GTIKole's 90 Corrado build. Back again.

[GTIKole.]

Well a little update.
I got the car all back together Friday night, minus the heater box haha.
went for a drive and the car seemed like it was doing great. Stopped at a gas station to get a drink and head home. left the gas station and got the stop light and Bam! car shut off out of nowhere and would not start again. This was around 10:30pm. For the next 4 hours I spent working to try to find the issue with a police officer who was nice enough to stop, help and take me to my house to get the wagon and tools, Some homeless people that would walk by. Finally my buddy came with his jetta and a chain and we towed the car as sketchy as possible for 1 mile back to my house.

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Started trying to trace the car and found I once again had no spark. ran through all the normal things but that found nothing. Replaced the fuse panel with a mk3 panel and that fixed some cluster issues I was having but nothing on the no spark issue. Took a break from the car for a few days. Also my foot is starting to look not so nice haha

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Then this morning the wagon and a pothole became friends...

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Side wall got a nice hole in it but I lucky found another brand new matching tire locally and had my buddy mount the tire for me. I went ahead and swapped the wheel out for the spare that was not to happy on the car at it's current height.

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I also decided that it was time to start over with the harness and ecu of the car since no one could seem to think what else was wrong with the car to make it not have spark. So I talked with Matt at EuroKraft would said he would build me a engine harness I just have to spend him mine so he knows what measurements he needed. So I went ahead and ripped the car apart get to get the harness out.

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I also went ahead and simplified my lighting harness since I already made myself a new headlight harness since the headlights were acting up so much. I also am going to make this access hole larger so there is not so much stress on the wires.

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Well that is all for now. I have the harness all boxed up and ready to be shipped out tomorrow so Matt can get started on it.

[fackinsteve]

You seem to be having great luck with this car so far haha

[GTIKole.]

You seem to be having great luck with this car so far haha

Meh things happen when you are dealing with a 26 year old car. All part of the process.
When I do get to drive it, it reminds me how much I love it. Feels like no other car I have owned.
Lets just hope the new harness and ecu makes it so I can just be happy and get to drive more.

[GTIKole.]

Got the engine harness shipped out yesterday. Should be to Matt Thursday & he said we would start work on Monday.
Going to take the down time and clean up some wiring under the dash to make it nicer to deal with and possibly switch to two smaller slim fans instead of the one single that I have now to help with cooling when stopped.

[P78]

eventfull couple of days, and not the good kind apparantly

[fackinsteve]

Meh things happen when you are dealing with a 26 year old car. All part of the process.
When I do get to drive it, it reminds me how much I love it. Feels like no other car I have owned.
Lets just hope the new harness and ecu makes it so I can just be happy and get to drive more.

Got the engine harness shipped out yesterday. Should be to Matt Thursday & he said we would start work on Monday.
Going to take the down time and clean up some wiring under the dash to make it nicer to deal with and possibly switch to two smaller slim fans instead of the one single that I have now to help with cooling when stopped.

I feel like I'm going to relate to this once my E28 is on the road lol. At least youre staying positive about it

[GTIKole.]

eventfull couple of days, and not the good kind apparantly

Yeah it was a week from hell but I got it all taken care of and now I can kind of take a break as I wait for the harness and just enjoy on some time on my bmx bike. My ankle is finally starting to heal faster so that is nice haha.

I feel like I'm going to relate to this once my E28 is on the road lol. At least youre staying positive about it

It's like I said I knew I would most likely run into issues with it after everything that was changed. half the reason I was trying to drive it so much so I could find the issues and fix them. luckly everything that has happened has been close to home.

[mk3f.t.w.]

Just subd. Looking good dude. Its kevin btw.

[GTIKole.]

Just subd. Looking good dude. Its kevin btw.

I know it is. I'm Subd on your thread
Thanks man. Cant wait to get the new harness back so I can drive the car again.

[GTIKole.]

Small little update.
Matt (chainnoise) from Eurokraft got a hold of me yesterday and sent me some photos. Looking like my harness will be finished up and sent out this week.
Matt found that the alternator has not been wired correctly since I bought the car and got everything to get that fixed. All I can say is Eurokraft & Matt have amazing customer service.
Can't waiting to get the car back on the road.

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I will say it has been nice to take a small break from the car and just focus on riding/ traveling with friends and taking care of home things.

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[saturnstance]

Car is super clean. Keep up the awesome work.

[190Evan]

Damn Kole back at it again with the Sciroccos. I'm sure that meme has been used in this thread already but I'm just going to pretend like it hasn't

[thofdahl]

Got any pics of that cafe racer? Looks nice.

[GTIKole.]

Car is super clean. Keep up the awesome work.

Thanks man.

Damn Kole back at it again with the Sciroccos. I'm sure that meme has been used in this thread already but I'm just going to pretend like it hasn't

HAHA it has not and it gave me a good laugh so good work.

Got any pics of that cafe racer? Looks nice.

Here are a few. It was 1976 Honda CB360 that I built between owning the mk3 & corrado. I built the bike since I worked part time at a custom motorcycle shop and felt weird working on peoples projects and not having my own. It's was built in 55 days.

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I sold it a few months ago to a good friend for his wife and it now lives in Cali. I was honesly never happy with how it turned out but I had run building it and riding it for a few months. I may build another bike when the Corrado is at a point im happy with it.

[fackinsteve]

Beautiful bike, I need to get mine up and running