lem0nmonkey
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Registered: 3rd Jan 11
Location: Bournemouth
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Hey, little project thread on my corsa run around! got it for transport whilst my Cav Turbo is rebuilt from the gound up!!
Pics of the car as i bought it
Current mods are, Carbon Bonnet with catches, Kamie Mesh Grill DTM mirrors, Morrette Headlights, Gay LED Indicators, 15inch Golf Steelies, Adjustable Coilovers, irmsher tinted rear lights, and Gay straight through horrid exhaust!!
mechanically pretty sound, needs a bit of welding and tidying up bodywork wise, but nothing i cant do!!
Planned mods are!
Loose the DTM mirrors and fit standered ones back, loose the gay exhaust and fit a hidden fairly standered one VW smoothed euro style!, already made the inner morrettes into indicators and replace the side ones with MK4 astra ones, and get the body work straight!
may also fit a five stud conversion with disc all round, and either Turbo fan-blades, or 16inch versions of whats already on there!
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Mark.W
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Looks 
Love the front end.
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Ian
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Welcome mate, plans sound good 
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Archie
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Quite tidy that is!
I've got a set of standard mirrors in that colour in my garage, drop me a u2u if your interested
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DansCorsaSXi
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Them number plates are growing on me,might have to get some 
Nice work on the car,i'm liking the standard bumper
Star silver C20XE SXi Project thread
Smoke Grey Corsa GSi Project thread
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lem0nmonkey
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cheers, its a great little car, picked it up at a proper cheap price, prob make double back if i stripped it and weighed it in!!
gonna keep it though and run it as a cheap runaround and kinda a winter car whilst my other project is built!!
have noticed that the rear axle is slightly bent!! got some positive camber it would appear on the rear nearside wheel!!
and finding the right size tires is proving difficult!! sure i'll find some though
the lad i bought it off also has a load of spares, standered wing mirrors etc!! but thanks for the offer!
plus ive managed to source a complete sport interior all the seats plastics everything bar the dash, plus electric windows and central locking!! so should have that in soon!!
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DannyB
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I really like that colour, welcome to the site mate.
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Chris F
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Looks rough n ready, like it!
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ShEp
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What size are the tyres?
They look like some proper skinny tyres.
Looks good though
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lem0nmonkey
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Registered: 3rd Jan 11
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theyre 165 50 15, got a fair amount of stretch on,
gonna change them for some 195 45 15, as they other tyres are almost impossible to get hold of!!
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lem0nmonkey
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Made a start on swapping the interiors today, obtained a full (except dash) interior from a 97 sport, front seats rear bench all black plastics rear shelf, doorcards elec windows and mirrors, theres also a elec sunroof coming,
just fitted the seats today as needed to for the MOT as the drivers seat belt clasp is a bit dodgy!
also fitted my isotta copy steering wheel!
One clean seat and one dirty, theyve been sat in a shed for a year!!
and steering wheel
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lem0nmonkey
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Got my new tyres fitted yesterday!
Gone from 165-50-15 to 195-45-15 so the tyres have gone from stretched look to square profile!! seeing as the car is so lowered the had slight issue with rubbing, especially on the rear!!!
i actually cut a grove in the tyre wall and created smoke from the tyres with a mile drive at about 40mph!!!
So some rear camber and arch modification was in order!!!
unbolted the rear hubs and fitted a couple of washers on both side to create a little camber and using a bit of brut force and a hammer and bar i flared the archs slightly!!
The result was about 10mm clearence, and no rubbing even when my 16stone freind was jumping up and down on the sill!!
With that job done i decided to give it a little wash and head out with my mates freshly sprayed Audi B5 RS4!!
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noshua
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Looks a lovely colour in the last set of pictures
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DansCorsaSXi
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quote:
Originally posted by noshua
Looks a lovely colour in the last set of pictures
The alloys really suit it mate,nice work
Star silver C20XE SXi Project thread
Smoke Grey Corsa GSi Project thread
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lem0nmonkey
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cheers i really like the colour, aquamarine blue i think its called, offsets the carbon and the bumpers nicely,
been out all day patching up a few small holes in the sills ready for the mot,
once its passed continue with more modifications!!
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lem0nmonkey
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Just a few pics from today whilst the sun was shining
The Main reason for taking pics was this!
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lem0nmonkey
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Corsa passed its mot today, needed some welding and a new hub and ball joint, been doing some work on my cav turbo this week also
small amount of rust need dealing with behind the bumper, prob made worse by the impact, so while its off its all getting sorted, little more welding tomorrow then the underside gets stripped and stonechip sheilded!!
Also do some trimming on the side!
Corbuea Buckets, From purple cloth to red and black leather!
Busy Busy
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lem0nmonkey
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spent the weekend making a new back box to replace the cabbage chucker that was on there!! and today fitting the rest of the sport interior
old vs new!
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