My Corrado - Gooney, son of Badcrumble

Well here he is...



Have some plans, and will be scavenging some parts from his mother....and her she is, god rest her soul



Unfortunately I had to break her. Was doing a turbo conversion and ran out of money due to some personal issues :(

Mate, that burgundy raddo is well nice. Can you not repair that with the red 1?

Whats wrong with it now anyway?

Erm, there isn't much of it left to be fair :(

Shame! , looked a lovely car.

Good Luck with the replacement anyway then

Cheers dude! It wasn't a bad car to be fair, but the missus had been off work sick for 6 months, so needed cash, it was in bits anyway whilst I was building the engine, and it was my only option. The most gutting thing I've ever done, breaking that car. But I have a new one, that was very cheap, so roll on the mods!

This is how far I'd got. 2E block ready to be rebuilt. Will be ordering some new rings and main and big end bearings within the next month or two, so I can crack on with it.


Built this up last year too....mmmmmmmegasquirt

Take it ya know what ya doing with wiring then lol

Guessing the 2E block is to make the G a 2litre. Cool

Should be quick lol

CaddyRage wrote:

Take it ya know what ya doing with wiring then lol

Guessing the 2E block is to make the G a 2litre. Cool

Should be quick lol

Not quite. I'm using the 2E 2.0l block with a 16v head. The resulting compression ratio is around 8:1, as on the 2E block the pistons are dished and the 16v head has the combustion chamber in it. I'm using the intermediate shaft and pulley, crank pulley and oil pump from the 9A block I had out of the old Rado, then gonna stick a Garrett T3 turbo from a Cossie on the back of it. Hoping for at least 270bhp.

Going to put the Megasquirt on the 1.8 16v engine to start with though, as I've been advised its best to start off simpler, just to get the experience.

looking good mate shame u had to break the purple one

mrbeige wrote:

CaddyRage wrote:

Take it ya know what ya doing with wiring then lol

Guessing the 2E block is to make the G a 2litre. Cool

Should be quick lol

Not quite. I'm using the 2E 2.0l block with a 16v head. The resulting compression ratio is around 8:1, as on the 2E block the pistons are dished and the 16v head has the combustion chamber in it. I'm using the intermediate shaft and pulley, crank pulley and oil pump from the 9A block I had out of the old Rado, then gonna stick a Garrett T3 turbo from a Cossie on the back of it. Hoping for at least 270bhp.

Going to put the Megasquirt on the 1.8 16v engine to start with though, as I've been advised its best to start off simpler, just to get the experience.

Bloody hell fella, like ya engine work dont ya lol .
Is it going in Gooney when its all set up then or have you got something else lined up as a guinea pig?

CaddyRage wrote:

Bloody hell fella, like ya engine work dont ya lol .
Is it going in Gooney when its all set up then or have you got something else lined up as a guinea pig?

Not sure if I 'like' my engine work, as this is my first attempt at doing a rebuild. I was shocked at how simple the earlier VW engines are to be honest though.

The motor will eventually be going in Gooney, once its built. I only need a couple of major components left to sort out. Turbo being one, but eBay is my friend , other than that, an exhaust manifold and downpipe and that's about it. Got an inlet manifold sorted, will be using a modified 20v one, just need to find someone local who is handy with a TIG welder.

It's be no means gonna be done soon, but I can wait. Building it should be fun

I want to sort all the running gear out first though. I've got the front cross member, front subframe and rear axle off the old Rado, that I'm gonna get sand blasted and powdercoated by my brother-in-law (hopefully) and fit them, sort the brakes and possibly some coil-overs and an 02S 6-speed box from an Audi A3, Mk5 Golf or Touran (if I can afford them lol)

Plans plans plans....probably never come to fruition though.... We will see I suppose

caddyman wrote:

looking good mate shame u had to break the purple one

It was a shame dude...totally gutting thing to do :( , but from the ashes the pheonix shall rise!!

surely you need to use 16v pistons? due to valve clearence on the top of the pistons?

Whitegt wrote:

surely you need to use 16v pistons? due to valve clearence on the top of the pistons?

The 2E psitons are dished, but I will be getting the valve reliefs put into the edges of them

So, gonna get these done....


...with the valve reliefs on the out edge of these...

Does anyone know anyone local who does machining who can add the valve reliefs as per my previous posts??

Cheers

Hello mate, got some nice plans then I see Good to see someone else messing about a bit more with engines and management. I've just started doing a build for the polo using Emerald and a mish mash of block, crank and cylinder head with a set of custom pistons

Henry wrote:

Hello mate, got some nice plans then I see Good to see someone else messing about a bit more with engines and management. I've just started doing a build for the polo using Emerald and a mish mash of block, crank and cylinder head with a set of custom pistons

Nice choice of management. I'm not that rich lol, but it allows me to re-engineer the software somewhat

Hmmm, might have accidently bought a turbo T3 off a Cossie. Ideal for my plan anyway!

Well, managed to get a few things started this weekend. Fitted a new brake line on the O/S rear as I'd buggered the copper pipe when trying to take the standard calipers off. Just need to get some plusgas or summat on the mk4 golf rear caliper bleed nipple as its pretty stuck.

Also removed the exhaust that was on there. The centre section was a bodged VR one, so it had about 76 different joins, some of which were sealed with silicon sealant

So I've ordered a standard centre silencer/resonator of the Bay of E for £28 delivered

Today, as I've given up smoking (day 7 today) I found myself needing something to do, so I thought I'd make a start on my Borbets.... here are some pictures of the progress so far....

Before


After




Gonna do the centres satin black, so flatted them ready for some paint....