driveshaft on that side. Not good. This was pulled out of the gearbox drive flange: Off low loader into garage for the 2nd time: After a comedy of errors which I won't go into now with replacing the broken parts, got the car back on the road within a week or so. I'd figured out by now that trains suck and so does walking. Guess that brings me in to Feb '09. Plenty more to come...

Exciting stuff J. :clap: Will lay off you in the week seeing as tho you've made some serious progress recently. :lol:

Thanks for the responses guys, has turned out this evening to be a lot simpler and thankfully less serious. After getting the car up on axle stands with engine running, it turned out to be the replacement drive shaft. The outer cv was not properly connected to the shaft so was just spinning loose, almost as the inner was on my original nackered drive shaft. So with everything back together car now moves forward and backward, great I thought - fixed. Took it out for a road test as you do and to my annoyance the next issue rose its ugly head. Car's now pulling badly to the left, steering wheel now sits a quarter turn to the left apposed to straight before and its looks as tho the o/s wheel is toeing out (think this is the term) badly when it should be toeing in? Could this be all caused by changing a ball joint and roll bar linkage? Seems like quite a big change for things with only minor adjustment? The saga continues, again any help greatly appreciate as i'm starting to loose my cool with it and so's my wallet. Stu

Hey guys, Looking for a bit of advice / guidance. Am having an absolute mare with the VR in 2009, had what I would call solid years motoring out it last year, routine maintenance and no major issues. Was well happy. Since the turn of the year its been broken longer than its been fixed. After having a small electrical fire, ignition lock jamming and immobiliser going up the swany, I finally got the car back last week. Used it for work and all seemed well again until Friday night. Pulled out of work as usual, got up to first major roundabout and hit a set of traffic lights, stopped then pulled away only to hear a rather nasty bang followed by repetitive graunching noises and then lost all drive. Coasted to next set of traffic lights only for the car to be stranded with no drive in either direction, called AA and eventually got car towed home. Inspected damage on Saturday only to find a nackered drivers side inner cv joint, literally fell apart when bolts were removed. Also noticed I managed to snap drivers side roll bar linkage. Thankfully I was able to lay my hands on a used driveshaft and picked up new linkage and ball joint same day (fooked old one getting it out). With the help of my dad we refitted parts this eve, all seemed well. Fired her up, let warm up, jumped in, selected first, bought clutch up, touch of gas and nothing bar a rumbling noise coming from drivers side of engine bay, doesn't matter what gear i select car won't move. After trying to this a few times you could start to smell clutch. My heart sunk massively. Wondering if anyone has suffered similar failures? Any ideas on what to start checking next? Car's had a clutch about 10k ago and has been spot on ever since so I'm guessing it can't be this? Assuming it is likely to be gearbox related but after that i'm pretty lost. All help / advice / thoughts greatly received. Stu

Was about to say Jon, know for a fact that mk2/mk3 Polo's use exactly the same design, as mentioned i think length would be the only issue and maybe, just maybe hole size to hook over mounting point but i'm sure they'd stretch. Want me to compare my bro's (Mk3 GT) and my shelf, as we're re-fitting rest of my interior one night this week?

280mm Raid HP with soon to be Transformers horn push. Do i win for having the smallest?

The secrecy on the colour then you go and put that poo pic up. Still gunna steal them from BJV tho... :D Get them fitted and the rest. :clap:

Yes, get them venom's on there.

Any chance Kur2y you could post the pic of the oem connector you have? Just so we all know what we are after.

1. dukest - 3 relay (OEM -to supply) 2. kevg60 - 3 relay 3. vwdeviant (OEM Supplied) 3-Relay 4. critical mass - 3 relay 5. Corradude - 3 Relay (OEM - to supply) 6. StueyB - 3 Relay (OEM - to supply)

Lmao, funniest thing i've read this week.

Looking good Neil, the bonnet bra should set it off a treat along with some new sized rubber. Keep up the good work, bringing it back and all that.

Being completely honest I am only getting it for the noise factor. Be rude not to but i don't just want an open filter in the engine bay knowing how much heat is generated to the right off it. What i think i really want is something along the lines of the Generation II K&N jobbies which look a little like this: Open filter but with a heat shield, so i've been keeping my eyes open for a suitable carbon fibre effort. I did however come across the GruppeM carbon fibre induction kits for TT's. Now they really are something but then i found out the price tag. Look well smart tho. DSC01732.jpg[/attachment:b3g8g9ia] Search continues.

Was this a shield'd kit or just a bolt on foam filter? Do you have any pictures?

And what kind of boundaries are you trying to push by sticking an air filter onto a VR6? :lol: Trying push the +50bhp from an air filter boundary innit bruv... :lol: In all seriousness I don't think that was quite the right phrase, how about breaking from the norm.

