gav93
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awesome mate will try my best to pop round introduce myself and car and have a chat 
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D0NN3R
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is your gearbox painted satin silver mate
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Martin W
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awesome mate will try my best to pop round introduce myself and car and have a chat
Ok mate, should be out n this car all this weekend if your about
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Martin W
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is your gearbox painted satin silver mate
Yeah it is
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D0NN3R
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is your gearbox painted satin silver mate
Yeah it is
is it heat resistant or just normal
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Martin W
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is your gearbox painted satin silver mate
Yeah it is
is it heat resistant or just normal
heat resistant if i remember correctly. with a couple of coats of lacquer to protect it
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daine
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Ok, first! that red and blue plug goes to a small black box! called a tank vent, this was on the inlet
near your throttle body!?.
second, that rubber pipe going to that sensor on the bulkhead, is M.A.P.sensor, its a green three
pronged plug out loom.
thirdly, that plastic pipe with the curve! that goes to the carbon canister under the driver`s
front wing and other end goes to tank vent.
fourth, the last thing you want to disregard!! T them all together, your new plenum chamber
should have a small hose you can connect them too.
hope this helps
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Jed D
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this thread is true inspiration to me
coming on very well pal
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Martin W
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Originally posted by Jed D
this thread is true inspiration to me
coming on very well pal
cheers mate! 
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Martin W
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Originally posted by daine
Ok, first! that red and blue plug goes to a small black box! called a tank vent, this was on the inlet
near your throttle body!?.
second, that rubber pipe going to that sensor on the bulkhead, is M.A.P.sensor, its a green three
pronged plug out loom.
thirdly, that plastic pipe with the curve! that goes to the carbon canister under the driver`s
front wing and other end goes to tank vent.
fourth, the last thing you want to disregard!! T them all together, your new plenum chamber
should have a small hose you can connect them too.
hope this helps
thanks for that! the brake servo pipe i was going to use is from an astra and doesn't seem to have any pieces coming off it to join anything?
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Martin W
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18/3 FIRST START
18/3 FIRST START
yesterday we got all the fluids in, new spark plugs and made up piping to attach the brake servo to the powerbox. absolute bloody nightmare working out what pipes go where, thanks to shaunmods for the help!
tried to start it yesterday, wouldnt start just kept turning over... 
we then found we we missed an earth wire, put that on and left it for the day as it was dark. i then remembered id forgot to change the ECU etc aswell, so that was the first thing i done today and tried to start it..
First turn of the key!
Sounds a bit tappy but im hoping that just because its cold and the oil hasn't circulated? lot of smoke on first start up but seems to more or less have cleared now found a couple of water leaks , one coming from the thermostat housing and the thermostat sensors on the radiator are leaking, but at least its running!
next ive gotta try to work out where to put the brake servo as it looks awful as it is, thinking of running it under the scuttle then cut a new hole in the bulkhead and pass it out right at the end of the powerbox?
the wiring around the battery also needs sorting as its still a bit of a mess.
instead of using the wiring harness i ripped all that out and stuck all the wiring in black trunking under the inlet, thought it looked much better, shame about the blue connector! 
video and more pictures to follow, photobucket is playing up!
[Edited on 18-03-2012 by deadliner]
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Darryl H
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Did it start and run ok?
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DansCorsaSXi
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And?....
Star silver C20XE SXi Project thread
Smoke Grey Corsa GSi Project thread
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Martin W
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And?....
sorry guys,posted the post without writing in it LOL
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Darryl H
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Great news mate!!
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DansCorsaSXi
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Nice one Martin,chuffed for ya.
Star silver C20XE SXi Project thread
Smoke Grey Corsa GSi Project thread
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Martin W
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Nice one Martin,chuffed for ya.
Cheers dan
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mickel
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Jed D
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seen the vid on FB i think..? really sounds great and very healthy
true inspiration
i'd see if you could get the big blue wiring connector underneath the lower inlet mate
[Edited on 19-03-2012 by Jed D]
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NathanR
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Glad you got it started okay mate . Engine bay looks nice and clean too !
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Martin W
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So tonight we have a few problems with the engine
Firsty it's as tappy as a rusty old 12v, tappy on top even tappier around the crankshaft/ dump. I'm getting that's just because it's bouncing through the engine and the sump is aluminium?
Next is the spark plugs are already black! And I've only started it a handful of times!
Thirdly is this: 
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daymoon
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Wouldn't worry with spark plugs being black. Engine hasn't run for a while and ECU will be learning what it has to do. Give them a clean and see how it goes.
Same for oil cap, from what I can remember you stored the engine outside while you freshened it up? Will be condensation build up IMHO.
As for tapping noise. What oil grade are you using?
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shaunmods
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My spark plugs and oil cap were the same as yours after my first start up Martin
Did you drain the lifters when you rebuild the cylinder head?
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Darryl H
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Some times lifters take a whole to fill up with oil fully after a rebuild so will need to be ran on idle for a while until it goes
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Martin W
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Oil is 15-40 and do you really think the white on the oil cap is condensation? Relief if it is. The lifters were left in clean oil while I was rebuilding it, but from the time of putting them in to putting the oil in the engine ( over a month) they would have most likely gone dry.
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