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Lovely Job Chris, For anyone who wonders what a brand new Corrado VR6 looked like, check out the one coming up for auction on 20th Dec, by Bonhams Auction's :https://carsonline.bonhams.com/en/listings/volkswagen/corrado-vr6/ its as close as you are going to get to a new car, just 5k miles.... Fat wallet necessary though ! Starting price around £20k ?

Great job, silly question maybe, but did you drive it out or push ?

Note, This is for very early Instrument Clusters , from "M" Chassis Build onwards it was integrated into the main board on the cluster, and non replaceable.

Well done, professional quality re-make, a dab hand at the sewing, you could start making a living doing this sort of thing. 🍺

Not the best of pics, but I blame the low winter sun etc...! No space in my small garage to photo these, middle pic of brake lines shows the pipe end crimp, this was not easy, steel is pretty hard to work with, if you don't have factory hydraulic presses.

Hi, ABV, That is quite an audacious project, like you I was after UV Recaro's but long unobtainable, so I will stick with my factory chairs. Wish you all the success with it though, and thanks for keeping us informed. You might remember me posting about brake piping, well soon after that I did make up a straightening tool, from steel offcuts of square section tube, and did all the brake lines (4.75mm), clutch feed pipe (6mm) in factory steel, not turned out too bad at all. took a fair bit of time, the rear axle feed's to caliper's were blooming awkward! Also painted the gearbox and re-plated the bolts using my DIY kit, must post some pics up.

Right, thanks for that, just wondered.

Hi, Re you original post for replacement early style Corrado scripted sill strips in 2018, do you still do these ? Posted August 13, 2018 Please look at our new "Corrado" - strip: https://www.pic-upload.de/view-35786063/20180723_153845.jpg.html

Hi, Thanks for replying so quickly. Hmmm, well if these are from OEM+ , run by a guy called "Darko" from Macedonia, then I will forget about it, i dealt with him before, of about 6 stickers on his regular website 4 were wrong shade, or wrong size, or wrong font, and just looked odd. When I queried this he promised to send replacements, but ultimately never did, I took him off my christmass card list. So thanks , I will go ahead with my originals. Thanks.

Hi, Can I ask where did you get the decals / stickers from ? I have overhauled my original servo and was going to try to re-apply my original ATE Blue sticker, I also have a brand new OEM Master Cylinder bought from VW 10+ years ago, and that had no sticker.. I could not find these correct number ones on line. Thanks.

Corroda, HI, Late to the thread, but unless I missed it, did you return the doors to Heritage for a refund, and if so is the moral of the story don't bother buying new doors, they probably won't fit ? Regards.

Chris, Many thanks for taking time out to post the pics and for the info, I have re-plated/ passivated the offending end fittings today, need to paint, the main pipes again, the olive green spray I used was rubbish, came off to easily, need to find the right colour and type of paint, but hopefully will get there, just another thousand things to do along the way with my G60. Have spent Far too much of my time, on this project, any sane person would have taken another direction a long time ago ! Hopefully will be on the road next year ? Cheers.

Ah, Many thanks for responding so quickly, so I home electroplated just the end fittings on mine , having taped up the main pipes and hose ends, all looked great at first but about 6 months later got corrosion spreading out from the small holes in the tube end fittings, some of the electrolyte must have been trapped and started leaching out. I started doing the plating myself (done majority of bolts , nuts, brackets etc) really only because I could not find any electroplaters within a 50 mile radius of Brackley that would bother to answer my voice mails, or online contact requests...perhaps I should have just knocked on their door, less easy to ignore me! Who does yours ? Many thanks, maybe I should try again , but plate the whole tubes with no taping so less chance of the problem.

Hi, You are getting on well, will be very satisfying for you when you have it back on the road. I have a question, your ABS to Master Cylinder feed pipes look New are they, or were they in that good a condition to start ?.

Hi, Only noticed this, and so you may have corrected this already, but I just thought you should know the handbrake cable clip shown in the picture is not fitted correctly, it will not hold anything on, the clip horsehoe end should butt up against the cable metal collar, and the end "legs" should clip over the caliper internal bracket where the cable passes through, see pic of my yet to be rebuilt caliper for ref. Cheers.

Hi, Wow, thanks for the real quick reply, and the link did work, bearings are M8x30x10 with a 6mm groove, I have now ordered similar ones from Amazon UK, similar price too, £14 ish for 10, next day delivery, thanks a lot. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kozelo-10pcs-U608ZZ-U-Groove-Bearing I am probably going to regret it but my intention is to use OEM steel line, already bought full quantity needed from AUTODOC, manufactured by ATE, green coating, with new ATE nuts also, I hope I don't regret going this route, bought a Vice fixed line forming tool for the flares, and it takes some effort on steel, on Kunifer it is a doddle.! Cheers.

Ok, thanks again, will bear that in mind for the future...cheers.

Ah, yes saw that pic earlier, i had cleaned the Gearbox up , underneath was not too bad due to VW Wax, and oil leaks from the Cam Cover, up top had been affected by salt, but , yes, its not bad compared to some. So bearing in mind what you said about the color choice, I will probably go with the Stainless option as well, it does look good on yours. Very glad that due to all the enthusiast owners across the world , like yourself, these cars are not fading away like some cars of the past... Cheers.

Hi, Thanks for the response, that POR15 Detail paint is available in the UK, around £35.00 from Frost Restoration co over here, so that's probably what I will use, interesting you used "Stainless Steel" shade, I would probably have gone for Cast Aluminium, but maybe that would look a bit dull, I will have to decide. Attached a couple of pics so you can see what i am starting with. Anyway, thanks again, much appreciated. Cheers.

Hi, Great job, I initially looked into getting the Gearbox casing Vapour (Aqua) blasted, but as a whole unit, blocking off all the apertures etc, but the blaster's quoted cost would have been a bit too much (£220+), possibly they didn't want the job due to the cumbersome / heavy nature of it, anyway so I am now thinking of painting it like you, so you mention a "special paint" for the Casing, I know there are lots of "Aluminium" paints out there, but can I ask what did you use ?

My VDO pump was not poorly stored , handled badly in any way, it was crack free when I bought it new, but 10+ years later had developed a couple of cracks on the swirl pot top casing when I went to install it, 18+ months later the cracks had spread on the swirl pot top casing only, so it is most likely the plastic has aged , and dried out , if it had been sitting in a tank full of fuel I am guessing it would not have aged and cracked in that way. The main plastic parts of the pump are made of POM (Polyoxymethylene), but the top casing that is cracking, has no markings at all to indicate the type of plastic. Anyway, I have probably spent too much time on this subject, so will get on with something else now !