Hey guys, Looking for some inspiration really. I have been in need of an induction kit for my VR6 for some time now but have been trying to find something a little different to the very popular BMC CAI unit. I know these are tried and tested and definitely one of the best buys induction wise but i cant help but feel it's a little to easy to just bolt one on and its hardly pushing any boundaries. So....what are people running other than the BMC and what are their thoughts? Carbonio? K&N? Custom setup? All responses welcomed. Stu

Check out: http://www.m5ute.com/ for everything you need to know on this project. The guy that built it has some serious skills and has documented it all so well, defo worth a look.

In the middle of breaking a VR at the mo and its down to the shell pretty much. Sure i could get Josh to run a tape measure down the seat runners. Any good?

Cheers for the comments guys, much appreciated. Was a bit of a gamble to be fair, but I think it works, tis all helped by the door plastics I reckon as they help to tie it all together. If you've been thinking about it I say go for it, join the grey leather/black plastic club! :camp: :D

I failed to mention the price as I didn't wanna annoy anyone who's spent hundreds on leathers. :lol: Lets just say they are on hirer purchase right now. Comments always appreciated mate. Cheers Phil, the more I use the car the more I think I made the right choice too.

You know how sometimes the best things happen unplanned? This was certainly the case this month with the VR. I was all ready set to go by some wheels one Friday a few weeks back. I had the money, had um'd and ah'd about this specific set, had bartered the guy down some and finally said ok, yep i'll take them. Cue one unplanned msn conversation with a fellow cf user and this happened: (important point to note is the black interior in the back ground.) Unhappy I have now have leather in the VR? Certainly not. Surprised I have leather in the VR already? Yes, very much so. So this kinda put pay to my wheel plans for the month, but in hindsight was the better move. I had planned sometime in the future I was going to upgrade to leather, I had originally wanted to buy one with it already fitted but having seen a few cars with the spec I wanted I decided I'd settle for a mint cloth interior over a set of tired leathers, and the car I bought was a perfect case in point. Exterior colour I wanted with a set of mint black cloth seats. Having the opportunity to get my hands on some grey leathers in this reasonable nick (have spent over 8 hours cleaning these bad boys to get them to the standard you see here.) in such fortunate circumstances, I would have been a fool to continue on and buy the wheels. So the deal was done, and the cleaning commenced. (pic heavy, I think I went a little crazy in my excitement). Got the autoglym leather cleaner, care cream, cloth & buckets at the ready. Back seat tops before clean. One of the back seat bottoms, looking like it had never been cleaned, let alone hoovered years. Both pairs of door cards pre clean. Back seats post clean, I'm sure you'll agree, looking a lot healthier. Well pleased with my efforts at this point, gave up and went to bed for the night. Attacked rear cards the following evening, mid clean. Post clean again, serious improvement especially around arm rest area. Same again on passenger side, both came up remarkably after a good scrubbing. Front door cards too, probably the most soiled as obviously see most use (abuse in the case). Front seats looking a little tired, mid clean phase. Fair bit of ingrain dirt in the seat beds. Passenger seat unsurprisingly in better nick than the drivers. And a real good shot to show the difference between dirty and clean leather seats. The difference was quite remarkable and definitely made me think I'd made the right choice in buying these i.e. worth the effort. Couple more in car shots mainly put up to show the grey / black combo. Also very please with how this turned out. I know all grey interior corrado's as far as I'm aware come with the grey interior plastic. I'm really not a fan of these and kinda took a gamble putting these into a black interior car but I think it works. Certainly helped by the black door plastics, pods, handles etc... All in all if you hadn't guessed I'm as chuffed as chuffed can be, was a enhancement to the car that I hadn't even considered thinking about for a good few months yet but boy what a difference. The leather is definitely more comfy than the cloth and hugs you better when giving it bit in the corners. Haven't fitted the heated seat loom yet so got that still to come but should make for a slightly more bearable winter period this time around. Thanks for taking the time to read, more to come soon. Oh and by the way I have a full black interior for sale, any takers?

Update time: So, finally got around to actually making the basstube i re-made actually work. Had messed around with an amplifier intended for the job but wasn't happy due to it not having the necessary low pass filter. Thought about buying a crossover and wiring it in but ended up heading over to maplins and picking up one of their cheap and cheerful nikkai amps. Really only a temporary solution as wasn't to fussed about power and quality etc. Mounted this to a thin piece of mdf I had lying around, covered this is black carpet and mounted it to the front of the tube. Amp mounted. Got a mate over at the weekend to help with the finer points of the install and got it sounding as good as it looked. Well chuffed on the install front, makes for a tidy boot install with plenty of room for other tings still. Pics for clicks. Next update: nothing like the comfort of leather.