Thought id put it on here as despit owning a vauxhall its my favorite section on any site, thought some of you may appricate it as its not the typical corsa owner thing to do

my 16v expired the day before PVS, decide to take the engine out and tody up the bay

What it looked like together in its most current guise






Taking the engine out

 

After find there was a few point i was unhappy with decide to remove the wax il on the arches

Before



After

 

Then decide to stip the paint off and go back to bear metal on some bits

 

Decide if i was going to do it properly like i allways spoke about, then might as well remove everything from the bay

 

Well might as well do things properly, like paint the underside :!

so

Break lines and everything else off

 

Well thought i better crack on as lots to do, and looks like the paint work sould be done soonish, so needs to get bits done

Some wiring removed



A tidy working place allows lots of progress :look:






Not alot in here

 

Some more shit removed

New tank and lines will go in at some point




No rust here




Next step is to prob now get the engine bay and underneath sandblasted, gonna be expensive to get it done right, but want it 100%

 

Battery tray removed



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Back on its wheels so it can be trailed to CBC

 

Update: some more bits back from the powder coaters

 

Whats the plans with the engine ,good luck with the project love the powder coat ,nice blue

 

plan is to proberly go with a 2.0xe on throttle bodies, played around with small blocks enough now so just want power now

That will come after its been to central blast cleaning, to be blasted evreywhere, then to my mates to paint it everwhere, going to have all the underneath done and stone chipped then painted, reason for this dave is mainly your car inspired me

 

the whole reason i went for blue was i thought no point spending a fair bit off ŁŁŁ on powdercoating, then have it all black again

 

Its clean from rust.

Powder coating looks good

 

cheers plenty more bits beeing done on it

 

Always fancied doing a c16xe corsa with DTH throttle bodies! They make good power just from bodies! Interesting project!

 

Nice 1 mate. I like my corsa's also. Mines a diesel not not petrol though .I fitted a cavalier 1700 turbo diesel into a 1700 diesel corsa a few month back. I bought it originaly with a knackered headgasket but binned the engine in favour of the cavy engine. It goes really well yet still really good on fuel.

 

Nice mate, take it thats the izuzu engine, mate had a tuned one that got 100bhp at power enginering years ago

 

Hmmmm sexy wheels



Looks like a good project tho James

If ya need a tea boy, gimme a shout

 

gona be mint. cant wait to see engine updated!

 

looks great project

 

loving the blue powder coating. nice project

 

2 Litre?



You ponce.

 

nice project ive had a few 16v corsa's & nova's heres my Ł700 track day corsa

 

powder coated stuff looks awesome..nice project btw..

 

there delightfull arent they

will do, it gonna takes ages till i do meaningfull stuff to it as your proberly know paul

 

Nice smits ive also got 50% of a track day corsa thats having a c16xe, which should eb some bargin fun

 

Piss off robin i dont know whats happning with it yet

 

Nice project,thinking of buliding one of these when I'm older.

 

So is jr.

How long is it now James?

 

 

Love it mate, Can't wait to see it finished.

 

that looks ALOT like my mates white XE corsa, and hes very very local to you!!

He runs white MO's on his, but god is it FAST!!

You've posted on ragit.com after DaimoB sent you a link to it

 

im aware of it, just havent actully seen it yet, on another note i was following you last week in your jetta i think

 

Really?

where was that dude?

 

along falkham vally road ??? goes from brands hatch to longfield

it was a red jetta with german plates and very very low, didnt actully see what wheels were on it ?

 

Yeah that was me then, LOL


I was off with the GF to see her nan, she lives in a residential home at Longfield

You'll have to pop along to one of the Thursday meets that the ragit people hold at bluewater, some really nice cars go over there now, not so much of this big bodykits and 1.2 engines!!

 

I will try and make it down there at some point

 

Nice one, I'll have to keep an eye in here to see how you're getting on dude!!

 

Nice car you got there - nothing to be ashamed about having a Corsa on here. This place seems to be more "passionfast than passionford now anyway.