Ian W
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Registered: 8th Nov 03
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
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Decided after getting some inspiration at PVS last weekend to pull my finger out and put in my late spec low mileage C20XE to replace my tired and tappy XE thats been in my car the last 12 months.
Decided to get cracking with getting the motor out today..
After its final kicking this morning
Loom all off
Nearly ready..
And shes out
Plan is to swap my lightened flywheel and clutch over to the new engine tomorrow and give the engine a good clean, throughout the week paint my engine mounts, clean the bay where its had a year of oil spraying all over it.
New engine will be going in next saturday, be driving it by Sunday all minted up 
More pics tomorrow
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Ian W
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Little update
Engine bay jet washed
New engine before clean
and after
Engine is now in my garage with my flywheel and early alternator and pullys on.
Mounts have been cleaned up and hammerited along with the coil pack mounting bracket.
Plan is to paint the gearbox tomorrow night, so far all going to plan 
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John G
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Registered: 18th Jul 05
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good goin ian, be good to hear it not tapping, way to loud for me lol that things roars
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VegasPhil
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Registered: 16th Jan 05
Location: Fareham, Hants Drives: Octavia VRS
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Nice one - How many miles on the new lump?
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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Sly_SRi
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Reading, UK Drives: Corsa C
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what suspension setup do you have??
Corsa C Z20Let
Black Sleeper Turbo Project
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John G
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Registered: 18th Jul 05
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hes tried that many coilover sets lol im not sure which one hes usuin at the mo but its lol
couple of pics i took or the rear of ians and phillygsi at pvs
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Ian W
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Its looking unusally clean in them pics John lol
As you said i've lost count of the many different suspension setups i've had my facination for going low started with my GTE when I was 18 so a while ago now, originally bought my -80mm for this
Currently running FKs on it but hoping to change to Gaz next year.
VegasPhil - not actually sure on the mileage of the engine but its a mint runner
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Ian W
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After spending all day yesterday helping my brother rebuild his nova after a repaint me and my mate got cracking on my corsa
Got the engine in, started first time so not bad going
Spent a while running the ignition / starter loom behind the engine so its all hidden, dont plan on having back on the road now until next weekend so going to spend the week making it all tidy.
Gutted as I need to order an induction hose  the calibra one I have has a big spazzy elbow thing on it :doh:
Only took a couple of pics so heres one as if first went in and we had just lifted the box on
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John G
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Registered: 18th Jul 05
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ur bro had the blue nova repsrayed??
engine looks very clean by the manifold there matey
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Ian W
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quote:
Originally posted by John G
ur bro had the blue nova repsrayed??
engine looks very clean by the manifold there matey
Novas had new arches, doors, wings, been delocked and a full repaint 
Looks mint
The engine is pretty clean, planning on making it look a really tidy conversion (and hopefully reliable lol)
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John G
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sweet nova was mint as it was
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Ian W
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Decided as it wasn't raining to finish off putting my finishing touches to the engine bay and give him a wash for the first time since PVS.
All done and no problems since it went in, done 1000 miles in it.
Quick pic of the side after a wash
Was planning on going to billing in it but as we couldn't camp it looks like the next show will be trax !
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craig_s
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Registered: 5th Mar 06
Location: Birmingham Drives: mk4 astra gsi
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how did you run all the wiring behind the engine?looks mint mate
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Ian W
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quote:
Originally posted by sri power
how did you run all the wiring behind the engine?looks mint mate
All the ignition wiring for the engine is hidden behind, no special trick to it really, I just spent a while lying underneath it and made it tidy, im gutted I didnt take a pic from underneath actually cos it looks proper mint 
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craig_s
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Registered: 5th Mar 06
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what about stuff like the cts sensor and crank sensor.does all that run underneath to?
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Ian W
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quote:
Originally posted by sri power
what about stuff like the cts sensor and crank sensor.does all that run underneath to?
No, that all runs along the inner wing, its just all zip tied up and nice and tidy
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GHurn
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Registered: 15th Jan 05
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superb looking car mate!
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SAL
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Registered: 19th Dec 05
Location: Radlett, Hertfordshire
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very nice 
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