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Author: Keith G
Total 2 posts - Started on 2013-04-29
Last Post Time: 2013-05-17 11:40:42
Posted on: VW Corrado World
So i finally got around to puting the new timing belt on. Some one put one on a few years ago and the cam was off by a tooth. I get it all apart and find the distributer gear was also off by 2 or more teeth as well. To make up for it they retarded the distributer. I dont know how it ran. I put back into time and installed some new spark plugs. The car runs alot better and smoother untill i blew the vacume line off of the intake which made stoping fun by the way. Got that reinstalled and clamped down. Now i need to get the turn signals working and the wipers as well then i think it can be driven on the street with no problems. Its a slow project but its comeing along.
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Author: Eugene S
Total 6 posts - Started on 2012-09-08
Last Post Time: 2013-04-19 20:38:31
Posted on: VW Corrado World
After what feels like forever, I finally made it out to the garage and managed to stay there more than 5 minutes without freezing my tail off.
Note to self, pick up a radiative heater.
I pulled the supercharger out onto a bench and after some examination of the vintage corrosion in place, I began to remove bolts. I started with the silencer box, finding that the plastic around the captive nuts was on strike and they just spun around in place. I took a screwdriver and managed to chip away enough to allow enough purchase area for the vice-grips.
I took the simple route, and began to remove any bolt or clip I could see. Yes sir, when it comes to simple, I'm a natural. Things slowly progressed and after putting off the mystery for so many months, the interior of the supercharger revealed itself. On initial inspection the supercharger seemed in good nic. I began to examine it closer and found that the apex strips were so badly worn, they were very close to flush in their slots. So bad in fact, that I almost didn't see that there were slots in both the main housing halves and the internal scrolls. I carefully found a high point and slowly pried out the strips from their long held, 23 year, resting spot. They were a bit brittle, to be expected, I suppose considering their age and the number of heat cycles they had endured.
This weekend I hope to clean up the housing, put on my reading glasses and with a large magnifying glass, examine every minute bit of it. ...
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Author: Jeremy J
Total 1 posts - Started on 2012-12-02
Last Post Time: 2012-12-02 11:26:55
Posted on: VW Corrado World
Intended Near Future Upgrades:
Exterior---
-OEM fog&markers to E-Code crystal clear Fog&Markers.
-obtain wiring harness from another vw so the front bumper signals turn on like marker lights.
-yellow glass stain for fogs, 3000k HIDs and ballasts for fogs.
-Euro Glass headlight housing upgrade from US corrado stock headlight housing. dim.
-Euro LED Tail lights - Crystal and Smoked/Red.
-Stock US Corrado headlight housing to E-Code Euro Headlights(hopefully i can find a pair)
To be Continued..
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Author: Randy Hepp
Total 1 posts - Started on 2012-06-09
Last Post Time: 2012-06-09 20:44:43
Posted on: VW Corrado World
Paul, tired of me blowing his doors off on the way to work every day, with me in my 1985 "Rootbeer Float" colored Cabriolet which I've tweeked n tweeked, and him in his 1990 Red Corrado G60, stalled just before we got there...he said "that's it, I'm done with it you can have it for $800" so I said "um Ok". Well later that day my oldest son and I went to get her. He said what the hell is that a Mercedies? At thst point no grill no badges and never having seen a G60 I could see his mistake.
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Author: Marin Marinov
Total 4 posts - Started on 2012-05-15
Last Post Time: 2012-06-06 12:13:18
Posted on: VW Corrado World
Well, I work hard and now I will show you my progress. Here is another layer of polish. One more and will be like a mirror. (I hope so )
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Author: Kent Waddington
Total 1 posts - Started on 2011-12-02
Last Post Time: 2011-12-02 20:52:57
Posted on: VW Corrado World
I was driving to Toronto in mid-October (2011) and for some reason, as if it were a sign from God, my head was filled with the memory of seeing a sweet little quasi-cranberry-coloured Corrado in a restaurant parking lot in Ottawa three or four years ago. Being a car freak/geek, this was not unusual. I think of cars OFTEN. The memory was short-lived and life carried on.
Days later, on October 13, I receive a text message from an unknown phone number asking simply "Hi there is this kent?"
"Who wants to know?" was my reply.
"Haha, I don't know if you would remember but you left a card on my Corrado a few years back saying if I ever plan on selling the car to let you know , well that time has come."
So, was this a sign from God? Was he testing me? Teasing me? Or just jerking my chain?
The owner, Clint, and I exchanged a few texts and I went to Ottawa to look at the car and take it for a test drive.
Yes, you guessed it. I bought the car. Who could resist the purrrrrr of that supercharger at 140 kms...
My first VW. And probably the best looking one they ever built. I would later learn it was in fact 'burgundy pearl' and not 'quasi cranberry' but I can live with that colour. Love it! It was the colour that attracted me to the car in the first place at the Montana's restaurant in the IDEA plaza in Ottawa. I remember the food not being all that good ... but now having the car has more than made up for it.
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Author: andrew f
Total 1 posts - Started on 2011-09-09
Last Post Time: 2011-09-09 17:54:24
Posted on: VW Corrado World
hi i am 15 and just go a vw corrado, i hear about the spoilers on the corrado breaking. mine works but i want to know how to either turn it off or do whatever i can to keep it working thanks.
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Author: coleton t
Total 1 posts - Started on 2011-08-10
Last Post Time: 2011-08-10 17:10:48
Posted on: VW Corrado World
I live in the panhandle of Texas and I'm looking for a 1991 VW Corrado G60! I want it as original as possible!! Thank you, and please comment if you know of anything available!
