1990 Corrado Race/Track Car
Discussion
Rather than updating my old thread on this car I thought Id make a new one with all the new info on it. This is stolen for ClubGTi so ignore any reference to to other members......
So after nearly three years of building my race car build is on its final stages, and I thought while Im offshore and i have the time id reflect on the work Ive done so far and knock together a long overdue build thread.
The car was bought from down in luton, flew down and picked the car up. It was in a semi track car state:
1.8kr on bike carbs
ebay coilovers
semi stripped interior
bling bling ronal split rims
scorpion exhaust
recaro sportser seats and ebay harnesses
horrible momo wheel
here is the photo from the for sale ad:
I used this for a while as a daily, and really fell in love with it despite the poor parts that were on it, it really felt like it added up to something more.
After a light spin on the road, I decided that something had to be done to tighten the whole thing up and general make it a bit more purposeful than the look a like it currently was.
At this point I was introduced to danster, who took on the task of directing me through the cars first rebuild (on a budjet). The car was taken out to Dan's place and we quickly set about stripping anything unessecary from the car, including interior trim, alarms, electric windows, power steering, spoiler motor, central locking, radio etc etc...
In addition the car got the treatment of:
new custom braided lines and copper lines throughout
polybushes all round
custom uprated engine mounts
new headgasket and shrick 276's
4 branch and modified magnex system (back box replaced with straight pipe)
new discs and mintex 1144 pads in 280's
compomotive MO5's and yokohama a048's
This transformed the car into a cracking fun road car and something that was pretty nifty on the track. Some photos of it after its first rebuild
From here I moved onto using a set of Weber 40's on it as I wasnt happy with the bike carb set up. It ran really well on these after a good tune from Danster!
The car was run like this until december 2009 when I got caught out in the snow on R888's and ran up the back of a parked alfa at 5mph, no damage to the alfa, but destroyed my slam panel, wing, grill, head light and indicators. I did some bodge repairs and ran it for a few weeks but shortly after on my way home a ticking noise developed into a large bang, which upon investigation resulted in this:
This was the real turning point for the car, it needed a new engine and a fair bit of bodywork, and after already putting a lot into it it was make or break really. So I bit the bullet and decided to take it off the road and have my best stab at turning it into a proper circuit racing car for use in the northern saloons/hill climbing/smrc. The next stage of rebuilt has happened over the last two odd years, held up by my budget and a heap of other complications on the way, but ill try and not get into that.
So I set about getting the old engine out and prepping the car for paint (usefully had the use of an empty unit my dad had for rent)
Pick up another donor car for general panels and odds and sods i would need in the rebuild
The car was then sent to paint
2 months later
meanwhile, I had been collecting parts and having my first stab and an engine build using a gas flowed head the schricks and a new set off 45's:
unfortunately when i got it in the car and tried to fire it, the head had been skimmed more than i had been told and had a valve collide with the piston (gently but enough to bend the valves). So i sent the engine off to a local engine builder where i had the engine rebuilt fresh with all new bearings and seals, had the block decked and the pistons remachined (I wanted to keep it relatively standard internally for budget and ease of sourcing parts). He also installed a set of newman 288's and internal and external verniers.
Meanwhile, I took the car to Tornado motorsport who installed a custom six point bolt in cage for me (great guys would really recommend them). When I got it back I went about prepping and painting the interior myself:
After this I carried on fitting parts as and when I could afford them, negotiating the seemingly inifite complications Ive had along the way until we reach today, where the car sits in my unit awaiting a new brake line and some electrical tidying before I drive it out of the garage to start running it in and giving it a shake down. It will be road legal purely for testing and bedding pads in etc.
