My Corrado G60....

Hi all

Thought i would get some pics up of the G60

I Brought the car Oct 2010 with 118000 on the clock and it was totally standard except the KW V1's and the TH Lines that i just couldnt afford at the time so it got the car on the 15 " 7" BMW RZ's
this is how it looked on the TH Lines

i wish i would have had the money at the time

The car has had a windows out respray in 2009 in its original colour Pearl grey and also had the nuberplate recess filled in and smoothed over

some random pics





Since buying its had the following work

new Starter Motor
New Battery
New Sony Xplod headunit + little infinity basslink sub & amp
second hand Platinum grey cloth interior as the existing was totally ruined
Uprated headlight wiring loom(such a difference)
Replaced with Rocker cover + new Gastget
Electric window runners had come away from the glass so had to cut away all the old bonding glue and re glue with tigerseal
replaced both door handle pins (while doing so i found 5 old broken pins inside the door drivers side )
new accelerator cable
new expansion tank and G12+
Oil change + Filter
K&N pannel filter
Distributor and Rotor arm
Fan belt + Power steering belt (done at garage as it was too cold for me)
Bar Tek RSR Charger Outlet
68MM pully + 1640 Drive belt to match
Bosche Platinum single electode G40 Plugs (theyre a bit taller and run slightly cooler)
New rear centre cap as some pillock stole one (then got the Red BBS logo to cover the BMW centres)
Continental Sport Contact 2 for the rears
The car came with a powerflow two box system that made a bid for freedom so i replaced it with its current Scorpion stailess 3 box which is a little queter so more charger noise. i also found the decat pipe on the car which i had no idea about so that was nice....

The most painfull was when i sent my existing G-Ladder off to get rebuilt, ported and polishedby JMR old unit off


and it was diagnosed beyond help so after a month or so of getting offered chargers with no history for big money(idiots some people are) i struck gold as G-werks had one in stock so i had it rebuilt and ported and polished
here it is




in the car....


had to run it in for about 350 miles under 3k which was pretty anoying but worth the wait and the speed that the flowed G-ladder builds boost is insane + the noise

i would like to get head rebuild and flowed + Shrick Cam new valves but first i think i need a better clutch and to upgrade my brakes before upping the power any more also ive no idea what chip or engine management its running and although the ECU can adapt to some mods it would benefit from a propper live map.

i heard you have a meet at the end of every month in cambs ? i'll pop along to the next one if i can

cheers guys

looks nice mate. markgtx on here now has them th-lines

cheers mate
i would like to get the RZ's refurbed but it seems that every month there is a new problem or somthing else to save for and at the moment wheels really have taken a back seat on this car which is a shame.....

BTW lovely MK2 i think i read the build thread on edition 38 a while ago ..... ?

Yeah they are my wheels, small world!

Stu_G60 wrote:

cheers mate
i would like to get the RZ's refurbed but it seems that every month there is a new problem or somthing else to save for and at the moment wheels really have taken a back seat on this car which is a shame.....

BTW lovely MK2 i think i read the build thread on edition 38 a while ago ..... ?

cheers , yeah ive got a thread on edition. Its for sale now though

MarkGTX wrote:

Yeah they are my wheels, small world!

you got them from Andy Green in doncaster? thats crazy

i think you should give them back to my car......?

matty_mk1

are you selling up for somthing newer ? or more powerfull ?

For some reason my post has disappeared? Lol saw you on Saturday coming into the grand arcade carpark. Looked pretty sweet

jaques_g60 wrote:

For some reason my post has disappeared? Lol saw you on Saturday coming into the grand arcade carpark. Looked pretty sweet

lol yeah that was a nightmare getting parked up

was that you in the ice violet Rado?

do you have TH lines aswell? ............god dammit i want some

Nice dude! I've got a sweet spot for G60's!

Stu_G60 wrote:

jaques_g60 wrote:

For some reason my post has disappeared? Lol saw you on Saturday coming into the grand arcade carpark. Looked pretty sweet

lol yeah that was a nightmare getting parked up

was that you in the ice violet Rado?

do you have TH lines aswell? ............god dammit i want some

Yeah dude that was me. Just about made it out of there with the splitter on the car

Mine is on 16" th lines, im hopefully taking them off in a couple of weeks before the salt gets spread!

I might try and get to the meet to check yours out

@ Jaques
yeah that car park is just silly i was scraping and grinding all the way round..... didnt help having a few mates in tow lol

im so glad i have the 50mm splitter not the 90 as it would have said bye bye a long time ago

didnt see what flavour yours was ? must say i havnt seen an ice violt in the flesh and it looked stunning

when is the meet?

my cousin whose on here (i think).... has a pearl grey Mk2 GTD on turbines said its at cambs halfrauds on the last friday of the month ?

@VW Mike

thanks mate i like the G60's potential + noise.... plus if you overtake a VR it really puts their back up lol

Stu_G60 wrote:

@ Jaques
yeah that car park is just silly i was scraping and grinding all the way round..... didnt help having a few mates in tow lol

im so glad i have the 50mm splitter not the 90 as it would have said bye bye a long time ago

didnt see what flavour yours was ? must say i havnt seen an ice violt in the flesh and it looked stunning

when is the meet?

my cousin whose on here (i think).... has a pearl grey Mk2 GTD on turbines said its at cambs halfrauds on the last friday of the month ?

@VW Mike

thanks mate i like the G60's potential + noise.... plus if you overtake a VR it really puts their back up lol

Lovely Rado dude. Ahh, you are Adam's cousin then? He has mentioned your car a few times and I thougth i recognised the car from some of the pics in low morals (the dragster is a bit of a giveaway too!)

