Houpty GT
Veteran Member
A few people have encouraged me to make a thread for my car.
I'll use it to track progress and slowly share past projects.
It's a Corrado G60 with a Jetta 1Z swapped into it. I had given up on my project for a Porsche 944 TDI since I was a bit too transient and decided to go with the much easier Corrado swap. While I was shopping for a Corrado shell that was clean enough and cheap enough to swap my AHU into, I got lucky and I came across a project that I decided I would continue on with and redo all the things that were not up the challenge to maintain reliability as a long term daily driver.
My main goals are to have a great looking car, that is completely reliable, comfortable for long trips, gets fantastic fuel economy, and performs well enough to represent the Corrado name. Sort of like a dream car isn't it?
My main route to performance and fuel economy is through weight reduction. I have reduced over 250 pounds from the car so far and have maintained a stock like interior. I have another estimated 150 pounds more I can reduce with in my goals but the cost and effort increase greatly. I originally planned on limiting it to about $25 a pound to cut weight. Another 50 lbs. would be a great accomplishment.
My current project (of many ) is a PD lift pump for the Corrado G60 tank. My car came with the stock G60 intank pump and it worked okay for pass-through flow. I did not want to use the gasoline pump so I modified an MK4 ALH fuel pickup to fit and accept the G60 fuel level sensor chip.
I'll use it to track progress and slowly share past projects.
It's a Corrado G60 with a Jetta 1Z swapped into it. I had given up on my project for a Porsche 944 TDI since I was a bit too transient and decided to go with the much easier Corrado swap. While I was shopping for a Corrado shell that was clean enough and cheap enough to swap my AHU into, I got lucky and I came across a project that I decided I would continue on with and redo all the things that were not up the challenge to maintain reliability as a long term daily driver.
My main goals are to have a great looking car, that is completely reliable, comfortable for long trips, gets fantastic fuel economy, and performs well enough to represent the Corrado name. Sort of like a dream car isn't it?
My main route to performance and fuel economy is through weight reduction. I have reduced over 250 pounds from the car so far and have maintained a stock like interior. I have another estimated 150 pounds more I can reduce with in my goals but the cost and effort increase greatly. I originally planned on limiting it to about $25 a pound to cut weight. Another 50 lbs. would be a great accomplishment.
My current project (of many ) is a PD lift pump for the Corrado G60 tank. My car came with the stock G60 intank pump and it worked okay for pass-through flow. I did not want to use the gasoline pump so I modified an MK4 ALH fuel pickup to fit and accept the G60 fuel level sensor chip.