G60'rado
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- Joined
- Oct 23, 2013
- Location
- Calgary, Alberta
- TDI
- 1990 Corrado G60, Donor Mk4 Jetta, Donor 1994 Corrado VR6
Hi everyone.
Long time lurker, first time poster.
History.
I had a really rusty 1990 VW golf 1.6 diesel, that I knew was on it was on borrowed time. It had 400,000+ km on it, it was more rust than metal. It dropped a valve at highway speed about 1/2 way into the corrado project.
I had an opportunity to acquire a wrecked 2000 TDI Jetta, with a good running engine. That led me down the rabbit hole to find a cool car to put it in. I was thinking sirocco, but couldn't find anything that was close, and wasn't a rusty heap. A 1990 Corrado g60 with a decent body came up 3 hours away, with no engine/trans. A few months later, a 1994 Corrado VR6 came up, with a rotten body. 3 cars became 1.
The Jetta donated the engine, harness, abs, cluster, and computer. Sold the interior and bits for a few dollars. Scrapped.
The 1994 Corrado donated its interior, complete electrical system, suspension, fenders, and the fuel tank/trunk floor. Sold the engine and trans. Scrapped.
The 1990 Corrado is a triumph of abomineering.
As I fell further down the rabbit hole, feature creep took hold.
As the car sits.
As it sits now, I have most everything talking amongst themselves.
Need to remove the last of the unused wires from the CE2 fuse box.
The canbus gateway can see the ABS, & ECU.
Instrument cluster is all wired, and free of faults. Speedometer input works, and shares the speed signal with the ECU and Climatronic.
The ECU is down to 5 or so faults (open solenoids, and a glow plug fault I need to chase)
Climatronic is clear of faults, just need to wire into the fan controller
ABS has a failed ABS sensor fault, but is happy enough so far. Will need VAGCOM to bleed it.
Next step, clear the engine and glow plug faults, put some oil in the engine, stuff some diesel into it, and try to get it to light off and run.
After that, pull the engine, and do a rebuild. Head gasket, gaskets, water pump, timing belt, spray paint over haul, and check bearings.
Piece together parts for the AC system. The Corrado serpentine condenser is in rough shape. Possibly a MK IV condenser.
Thanks for reading along.
Long time lurker, first time poster.
History.
I had a really rusty 1990 VW golf 1.6 diesel, that I knew was on it was on borrowed time. It had 400,000+ km on it, it was more rust than metal. It dropped a valve at highway speed about 1/2 way into the corrado project.
I had an opportunity to acquire a wrecked 2000 TDI Jetta, with a good running engine. That led me down the rabbit hole to find a cool car to put it in. I was thinking sirocco, but couldn't find anything that was close, and wasn't a rusty heap. A 1990 Corrado g60 with a decent body came up 3 hours away, with no engine/trans. A few months later, a 1994 Corrado VR6 came up, with a rotten body. 3 cars became 1.
The Jetta donated the engine, harness, abs, cluster, and computer. Sold the interior and bits for a few dollars. Scrapped.
The 1994 Corrado donated its interior, complete electrical system, suspension, fenders, and the fuel tank/trunk floor. Sold the engine and trans. Scrapped.
The 1990 Corrado is a triumph of abomineering.
As I fell further down the rabbit hole, feature creep took hold.
As the car sits.
- 2000 TDI Engine, with a Mk 3 "CTN" 5 speed. VR6 clutch.
- The engine is on the MKIV pendulum mount on the front, and the stock 2 transmission mounts. Passenger side crossmember engine mount has been deleted.
- Planned upgrade to the engine is 2004 Passat VNT-17a turbo
- B4 Passat TDI pedal box (bolt in) for the electronic throttle.
- 1994 Corrado VR6 front and rear suspension.
- TEVES-20 abs with EDL. (creep)
- B4 Passat TDI booster with ABS bracket (also a bolt on)
- Lines recycled from the 2000 Jetta.
- B4 Passat moon roof (creeep). Both the 1994 and 1990 Corrado sunroof were stripped out.
- Climatronic (epic creeeeep)
- Started off with a hacked up Corrado AC/heater box, and B5 Passat Climatronic from Pick n Pull. Got it mostly working, but.....
- Found a mkiv golf with Climatronic. Swapped the heater box out, and put in the wiring harness for climatronic.
- Had to replace the recirculation flap motor.
- Connects on the K-Line Bus
- MKIV Instrument Cluster (legendary creeeeeeep)
- Was originally just going to use the 2000 Cluster. But..
- Learned about the W8 full FIS cluster. I now have 3, one in the car, and 2 spares. I have a problem.
- Learned my way around the brilliant KW1281Test, Dashdump edit, and purchased VAGCOM Lite.
- Flashed the 1J5-920-946 program into the W8 Cluster, and copied the speedometer/tach/coolant/immo key config from my 2000 TDI cluster.
- Wired in the function of the Corrados MFA stalk into up, down, and reset.
- Programmed the immobilizer so it recognizes the rclick.co.uk fobs
- Used a MK IV speed transducer that screws into the top of the CTN transmission.
- The W8 is a CANBUS cluster, and most of the inputs don't display (door open, hatch open, lights on, buzzer/gong)
- I have grabbed a 1C0 comfort module to experiment with and add door/lights status to the FIS
As it sits now, I have most everything talking amongst themselves.
Need to remove the last of the unused wires from the CE2 fuse box.
The canbus gateway can see the ABS, & ECU.
Instrument cluster is all wired, and free of faults. Speedometer input works, and shares the speed signal with the ECU and Climatronic.
The ECU is down to 5 or so faults (open solenoids, and a glow plug fault I need to chase)
Climatronic is clear of faults, just need to wire into the fan controller
ABS has a failed ABS sensor fault, but is happy enough so far. Will need VAGCOM to bleed it.
Next step, clear the engine and glow plug faults, put some oil in the engine, stuff some diesel into it, and try to get it to light off and run.
After that, pull the engine, and do a rebuild. Head gasket, gaskets, water pump, timing belt, spray paint over haul, and check bearings.
Piece together parts for the AC system. The Corrado serpentine condenser is in rough shape. Possibly a MK IV condenser.
Thanks for reading along.
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