Black magic returns home

[Cressa 45]

Welcome back mate. I did see that car for sale and thought, What a beauty. A very special car indeed. Congratulations on your purchase of it, and coming back on here. 

There can't be anything you would change on it, surely. 

Enjoy your ownership of it.

And what's the Cars name?

[Keyo 49]

  On 4/1/2025 at 12:47 PM, Cressa said:

Welcome back mate. I did see that car for sale and thought, What a beauty. A very special car indeed. Congratulations on your purchase of it, and coming back on here. 

There can't be anything you would change on it, surely. 

Enjoy your ownership of it.

And what's the Cars name?

Thanks Cressa, 

Hope all is well mate. 

 

The car just needs some paint caused by garage knocks moving bits and bobs round the car.- stone chips as well. It has never had any paint so will do the bonnet, front and rear bumper - that's about it. Not going down that route again of a full restore- the car itself is absolutely solid - I even pulled out the fuel filler cap rubber seal and no build up of dirt whatsoever or rot - floor pan, sills, wings rot free and the subframes are still matt black- i might just do the bumper irons and brackets powder coated when bumpers off

No name has come to mind yet but im sure it will be called a .unt from time to time !

 

 

 

 

Edited April 1 by Keyo

[g0ldf1ng3r 17]

nice to see you back keyo, hope you are well

cracking spec on that find!  not many of us out there with an X1 kit & nothelle's too

my old 16v was non ABS too but that had electric windows

oddly, looking at the pics, i have one  of those centre console pods & gauges but i couldnt figure out how it fits - there are 2 locating kind of looking things at the bottom of it

any chance, when you have time, you could try to see how it fits for me pls?  i would be very grateful

[Keyo 49]

  On 4/1/2025 at 3:03 PM, g0ldf1ng3r said:

nice to see you back keyo, hope you are well

cracking spec on that find!  not many of us out there with an X1 kit & nothelle's too

my old 16v was non ABS too but that had electric windows

oddly, looking at the pics, i have one  of those centre console pods & gauges but i couldnt figure out how it fits - there are 2 locating kind of looking things at the bottom of it

any chance, when you have time, you could try to see how it fits for me pls?  i would be very grateful

Nice one Goldfinger hope all is well. 

The Kamei kit sold it to me for sure !

I fitted some gauges  to my old g60 mate - I cant picture how I did it now but I will be taking the oil bar pressure gauge out at some point as its not functioning correct so will get some pictures. I know the two grommets (cover screws either side are the same as the B pillar grommets above seat belts.  It might be mate that the late dash has different fixing holes chap perhaps that the screws house to. I cant remember the fixing legs at the bottom of mine- is your gauge panel original mate ?

[g0ldf1ng3r 17]

  On 4/1/2025 at 3:11 PM, Keyo said:

Nice one Goldfinger hope all is well. 

The Kamei kit sold it to me for sure !

I fitted some gauges  to my old g60 mate - I cant picture how I did it now but I will be taking the oil bar pressure gauge out at some point as its not functioning correct so will get some pictures. I know the two grommets (cover screws either side are the same as the B pillar grommets above seat belts.  It might be mate that the late dash has different fixing holes chap perhaps that the screws house to. I cant remember the fixing legs at the bottom of mine- is your gauge panel original mate ?

yeah life is pretty good & apart from the gauges, now ive finally got the Modena's, the only thing left for the VR are the gauges

yes the gauge panel have VW markings & part number but i couldnt figure if it was a corrado or a golf part - i actually got it off Zak the loom maker from here

thanks the help would be cracking.  i have got the gauge fitting instructions off here in the wiki IIRC but im not quite sure how they wire in & where they fit to.

i will dig them out & take some pics to send you for comparison

ive still quite a hoard from the parts you gave me so let me know if you end up needing anything & i can take a look. 

[Keyo 49]

  On 4/1/2025 at 3:22 PM, g0ldf1ng3r said:

yeah life is pretty good & apart from the gauges, now ive finally got the Modena's, the only thing left for the VR are the gauges

yes the gauge panel have VW markings & part number but i couldnt figure if it was a corrado or a golf part - i actually got it off Zak the loom maker from here

thanks the help would be cracking.  i have got the gauge fitting instructions off here in the wiki IIRC but im not quite sure how they wire in & where they fit to.

i will dig them out & take some pics to send you for comparison

ive still quite a hoard from the parts you gave me so let me know if you end up needing anything & i can take a look. 

