jamieslittleracer

jamieslittleracer

if i do buy it off ebay what do u think is the max i should go up to for it?? ive seen them go for roughly £1500 but this has quite low milage and only 2 owners... if i like it i could make him an offer on it??

trouble is im in brum so id have to go home...

Anonymous

I wouldnt want to be giving 1500 quid for an 8v corsa sri TBH

Unless it was in REALLY good condition.

Your best bet is to ask on http://www.migweb.co.uk if you want advice on corsas really as then you will get advice from people who have actually done it rather than tossers like XRSi who are quoting irrelevant crap at you that they have read somewhere (max power magazine i guess?) but know nothing about the accuracy of.

xrsi

iTrader: (1)

actually i think you will find i know alot more about it than you actually think, im not saying that your wrong, but your price figures are way out!

i have done alot of conversion, not only ford ones and yes if you can make alot of thins yourself then yes you can do things alot cheaper, but there is no way you can do a full c20-let conversion for £1000 and a redtop for £200 the engines cost more than that alone, if they dont then i would be suspect to there condition! i know exactly what is involverd in converting a corsa to a redtop, hence knowing about a modified bulkhead, or buying or manufacturing a power cap for a start! just cos i aint bosted about things doesnt mean i dont know! and just cos its a ford bb doesnt mean that people only know about fords!

if you have that opinion of everyone who disagrees with you then thats up to you.. end of day i was only offering real world prices for things, as im sure that she would not be able to manufacture mounts etc herself! i know i cant!

end of day tho she aint asked about engine conversion etc!

as for price, 1500 is a little steep for an 8v SRi unless its minter than mint with low millage, it looks like they back to black the bumpers tho! (autooglym bumper care brings up the arches mint btw) and as for not letting anyone else drive it.... makes you wander! you can pick up lots of sports, so the prices reflect this.....

Anonymous

The dearest LET ive bought i paid 700 quid for
First one we bought we gave 600 for, both those were less than 80K miles and in great nick.

Easiest way though is to buy a complete car, you can get it far cheaper that way round once you sell the bits you dont need.

The XE and brakes for the first valver nova i had cost me nothing, cause i sold all the other bits for more than i paid for the donor cars.

Anonymous

PS

you dont need a power cap, the XE in my nova i just moved the bulkhead back slightly cost = nothing

They are also a bad idea as they lose you a lot of torque lower down, the SFi box is there for a reason.

jamieslittleracer

ok... cool.. ill see what his reserve is. i think id get the bumpers sprayed as as much as back bumper care works.. i think it will look abit better all black... i think ill get my dad to ask about driving it as i do wonder, even if its round the block!! and he said hed try and dig out receipts to tell me when he last got the brakes etc.. done.

Anonymous

They are mechanically very simple, brakes are far easier to fix than a bit of rust or a scratch on the bodywork, so although you want to look at all aspects of the car, the bodywork should be your main focus IMHO as its the most expensive thing to sort.

Engine shouldnt sound too tappety either, so if it makes much noise id walk away and find another one.

jamieslittleracer

cool ill remember that... no rust

stevos1

corsa's are a good car to start off with cheap as chips and loads of after market gear for them

my m8 jacko has got a corsa on 19's with a wide arch kit flip paint white leather interiour huge ice and a butane flamer kit

nice cars still not a ford tho....

Anonymous

He sounds like a complete cock, is it a 1.2 as well just to really hammer the final nail into the coffin of it having any redeeming features at all?

stevos1

nope 2.0litre admittedly i think its crazy spendin money on a motor like that where your guarenteed to lose a hell of a lot of money

Anonymous

Well at least it has some go to back up the "looks" i guess.

I can understand the point in spending loads of money on a car you wont ever see back in order to make it fast, i do it all the time, but i cant see the point in trying to make a corsa look "bad" or "phat" or whatever he was hoping for.

No dobut he could have bought a nice 3 door cossie for less than he has spent on his corsa, and that looks better than any corsa ever could in my opinon plus would be quicker anyway.

