Hey guy's,
Been on here a while but not really said a great deal.
I'm Dan from Worcester and I own a bright yellow old vw.
I bought it off Tim (rodit) on here a year or so back.
I was originally rocking my rat polo:
bought for 600 quid when I needed a cheap motor, turned out to be the most reliable car i've owned.
Anyway, this is how I bought the corrado:
She was nice and low:
But not low enough. After the polo had got me into the vw scene my eyes had been opened to a new level of low and I wanted a part of it.
I inspected the coilovers and the rears were shot, the lockrings had oxidised from no protection, so I quickly ordered some replacements and hit her with the lowering stick:
She stayed in this guise for a while and I took the opportunity to tidy up various little bits, mainly engine stuff. She had developed a blue smoke issue and I cleaned all the breather system out and replaced the rocker gasket, but the problem persisted.
After reading into the faults of the KR lump, it suggested that stem seals were common to go and valve guides.
I did a compression test to be on the safe side which came back spot on fortunately, so I bit the bullet and bought a recon head, which had been lightly ported and polished, and had her rebuilt.
In the meantime I decided that I wanted lower. As the wheels were on porsche adaptors I looked for other porsche wheel options and the cookie cutters came up.
After a 4 hour round trip I arrived back with the cookies and the next day after work got to work on the arches (as the cookies had a lower ET, they poked more)
End result after some hammer to arch action:
I liked the style but I was now higher due to the tyre size. Drats, so I scoured the forum and found some 165/50/15" Bridgestones, practically new for 100 odd quid.
Now running stretch and nicely rolled arches, out came the lowering stick again:
I was over the moon, she was chewing up camber and catseyes no end mind you and all of a sudden became a point of interest round my town with the police :/
New years eve I had a run in with a pillock in a taxi:
So I decided to fix it like so:
It was shortly after this that I became a little bored with the car. My circumstances were also about to change dramatically so she went up for sale.
I got a passat turbo in replacement (we wont talk about that) and then this little fun thing for a while:
She was lovely. little 1.3 GT lump, seam welded, poly bushed, chipped etc etc, the works and it was great fun.
I was enjoying the polo but then I noticed my corrado was back up for sale. My heart skipped a beat and I knew I wanted it back.
I contacted the seller and luckily he was very interested in a swap with the polo.
The deal was done and I collected her from Oxford, with 3 cookies and 1 steel and a very nasty wheel wobble, which turned out to be a knackered tyre.
She had been abused by the looks of it. The cookie cutter that was not on the car had a tyre that was fully down to the beading and one of the adaptors had been angle ground off.
Not too mention all the other tyres were haggered.
While I ordered 2 new adaptors for the rear she rolled around like so:
Ghetto yes?
then hey presto:
I decided again that she still wasn't low enough, with the coilovers all the way down with no helpers there was no other option:
Resulting in:
- Flat ground
Also since lowering it, the tarmac and splitter became best buds and needed to secure the curse word back together and back on the car, so a drill and a lot of cable ties were employed:
Since then not a lot has happened. I'm experimenting with wheel colours, gone mad for scene stickers and this is the latest photo as of tonight:
I love her to bits and a lot is planned so keep an eye out
Ta,
Dan
Been on here a while but not really said a great deal.
I'm Dan from Worcester and I own a bright yellow old vw.
I bought it off Tim (rodit) on here a year or so back.
I was originally rocking my rat polo:
bought for 600 quid when I needed a cheap motor, turned out to be the most reliable car i've owned.
Anyway, this is how I bought the corrado:
She was nice and low:
But not low enough. After the polo had got me into the vw scene my eyes had been opened to a new level of low and I wanted a part of it.
I inspected the coilovers and the rears were shot, the lockrings had oxidised from no protection, so I quickly ordered some replacements and hit her with the lowering stick:
She stayed in this guise for a while and I took the opportunity to tidy up various little bits, mainly engine stuff. She had developed a blue smoke issue and I cleaned all the breather system out and replaced the rocker gasket, but the problem persisted.
After reading into the faults of the KR lump, it suggested that stem seals were common to go and valve guides.
I did a compression test to be on the safe side which came back spot on fortunately, so I bit the bullet and bought a recon head, which had been lightly ported and polished, and had her rebuilt.
In the meantime I decided that I wanted lower. As the wheels were on porsche adaptors I looked for other porsche wheel options and the cookie cutters came up.
After a 4 hour round trip I arrived back with the cookies and the next day after work got to work on the arches (as the cookies had a lower ET, they poked more)
End result after some hammer to arch action:
I liked the style but I was now higher due to the tyre size. Drats, so I scoured the forum and found some 165/50/15" Bridgestones, practically new for 100 odd quid.
Now running stretch and nicely rolled arches, out came the lowering stick again:
I was over the moon, she was chewing up camber and catseyes no end mind you and all of a sudden became a point of interest round my town with the police :/
New years eve I had a run in with a pillock in a taxi:
So I decided to fix it like so:
It was shortly after this that I became a little bored with the car. My circumstances were also about to change dramatically so she went up for sale.
I got a passat turbo in replacement (we wont talk about that) and then this little fun thing for a while:
She was lovely. little 1.3 GT lump, seam welded, poly bushed, chipped etc etc, the works and it was great fun.
I was enjoying the polo but then I noticed my corrado was back up for sale. My heart skipped a beat and I knew I wanted it back.
I contacted the seller and luckily he was very interested in a swap with the polo.
The deal was done and I collected her from Oxford, with 3 cookies and 1 steel and a very nasty wheel wobble, which turned out to be a knackered tyre.
She had been abused by the looks of it. The cookie cutter that was not on the car had a tyre that was fully down to the beading and one of the adaptors had been angle ground off.
Not too mention all the other tyres were haggered.While I ordered 2 new adaptors for the rear she rolled around like so:
Ghetto yes?
then hey presto:
I decided again that she still wasn't low enough, with the coilovers all the way down with no helpers there was no other option:
Resulting in:
- Flat groundAlso since lowering it, the tarmac and splitter became best buds and needed to secure the curse word back together and back on the car, so a drill and a lot of cable ties were employed:
Since then not a lot has happened. I'm experimenting with wheel colours, gone mad for scene stickers and this is the latest photo as of tonight:
I love her to bits and a lot is planned so keep an eye out
Ta,
Dan
