new beginnings...

[dubbed_up_daz]

been major busy between normal work and a short time contract I picked up plus the continuing bad weather(stayed below -6 for over 3 weeks)but excuses aside ive been collecting and ordering bits for a january assault

new steering wheel
312mm front discs
golf obd II front calipers
mk4 rear calipers
new handbrake cables
new rear discs
stainless braided flexi hoses with correct fittings for the new calipers

Got to get back into work with the calipers to clean them up and repaint before fitting but the hoses had a two week wait on them anyway. Still waiting on the coils being removed from my friends car but hes suffering the same weather constraints as me


ohhh and Happy Christmas

[dubbed_up_daz]

cleared out my spare room in the hunt for the mk4 callipers,I knew they were in their somewhere as id seen the pictures on an old photo bucket account....took a good bit of digging though :/




my overheating problem in the bad weather turned my matrix to moosh so bypassed that and ordered a few bits.
little stash... 312s for front,new rears,pads all round,handbrake cables,rear wheel bearings,heater matrix


had to wait on the C&R hoses coming but that gave me time to clean up my callipers and repaint them

[dubbed_up_daz]

went over to my mates at the back of 2 one day but he'd been held up so never got started on work till half 4 and we had to swap the wheels on his mk6 over first as he was trading it in,started mine about 5pm'ish,it was cold(minus3)but clear and we got a decent start on it but halfway through getting the dash bolts out it started chucking it down with snow persevered,cursed,cursed some more,cursed a lot ,got the windscreen dash bolts undone and the matrix out and stopped for coffee and a hot roll...

went back out after the break and got stuck in to rebuilding it and finished buttoning up the lower panels at 11.30pm still snowing like a mofo. 20 minute drive home took an hour as the roads were insanity but no turkish bath and plentiful heat once again


highly detailed picture to show positioning of frozen scotsmen in idiocy mode...think this was about half ten and we just had the new matrix in,starting to rebuild up the heater box assembly and bones of the dash


11pm'ish,dash in and wiring roughly back in place,matrix connected in bay,car started and double checking plugs are all working and lights are all working,heater is all working


12:30am,home kettle on,picture for posterity


I usually take more pictures off stuff like this but it was just a bit hectic

[dubbed_up_daz]

gave them a clean,ready for paint tomorrow or thursday


came home after chasing up C+R about my hoses and when they would get here and..........theyd came in the second post and were sitting behind my door waiting


then a bad day

sorry for the rubbish pictures but my phones battery was dying




as the corrado also nearly did....heading home from work merging with slow moving rush hour traffic at the bottom of the motorway slip road,moved over into a gap between a pugeot and a truck,pugeot slowed to let the car in front of me in then picked up again,truck never and collected my rear quarter and almost spun me right round I felt the car skewing and steered into it and started feeding in gas as the truck never felt like slowing and almost got jammed clean under the front. Went via the bodyshop for a quote the morning after and contacted the trucks company but still waiting to see whats happening and go from there. If the company who owns the truck turn out to be nightmares like ive been informed it could get ugly but if the worst comes to the worst ill sell up the extra bits like my initial plan was and vr my jetta coupe

[dubbed_up_daz]

company that own the truck that hit me are insistent that however little the damage it needs to go through the insurance Still going to fit the brakes and hope for the best

anyway...finished the rears,loosened all the brake nipples but one of the rears is shafted so had to get a new one,a varied collection of copper banjo washers as the goodrige set was short and a mk3 sized front brake fitting as ive only got the one of them and the gr set comes with mk4 sized fittings

piktarz




Fitting turned into a clusterbomb as well,expecting it to not be straightforward is one thing but wasnt ready for the abject failure status it ended up.

