Sweet.

 

nice!!!!

 

Great thread, thank you for sharing.
Where did you source aluminum carrier? Have a part number you can share?

 

Thanks guys!

Per powdrhound's thread https://rennlist.com/forums/996-turb...ight-loss.html

997.331.261.02

 

The other night my buddy who owns the 308 stopped by as well as U-928 to look over the 308, the car needed some love from sitting and why not another winter project for us to tinker on....I might regret this hand built by Italians in a dimly lit garage type project. So far it looks like motor out, belts, all rubber bushings, some exhaust work, carbs, fuel lines, suspension/brakes/bearing overhaul, shall see how much he really wants to dig into this.




The 308 project to be continued....

 

Was able to meet up with Marcus this weekend and pick of my set of Manthey doors, totally blown away with the quality of these! Time to send these and the hood off for paint shortly!

 

Those doors are awesome. Eventually Im going to have to pick up a pair for myself.

Are you using OEM GT2 bumper?

 

Yeah Chris well worth picking up the doors! As for the bumper it is an OEM one with all the OEM ducting. The decklid is not an OEM one but came from some company in Germany, rather than going adjustable OEM this works well as I just machined up some additional shims at 3° increased attack angle if needed.

The big debate I have been thinking about is if I want to ditch the A/C on the car. I never use it, but perhaps if I am caught on rainy days I would want it to keep the girlfriend happy.

 

Have not spent any time working on the 996 as the main project of getting the Corrado running has taken number 1 priority, with the 996 engine drop being up next. Progress has been slow, but at least moving forward in a reasonable manner for the fact that the car has been apart for nearly 10 years. Projects like this always seem to suffer the multiple catch-22 scenerio's where either a missing part or something else needs to be dealt with prior to allowing the current path to continue.

Current snags are :
Waiting on new baffled oil pan/cast thermostat housing so rad support has to stay off for now.
Discovered I misplaced or lost my wideband side of the harness for the MS3...so a new one had to be ordered.
Waiting on potential Non-AC blower box to show up from Europe...no word yet so waiting to put dash back in.
Needed to figure out a what to run the PCV....materials had to be ordered.
Need to make brake booster Vacuum line that fits the Schimmel manifold...materials ordered.
Started to make the Oil Cooler Lines....in order to save hours of time ordered assembly tool for Push Lock Hoses
Lost or misplaced fan switch so had to chase one of those down.

It was not in my practice back when starting to put the Corrado back together to mark torqued/tightened hardware with witness marks. So I have adopted the strategy of every time I have say a 13mm or 17mm out, I tighten every one or check them then mark them accordingly. This is something I adopted during all the years of track days having things apart and back together that some times might be apart for a couple weeks, not wanting to overload my memory I got into this habit. The sister TT that I sold last year had lunched a motor due to a shoddy repair done on the tensioner threads, which resulted in me taking just about everything apart and assembling a complete new drivetrain for it over several months, the good news was in so marking and checking every nut and bolt, there was not a thing that needed attention once the car was back together.

I get this from McMaster-Carr and use white for tightened. Red for things that are Red Loctite, Blue for Blue Loctite and bright neon orange/yellow for suspension things that like to work loose on the track.




Finished assembling up the revision of the fan shroud setup that has mounting for the relays as well as mount holes for ducting.


This fire wall heat shield needs some love. A good cleaning will be needed perhaps in the hot tank at work.


After some digging around it appears that this MK2 rain tray will work perfect rather than the little piece that just covers the vent normally on the Corrado's. Some small trimming looks to be needed but should do the trick.



Cleaning old connectors and re-wrapping the harness with techflex has been the better part of the past two weeks free time.


Nice and clean





Tons of freshly plated hardware.


Setting up the oil cooler and push lock lines. Normally I do the WD40/hot water trick to finally get it to go all the way onto the barbs. If you have ever experienced this, to do 4 connections beats the hell out of your wrists/palms and generally takes hours to do. Having done it several times on for both of the Audi TT's by hand, I finally decided I would just roughly get them on and then order the tool. Being that the 996 will be getting some cooler upgrades ~8 new connections for the GT2 cooling, saving countless hours seems the best way to go.




A little trick for getting the firewall boots for the harness to seat without uttering every curse known to man, is to put a little WD40 on the seat of the boot and they will slip right in.

And so she sits until the next round this week. Which looks to be removing the seat heater circuit and auto seat belt wiring. The attempt is to get the Corrado back to running state with perhaps some final finish work needed so at least it is road worthy. Then can focus on the 996 to do the coolant fittings and GT2 Slave, Evoms Inlets, diff and Kevins single mass flywheel setup.

 

You call this a 'Hobby' garage, I think many would call this a realistic dream garage... I mean seriously, who else here has a lathe and bridgeport in their personal garage???

Super awesome and jealous!

 

Thanks Nooga! Having the tools and space does make the ownership a much easier proposition, granted space is the biggest constraint in most times, many years of collecting stuff here and there. It is still an evolving DIY garage with the next plan to build a paint booth.

 

Those look like SSRs ... reminds me of my Sirocco, makes me miss my Sirocco...

 

Good eye! While not the most pretty wheel, at 11.4lbs they do the trick! MK1 or MK2 Rocco?

 

Thanks, I have a set on my 2004 WRX STi, and the 'Rocco was a MK1 - 2.0l Huron head, Schrick cam, Bilstein BTS kit, etc etc etc... good times, as I recall...