new beginnings...

[schoona]

wow!
Little bit jealous!

Arnage T's look supoib

[dubbed_up_daz]

Im very fond off them.Very un-pc wheels it seems but I love the spoke poke that they have. Hoping to have the coils on before any wheel fittage though,seriously needs a good 2 inches+ out the ride height

and thank you

[Jarred]

go the porsches!

[GoLfMan]

Porsche wheels hands down bro!

although I do like the Bentley's

[dubbed_up_daz]

ill be waiting until I have it lowered before I put either on although ive got 7x16" KMC teardrops I might slip on in the mean time,the kmc's are 5x100 although they need drilled out to take the M14's.Both the other sets require adaptors which I can borrow off my mate as soon as I decide which set to run after I get the tyres

[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