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Very nice work! Going to be one awesome street car, and who is going to guess that a 4.2 V8 is under there, well at least until you start it up! Keep up the amazing work.

speeding-g60 wrote:Richard haha.

the guys i am talkin with both say for me to ditch the '00 ECU/harness and get '01. 5 wires to repin, and then tuning it is more better.

then D says to just run it, and ignore the check engine light as it should be fine to run as is.

i think the challenge will be to integrate the Corrado cluster with the 4.2L ECU/harness.

Gotcha. Stock ecm may be the way to go.

Win Aaron. Thanks for updating the thread. I get the FB updates too, but they are hard to follow at non searchable for the like minded folks that want to remember where to find the infos

maybe i will make another page, like my Speeding-g60 Race Team page.

nah, just one more thing to keep up.

crap i have fallen way behind on this updating thing havent i.....

lets see.... judging by the picture trail and what is not up here, i think we have a few updates.

played with the front end some, got some headlights and new core support. just lookin at how stuff fits in there.

then i raised the tie rod points on the steering arms off of the strut housings.

then i needed to mount a steering rack, i took the rack out of my MK1 Rabbit GTI, and figured lets give that one a whirl and see how it works out.

but with the motor in the car, it was in the way to easily work on it. so i removed it, and then put some weight back in it with the car on the suspension to simulate ride height and strut compression. just grabbed 500 pounds of welding rod from work for the deadweight haha



seems i didnt take many pix here, or i didnt upload. maybe i sent them straight to FB from the phone. its easiest that way anymore. but first welded a doubler plate to strengthen the firewall, then made bracket mounts to attach the rack.







then made the steering rods for it.

then i decided i wanted some more flex ability with the trans mounts, and Derek suggested an idea and i went with it. instead of just hockey pucks between the mount and the trans, i went with isolators both ways.

and i skipped the sleeves thru the bushings.

anyhow, on to this weeks work, thru my birthday (monday) and the Christmas holiday.

worked on the rear strut towers and the floor area. and got about 80-85% complete there minus the rearward portion of the floor, i need to design the fuel cell for that area. the goal is to still hopefully use the OEM plastics and all the interior trim pieces. i think i can do it.

that was thru Christmas day, and of course i ran out of shield gas. FACK ME!!!!! so today i got more gas, and made it to here.

oh yeah, i almost forgot. the guy who started this project, well he was making some custom headlights for it. and he decided to finsih them and give them to me as a Christmas present. my challenge will be to mount them, but they look pretty cool. a couple sets of headlights gave their lives for these. still using the OEM HIDs even.

Sweet headlight setup! This is coming along very nicely. I look forward to seeing how well all the factory plastics fit in the rear.

Looks great! I like the B6 headlight retrofit too!

This is coming along as well as I expected, keep up the good work and thanks for the updates!

Happy belated birthday

Clearly this thread lacks pics... good work nonetheless.

Looking good Aaron - really stoked on the rear strut towers! Daydreaming of something similar in my GLI now...

Headlights are sweet too. Icing on the cake for sure - very cool of the PO to finish them for you.

lacks pix he says

did some more work today, just a lil bit really. went to the race shop to discuss the tube frame car some more.

finished the rear strut towers (on the front for pass side) and mounted the rear seats.

also, put new Flowmaster mufflers on my 4x4 Chvy truck. has a Corvette Tuned Port Injected motor in it, one of my earlier swaps.... sounds good and runs good, too.

and as i got into this, i became aware why i dont like doing exhaust. but, it was all good. an hour tops. no big deal.

even lifted 4" on 35's there really wasnt a comfortable position to weld under this damned thing! i gotta hurry up and buy this new house with a shop!!!!

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This think makes me giggle, it is going to be a riot!

i think it may be pretty fun.

OEM, the G60 Corrado was 27-2800 pounds, and 158 bhp / 166 tq. OEM.
0-60 = 7.5 sec
140 mph top speed
16.94 @ 89 mph US Spec G60 1/4 mile time.
0.32 CD

just about double the power, double the torque, add QUATTRO, and even if i increased the OEM curb weight by 1-200 pounds, who cares?

it should be fun as hell!!!!

we all know that the CQ is a fun car, even 164 bhp and 157 tq with a hefty 3174-3308 pounds is still a fun car.
0-60 = 8.1 to 9.0 sec
133-136 mph top speed
16.5 to 16.7 @ 82.0 to 85 mph 1/4 mile
0.36 CD

now, i hope i dont ruin the "driving experience" of the Rado, as it was (my old pumped up G60) a really fun car to drive. the whole experience of it was much different than say the SC'd VR6 MK3 GTI i have, that has more power. the Rado was just a really fun car to drive! but, even if i did alter it to some degree, i cant help but think by doubling it up for power/torwue and doubling up the grip or driven wheels, its gonna be that much more fun to drive on occasion.

thanks for the kind words! its just ok.

did a lil work on the front strut towers today. one side about 70% done i would guess.

theres room for turbos!!

yeah. room for turboS but maybe not for a radiator HAHAHA

been workin on front strut towers.











its starting to look a lil bit better i think.

gutted the front end today, pulled motor and struts/hubs. did some touch up welding. just basically out in the garage messin around.

chopped up the front core support some to play with the new headlights. also did some looking into radiator and front bumper, etc. thats gonna be about as fun as integrating the 40v motor harness with the G60 cluster, i think.

and trial fitted the rear parcel tray and side pieces. i think imma be able to pull off this car being stealth inside.

Please don't edit out all of your interesting content from this site...the vast majority of us appreciate your projects, and it's always interesting to follow along. Thanks bud,

-Toph