robrado974 1 Posted December 10, 2014 Great plans for the Rado Dave . Rocco looks nice too . Hopefully the mini meet will come off . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveb142 10 Posted December 12, 2014 Cool, getting rare these days. Cant beat a silver Corrado IMO but then Im slightly biased. Thanks man. Silver has grown on me, but it just feels a bit "meh" when I look at it haha. Great plans for the Rado Dave . Rocco looks nice too . Hopefully the mini meet will come off . Cheers Rob! And yeah it's a good little Rocco! Yeah let me know when it is! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
seanl82 23 Posted December 12, 2014 Looks great Dave! How is the paint? If its just a bit flat, save your money and just get a good detail done. It'll bring the paintwork up amazingly! Thats the thing with the Silver, if its full of swirls it just looks flat and dull. With a good machine polish and wax/sealant, they look immense! Hopefully be down in mine just after Xmas now, so a mini meet would be great! Think I'm coming down on the 27th for a few days but I'll have to find out when she's working before I know for sure. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveb142 10 Posted December 13, 2014 Looks great Dave! How is the paint? If its just a bit flat, save your money and just get a good detail done. It'll bring the paintwork up amazingly! Thats the thing with the Silver, if its full of swirls it just looks flat and dull. With a good machine polish and wax/sealant, they look immense! Hopefully be down in mine just after Xmas now, so a mini meet would be great! Think I'm coming down on the 27th for a few days but I'll have to find out when she's working before I know for sure. Cheers Sean! It looks good from afar, but has been badly resprayed.... the roof and tailgate are the original colour. The rest has been poor done. With many runs, scratches and tape marks in it. You can even see where they sprayed it with the side trims on, then taken them off and sprayed over the top of it.... Also you can see the tape marks on the top of the pillars where the colour changes and around the windows where they were badly taped up. Filler and dents in the sill and filler in the rear arch! So will be a full respray and colour change I think haha! Yeah definitely man. Let me know when you come down! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveb142 10 Posted December 22, 2014 Went along to a charity drive upto Devon Dubshack yesterday, ending with a BBQ. Here's a photo someone took of a mate's Caddy and the Corrado on the way Think the other inner CV joint is on its last legs though haha. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveb142 10 Posted February 15, 2015 So since the last update, i've replaced the other inner cv joint, got the center caps fitted and I have now taken her off of the road! Time for bodywork to be done, small fixes, upgrades and some changes :) Some pictures over the past month or two: From the SWDubs Mega Meet at the end of January: And with the current daily: Miss driving it already, however will be worth it when finished! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveb142 10 Posted April 13, 2015 Small update; Corrado is now back in a space in the unit. I'm in the process of buying new bits for it and a fair few parts have already turned up :) and ofcourse saving for the respray! Decided to upgrade the radiator to a Direnza high flow rad. Also tempted to get an oil cooler as was seeing pretty high tempteratures before...... Anyway, will update as I go along Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
odub 0 Posted April 14, 2015 Looks good, following this build with interest as similar to my own, just further along than me Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveb142 10 Posted June 13, 2015 So i've been buying new bits and bobs lately and getting some parts powdercoated. Anyway, I decided to go for the superpro rear beam bushes after hearing good things about them. Thanks to my mate at Exeter Engineering for doing the powdercoating and what not! They also offer vapour blasting and such there, well worth a check out! I've also had a number of brackets and the front cross member powdercoated, however I don't have any pictures of them yet....I really don't want to put them on the car, they look so good hahaha. The bushes were stupidly easy to fit, took me ten minutes! I've also started to strip the seam sealer from the bay ready for paint! Not too bad, a bit tedious at times though haha. A few bits have been sent off for some modification too, which will hopefully make the bay neater and i'm in the process of upgrading to the teves20 abs system and climatronic, which is slowly getting there. I'm hoping to have it all wired up soon! I've also decided to run the battery in the boot now! will clear the engine bay up some more! I'll take more pictures of it soon. The windows will all be out in the next few weeks and then hopefully, it will go off for paint :D Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
20vtvw 0 Posted June 14, 2015 I like it,,,, That rad looks great where could I get one? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveb142 10 Posted June 14, 2015 Thanks mate, This is the rad I got http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360530795150?