Each to their own i guess, but if i ever saw it i would just laugh at him i suspect.

timrud

You can't beat Corsa's, stick a LET in it and go and surprise a few people

Not that I'm biased

Anonymous

Tim, the only way you surprise people is by pulling out in front of them and then doing 20mph everywhere.

timrud

I can only just manage 25mph in sixth as thats 1000rpm

john

Oh dear tim

Memories of that 20 mph night

timrud

Shut it boy

stevos1

i try telling them this point all the time
for the money they spend on body kits paint wanker lights lexus lights (because they are all lexus's you know) to put on there little cars they could of bought and insured a rst or possible a cossy

john

Shut it pest

Picked tickets up barrow boy

timrud

Nice on John, Cant wait!

Anonymous

Looking forward to the ring lads, and im sure katie doesnt mind you wrecking her thread as she is such a nice lass, lol

Tim, are you hoping to set a sub one hour lap time?

john

Im on about a football match chip

stevos1

right bottom line nice first car cheap and as long as you leave it alone bomb proof

but dont mod it bodywork wise because you will lose money

Anonymous

I knew you were on about something else (although not what), as we havent got any tickets on order for the ring, i was just saying, im looking forward to the ring.

jamieslittleracer

damn i really wanted to whack a really cool spoiler on some big stickers and a nice useless vent for my little 1.4 EIGHT valve beast!! heehe

im gonna flyyyyyyyyyyyy....

espeically if i whack a big noisy exhaust on it cos it makes ur car go soooooo much faster.. honest... i bet if i put some under car neons i will get at least 1 million BHP out of it!!!

tehehe... seriously tho.... im not trying to breat the 0 - 60mph here but im not going to be overtaken by my grandmother am i???

katie x

Anonymous

The 8v ones are still quick enough to get around ok, but its not a racing car.

The 16v ones standard are quicker, and can easily be made a lot quicker.

As a first car though, either is ideal really, reliable, cheap insurance etc

jamieslittleracer

going for a more expensive one... with air bags for my dads peace of mind

so happy hunting for me again!!

chip youre my advice guru

Anonymous

Well my advice would be to post pictures of your "airbags"

john

Chip a true pest in the making

stevos1

katie you forgot about a viper induction kit thatl give you about o say no bhp

so tragic when you see them at lights tryin 2 race everything and every1

jamieslittleracer

i dunno i reckon a viper would all at least 10,000 BHP, and with the tints another 1000, and the exhaust will give at least 3000 cos it makes so much noise... then if i lower it and whack it on 30inch alloys (teheeh!!) that will make it at least 100,000 BHP.. id get to the moon and back in the time it took u to go to tescos.. fab!!!

i dotn have air bags tehehe

Anonymous

We'll be the judge of that, PMSL

timrud

Chip, my car is not going to be back on the road for a while, but I'm aiming for a sub 40 minute lap at least (providing I don't get stuck behind a bus I can#t overtake )

And Katie, I'm sorry for hijacking your thread with usless drival

john

No your not

I am though

jamieslittleracer

hehe... im used to it guys!!! its like a mupper room in disguise

sooooo ive decided that car was a bit cheap... so now (focus on ME for a sec )

this one... if i get them down to about 2k??



or maybe this one...





what do u think??
katie x

Anonymous

Both look fine from what you have put there, 2 grand is good money to be managing to sell one for, but they are pretty desirable little cars at the moment with young drivers, so im not surprised at people asking that much.

Go for it i reckon, good little motors.

jamieslittleracer

you again great hehe

i feel a bit of a pikie getting one as theyre all got at by boy racers... but i like them.. i know what u mean about being overpriced, if u look at any other car for the same price u get a lot more, but i guess maybe they wont go down too much in teh next few years so when i sell it i wont lose that much, not that it matters really...

i might go and see them at the weekend

you wont hear the end of it if i buy one you realise.... i will be the most excited girlie in teh world!!!

katie x

ps
about the wheels... if corsas go to et42 then do u think et38 is definitely not going to fit?? its not the end of the world... just would have loved my wheels on teh car...

thanks

Anonymous

I expect you can get them to fit, it will just upset the handling a little, but i doubt you are going to be doing trackdays in it anyway?

All you can do is try them and see how badly they catc hthe rar arches and see if there is room to manouvre in terms of rolling up the lip on the arch.
Im confident that you CAN get them to fit without rubbing if you are prepared to roll the arches.

You might get away with it anyway though, you wont know till you try, and due to the variances in the way the beams align anyone who tries to give you a definitive answer is probably missing something.