Thanks mate will do - my first job will to be refurb the roof gutter seals as the side d shaped rubbers have perished . 

VR sounds amazing mate will have to meet up at Gilks this summer and show me the fruits of your labour. 

Vince did my wire loom, but you will need a dual pole sender - a vdo unit m10 x 1 thread from memory- which oil pressure gauge do you have 0-10 bar or o-5 bar - 4 cylinder early tend to be 5 bar and later cars like vr have 10 bar, 

One really nice little classic touch the car comes with is some  rubber hybrid carpet votex blue car mats - never seen them before and in mint condition. I collecting 

 

[tonedef 10]

Welcome back again fella, you were never staying away were you!!!

Looks like a tidy motor you’ve picked up there, you do seem to have a knack for finding them!

[Nmdsec 10]

Good to have you back,I’d be up for a return to “Gilks” in the summer to see this one in the flesh !

[Keyo 49]

  On 4/1/2025 at 5:40 PM, tonedef said:

Welcome back again fella, you were never staying away were you!!!

Looks like a tidy motor you’ve picked up there, you do seem to have a knack for finding them!

Thanks for welcome back TD. 

I m always looking at classifieds and the pull on this one was too much to resist re entering the world of scarce car parts ! 

 

[Keyo 49]

  On 4/1/2025 at 5:43 PM, Nmdsec said:

Good to have you back,I’d be up for a return to “Gilks” in the summer to see this one in the flesh !

Thanks mate good to be back- we will certainly get a get together this summer for sure and all are welcome !

[James. 9]

And so another returns…

 

Nice piece of Corrado history you have there. Looking forward to hearing more about it 🙂.

[Keyo 49]

  On 4/1/2025 at 9:40 PM, James. said:

And so another returns…

 

Nice piece of Corrado history you have there. Looking forward to hearing more about it 🙂.

Thanks James, 

Hope all is well. 

Collecting it Friday so fingers crossed she gets home - . 

The owner has done some useful work to recommission her- generally consisting of new tyres on all corner- internal and external fuel pump- accumulator and hel stainless swirlpot lines , new rad fan and fan switch sensors- warm up regulator refurbished by KTI Engineering., water pump, alloys refurbished. 

The jobs I have planned 

refurb gutter seals - 

Paint bonnet, bumpers x2

Conti timing belt kit

Drive shaft volocity seals. 

Rear exhaust muffler

ARB bushes

I knocked him off 2k off for that exact reasons mentioned above.  That will get the car to a very good condition- will just change parts from thereon within when needed.  

Cheers 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 12:01 PM by Keyo

[James. 9]

  On 4/2/2025 at 11:59 AM, Keyo said:

will just change parts from thereon within when needed. 

Course you will 😉.

Hope the return drive goes to plan 🙂

[fendervg 33]

  On 4/1/2025 at 3:22 PM, g0ldf1ng3r said:

yeah life is pretty good & apart from the gauges, now ive finally got the Modena's, the only thing left for the VR are the gauges

yes the gauge panel have VW markings & part number but i couldnt figure if it was a corrado or a golf part - i actually got it off Zak the loom maker from here

thanks the help would be cracking.  i have got the gauge fitting instructions off here in the wiki IIRC but im not quite sure how they wire in & where they fit to.

i will dig them out & take some pics to send you for comparison

ive still quite a hoard from the parts you gave me so let me know if you end up needing anything & i can take a look. 

The 2 x round VDO style gauge panel insert will only fit the early dash if it is the genuine VAG item. I think part of the console trim might need to come out for it to fit, and they are LHD and RHD specific. The only factory gauge option for the latter cars is the complete insert unit with the two integrated gauges and the Corrado script - these are handed too.

There's a good few aftermarket 2 hole panels about for both early and late style dashes - think you can even find some 3D print models online.

[Keyo 49]

Hello everyone. 

I found out my car was an actual demonstrator for GTI Engineering . Its a 1990 car . 

Ive managed to find one picture with the famous GTI Engineering plate GT100 (GTI 00 )  it was used only on their demonstrator models . 

If anyone has any magazine articles or even a GTI brochure with the car in I would be delighted if you could share. 

You can see the previous registrations crossed off and that the car was owned by them for at least 6k miles. 

The private plate itself is now on a 997 GT3 RS and sold 8 years ago for 35k - so that is off the cards. £15 show plates will do me ha)

Cheers, 

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by Keyo