Fair play declan. I remember when Mike got that rado first. He was doing the body work on the ferrari at the time. Didn't he rebuild that engine too? I have a crane for you if you want. Any day next week we could organise it.

edit Different Rado im thinking of

 

Thanks Ciaran thats great, and the heater was working perfectly, i'm taking the dash out to send it away to be flocked and remove the rest of the sound deadening behind it. The interior is being resprayed also so it'll make things handier for Alan spraying it. Don't want him missing anything

About the rad, will I have to also run the Corrado rad or will the 318is rad work by itself? Any links to where its been done before so I can read up on it? Thanks again

Nope he didn't rebuild this engine afaik but i'll be giving it a fairly good overhaul anyways with new parts. Yeah he's gifted with bodywork, the work on the Ferrari is unbelievable. That'd be unreal if I could borrow the engine crane off you! Thanks a million! Would this Saturday be ok? I need to get my ass into shape flushing off bits of the bay

 

Afraid not bud, I'm off to England Friday til Monday. I'm off work for a few weeks though so pretty much any time after that.
Let me know sure.
The e36 rad has the expansion bottle built into the side of it. No need for the corrado one if you use this, you'll just connect the two water hoses off the engine and away you go!

 

I will do Dave thanks for the offer! I'll borrow it from you as soon as I can anyways, cheers

 

Disconnected the driveshafts, unplugged all the loom, all engine mounts unbolted, engine was perfectly ready to come out, engine crane at the ready and BOOM, exhaust bolts were welded in and didn't have an angle grinder to hand to grind them off. So the engines staying put while I go skiing for a week! Sooo close to getting resprayed in February not much left to do.

Thanks to Steve_Vrub my penis for the lend of the torque bar and Daveslp for the lend of the crane, cheers duuuuuudes!

Didn't bother taking pics as I was doing it in the pissing rain and wind with no light so the boobs will have to make up for that, can't wait to have the garage ready for her return from paint

Will be so much easier to get work done.

 

Haven't updated this in a while have been busy.

Engine's out, just have to tidy up the loom, out with dash and remaining interior and remove the brake master cylinder on the bulk head as well as line's etc so the full engine bay can be sprayed. Off for paint in 2 weeks. Macadamia brown outside, Champagne/gold colour inside still undecided on colour though.

Had planned on flushing engine bay and tidying it up but seeing as the G60 looks a fairly messy engine when sitting in a bay there's no point, also there'll be intercooler piping that'll have to be re-routed as well as cold air feed, coolers, fuel pressure regulator etc etc.

Picked up a thermostatic oil cooler thanks to Richie (RG16VT) and hoses to re-route the water back into the block rather than using the water cooled oil filter thanks to Daveslp.

MASSIVE thanks to Dave also for the very generous lend of his engine crane, much appreciated dude!

 

No bother Dec, glad to help. Let me know if your doing some sanding/prep for paint...if I'm around I'd be glad of the experience...need to turn myself into a 10k paint job pro sharpish!

 

I don't mean to sidetrack this project, but I know I will

After yesterday at Dubshed I have made up my mind that although I hope my Corrado will be finished to a decent standard, hopefully have nice fitting wheels and sit nice etc, I will use it on trackday's more rather than show and shine events. It would absolutely drive me nuts if I had to park it up after every show for fear of scratching the paint. So I hope to enjoy this car to it's full extent when money allows on track aswell as NCTing it for the odd road trip to some events.

So interior is now fully stripped of nearly everything, dash, heater matrix etc. Just have to take out the remainder of the interior loom. All sound deadening is being chucked out as it's rather heavy (have about 20kgs removed). I hope to however get some new heat and soundproof for firewall for behind the dash.

All brackets and clips have been removed from the bay in order to get it ready for paint, jut left to degrease it and remove the remainder of the seam sealer.

Main thing i'm focusing on now is saving up for the respray for engine bay, jam's and full exterior. In the meantime I will underseal or paint the car underneath and give the full interior a lick of paint seeing as there is no interior going back in.

Just a bare shell now with windows, more work this weekend and will get up to date pictures soon also. Lots of work ahead

 

Only picture's I have, excuse the poor pics they were taken from my phone.

Only getting to work on this every odd weekend as the car is in Limerick and I live in Dublin now for work. I have been in and around the car about a million times and I have not found 1 spec of rust, only minimal surface bits on rad panel and subframes etc, it's mind boggling!

 

Fingers crossed picking up a set of wheels for this tomorrow

Will post pictures when I get them.

Also I've decided to get the car glass blasted underneath, the engine bay and all the axle's, wishbone's, cross members etc. Was on the phone to Peter @ ELR services in Limerick who was a pure gent to talk to and gave me a very reasonable price and he is coming to blast the Corrado where I have the car at the moment so theres no hassle for me to bring it to him. Looking forward to getting rid of all the old underseal off the car and putting on some fresh stuff and a lick of paint underneath.

 

 

i like the wheels what size are they will you be keeping the gold colour with polish lips nice

 

cool wheels! whats the offset, specs etc?

 

theyre gunna look nuts with the adaptors!
Very light, good quality wheel
16x7 ET20
16x8 ET11

 

I honestly think that this wheel choice is the best Ive seen for a corrado anyway they should suit it perfectly! Nice work Declan.

 

if you change your mind on them, I want first dibs on them

 

Ah sure ya never know anyways, might do in the future. They'll be glass blasted anyways along with the shell of the car anyways so will be nice and clean before polishing. Saving for a set of CDJ1000's at the moment so we'll see

Havent been doing much on this lately as i'm trying to sort out the garage first so it can go in there, the garage is a project itself and another money pit! Not to mention the possibility of an extension so room for another car!

 

saw those wheels on donedeal,were an absolute steal!!!was very close to ringinng the guy but unfortunately cant afford to let the heart rule the head

will look class on a corrado

 

Mahles, nice. BMW fitment?

 

I actually haven't a clue what they are to be honest. Porsche wheels anyway, the man said they came off a 1980s 911? They are made by Rial anyways.

 

nice find Dec. Obviously they need a refurb but they look in reasonable condition (no major damage).

The 11 offset could be fun but sure nothing ventured nothing gained.

 

Exactly sure could always find some cheap car to put them on!

They'll be getting glass blasted anyways when your man comes to do the shell, polished lips and polished centrecaps. I'm missing 1 cap, and the other 3 are missing the Porsche emblem that fits into the 1 or 2 mm hollow so must have a look out for them.