Went to a friends garage sounds of silence(they do custom stainless exhausts)tried fitting the rears first,first problem being the mk4 calipers I had never had banjo bolts and the ones supplied in the goodrige kit didnt fit. Settled for starting to fit everything then onto problem 2,the rear dust shield for the mk4 is nowhere near fitting,ditch that and refitted the knackered corrado one,problem 3 the mk4 carriers do not fit on the corrado hub,fitted the bearing to the disc and fitted that while working out the best way to notch the carrier when,problem 5,it becomes obvious that there is no way the disc and caliper is going to line up....

phoned paul)good mate,ex head vw parts guy at local dealer)at dingbro(local auto factors) for advice but he was in bed dying so really appreciated him chatting to try and work it out but outcome was run down to ding and try mk4 discs out for size although nowhere had I read of this being an issue.....sitting down at ding with all manner of discs out I phoned back to sounds and got ben to try the mk4 caliper on the corrado carrier and surprise surprise everything starts lining up :roll:

back up to sounds to try and find suitable bolts ended up running down to BSH to try them....nope,nothing that small,tried the marina as lots of boats use banjo fuel fittings....'nothing like that at all' from a little toad of a bastard...tried mcalpines as I was passing on the off chance....nope,tried unipart and eddie walkers....nope,tried jim allans motorbike shop(where I sourced the missing banjos for the goodrige kit).....nothing that big (M12x10mmx1.25pitch)....into sounds again to get slaughtered,phoned pugeot(closest dealership)to try and blag some random pipes but never knew of any cars that ran M12 banjos so got told to go chase myself...phoned my brother and got numbers for skoda,seat,diamond engineering(local bolt specialist)....diamond...a banjo what??? we just have normal bolts mate...skoda....theyre just shutting sorry....seat,the parts guy was brand new,looking up and chatting numbers and cross referencing stuff tried a few different models and settled on a phase one leon shares the same fitting,ran through and checked the mechanics never had any kicking about in their boxes to save me buying the full hose but struck unlucky but gave me two options for hoses but ill need to go try them in person and they wont be in till next tuesday....

back to the car and basicallly refitted all the standard stuff so I could get home and bled the brakes as the whole result of the day was I got the smallest braided hoses that go from between the body and the axle fitted

[dubbed_up_daz]

had to get more stuff

A. new rear caliper slides(rado ones were ducked)
B. new rear caliper carrier bolts(rado ones were ducked)
C new rear dust shields(rado ones were ducked)
D. new mk4 rear caliper flexys(to get the banjo bolt)
E. pick up missing front banjo bolt from my mate icy(supplied the fr.calipers)

but ended up scoring a result and robbed a load of spares of a mate for free

and....
crappy old brakes




shiny better new brakes,still to repaint the og carriers but cleaned them up ready




loads of room,wish id held out for the R32 set up I wanted

[dubbed_up_daz]

pretty much up to date except some bedding in/bleeding issues that remain and I also just picked up another set of wheels(17" splits)but ill need to refurb them before I even try them on

[dubbed_up_daz]

friend done a quick chop to see me through the cold spell


then picked up some new wheels,swapped them for my old porsche wheels


its not all good news...










its a long road...........


probably run the bentleys as runabout wheels then put the autostradas on for shows

[GoLfMan]

nice mate! Keep the updates a comin!
Autostradas are one of my favourite wheels Whats the colour combo you are going for them? White centres, polished lips and gold bolts (would look amazing with the Rado's Maroon colour!)???

[dubbed_up_daz]

unsure yet on colour. Been swaying between BBS gold powdered centres with the centre sandwich mounted to make them 9's with polished lips and bolts or just fuly polish the centres lips and bolts and use them just for shows but getting time to work on my own stuff is nigh on impossible in the run up to the uk show season

but had a spare half hour today,the top lip was the dinged lip although not completely finished fixing the ding yet

[dubbed_up_daz]

spent yesterday at my mates bit swapping his coils for my Koni's and ended up with my shaft popping out the cv so spent today fixing that and freeing off the coils. The rears turned into a nightmare but the fronts were sound

currently about 16 coils down at the front(around 35mm)and 20mm lower at the rear




its rubbing a bit over bumps and turning but soon as I get the bentleys on and get rid of the mahoosive 215/45s I can drop it a bit more

[aussievwwdub]

looking good dude,havn't checked the forum out for a while so been slack posting anything.Keep the pics and up dates coming its good to see some more R"s

[dubbed_up_daz]

driving about half asleep after a disastrous day started by work drama,puncture,no jack,no real spare,broken lockers,multi wheel swaps and ended up fitting the rear bentleys as they were in the car so I could get home

pulled out a parking bay with too much lock and swiped the little gay barrier


sorted out front camber and toe issues and got the front bentleys on

[dubbed_up_daz]

shabby phone pics at 11pm after fitting

[Jarred]

shame about the damage! that sucks!

corrado is look pretty good other wise, bentlys are a good fitment!