vroooom ptssssh

cheers jonny, hopefully all the hard work will pay off at some point next year lol!!

Hevangel, me too, I just want the bloody thing finnished and burbling away outside my front door lol You any idea what it's like going from a series1 to a corsa SXI

i'm stickin with original rear arms and tie bars at the mo but will in the future make it all adjustable! will speed up the resto and save some cash atm.

roro22

The corsa's cool ! lovely mint colour lol
Its looking damn good mate
How did you strip the paint off the calipers?

vroooom ptssssh

lol roro, thanks I think

Tryin to blag a set of compomotive MO's for it

The calipers were still half gold like they are when they come new (electro plated?), just a bit tarnished so just wire brushed them, and painted silver hammerite!

Twins

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hevangel

nope, but i wouldnt mind neither!!

muz

That would be great cheers mate! Either that or if you could measure in CM the ammount of thread left un screwd out. If that makes sence

hevangel

its been over 2 weeks now.......


PESTER TIME

fezzajsy

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hevangel

more pestering

Rab

You not finished this yet? Useless fucker

hevangel

lol.....haha!! its been two weeks since an update, so it best be done by now

Rab

He's too busy 'doing' something else I think........

hevangel

haha!! i wonder what hes gonna say when he sees this thread now!?

JoeRS22

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You rude people taking over this mans thread like this!

hevangel

well it has been two weeks!!

Rab

Probably something like, Rab, you cunt. As I'm on the other side of the world I ain't bothered

vroooom ptssssh

Rab, You c*nt...

Hevangel...Not much better than Rab

Right...pair of eedjits, I couldnt be arsed updating this thread just been updating it on S1OC

although, not done all that much anyway

In short..
Stripped rear end cleaned hubs up, painted hubs silver, need 2 rear arms and poly bushes unless I can find the ones i've miss placed so decided to put the rear back together till I get 2 arms or a solution to do away with the arms and make it adjustable (just a cost thing really). So put the rear back together as it was with painted hubs and rear disc conversion in place, need to get some high tensile bolts before I put the brackets on for good and the calipers but brakes all ready to go together!.




Rear end back together for the moment just so I could use the jack to lift the front end:

Rusty discs, they'll clean up as there pretty new..

rear back together & on 4 wheels (not for long)


front end susp stripped



New 16i ARB/TCA's all poly bushed and new ford S/rack/track rod ends



Sound deadening in


Front inner wings painted:


Look a bit creamy but its just the light I was holding, camera flash was too much!

First thing to go back in the engine bay, fuse box holder!

all nicely sealed in too.
AAAH wiring loom back in place


bit of jiggery pokery to do herre and decide wether I still want to hide the wiring in the inner wing or not (probably will)
Dont want to look inside the car....

Nope I didnt....lol

Next things on the list, clean front hubs/brakes and fit all the front end suspension, Sort wiring inside car, fit steering colum/carpet/front seats/door cards trim etc etc minus dash for the moment.
fit front lights, cant decide wether to go orange indicators or new clear ones? already got new headlights.

Oh engines been bored for the LOW comp JE pistons, just need to pick it up!
Note the 4 valve cutouts incase I ever fire a zetec head on it...


See, not been THAT lazy....lol

Charlie Chalk

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How low is LOW?

PM if preferred Looks good to btw

hevangel

i am WAY much better than rab

so you dont love us as much now then!? S1OC are not as cool....

THAT lazy!? you couldnt be bothered to update us!! im hurt haha

vroooom ptssssh

Haha, S1OC give me more attention

Ok, maybe not as bad as Rab, close tho lol

Radders, nosey fucker

hevangel

i give you attention!?

and it is NOT close!! lol!!

vroooom ptssssh

Well I stuck in the heater matrix after a good clean and sealed it in nicely, played about with the wiring loom and loosely bolted the 16i cross member on!

Was going to do a bit tonight but far far toooo cold!

might stick in the carpet and front seats soon, bolt the cross member in properly after I paint the TCA's, fit steering rack once I get some poly bushes and clean/paint wiper motor linkage, fit and fit the heater blower...and try get the wiring down the inner wing.

just need some thermals

Coldo

Looking good fella.

Keep up the good work

vroooom ptssssh

Cheers Colin

Twins

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Zetec_mk4_XR3i

great work mate

i've got a rear arm set up with rear anti roll bar if ya need one from my S1

vroooom ptssssh

cheers mate, ive got a roll bar already just need 2 bottom arms...what are they like? bushes?

Daviet

looking good dave
not sure what your doing on the brake frontbut someone afford me evo 5 brembos earlier pretty cheap if your intrested?and im sure you could get rackets sorted easy enough

vroooom ptssssh

Cheers Davie, how cheep we talkin? Ive got cossie rears, cossie front discs with S2 calipers and the spacer brackets, they'll be good enough but if ure talkin cheap..lol

Daviet

think he said she was after 120 for them.i thought that was pretty cheap tbh?

Brian

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Brian

vroooom ptssssh

Hmm, wouldnt of said that was cheap tbh, if there off an evo 5 cant be 'that' new as well.

cheers for the thought tho

reborns1

looking good son

vroooom ptssssh

Alrighty, done a bit today with some help off my mate!

got some more sound deadening down, put the carpet in and bolted the rear seats in (now I found the bolts lol). got a few bits from the scrappy, rubber for in between both front doors that carry's the leccy window and lock wires, fitted the wiring into the doors...fun..not! put the bottom half of the door cards on the front doors, put the front washer bottle in and bolted the front crossmember up/painted the TCA's...got a fair bit done, probably do a bit more tommorow! get the hubs and calipers painted and build front suspension back up!

Spammage

Hi mate still plodding along nicely i see!!! looks like its going well atm keep it up!!!!!

How much left to do??

vroooom ptssssh

**Update**

Spammage, hows it goin? still gettin stuck into it (when Im not freezing )
left to do still are mainly:

Build engine
Decide what im doing with the rear suspension i.e. rose joint it or just paint original rear arms and poly bush it?
Build front susp back up (half way there)
Refit dash (need to get ECU and loom made up first as its going behind the dash)
Get some high tensile bolts for brakes all round
Brake and s/s fuel lines
paint/fit petrol tank
Buy intercooler of some sort and decide wether 2.5" or 3" pipework/throttle
Buy samco's, boost and coolant, but wont know what to buy till I need it really!
fit bodykit, will fit that last tho!
Couple of other odds and ends but thats about the gist of it.

Well done a bit tonight and painted front hubs and brakes/caliper carriers, also painted the wiper bracket/linkage enamel black! so I can get on with fitting it all, put the front struts and hubs back on the car for the moment but need to drill one lug out on the hub on each side to fit the spacer brackets for the caliper carriers to fit the cossie disc setup.

That lot took me 3hrs at least it's done!

Couple of pics...

Rear seats/carpet in




wiring done in doors and some new (well 2nd hand but good) grommets


Door cards on



Hubs painted


cossie disc


wiper linkage before and after (bad pic of after).



washer bottle in lol


Thats all for the moment, more to be done soon!

fordrs2005

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looking good mate , your getting there now

vroooom ptssssh

Awright steve hows it goin?

yea gettin there mate, most things need cleaned/painted before going back on which takes up the most time!

fezzajsy

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gwan man..light at the end of the tunnel..well done

vroooom ptssssh

cheers mate, need all the encouregement I can get