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Author: Tom Lindmark
Total 9 posts - Started on 2006-04-18
Last Post Time: 2011-04-16 12:14:32
Posted on: VW Corrado World
I sold my G60 Corrado back in April of 2008. It still lives on in Oshkosh, Wisconsin with its new owner. I don't believe he is a part of Corrado World. At any rate, I finally reached my limit with the car when the new timing belt I had installed broke for the final time. I grew tired of wrenching on it when I'd have rather been driving it.
Nice to see the picture of it on the website header...thanks for that Skye.
My replacement ride is a 2001 Audi TT Quattro Roadster. Tastefully modded and quick as hell. Reliable too! I added a headliner for the convertible top, a center armrest, and a factory luggage rack I found on EBAY. I also tracked down the original Pzwo P1 wheels that were on the car when it was bought new by Hillside Imports here in Portland.
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Author: Anthony Williams
Total 1 posts - Started on 2009-10-19
Last Post Time: 2009-10-19 13:52:59
Posted on: VW Corrado World
Coooling fan comes on 10 minutes after parking.stays on for 15 minutes.with ignition off.killing my battery.will 185F switch solve this problem?
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Author: shamar jones
Total 1 posts - Started on 2009-02-19
Last Post Time: 2009-02-20 10:53:44
Posted on: VW Corrado World
man i try anything i put a new cat on fix the 02. rewire it.
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Author: David Lopez
Total 1 posts - Started on 2009-01-30
Last Post Time: 2009-02-03 17:00:25
Posted on: VW Corrado World
Yea my rado vibrates at idle and about like 3000 rpm, once it passes that sectionn the vibration goes away, what could it be?
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Author: steve vinton
Total 1 posts - Started on 2009-01-06
Last Post Time: 2009-01-07 16:25:16
Posted on: VW Corrado World
I just bought a 1.8 long block 1988-1993. I need the after market fuel rail & a crank harmoneck ballincer pully.The old 1.8 motor came out of a 1989 Jetta GL.The injectors do not fit & seat in the new motor. Can anyone help me with this motor? Please call me at 206-931-9940 or home # 253-*939-0936. I will add a pic soon.
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Author: Steffen Wolffe
Total 1 posts - Started on 2008-03-30
Last Post Time: 2008-03-30 02:34:06
Posted on: VW Corrado World
I've had this car a week, and I think I have re-defined a love for a car. The only other vehicle I enjoyed this much was a Challenger. (Can't recall the year, but it's cousin was the Plymouth Sapporo)
But I actually enjoy this car more.
I am looking at different things to do to it, starting with fully restoring it to factory specs, and then upping the Supercharger a little, Heading over to Neuspeed to see what they recommend, and finding a few other little toys for it.
Stereo will be a custom thing, as well as the paint. I'm thinking I like the black paint, so it'll stay black. Will most likely add a single racing stripe up the driver's side, but that stripe will not be the standard "big fat line" as most cars have. I want the stripe to have a distinctly Tribal look to it.
The supercharger was blown by the previous owner, so I'll either be looking for a repair kit or some kind, or (hopefully) find one in a pull-it-apart yard somewhere.
Came across this site as I was browsing for Corrado related things, and thought "what the hell"
Here I am.
I put the key in the ignition, and......
There I go!
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Author: Genesis Fetter-Heasley
Total 3 posts - Started on 2008-03-24
Last Post Time: 2008-03-25 17:19:42
Posted on: VW Corrado World
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Author: Gregor Leonhardt
Total 1 posts - Started on 2008-02-01
Last Post Time: 2008-02-01 07:40:14
Posted on: VW Corrado World
Hello friends of this Register and Corrado drivers,
The Register has changed. After 6 years of my own hard work entering and publishing each of the 1600 entries the work is complete. The Register has a database and every user is responsible for their own entry.
The new login for old entries works as follows:
Your email address used in your entry is of great importance. Click the button REGISTER NOW. Enter your data. Once the registration is complete you'll receive an email in which you will have to confirm your registration. Only then can you log in.
During registration (or the first login) all vehicles entered by a user will be assigned to that user. This works through the email identifier. For this purpose you must enter the same email address during login which you have originally provided to the Register. Because you have to confirm the registration by email, you have then also confirmed your email address. This ensures that only the right Sciroccos end up in a user's profile. At a later date you can using the management tool modify your data, club, HP, VIN, attach a picture of your Scirocco, etc.
There is folder for uploading your picture. The picture will automatically receive a red marker. The text is generated dynamically. "Sciroccokartei.de Kartei 2:513" This marker would, for example, mean Register #2 (because of the 53b), and number 513 denotes the entry number in Register #2. The numbers have changed slightly because some of the old numbers were used...
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Author: Jason Jablonski
Total 1 posts - Started on 2007-01-29
Last Post Time: 2007-02-17 06:47:02
Posted on: VW Corrado World
Hello. Well, I finally got the cool corrado that I wanted in high school. It needs a lot more work than I thought but it will be worth it. It is actually missing a sensor or something that attaches to the upper part of the intercooler tube. Does anyone know what that is? Or, does anyone know a good resource for working on corrados? (yes, I am a complete newbe).
Thanks
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Author: eric byrd
Total 1 posts - Started on 2007-01-09
Last Post Time: 2007-01-09 11:14:47
Posted on: VW Corrado World
I've loved my corrado but its time for it to go. I need the money to buy a house. Its a 1993 with 95,500 miles on it. Its in great shape. Check the ebay listing for more info. Item number 230075032738
Eric
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Author: Casey Bauer
Total 1 posts - Started on 2007-01-07
Last Post Time: 2007-01-07 21:06:16
Posted on: VW Corrado World
Hey guys thanks for leting me in the club. I hope i can get some help from you all and maybe give a little. I just got my car and i am looking to fix it up a little. I love the Corrado body and everythings else about them. ok well see you all around. Casey
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