Jamie-C
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Registered: 3rd Jun 08
Location: Ballycastle
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Porn! 
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Sean-B
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Registered: 1st May 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: 200SX S14a
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Originally posted by FAZ
lovely
is the car colour a variation of midnight purple, the pic from the academy meet - paint looks amazing
Not really, it's called sapphire blue, but in some lights it does have a purple hue. It's a lovely colour so much easier to make look good than black!
I've just undersealed all the front inner arches where i've had to 'modify' them for clearance 
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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Love the pic after you're put the alignment arms on, something about it!
Love the car mate, great stance
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Matt L
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
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Stunning, really do have a soft spot for these, they look so mean so effortlessly.
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Sean-B
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Registered: 1st May 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: 200SX S14a
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Update
Bought a few quite major mods for the car 
I've always had my eye on this bumper (URAS type S) [replica] and when this came up for £50 I just had to have it, shame there was a 5hour round trip involved but it was good fun fitting it in my corsa daily!
Going to trial fit it on my car at the weekend, although it's already been on a car so fitment should be almost spot on.
Next is a small but essential small mod in the form of an oil sandwich plate so I can finally fit my Defi gauges.
Next is a Z32 MAF this is bigger than the original and is required when going above the @330 bhp mark to ensure the amount of air can be adequately metered.
Followed by my deatschwerks 740cc injectors ( thats double the standard size!! ) which should be able to flow more than enough for what I'm going for.
Just saving hard for a Garrett GT2871R turbo now that should hit @400bhp at the fly with the above mods and my A'pexi PFC management.
[Edited on 23-03-2011 by Sean-B]
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joe holvey sxi
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Registered: 12th Mar 10
Location: Bromborough, Cheshire
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looking good mate!
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Sean-B
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Registered: 1st May 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: 200SX S14a
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Update
Trial fitted up my new bumper, I'm well pleased with it, got a few cheeky snaps of the rest of the car as well.
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boylers11
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Registered: 27th Jul 06
Location: Shropshire
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B.E.A.Utiful  Bet you can't wait to colour code it!
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Jamie-C
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Registered: 3rd Jun 08
Location: Ballycastle
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Love it!
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DansCorsaSXi
Organiser: Yorkshire
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Registered: 13th Jan 10
Location: Worksop
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Loving the transformers sticker Sean
Star silver C20XE SXi Project thread
Smoke Grey Corsa GSi Project thread
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FAZ
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Registered: 24th Nov 07
Location: Coventry
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those tyre marks in the last pic yours? 
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Pridzz
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Registered: 18th Nov 08
Location: Exmouth - Devon
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quote:
Originally posted by Pridzz
I admit no spoiler looks better - But the rear bumper dosnt look as aggresive as the front, Needs like a lip to match skirts and some sort of import plate size..
Told u so, That looks perfect now.
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Darryl H
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Registered: 19th Nov 09
Location: Camberley Drives: Porsche 944
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looks so much better! Still think it might need a little lip as a spoiler just to give the boot a bit of definition
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Aleex
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Registered: 21st Jul 09
Location: Plymouth
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from the pics i see you use it properly.
very nice cars, yours is awesome
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Sean-B
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Registered: 1st May 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: 200SX S14a
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Update
My brakes are basically crap despite having a 315mm disc conversion and braided lines and a full bleed. I'd noticed a constant squealing from the drivers side front brake so upon further inspection it turned out a piston was not retracting fully and causing the pad to be forced against the disc at all times 
So I took the caliper off and attempted to push the pistons back by hand which left me with this, as you can see one is stuck!
At this point I decided I'd fully strip both calipers leaving me with this after a few hours of wrestling the pistons out.
Turns out 1 piston was free 5 were sticking and 2 were seized! So hopefully they should feel much better after a rebuild.
Gave each caliper a full clean today and cleaned up all the bores. Will be ordering a full rebuild kit tomorrow and re-painting them black again.
Just undecided on what pads to put in as the current ones are knackered from uneven wear...
[Edited on 19-04-2011 by Sean-B]
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FruitBooTeR
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Registered: 18th Jan 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: S15
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Looking good! 
Get a project up on Driftworks mate so I can keep update with all your shenanigans as I dont come on here anymore..
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Sean-B
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Registered: 1st May 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: 200SX S14a
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Update
Finished the caliper rebuild, had to buy one new piston in the end as one was too badly corroded. Settled on a set of oversized EBC redstuff pads. Painted the calipers matt black for that stealth look (also never have to clean them). The big red EBC pads looked gash poking out the bottom of them so I painted the backs of those matt black aswell!
The stopping power is now awesome, i mean it must be 4x better than before I've never felt brakes like it, not bad for £95 all in really!
Also another cheeky purchase turned up in the shape of my Ings+ D1 side skirts,
Had a very quick trial fit
They're going to look awesome!! My exterior plan is slowly coming together!
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Simon_16v
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Registered: 14th Aug 06
Location: Yorkshire
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Car looks awesome mate, which i could afford to run something like this!
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John G
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Registered: 18th Jul 05
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
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Anythin planned for the front?
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Sean-B
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Registered: 1st May 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: 200SX S14a
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quote:
Originally posted by John G
Anythin planned for the front?
Splitter and canards, track look basically
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M Sutton
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Registered: 11th Jan 03
Location: Northamptonshire
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Nice 
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Sean-B
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Location: Wolverhampton Drives: 200SX S14a
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Update
At last!
Took the SX to the Le Mans 24Hr this year! 1000mile round trip in which it performed perfectly and returned 35mpg :notworthy:
And a pic, of the group of us that went, incase any of you lot recognise us! ( slim chance I know)
It was this trip that made me notice just how hot the oil temp was getting after sustained time spent 'on boost'. I immediately planned to by a bigger radiator but as the car is destined for track work I felt an oil cooler would be necessary as well. This came up in the sales just at the right time!
A 10 row greddy grex oil cooler with thermostatic sandwich plate.
I just need to sort out some longer lines for it as the ones currently fitted are quite short!
Then to go towards my future GT2871R plans I bought and fitted a H-Dev recirc valve
And finally the BIG NEWS
I've managed to source a GT2871R!
It just happens to be attached to a Tomei Expreme manifold and turbo elbow setup as well! With braided oil and water lines. It also has the APT wastegate mod to eliminate the boost creep issues apparently associated with this turbo. Perfect!
Should arrive with me in the next few days.
Just a few small parts left to get then off for mapping!
[Edited on 01-09-2011 by Sean-B]
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shaunmods
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Registered: 12th Mar 07
Location: Glascote, Staffordshire
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Awesome Sean! Are you going to trax this year btw?
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Gareth T
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Registered: 14th Feb 06
Location: newcastle
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Love the wheels.
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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Nice progress, love how it looks now 
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