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I'm now back on the forum after getting a new laptop, my phone doesn't seen to get along with TapaTalk which is very frustrating.
Anyway, to the case in point. I have a Tornado Red/Pink Corrado G60 which I stuffed through a hedge back in 2019, it sustained moderate front end damage and one quite nasty dent to the offside cill, I am yet to pull the carpet and interior trim, but looking at the underside the damage does not look like it extend's to the floor pan.
The car already required a full respray anyway which as I work in the trade I can get a decent job done for between £1 and £2K, if I do all the prep myself which will be a lot of work, I could even prime it myself once I've painted my garage floor. I would also need to source a pair of decent headlights and wings, I have one wing but it's decayed a lot in storage. The front bumper is fine, though I do have a mint spare along with a pair of complete doors with really heathy window regulators in them, also a spare rear bumper in tidy condition. I've also got one of the now very sought ofter 90mm front lower spoilers and a pair of decent wing mirrors along with quite a few other spares from the couple of Corrados I've broken.
I've been keeping an eye on Corrado prices and they seem to have dropped back a touch like quite a few classic cars. It's a very early car (1989) and orginally from Holland so LHD (which the first UK cars were anayway) and only covered 116,000 kilometers. I have all the history since 2012 when I purchased it but not much from before then, a little but no service book unfortunatlly. It's a nice spec, tidy full black leather interior and steering wheel etc though no sunroof.
I've been doing some back of a fag packet maths and it questionable if it's worth me investing quite a considerable amount of money and a huge amount of my time in doing the repair work, unless I wanted to fix the car for myself as opposed to sell on straight away. As much as I'd love to keep it I've decided to thin down my colection to just three Audi's for which I have a huge amount of spares aquired from breaking a lot of cars as well as picking up RS2 bits and bobs over the years.
My RS2 resoration is going to have to wait until I get shot of my MK2 Golf G60 which requires very little work, the funds from selling the VW will go along way to covering all the work on my RS2, it my even cover it completely if if discount my time. The car is safely locked up in the dry with the tyres inflated to 50psi and every month or so I roll it half a wheels rotation to avoid flat spots, it's got a set of very nearly new Toyo R1R trackday tyres in 225/45/17. I'm not in a massive hurry to start the job, but once I do start it things ahould move quite quickly, the car will be worth so much once resotored I'll probably only use it for shows/meet ups. Hence my idea below...
I also have a very straight and rust free 1989 B3 80 quattro E, which is poverty spec, so manual windows and the 2.0L four cylinder engine. This car is metalic black with the boot spoiler and the paint has gone very dull, it will polish up a fair bit but to make it look nice it would require a full spray. It has no interior other than a pair of front seats and a dash as the stuff in there stank when I purchased the car from a breaker and got burnt.
If I was to break my Corrado and sell all the spares I've got for it I could end up with a pretty much free G60 engine that I know the history of and has a fresh supercharger fitted.
So what I'm tempted to do to get shot of yet another car is fit the G60 engine from my damaged Corrado to my B3 80 quattro and leave it looking a bit tatty and stripped out. It would be very light so the 160bhp motor would make it be quite a quick car, especially with the 80's orginal gearbox which is geared for 120mph at 6K in fifth. I know G60's can be tunned to produce much more power but I like to leave them alone as the charger is stressed enough as it is. Unlike most turbocharged cars from that era it's running pretty close to the design limits of the G-Ladder, the offical factory service interval (full rebuild) on them is 50K miles! As soon as one starts fitting smaller pullys the shorter the service interval becomes and given that it's a £500 job it's not something I want to have to do even more often. My second Corrado G60 had a chip fitted in Germany that retained the stock pully though upped the boost a little and add a touch of timing and more fuel, that was supposed to be 180bhp and the car was very quick however it eat gearboxes
This would be pretty much the opposit to my RS2's restoration, as long as it's not rusty I don't really care what it looks like on the outside, I might not even bother painting the replacement drivers side wing I have for it the correct colour. It will give me a car to fiddle about with unlike my RS2 which is retaining the MTM coversion but otherwise remaining stock. I can always the 80 look nice in future, I'd use the car in winter to keep the salt off my other cars, though the underside will get presure washed every couple of weeks. I do have a nice set of BBS RM's fitted to it currenly as well as a couple of sets of steels.
I've not seen a B3 80 quattro fitted with a G60 engine, the 2.0 block in the car is almost identical to the G60's 1.8, so it really wouldn't take me very long to install it. The only thing I'd have to spend any serious money on is a clutch, I'd proably get a custom one made which isn't as expensive as one would imagine. Though once I have access to the G60's flywheel I might well be able to find stock one that would work fine. I would also need to purchase an intercooler and a couple of bit's of hose but these won't cost a fortune thanks to eBay.
It's a fair bit of work breaking a car but nothing like as time consuming as restoring one and a lot of the Corrado parts are worth a surprising amount. The interior alone is £1K back straight away.
