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corsa-torque

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23rd Mar 12 at 18:21

Right, some of you may know me, for those who dont The names Mark, Always been a Vauxhall Fan, Having Owned 2 Nova's and a Corsa Sri in the past.

I was looking for a run about to use whilst my mk1 Clio has an engine conversion and respray and came across a White Gsi in the for sale section on here up for breaking, it was perfect, after a little conversation i set off to wales on a rescue mission...

Here's what i came back with:

Off the Truck:

Now there's a few issues but the car with the extras it was a bargain and to save a Gsi from the scrappy is always a bonus.

The rear arches needed looking at and there was a few things i wasnt happy with, so i got to work on the rear arches, off came the wheels and here is what i was looking at:

Racing red drums and dirty rotten inner arches...

Sorted the arches and got busy with the underseal, the drum got stripped of the red and out came the primer.

Then the satin Black:

Much cleaner looking if im honest, Also decided to clean up the suspension whilst i was at it:
Before:

After:

Was then time to remove the old exhaust (if you can call it that - what a bodge!) and bumper then get undersealing the rest of the car.
After a good clean up and underseal it then looked like this:

Next up was the Front brakes and lucky enough they had already been converted to 2.0L's Just a shame about the Stevie wonder hammerite paint job:

The Wire wheel soon took care of that...

Then they were masked, Primed and the sprayed with Mazda RX8 Velocity Red :

The Front bumper had a split and was missing the splitter also came with an opel grill. As i want to got OEM with a few extras it had to be changed for a vauxhall badge, was given another bumper from StuFry so the old one along with the grill got removed.

The slam panel has a few surface rust areas aswell as the front end, so i started to clean it up, rust treatment and a splash of paint...
The slam panel will be painted at the same time as the front and rear bumper:

Next up was to replace the exhaust system so a full stainless manifold back system was installed inc de-cat

More pics of the exhaust system later.

Now for a update on the wheels, I love the compomotives, but they were flat and some slight curbing, some of which looked like it had been touched in with a 3" brush

After a rub down:

Then Primer:

The insides where then painted Glacier White:

Then the Faces:

Finally Fitted with the Centre caps painted Velocity Red and Annodised Wheel Bolts

Here's how she stands at the mo...

More to come, Comments Welcome.

[Edited on 14-02-2014 by corsa-torque]

corsa_sean

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23rd Mar 12 at 18:27

Nice looking car looks good on those wheels

harrybanks

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23rd Mar 12 at 18:31

Wish I never sold mine now, looks awesome on those wheels, love the colour! Good job so far mate!

Darryl H

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23rd Mar 12 at 18:33

Wow you're doing a cracking job on this! Keep it up! StuFry is he the one with the frost blue gsi? Do you know if he's still continuing that project if it is?

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andys sxi

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23rd Mar 12 at 18:34

looks good ill be keeping an eye on this

i take it your a sprayer?

April 08 feature car

JordanT

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23rd Mar 12 at 18:40

Nice. Wheels looking good

corsa-torque

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23rd Mar 12 at 18:40

quote:
Originally posted by Darryl H
Wow you're doing a cracking job on this! Keep it up! StuFry is he the one with the frost blue gsi? Do you know if he's still continuing that project if it is?

Thats the one Darryl, yeah he's still on the project, its due to hit the spray booth soon.. I'll get him to update his thread

Thanks for the comments guys

corsa-torque

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23rd Mar 12 at 18:42

quote:
Originally posted by andys sxi
looks good ill be keeping an eye on this

i take it your a sprayer?

Not professionally no, but i'll take that as a compliment

Darryl H

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23rd Mar 12 at 18:48

quote:
Originally posted by corsa-torque

quote:
Originally posted by Darryl H
Wow you're doing a cracking job on this! Keep it up! StuFry is he the one with the frost blue gsi? Do you know if he's still continuing that project if it is?

Thats the one Darryl, yeah he's still on the project, its due to hit the spray booth soon.. I'll get him to update his thread

Thanks for the comments guys

Ah awesome, yeah get him to update want to see how his is going

What are the future plans for this?

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corsa-torque

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23rd Mar 12 at 18:54

Just to tidy it up really mate,
- Got front rear bumpers to paint and fit..
- Few under bonnet bits to tidy her up
- source a new drivers seat and boot lid

Got a few little touches im going to keep under wraps for the min

Linch

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23rd Mar 12 at 19:16

Looks very nice mate! best colour with all the sort after mods!

Corsab1999

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23rd Mar 12 at 19:27

Looking good pal! Nice and clean

fazza

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23rd Mar 12 at 19:28

i need some comps in my life!! looks sweet mate, always nice to see another white gsi

corsa-torque

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23rd Mar 12 at 19:31

Thanks for the comments Guys

Sach

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3rd Apr 12 at 18:49

is it running mate?

corsa-torque

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3rd Apr 12 at 18:58

Yeah Sach all Running mate, its sweet as a nut. Just got to finish the bumpers then Mot and Tax it.
Will be giving it a full service aswell.

BeetleGav

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3rd Apr 12 at 20:32

wow this is going to look seriously nice! i wanttttt

RyanCorsa99

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3rd Apr 12 at 20:37

beauty there buddy. another one saved from the scrappy, well done mate

LukesCorsaSXi

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3rd Apr 12 at 21:08

Looks awesome dude. Good job on saving another GSi

Cant wait for some updates!

[Edited on 03-04-2012 by LukesCorsaSXi]

DanCobb

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3rd Apr 12 at 21:44

Looking good

and I sent that jacking cover first class today mate

D0NN3R

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3rd Apr 12 at 22:40

its good to see a gsi with a standard engine

corsa-torque

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3rd Apr 12 at 22:46

quote:
Originally posted by DanCobb
Looking good and I sent that jacking cover first class today mate .

Cheers Dan

corsa-torque

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3rd Apr 12 at 22:49

quote:
Originally posted by D0NN3R
its good to see a gsi with a standard engine

Wouldnt exactly say standard, but the X16XE is here to stay... Few engine mods but nothing to extreme

Thanks for the comments

Mark.W

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3rd Apr 12 at 23:07

Love this

you have done a cracking job on this so far

Christopher

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4th Apr 12 at 11:05

Looks awsome!

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