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I purchased my Corrado about 2 years ago, and have been dumping money and time into it ever since. inever really made a thread to document my progress so I figured I'd start one now. I'll slowly post my progress until I'm caught up to my current status, there will be a lot posted in the coming weeks because there has been a lot done.
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here's pictures of the car right before I bought it this was may 2011 iirc
 
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After a few months of owning the car I got these rx-II's for free, bought some tires and threw them on the car, I liked it a lot more than the Audi wheels.
At this point I did a timing chain job and all the joys that came with it. I then decided I wanted new wheels so I got some bbs rs.
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cleaned them up a bit and was pretty happy with them
 
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At this point I said **** it and threw the wheels on the same day I lowered the car on my new coilovers
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at this point I was really quite happy with the car regardless of the wheels needing to be refinishing
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Drove about a mile from home and hit some construction, mashed my pan up real good so a mk5 r32 oil pump and a chopped steal pan came next
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Some pictures taken at waterfest by vortex
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And I convinced 2 dudes to take a quick picture with me bc I rarely see corrados so group shot it was!
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The car felt great on the long ride home, cruised the whole way with no issues, thought the car was good to go, 2 days later the car had a no start issue and I said **** items tore into the car to do a head rebuild with 268 cams, lightweight lifters, heavy duty springs and ti retainers, along with an obd2 swap.
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I also did a 2.9 euro clone intake at the same because racecar.
 
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At some point the engine harness socket got corroded and a shop spliced it together, I'm just not about that life so I was happy to see this go with the obd2 swap.
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The new harness wrapped up and just about ready to go in.
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Got everything back together and ready to fire, we fired the motor, ran for about 20 minutes before this happened.
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Exhaust valve cylinder number 1 snapped at the guide and fell in, during the break in, needless to say catastrophic engine failure occurred and a new motor was now needed. That's enough of an update for today, will update again soon.
 
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Darksidedanger said:
^^^ ouch! Why did that happen after you put the work in?
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I still can't be too sure, but the head had 2 bent valves which were replaced, the machine shop told this upon picking up the head, knowing that any valves were bent I would've just replaced all the valves. The shop building the motor trusted the machine shop that the head was good, they ran the motor for 20 minutes with slow revs, heard a noise, tried to pin point the noise and the motor blew up. They are friends of mine so we made a deal, I bought the motor and they would do all labor for free. So I agreed and they found me a 43k mile long block vr6 from a 98 gti, the motor was in New Hampshire iirc, had a bunch of surface rust, but we cracked it open, and the head was unbelievably clean inside. Rebuilt that head with all new valves, my 268's springs, lifters retainers etc.
 
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The new 43k mile head rebuilt with my 268's, lightweight lifters, heavy duty springs, and ti retainers, along with brand new exhaust valves.
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Again I painted just about everything I could to make everything look nice and clean, makes me feel a little bit better about the bucket.
 
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Working at the dealer has it's benefits, scored brand new OEM NOS leather shift knob and ebrake handle for pretty damn cheap.
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We all know this well by now.
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Being a bit OCD and wanting to clean the entire car, I scrubbed the a exhaust tunnel completely clean for a few hours one day.
 
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Last November I finally found a tan European seatbelt kit so I snatched it up.
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Bought some new rear door cards and cleaned them up.
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Also cleaned up the seatbelt kit.
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A before and after.
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Bought a MBS 3 inch exhaust and installed it.
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Got a new drivers axle bc the boot tore and I just replaced the other axle during the motor being rebuilt so said **** it, 2 brand new empi axles, lets start fresh.
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Found a 160 mph cluster on eBay and couldn't resist.
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Found a brand new OEM NOS hood bra on vortex and really couldn't resist.
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Just a big pile of parts on the floor in my room waiting to be installed.
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Found a 6 disc cd changer and the cd changer deck so I picked those up.
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Also found a deluxe radio with aux in shortly after so I bought that too.
 
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