VW Corrado

[vwkaferman]

and yep... there's a few Jeep dudes who know VWs too (honestly, I've probably spent MORE time wrenchin' on Veedubs than wrenchin' on Jeeps )

Same here! Been wrenching on VDubs since I was 14, still have my first car, 74 Beetle, nearing 20 years, and it's less than 20ft away from me as we speak.

James

 

[Darky]

My wife's dad bought her a Scirocco a while back for her first car. It needed a fuel pump before it would run though. She says it was red with a sunroof and she loved it. He said he couldn't find anyone with a fuel pump unless it were to be imported and that would've been too expensive. So they sold it and she ended up with an 85 Nissan pickup. She loved that Scirocco though and was sad to see it go. And coming from her, that's saying something since she hates cars, especially hatchbacks. She's a pickup truck girl...

Now one question: Is it pronounced Sir-occo or Skir-occo?

 

[sintax]

The G60 is a great motor, the supercharger is a bit tempermental and you have to keep up on its rebuilds. Your best bet is to replace the Gladder with a twin screw and you'll be in business.

 

[Citat3962]

I say hell no just because I recently got rid of one...

If you want to know why I can tell you in three numbers..

bought in 2000

Driven a TOTAL of 3850K miles

Total invested with purchase price????

15K plus plus plus...

You want a big honkin money pit? buy the first one you get your hands on..

Want a unique car?

Find a REALLY nice one and still expect to toss cash at it hand over fist..

Fast elegant highly modifyable!

Expensive. easy to break, Proprietary Corrado only parts that are both hard to find AND expensive.

Large aftermarket support and MASSIVE enthusiast base....

I LOVE them thats why I nurtured that un-grateful bitch for so long with so little payoff...

They can be your best friend or your worst enemy..

having owned one I'm happy with less than half what I invested in my raddo into both an XJ and an 86 GTI with a motor swap....

And Ive TRIED to break the jeep and the GTI and it's just a whole different ball game in the reliability and simplicity of maintenance...

The G60 is a good motor but the Digifant fuel injection that runs it is quirky because Volkswagen decided to reverse engineer the Bosche L Jetronic (used on most 80's turbo porcshe's and large BMWs of the same era) and create their own boost sensitive Fuel injection as well as a pedestrian model to go in their Golfs...

BIG mistake.. all the bosche systems used before them were flawless even when NEVER maintained..

If you get a corrado do youself a favor and find a VW ONLY mechanic... not someone who says they've done them before... someone who ONLY works on VWs will be the only person you want under your hood.. if their shop doesn't have at least one or two broken 85-99 Volkswagens outside and more in the shop you are at the wrong shop..

They can be great cars or they can be nightmare basket cases in a pretty container that sits in the driveway and garners your eventual scorn..

Good luck sir..

 

[theksmith]

I love VW anyway, and miss my Jetta... but, The Corrado is my absolute favorite v-dub... But I have agree that you should love it from a distance unless you have a huge disposable income!

 

[casm]

Now one question: Is it pronounced Sir-occo or Skir-occo?

I always learned it as 'sure-occo'. Sir-occo is probably closest; ski-rocco just seems wrong. Of course, there's always the definition on dictionary.com for a definitive answer...

 

[Glenn B]

I always learned it as 'sure-occo'. Sir-occo is probably closest; ski-rocco just seems wrong. Of course, there's always the definition on dictionary.com for a definitive answer...

casm is correct. I worked for VW, and am a HUGE fan.... anybody that complains about having to dump a ton of cash in to them is obviously hiring out. Very easy to work on.

 

["Wolz"]

I have owned an Mk I 84' Rabbit GTI, a Mk III 97' DE GTI VR6, and a Mk IV 00' Jetta GLX VR6. Almost bought a Corrado G60. Not sure what would be better the G60 or the SLC VR6? The VR6s are HEAVY= understeer happy. The VR6 sounds incredible. Have you heard a R32's exhaust note? Kinda rough, not like my VR6 with Neuspeed exhaust but nice in its own way. I modded my 97' GTI very nicely and the correct way but the MacPherson strut front suspension destroyed the bushes. I don't like Mac setups in the VW's. For the rear, I bent two rear beams, I don't like the rear setup either.

Now those suspension setups in the Mk I cars (less weight) is ok IMO. I really want a Mk I Scirrocco. If I hadn't dumped a load a dough in my XJ I could have picked this one up-> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...d=1,1&item=4545387281&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT <- that is a clean one.

This is my dream, take this 3.2 VR6 R32 engine from HPA-> http://www.streetracersonline.com/videos/b7.php and throw it in the rear of a Mk I Rabbit GTI. Keep it RWD or AWD, not sure. That engine in a subframe were the rear seat used to be.

Have you seen those VW's from Europe, I think from Dubsport, that had two engines. One driving the front and one driving the rear wheels?

 

[ACE]

Man, this thread is two years old. :dunno:

Glenn, old dubs are easy to work on, MKII and especially MKIII and newer are much more difficult. :laugh3:

The Scirocco was always a cool car.

G60 is a bit more tossable but the VR6 is the better sports car all-around, all else being equal. You can mod a G60 to be a good performer but out of the box and by todays standards, it's pretty slow.
Still one of my favorite cars though.

 

[Glenn B]

Huh? No need to explain it to me. I grew up working on them air colled gizmo's, then later worked for Volkwagen in Germany. I have a good grasp on em

Man, this thread is two years old. :dunno:

Glenn, old dubs are easy to work on, MKII and especially MKIII and newer are much more difficult. :laugh3:

The Scirocco was always a cool car.

G60 is a bit more tossable but the VR6 is the better sports car all-around, all else being equal. You can mod a G60 to be a good performer but out of the box and by todays standards, it's pretty slow.
Still one of my favorite cars though.

 

[EricT]

nice wheels on that rocco, I have the same ones on my jetta coupe

and here is my other jetta

have a 1.8t swap going in the red one

 

[vwkaferman]

I always learned it as 'sure-occo'. Sir-occo is probably closest; ski-rocco just seems wrong. Of course, there's always the definition on dictionary.com for a definitive answer...

This might have been covered already, but living in Germany, when I was married to a German, the correct GERMAN pronunciation is:

sheer-rocco. I still pronounce it like that to this day, don't elongate the "sheer".

Funny, I had a German Spec Scirocco in Germany also, that had a German spec 1.6 GTI swap in it. You wouldn't think 1.6 liters would be any fun, but that thing would redline 4th gear (only had 4 speeds), what a FUN car. Drove the piss out of it.

James

 

[zfinger]

I have a 92 Nissan 240sx as my little sports car. My automotive love started with cars but the Jeep was a very nice addition. I love dropping a gear and having my head snapped back against the headrest. Unfortunatly the car shuts off at 115 in the top of 4th, and I poped the headgasket last Saturday.

Corrados are really nice, I have a friend with MkII GTI, with Corrado suspention and a VR6, crazy fast, soooo light, and handles like its on rails with Bistein and H&R set up.

 

[red91xj]

I'm a VW fiend. 'Rados are schweet. I have a MKII Jetta 4 door that is geting ready to geta 1.8t swap. My buddy (who drives a YJ as well) is building a MKI Rabbit with a 1.8t

 

[EricT]

I'm a VW fiend. 'Rados are schweet. I have a MKII Jetta 4 door that is geting ready to geta 1.8t swap. My buddy (who drives a YJ as well) is building a MKI Rabbit with a 1.8t

that sounds very familiar to what is going to happen to my track car over the winter.