my 2.9 vr6

[dubbed_up_daz 8]

Done a deal with a friend of a friend who is a painter. Got my new door fitted and the new wings fitted and the whole front end painted

couple pics from another local vw meet

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looks mean.

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coming home from work one night the gear stick done a dead fish impression...investigation turned up a modified cup and lever and the lever had been pretty poorly welded

tig welded it back together and its still holding up

got some time to work on my other wheels

seeing as progress was being made I worked out what specs of adaptors id need

but double checking with wheels proper is always better than guesstimation so I got a loan of a couple of wheels from a mate

and ordered them up

[dubbed_up_daz 8]

looks mean.

thank you

About this time I went through a pretty poor spell' date='smashed up the original sump breaking over bumps from highish speed on a rural road...got a spare sump from a mate but within a week on my commute to work in cruise mode going through average camera'd roadworks I ran over the base off a motorway cone that was lying in the middle of my lane and it mullered the new sump It wasnt leaking like last time but the oil pressure light would come on if you went over 2k so I suspected it had only been shoved up onto the pick up similar to the first sump but without the gaping hole

so got a new sump

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to replace the damaged sump

but turns out the pump was dead,soon as I took of the old sump and tried to remove it it fell to bits

so sourced a mk5 .:R sump and pump from a friend who had a spare but collecting it caused huge drama involving my mum being in a crash and being in hospital and me leaving my mates in my sisters car(70 miles away)at speed(not much speed its a mk5 1.4 golf),caught speeding on the M-way(74 in a 60)turning into an expired licence and the car being impounded and me in a train heading home at 11pm............

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spent a couple days sorting that out(getting the car out the pound and squaring up my licence situ)then got to work on the car again.

sumps for comparison

pulled the exhaust off to realign it all properly

.:R pump in

and sump on

bit more snug

bit more modifying

new tailpipe fabbed,fitted and satin blacked

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.:R sump lasted just over the weekend then after a monday night session of gt5 at a friends where I left my phone.I was going to pick it up the following morning and theres a new section of road that changes to the old tarmac...its not a road im on a lot in that direction and the dip ook out the front corner of the sump,dumping the contents all over the place.....double gutting as the car was supposed to be going to get the rest of the car painted that night after a bit more wheeling and dealing had sorted out a full spray

new .:R sump was purchased,fitted thursday night,filled up with oil friday morning,drove to work,left to head to the paint shop and spur off the moment pulled into a petrol station to put a bit petrol in......

road out had huge ruts and smashed the sump in.........31 miles

took the smashed up (2nd)steel sump and measured from the pump impact to the face off the sump which came in at @98mm,measured the .:R and it was @108mm so smashed out the steel sump to clear the .:R pump and then reinforced it slightly

roadtested......hit a dip on the motorway at 70 and after wincing and checking the rear view for the inevitable slick and oil buzzer as I pulled over eventually found this smeared up the face of the sump

and its held up to this day

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Finally got the car in for paint.......

Rear arch trimming

Mouldings off and a few repairs

Badge taken away

In primer

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Engine cleaned

A bit of Paint

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moar work got did,top of radiator had cracked which I had thought was the clip rusting and splitting it but turned out to be head gasket

shearedbolt caused a mare of a time

c+p from a friend from that nights work

ill add my pics from the 3 am shift last night

ghetto repair to splitter yo

dangerous Daz

exhaust delete in place

basecoat

laquered oot its nut

wheel

[dubbed_up_daz 8]

corrado decided to drop its engine on the ground............

drivers side bumper bolts came loose by some combination of errors and fell out basically so that side of the cross member was only being held up by an m6 bolt or whatever it is with a 13mm head which also eventually came out depositing the sump literally on the ground.

Id just got the day off for tomorrow sanctioned and was heading from asda to the nearest jetwash when it all literally went down

my brother came to the rescue,left the pictures(his anniversary no less)and brung down the trolley jack.Banged a widow maker under the sill.Lifted it up enough to get the trolley jack under the front on the cross member,ghettoed the cross member back on and got bolts back in.......

when car went back in to get the bumpers stu buffed out the 'key' mark it had picked up within a week....probably a kid with his first my little needle.........

rear plinth washed down with gunwash stuff then scotchied and masked

dustied

ghetto de-lock yo

bumper got masked for cataloy work

cat'ed,rubbed down then some slinky smooth cataloy shit poured on cured and rubbed down

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high builded

profiled and re builded

base

stu at work like a lil leprechaun on crack

after a lot of clear

in stitches........

