R32 converted corrado emissions

[fla 9]

For those that have r32 converted corrados, what do you do about emissions and how is the car registered for road tax? Also, Is it ULEZ compliant?

Thanks

[Dox 22]

2 cats and 4 lambdas on R32s, most would have had the post cats mapped out and straight piped.

your best bet it to chat with your MOT tester as it’s his discretion/ interpretation of the rules etc

 

Pre 1992 doesn’t need a cat, some late registered cars don’t either (NOS ).

If your question is around ULEZ, what does a standard R32 class as?

[fla 9]

I've just checked a 04 r32 mk1 tt and its ulez compliant. I'll have to check the various r32 engines though to see they're all compliant. Some have around £600 road tax though, i think

[Dox 22]

90% of mk1 3.2 TTs were DSG 

05 onwards are the higher taxation class (lots of guzzlers have this issue, not just VAG).

Complicated engine that loves to throw cam / crank correlation codes (chain stretch or not sometimes) with age. 17748 / 17755 - google them, they’re nearly 20 years old now, so a long way from the new engine in an old car it once was.

[petemcr 10]

13 minutes ago, Dox said:

90% of mk1 3.2 TTs were DSG 

05 onwards are the higher taxation class (lots of guzzlers have this issue, not just VAG).

Complicated engine that loves to throw cam / crank correlation codes (chain stretch or not sometimes) with age. 17748 / 17755 - google them, they’re nearly 20 years old now, so a long way from the new engine in an old car it once was.

I spoke to Vince at Stealth about the R32 conversion and that was his take as well, few years back you could get a relatively young engine that didn't need any work doing, but now with the age of them and how much parts cost, he said it isn't as worthwhile a conversion any more.

 

I've noticed a lot of people are using the Porsche engine though out of the Cayenne which I believe is the same engine as the R32, just further developed by Porsche. 

[Dox 22]

2 hours ago, petemcr said:

I spoke to Vince at Stealth about the R32 conversion and that was his take as well, few years back you could get a relatively young engine that didn't need any work doing, but now with the age of them and how much parts cost, he said it isn't as worthwhile a conversion any more.

 

I've noticed a lot of people are using the Porsche engine though out of the Cayenne which I believe is the same engine as the R32, just further developed by Porsche. 

I seem to remember the Porsche version has an inlet manifold to filter box the opposite way to other VAGs and is a bit more corrado friendly (battery stays under the bonnet?).

[petemcr 10]

32 minutes ago, Dox said:

I seem to remember the Porsche version has an inlet manifold to filter box the opposite way to other VAGs and is a bit more corrado friendly (battery stays under the bonnet?).

That was also the other reason which put me off, the relocating of everything on to the opposite side, not a huge amount of work but still... and if the Porsche engine lets you retain everything where it should be all the better.

I always figured the 2.8 24v (baby 32) might have been a good choice, just given the kind of car they would come off might be less likely to have been trashed all its life, I believe they were called the old mans R32, can only imagine most R32's and Audi 3.2's have been driven hard all their lives now.