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guys ive just been to a mates of a mates place and looked at a few cars he has for sale, ive spotted a dragon green raddo vr sitting at the back of his garage.. its currently been sat for 6 years and not turned a wheel, engine is missing a starter motor and a couple of little daft things.. has 90k with full history and a leather interior there aswell as the original mint condition cloth one, sunroof works and could probably do with a load of servicable parts to get it back to good health.. at a rough guide price what do you think it could be worth? im tempted with buying it and keeping it as a long term project to be honest but not sure.. everything is there, just concerned with the engine no being ran in such a long time thats all

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A long over due update on the corrado. Finally got around to getting a genuine second hand starter motor which I have refurbished (not yet fitted). I've spent a few ££ on it over the last few weeks acquiring the parts and serviceable items I need.. Started to cracking with it on Saturday gone, made progress of changing the oil for shell helix, a fresh set of denso iridium plugs along with a brand new set of leads.

Oil filter has been changed along with fuel and air filters.. God it needed a bit of tlc.

All the breaks have been broken down and serviced and are to be built back up next week with a new set of rear discs and pads..

Hooked the battery up for the first time and guess what? The spoiler and the sunroof both work effortlessly. Absolutely chuffed with them results..

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All calipers removed today.. Struggling with the rear caliper carriers, been and bought myself some Irwins Bolt grippers to try and remove them! Got a couple of options with calipers, either replace them with brand new or refurbish them myself and replace pistons and seals.. What route to go down will be determined if I can clean the original Pistons up or not..

Coilovers have also been ordered so the original legs and springs will be coming out this week, new top mounts are coming next week..

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Made some serious progress with the raddo Over the last couple of weeks. Shocker legs all out, new top mounts put in and brand new coilovers.. Rears have been fitted and fronts are out! Job for this weekend. Rebuilt all the calipers with new seals and Pistons and a fresh coat of paint.. Carriers have all been wire wheeled and cleaned ready for paint shortly. Front discs have been wire wheeled aswell to clean them up, rears will be removed and get the same treatment this weekend..

Ended up picking up a set of genuine BBS RX2's today which have just been split, powder coated and rebuilt.. All have been re polished.. Came with a full set of tyres, wanted to go OEM+ instead of the generic bbs rs reps.. I'm not sure on the white but will see how they look when they are fitted.. Might be a job for the winter to either colour code them or find a colour that best suits the dragon green..

Pics below of my progress :

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On 4/19/2016 at 11:01 PM, jaks14 said:

All calipers removed today.. Struggling with the rear caliper carriers, been and bought myself some Irwins Bolt grippers to try and remove them! Got a couple of options with calipers, either replace them with brand new or refurbish them myself and replace pistons and seals.. What route to go down will be determined if I can clean the original Pistons up or not..

Coilovers have also been ordered so the original legs and springs will be coming out this week, new top mounts are coming next week..

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do the MK4 golf alloy calipers fit the rear?

is it original dragon green as the front scuttle looks beige?

i was looking at these http://www.wheelbasealloys.com/alloy-wheels/speedline/challenge/silver/17-inch/225-55-17/kumho/ecsta-x3-kl17/w-max-168-mph/300

for mine almost OE ;-)

good luck, we all love a project

s

 

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