Anyway, to the case in point. I have a Tornado Red/Pink Corrado G60 which I stuffed through a hedge back in 2019, it sustained moderate front end damage and one quite nasty dent to the offside cill, I am yet to pull the carpet and interior trim, but looking at the underside the damage does not look like it extend's to the floor pan.
The car already required a full respray anyway which as I work in the trade I can get a decent job done for between £1 and £2K, if I do all the prep myself which will be a lot of work, I could even prime it myself once I've painted my garage floor. I would also need to source a pair of decent headlights and wings, I have one wing but it's decayed a lot in storage. The front bumper is fine, though I do have a mint spare along with a pair of complete doors with really heathy window regulators in them, also a spare rear bumper in tidy condition. I've also got one of the now very sought ofter 90mm front lower spoilers and a pair of decent wing mirrors along with quite a few other spares from the couple of Corrados I've broken.
I've been keeping an eye on Corrado prices and they seem to have dropped back a touch like quite a few classic cars. It's a very early car (1989) and orginally from Holland so LHD (which the first UK cars were anayway) and only covered 116,000 kilometers. I have all the history since 2012 when I purchased it but not much from before then, a little but no service book unfortunatlly. It's a nice spec, tidy full black leather interior and steering wheel etc though no sunroof.
I've been doing some back of a fag packet maths and it questionable if it's worth me investing quite a considerable amount of money and a huge amount of my time in doing the repair work, unless I wanted to fix the car for myself as opposed to sell on straight away. As much as I'd love to keep it I've decided to thin down my colection to just three Audi's for which I have a huge amount of spares aquired from breaking a lot of cars as well as picking up RS2 bits and bobs over the years.
My RS2 resoration is going to have to wait until I get shot of my MK2 Golf G60 which requires very little work, the funds from selling the VW will go along way to covering all the work on my RS2, it my even cover it completely if if discount my time. The car is safely locked up in the dry with the tyres inflated to 50psi and every month or so I roll it half a wheels rotation to avoid flat spots, it's got a set of very nearly new Toyo R1R trackday tyres in 225/45/17. I'm not in a massive hurry to start the job, but once I do start it things ahould move quite quickly, the car will be worth so much once resotored I'll probably only use it for shows/meet ups. Hence my idea below...
I also have a very straight and rust free 1989 B3 80 quattro E, which is poverty spec, so manual windows and the 2.0L four cylinder engine. This car is metalic black with the boot spoiler and the paint has gone very dull, it will polish up a fair bit but to make it look nice it would require a full spray. It has no interior other than a pair of front seats and a dash as the stuff in there stank when I purchased the car from a breaker and got burnt.
If I was to break my Corrado and sell all the spares I've got for it I could end up with a pretty much free G60 engine that I know the history of and has a fresh supercharger fitted.
So what I'm tempted to do to get shot of yet another car is fit the G60 engine from my damaged Corrado to my B3 80 quattro and leave it looking a bit tatty and stripped out. It would be very light so the 160bhp motor would make it be quite a quick car, especially with the 80's orginal gearbox which is geared for 120mph at 6K in fifth. I know G60's can be tunned to produce much more power but I like to leave them alone as the charger is stressed enough as it is. Unlike most turbocharged cars from that era it's running pretty close to the design limits of the G-Ladder, the offical factory service interval (full rebuild) on them is 50K miles! As soon as one starts fitting smaller pullys the shorter the service interval becomes and given that it's a £500 job it's not something I want to have to do even more often. My second Corrado G60 had a chip fitted in Germany that retained the stock pully though upped the boost a little and add a touch of timing and more fuel, that was supposed to be 180bhp and the car was very quick however it eat gearboxes
This would be pretty much the opposit to my RS2's restoration, as long as it's not rusty I don't really care what it looks like on the outside, I might not even bother painting the replacement drivers side wing I have for it the correct colour. It will give me a car to fiddle about with unlike my RS2 which is retaining the MTM coversion but otherwise remaining stock. I can always the 80 look nice in future, I'd use the car in winter to keep the salt off my other cars, though the underside will get presure washed every couple of weeks. I do have a nice set of BBS RM's fitted to it currenly as well as a couple of sets of steels.
I've not seen a B3 80 quattro fitted with a G60 engine, the 2.0 block in the car is almost identical to the G60's 1.8, so it really wouldn't take me very long to install it. The only thing I'd have to spend any serious money on is a clutch, I'd proably get a custom one made which isn't as expensive as one would imagine. Though once I have access to the G60's flywheel I might well be able to find stock one that would work fine. I would also need to purchase an intercooler and a couple of bit's of hose but these won't cost a fortune thanks to eBay.
It's a fair bit of work breaking a car but nothing like as time consuming as restoring one and a lot of the Corrado parts are worth a surprising amount. The interior alone is £1K back straight away.
Luk also do a dual to single mass conversion kit, so see if your 2.0 flywheel fit's the G60, if it does then it opens up a world of 1.8T clutch kits.
Break the Corrado sort of the golf and get started on the RS2. Longer you leave it the harder it's going to be to restore the car, I know you have a fair amount of spares for the car but I'm sure you will find more parts you need as you restore the car. So pull your finger out and get cracking
Busy day then!
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