The meets are always the last friday of the month.

Martin

Cheers man, mine is just a 2.0 16v for now. I might do something about that in the future, then again my track record with engines isn't great haha

I think your cousin brought a g60 rocker cover from me about a year ago, and his mate got a silly cheap paddle clutch aswell

cheers mate

are you gonna bring ur rado to the meet also ?

Yeah Adam is my cousin, and all my family are obsessed with dragracing (thats my Dad's nostalgia slingshot in one of the pics, its on a demon carb atm and its a bloody pain running fine one day and wont idle the next he runs in the wild-bunch class)


Count me in on the meet i need to come check out come of the local dubs which i very rarly see (im Based in St.Ives)

i have to check out your ice violet rado mate

yeah i beleive Adam did buy that for his charged Mk1 project and probs the clutch was Chris for his charged MK2 i think?

still theyve got some beef those 2.0 and some KR parts realy wakes them up

roll on payday so i can get some new bits for the rado......

Stewart

Stu_G60 wrote:

MarkGTX wrote:

Yeah they are my wheels, small world!

you got them from Andy Green in doncaster? thats crazy

i think you should give them back to my car......?

matty_mk1

are you selling up for somthing newer ? or more powerfull ?

Yeah that's the guy, tbh I think they are a little wide for a rado, the rears at least

MarkGTX wrote:

Stu_G60 wrote:

MarkGTX wrote:

Yeah they are my wheels, small world!

you got them from Andy Green in doncaster? thats crazy

i think you should give them back to my car......?

matty_mk1

are you selling up for somthing newer ? or more powerfull ?

Yeah that's the guy, tbh I think they are a little wide for a rado, the rears at least

No such thing as too wide

Right....... I havnt really had much to write about recenty but i thought i'll get some pic up of the new grill which i just got (7 slat early style badgless)

also have some very plush all red rears fitted but no good pics


got this one from america

and here it is on the car


i think it looks so much better than my previous eyebrow which is now totally snapped and broken lol

also develpoped an issue with draining battery's overnight which turned out to be my fuel pump relay was constantly stuck on overrun killing my bettery(which was nice) so a trip to VW and a new relay sorted the problem
I also got some very needed new rubber upfront Toyo proxy T1R's (195/45/15/78v) and the tracking was so far off i got than done and now the car feels so much nicer with decent grip

havnt got much longer left now till the G goes off the road for the winter oh well .....

Looks good mate. What you gonna use over the winter?

Warby wrote:

Looks good mate. What you gonna use over the winter?

The bus......(dammit)

i'll be saving heaps of money without a car then come summer i'll have some money to play with for the car and a holiday would be nice lol

so how did you find that the relay was knackered?

could you hear the pump running even when the ignition was off?

From what i understand on charged VW's the number 90 relay activates an overrun which kicks the fan in and also the fuel pump (to drain the lines of fuel) when hot for around the 10 min mark when fully warmed up (to eliminate the potential hot start problems)and my car used to do this.......... but then i noticed that my fuel pump would still be on even after the fan had finished this cycle and even when the car wasnt even properly warmed up so a new relay seemed to sove this

Although there is a thermo switch near the fuel rail which can also cause this problem by making the ecu think the car is always hot.......

You have pm

right...... update time

so here is a pic of the all red rears


the wings and bonnet after some dodo purple haze


Since last year ive just been replacing various coolant hoses as they go which isnt easy these days as VW seem to make any corrado part obsolete just for laughes

currently the car is sorned as of early jan so i have just been doing bits and bobs mainly interior trim parts and start it up every week and pump the brakes ect

Two weeks ago i started it up and was checking over the engine to make sure everything was fine when i spotted a radiator leak... new rad time for me

I decided that i would do some prep work on the car so its nice and easy to just pop the new rad in ect so while im moving various intercooler hoses and sensors and wires of the they way i notice that thre is oil coating the walls of one of my intercooler hoses

I pretty much know what this means strait away so i remove my RSR outlet from the exhaust side of the charger to find a part of the seal and a small metal chunk sat againt the outlet fins(which is very bad news) so i whiped the charger out the car
and got in into the garage

cracked the unit open

look at the second wall from the cente of the charger..... a part of the wall has flown away

the other half apeared to be okay so i went to jabbasport and got brian have a look


the verdict is that the exhaust side of the charger is gone and totally unuseable but the inlet side and centre displacer is still in good nick so ive struck a deal with Brian at jabba for him to supply an Exhaust casing and the for it to be Stage 4 rebuild(funds providing)

pretty livid about it to be honest as that unit which was supplied by G-werks has only done just over 3 k which is total dog mess in my books

so for me the car is off the road for a while while i gather parts (and money) .... It may not see the road this year to be honest with other comitments and also its a good opertunity to replace various parts as i go

anyway here is my new rad

im trying to source some coolant hoses at the moment but again VW dont have any so the hunt is on....

cheers

i love this corrado, its such a clean example and for some reason im loving the colour

cheers mate.... yeah the colour was pretty much what sold the car to me as soon as i saw it i got my rose tinted glasses on lol (Pearl Grey in G60 form is quite a rare colour)

right so i took a look at my old rotting rad cowling and decided to clean it up a bit so..... sanded it down

then got some layerers of primer on

then some simonz gloss black (its not perfect but its a hell of allot better and sealed from rust for years to come now)

and then got the fan back together ready for the fresh rad


next up will be getting my spare rocker cover shot blasted next weekend and some of the charger brackets done at the same time

i could also do with getting a new belt tensioner as the rubbers on mine are faily shot lol

cheers