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveb142 10 Posted September 7, 2015 So, quite an update really..... My intentions were to fully respray the Corrado this year and uprate some parts at the same time. However plans changed around July! I always knew my arch had some filler in, so began taking it back to bare metal. Lovely. So a new arch was needed, not to bad. Then the windscreen came out. The entire surround was like this... It got worse in the bottom corner and I hadn't even dug into the driver side sill yet, which was also dented and full of filler. After some talks with my painter and a few friends and my respray budget looking to be doubled, the car ended up like this. Now all I needed was a new shell. A quick phone call to Mr Mann meant a drive up the road to Paignton, where I bought his old VR6 shell! A 1994 VR6 resprayed in Mystic Blue It came with the VR6 running gear, no wings, interior, brakes, engine etc were all gone. Perfect for what I needed it for! I got it back and began transferring things straight away :) Converted to 4 stud with my freshly powdercoated rear beam and such I then stripped the bay and got it ready for the 20vt. I also decided to bin off the ABS. Both pumps I had were dead and I didn't have the parts for the upgraded ABS system, therefore complete removal of the ABS system went ahead. I also put on my 16v exhaust with a new v-band welded onto the joints Whilst doing my brakes, I upgraded my master cylinder to a 23mm stubby one from a seat ibiza, using a MK3 golf brake servo adapted to fit the corrado pedal box. A bit of work and cleaning later resulted to this: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveb142 10 Posted September 7, 2015 Unfortunately as you may have noticed, the shell did not come with any wings. Therefore I had 2 spare ones painted along with the front bumper. Whilst waiting for paint and having saved money from not respraying the whole car, I had my Borbets refurbed by South West Wheel Repair in Marsh Barton, Devon. I had them all powdercoated silver and very happy with the outcome! For a very good price too. With the deadline of Edition 38 looming, I started putting my dash back together, not before completing my Polo GTi climatronic install! I haven't used the aircon for this, however wanted it to replace the dials. Very happy with the outcome and works really well! Unfortunately I didn't take many other pictures from then on. I booked an MOT for wednesday 2nd September and worked throughout the nights to get it to this stage. It passed the MOT with only 2 minor advisories :D The new bonnet cable which I bought snapped, therfore meaning I've had to run with no grille and some cables to open the bonnet! My intercooler placing not making this any easier haha. Thursday came and I got the wings and bumper back, pleased with the colour match despite not having the car!I had to re-set the camber up and then took it for tracking. All sorted before heading off to edition 38 the next morning! The car drove spot on for the 500 mile round journey to Edition 38 and back! I've missed it so much haha. The new diesel box does wonders, only using a 1/4 tank of fuel for the journey up and the same for the journey back. The clocks read 48.8 MPG :lol: really forgot how much this car shifts! Anyway, a few pictures from the show field, parked next to my mate's mk3 cab 20vt and another mates VR6 - along with his dog VDubDaisy Now i'm back, going to get the bonnet resprayed and give the car a full polish. Also need to put the rest of the dash back in and sort some niggly bits and pieces! Also the windscreen cracked whilst on the show field in the sun, so gotta get that changed over this week :( but gives me time to sort everything out. All in all, a great weekend! Sorry for this hashed write up mind More pictures will follow soon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
seanl82 23 Posted September 7, 2015 Cracking progress despite the set backs Dave, looks very well indeed now! :thumbleft: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GrahamU 5 Posted September 8, 2015 wow, that was a huge update nicely done Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VW_OwneR_85 1 Posted September 8, 2015 good stuff! good decision for swapping shells, something i should of done! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveb142 10 Posted September 9, 2015 Cracking progress despite the set backs Dave, looks very well indeed now! :thumbleft: Thanks Sean! :) wow, that was a huge update nicely done Cheers dude, runs much nicer 2nd time around! Gonna tidy up the bay and such soon and waiting for some new hoses to turn up Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveb142 10 Posted September 9, 2015 good stuff! good decision for swapping shells, something i should of done! Yeah I thought it was best to just find another one, shell only owed me less than £400 anyway Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveb142 10 Posted September 12, 2015 Popped down to the "Totally VAG" show at Royal Cornwall Showground today, only a hour away from me. Some nice cars there but a bit boring, no show and shine and not much going on during the day (more family orientated). Was good to see everyone none the less! Parked up on Devon Dubshack Stand with Matt's (VDubDaisy's Owner) Corrado, Alex's 20vt Cab and Steve's gorgeous MK1 G60. I actually had the bonnet open and all. And a "**** clipless grille" was also sourced especially for the day :lol: Need to sort that mess out next ^ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daveb142 10 Posted November 23, 2015 Not really too much to update. Had the windscreen replaced the other weekend. Inevitably there was some rust behind the screen, so Neil at Classics and Customs near us sorted it out for me whilst I had uni during the week! All primered and treated before my old 16v windscreen went in. I then had a moment of forgetting how to drive out of my unit. Resulting in this. :lol: Woops :| First time i've actually dinged any car i've owned...... Anyway, luckily Neil buffed most of it out and touched it up, which will do until I get the bumper resprayed next year! Before that, my powersteering line dis-lodged itself and was dragging along the floor. Which resulted in covering a friends street in powersteering fluid..... What a ballache that was to change. Lucky I had a spare line, however ended up cross-threading the first few threads on the powersteering rack. Luckily my mate mad a tap and re-threaded it. Then it took us another hour or so of swearing to try and get the powersteering pipe to get in the right angle to screw it in. Probably the most infuriating job i've done on the car. I also need to fix my gearbox as I've damaged the diff / area around the diff. It whines when moving now, however gets into all gears fine still. All in all it wasn't a great week! :lol: However, I did finish off my climatronic surround and put the centre console back together.... so that's something? And the collection keeps growing Bought a polo which i'll be fixing and selling, then I can sort the Corrado's gearbox and think about mapping Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