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took a couple pics of it all built up

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Limping it about with the head gasket on the way out(no cross contamination and if you drive very easy its not throwing the water out all the time)

not just a random quick reset whilst on the motorway either

And not even an isolated occurence

:shock:

also,picked this up at the scottish vag glasgow meet

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The adaptors for the gold wheels arrived but they were not drama free,basically a screw up got the wrong drawing sent to the adaptor maker so had to wait on new ones coming.......

Adaptors arrived about half 1-2pm. Wasnt going to polish the sides but thought itd be rude not too,got them chromed again as theyre steel and I didnt fancy rust dripping onto the wheels. The chromer wanted something bolted in to wire these up so rather than having a pair off bolts kinda shiny I put in all five so all the wheel bolts got a tickle of chrome as well

Went to my tyre fitter mates bit to get the tyres on but knowing these were going to poke I had to raise the car....C-spanner had went walkies ended up using a masonry chipping hammer and a centre punch :roll: took the camber out as near as I could eye it up with the side off the car in the air,all the corners are all over the ship height wise,the cambers mucked up and I mucked up the passenger wing on a proper chronic downhill corner heading to a friends

but............till I fix stuff this is how it sits

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big BIG thanks again to Ed for painting the centres(and stu for the clear )

Run up and back to some stuff I had to sort stuff out the rubbing was increasing though.The front right is rubbing pretty bad from the leading edge under acceleration(wishbone bushes just gave up the ghost),the fr/ps is iffy going round right handers and the rears pretty cool considering the bootload its carrying

but pics after settling.....

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drive home from work on self imposed limp mode

started sorting out the centre caps

and thats me up to date as of a couple days ago,sorry ive not been to active but ive been kinda busy with show season work and stuff

Job for this week is hopefully fit the poly'd subframe and wishbones im buying off Ben to sort out the front then,fit the new shocker insert then get the car aligned so I can sort out the suspension

[Ian_rogers 0]

Wow update and a half!! U get through some sumps mate lol

New wheel look good, think I prefer the bentleys tho if I'm honest :-)

[rodney 17]

Busy doesnt cover it mate.... Sorry but I prefer the white wheels and yes it does look great with the new paint no matter which wheels are on it... LOL ...

Sump Guard???

Well done and talk about keeping the faith....

[bethslad 1]

nice car, liking the colour it suits it, hopefully get my golf looking that good some day :-)

[dubbed_up_daz 8]

Cheers The bentleys will be getting recoated then out to the side for winter and general running but the teledial splits were meant to be on a while ago to run through summer but things got complicated Ive got another set of splits coming and I hope once the running issues are sorted(soon as the bushes are all done the headgasket is getting done)ill be able to start enjoying it.

Also just bought another corrado as a parts car which I swore I wouldnt do when I decided to keep it but between mine, Stu's, Ed's and his missus Jenna's corrados I thought it was only fair to add to the parts pool ive dipped into so much.

plan once the engine is rebuilt and re-run back in is still to pull the engine for my mk1 and convert this to 24v or possibly just a charged obd2 but thats a good bit down the line. Still got my other mk1 to 20vT before I convert this

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RCF - a sump guard wouldnt be any use for me,it would just sit on the ground constantly When im fitting the subframe ive got blocks to fit that will raise the engine and take the sump out the firing line.

And it really was just down to a run of bad luck and combination off bad roads/circumstances. Ive never done a sump in in my life before

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couple pics from a show this weekend

My phone cam pics....me and the crew

and a few pics ive stole from the show

[J5KE F 0]

Looks really sweet with gold dude!

[12v 0]

I like corrados i hope i own one day a corrado but this one i remember first pics from Scotland Inverness- and i can see what become now -what i can say awesome work bud nice wheels "attention seeker" =DDD good man i like it

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tis all