So here is how she sits now
and here is the spec:
Engine:
2.0 9a block, decked, honed and rebuilt
Ported head and newman 288 rally cams with internal and external verniers
weber 45 carbs with inlet dowled to head
malpassi fuel reg
facet pump under tank
4 branch manifold
windage tray and baffled standard sump
vr6 rad and spal 11" fan with override switch
standard box (4.2 final drive and kaaz lsd to be sourced and used once i have a good idea of the ratios i require for the car after testing)
rebuilt cvs
custom uprated mounts
shift tower rebuilt and machined to use thrust washers
b&m short shift (I have a VWM shifter but am still needing to get the cables made for it)
Suspension/Wheels:
manual steering rack from diesel mk2 golf
Avo coilovers with custom spring rates
Polybushed all round
ball joint extenders
tie rod flip
compomotive MO5's 1580 (white)
Compomotive MO5's 1570 (black)-wets
Ats DTC's 15x8
Brakes:
Wilwood midilights with ferodo ds2500s
cooling ducts to cult society ducts in bumper
grooved brembo discs (280)
Interior:
All sound proofing removed
doors cut and lightened
all original bracketry and mounts for seats and trim removed
poly windows all round
full 6 point cage
luke 3" harnesses
corbeau revolution seats
4 litre lifeline mechanical fire extinguisher plumbed in
all standard ignition and wiring removed
ignition and cut off switches on dash
momo two spoke 'wheel
Varley 25 battery in passenger foot well
Exterior:
Arches pulled and rolled
Full respray in alpine white
spoiler and wiper motors removed
lightened standard bonnet (17kgs to 5kgs!)
removable front bumper smoothed
sunroof welded in and smooth with black roof
There is a million things I have missed I know, and there are many things left to develop on the car but after two years I got to the stage where I am pushing to finish it and drive it so I can see how I feel in the car and see what I think it needs!
I will add more photos as the car is finished.
So after nearly three years of building my race car build is on its final stages, and I thought while Im offshore and i have the time id reflect on the work Ive done so far and knock together a long overdue build thread.
The car was bought from down in luton, flew down and picked the car up. It was in a semi track car state:
1.8kr on bike carbs
ebay coilovers
semi stripped interior
bling bling ronal split rims
scorpion exhaust
recaro sportser seats and ebay harnesses
horrible momo wheel
here is the photo from the for sale ad:
I used this for a while as a daily, and really fell in love with it despite the poor parts that were on it, it really felt like it added up to something more.
After a light spin on the road, I decided that something had to be done to tighten the whole thing up and general make it a bit more purposeful than the look a like it currently was.
At this point I was introduced to danster, who took on the task of directing me through the cars first rebuild (on a budjet). The car was taken out to Dan's place and we quickly set about stripping anything unessecary from the car, including interior trim, alarms, electric windows, power steering, spoiler motor, central locking, radio etc etc...
In addition the car got the treatment of:
new custom braided lines and copper lines throughout
polybushes all round
custom uprated engine mounts
new headgasket and shrick 276's
4 branch and modified magnex system (back box replaced with straight pipe)
new discs and mintex 1144 pads in 280's
compomotive MO5's and yokohama a048's
This transformed the car into a cracking fun road car and something that was pretty nifty on the track. Some photos of it after its first rebuild
From here I moved onto using a set of Weber 40's on it as I wasnt happy with the bike carb set up. It ran really well on these after a good tune from Danster!
The car was run like this until december 2009 when I got caught out in the snow on R888's and ran up the back of a parked alfa at 5mph, no damage to the alfa, but destroyed my slam panel, wing, grill, head light and indicators. I did some bodge repairs and ran it for a few weeks but shortly after on my way home a ticking noise developed into a large bang, which upon investigation resulted in this:
This was the real turning point for the car, it needed a new engine and a fair bit of bodywork, and after already putting a lot into it it was make or break really. So I bit the bullet and decided to take it off the road and have my best stab at turning it into a proper circuit racing car for use in the northern saloons/hill climbing/smrc. The next stage of rebuilt has happened over the last two odd years, held up by my budget and a heap of other complications on the way, but ill try and not get into that.
So I set about getting the old engine out and prepping the car for paint (usefully had the use of an empty unit my dad had for rent)
Pick up another donor car for general panels and odds and sods i would need in the rebuild
The car was then sent to paint
2 months later
meanwhile, I had been collecting parts and having my first stab and an engine build using a gas flowed head the schricks and a new set off 45's:
unfortunately when i got it in the car and tried to fire it, the head had been skimmed more than i had been told and had a valve collide with the piston (gently but enough to bend the valves). So i sent the engine off to a local engine builder where i had the engine rebuilt fresh with all new bearings and seals, had the block decked and the pistons remachined (I wanted to keep it relatively standard internally for budget and ease of sourcing parts). He also installed a set of newman 288's and internal and external verniers.
Meanwhile, I took the car to Tornado motorsport who installed a custom six point bolt in cage for me (great guys would really recommend them). When I got it back I went about prepping and painting the interior myself:
After this I carried on fitting parts as and when I could afford them, negotiating the seemingly inifite complications Ive had along the way until we reach today, where the car sits in my unit awaiting a new brake line and some electrical tidying before I drive it out of the garage to start running it in and giving it a shake down. It will be road legal purely for testing and bedding pads in etc.
So here is how she sits now
and here is the spec:
Engine:
2.0 9a block, decked, honed and rebuilt
Ported head and newman 288 rally cams with internal and external verniers
weber 45 carbs with inlet dowled to head
malpassi fuel reg
facet pump under tank
4 branch manifold
windage tray and baffled standard sump
vr6 rad and spal 11" fan with override switch
standard box (4.2 final drive and kaaz lsd to be sourced and used once i have a good idea of the ratios i require for the car after testing)
rebuilt cvs
custom uprated mounts
shift tower rebuilt and machined to use thrust washers
b&m short shift (I have a VWM shifter but am still needing to get the cables made for it)
Suspension/Wheels:
manual steering rack from diesel mk2 golf
Avo coilovers with custom spring rates
Polybushed all round
ball joint extenders
tie rod flip
compomotive MO5's 1580 (white)
Compomotive MO5's 1570 (black)-wets
Ats DTC's 15x8
Brakes:
Wilwood midilights with ferodo ds2500s
cooling ducts to cult society ducts in bumper
grooved brembo discs (280)
Interior:
All sound proofing removed
doors cut and lightened
all original bracketry and mounts for seats and trim removed
poly windows all round
full 6 point cage
luke 3" harnesses
corbeau revolution seats
4 litre lifeline mechanical fire extinguisher plumbed in
all standard ignition and wiring removed
ignition and cut off switches on dash
momo two spoke 'wheel
Varley 25 battery in passenger foot well
Exterior:
Arches pulled and rolled
Full respray in alpine white
spoiler and wiper motors removed
lightened standard bonnet (17kgs to 5kgs!)
removable front bumper smoothed
sunroof welded in and smooth with black roof
There is a million things I have missed I know, and there are many things left to develop on the car but after two years I got to the stage where I am pushing to finish it and drive it so I can see how I feel in the car and see what I think it needs!
I will add more photos as the car is finished.
Edited by Gingernuts on Friday 22 June 09:05
Cheers guys.
More stickers will be applied it when i can decide on the livery for it!
Regards cost I couldnt really say. I have always tried to sell bits to fund other bits kind of thing. I know it would be a fair amount through the various incarnations. I think it would scare me too much too add it up!!
More stickers will be applied it when i can decide on the livery for it!
Regards cost I couldnt really say. I have always tried to sell bits to fund other bits kind of thing. I know it would be a fair amount through the various incarnations. I think it would scare me too much too add it up!!
Awesome corrado.
Looks very purposeful and ought to be a hell of thrill out on track!
Note - I do like your mk2 and have enjoyed watching you run it around Castle Coombe over the years however I don't recall ever making it onto the same session as you when I ran a mk2 16v.
Looks very purposeful and ought to be a hell of thrill out on track!
HorneyMX5 said:
Looks awesome! Currently building a MKII Golf race/hill climb car myself and looking at doing a 2.0 16v on webbers to replace the 1.9 C&R 8v it currently has in it.
Thread bookmarked and looking forward to further updates.
Nick
Oh finally gaining those extra valves that every GTI mk2 should haveThread bookmarked and looking forward to further updates.
Nick
Note - I do like your mk2 and have enjoyed watching you run it around Castle Coombe over the years however I don't recall ever making it onto the same session as you when I ran a mk2 16v.
Looks very nice!!
FYI, this used to be owned by a friend of mine before it went down to Luton: http://www.pistonheads.com/members/showcar.asp?car...
FYI, this used to be owned by a friend of mine before it went down to Luton: http://www.pistonheads.com/members/showcar.asp?car...
Cheers for the feedback, yeah i do remember the guy piping up who had it before when i did the first build thread for it. its come along way since then with the only part remaining being the shell! had a lot of problems with it to begin with, MOT failure on a few things and worn bushes, head gasket went, all of this prompted the first rebuild.
Power wise I'd like to see 200 out of it as the heads pretty special and with the slightly raise compression etc, but to be honest I'm not chasing figures, as long as it pull well enough in the right places ill be happy!
Power wise I'd like to see 200 out of it as the heads pretty special and with the slightly raise compression etc, but to be honest I'm not chasing figures, as long as it pull well enough in the right places ill be happy!
Gingernuts said:
NateWM said:
Is that a joke?
Not following you there?
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