Raz18
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engine bay looks very tidy, the new seats look awesome.
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shaunmods
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Thanks guys 
Mark, I'll give you a shout mate yeah. Shouldn't be too long now till they are ready to go in. Cant wait!
Jambo, they are very similar arent they  You have good taste in seats 
Update on the interior  Yesterday I decided to crack on with doing a few subtitle black touches to the interior. I decided to do the pillar plastics and roof lining in black
The first job was to get the cage back out again. Took a while but we got there in the end! Then I started stripping everything out
Also found the first bit of welding the corsa will be needing  Some nasty rot in the spare wheel well. Going to get all cut out and have a new bottom part welding in soon hopefully.
Next I rubbed back the plastics as best I could. Didn't want to go too mad and end up putting deep marks in them. Then I laid them out ready for some paint 
After a coat of primer and three coats of matt black
Much better! Next up was the roof lining. I took three cans of paint to get a decent cover on it
Everything was left overnight then ready to be refitted today
New smoked interior light from a Vectra as well. Got it ages ago but never took a pic
Just waiting for the cage and rear brace to be powdercoated now then it can be refitted along with the seats
[Edited on 22-01-2011 by shaunmods]
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SeanXE
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Making me want to do my roof lining like that too! Think I'll be checking under my spare wheel today... Can't wait for the cage to be back Nice work Shaun
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Ben G
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i wanted to do that to the puma but never got round to it. too scared of pulling the plastics off and not getting the back on 
you gonna do the sunvisors and the pull handle thing?
such a massive improvement though shaun!
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MarkSport
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You need to splice the interior light wires and get all 3 lights working
h yeah, i got something for you...I'll drop it down when im next round (unless you call me for help with the seats)
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JaffaTB
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looks well mate, ive done my lining and pillars black too, gloss black though, not fitted yet hopefully doing it thursday when i'm off sick from work
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DansCorsaSXi
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Looks awesome Shaun! Really good job!
The roof lining looks mint,might have to give this ago when i've done exterior
Keep us updated buddy! 
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nibnob21
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Here's a link to a tutorial I did on AllCorsa for wiring in the Vectra interior light just incase you need it
http://www.allcorsa.co.uk/forums/showthread.php/wire-vectra-b-33672.html
MX5 Project Thread
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DansCorsaSXi
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Cheers matey
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NeilGSI
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looks awesome shaun , love this car,
what kind of paint did you use for your roof lining?
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shaunmods
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Cheers all! 
Dan + Sean, deffo give it a go. Makes a big difference I found. Feels nice and cosey inside it now lol
Ben, I know what you mean! I started pulling it all apart and thought "shit what the hell have I started here!" All went back together easily enough though luckily. Not sure what to do about the visors etc yet. Worried about the paint flaking off them Might have a bash at them though
Mark what is it?
Cheers for the tutorial nibnob Been meaning to sort that for a while!
Neil, I just used normal gloss black on mine mate. I had 3 tins I bought for a quid each from a show ages ago that I never used.
[Edited on 22-01-2011 by shaunmods]
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SeanXE
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Yeah looks it lol just wonder if it will be harder on mine being a sunroof.. or is it easy getting the roof lining off? Never done it before 
[Edited on 22-01-2011 by SeanXE]
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Christopher
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I Likeeee
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AlexW
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Plastic prime the Sunvisors etc, Same as I hope you did with the Pillar trims. Mine have been fine.
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JaffaTB
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I used poundland black gloss on mine
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Haimsey
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Looking good
I love my roof lining, but when i first fitted it, it made the roof seem really low
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Kieran
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Looking good mate
The head lining is is just base colour no primer on clear, just gloss. Because it's came out really well and I want to either get mine flocked or spray, so if it's easy enough il just paint it lol
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shaunmods
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quote:
Originally posted by kizzacorsab
Looking good mate
The head lining is is just base colour no primer on clear, just gloss. Because it's came out really well and I want to either get mine flocked or spray, so if it's easy enough il just paint it lol
Yeah literally just gloss black base and thats it No primer or clear coat. It took 3 cans of paint to cover it though
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AlexW
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Surprised it took so many cans, I just used one, Although mine was done with satin black, not that your notice the difference between Gloss/Satin/Matt on the head lining.
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shaunmods
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Done some repairs to the corsa over the weekend seeing as the weather was a bit nicer
I think I mentioned a few pages back the little teething problems I've been having with the car. Slowly starting to whittle to list down now though!
The first thing to crack on with was the sump. Basically when I first got the engine I stripped the drain plug on it  Luckily I managed to get it to seal right the first couple of times I took it out but when I rebuilt it I couldn't get it to seal properly. Me and my dad put a new thread in it when we did its first 500 mile oil change but we managed to make it even worse lol. Ended up with my drive looking like this -
My mum wasnt impressed lol. Anyhoo I eventually ran out of oil to top it up with so I needed to get a new sump sharpish! Managed to get one from the lovely AW06 Cheers again mate for getting it to me so quickly
First thing I did was to give it a damn good clean with some petrol, then I rubbed it right back and gave it a fresh coat of silver
The corsa was roughly due its next oil and filter change anyway so it was pretty good timing actually. This time I decided to go for some 15w 40 semi-synthetic oil. Reason being is every now and then it would tap slightly for a second or two on very cold starts. Hopefully the slightly thicker oil with stop that.
New oil filter, sump plug washer and gasket
Got the car up in the air first and quickly gave the underside a quick wipe off ready to start work. Really needs a damn good clean under there at some point. The winter has left it in a right state!
We had to drop the manifold down slightly to get the sump off
Sump off
and the nice shiny new one fitted!
While I had it in the air we also sorted my leaky cv boot. Couldn't get it to clamp up tight enough before but after a bit of work we got a good seal on it finally
The wheel was in a bit of a state though from the grease So I cleaned that all of with some white spirit and then gave it a good polish and coat of wax
after
Keeping my fingers crossed that I get the cage and brace back this week as well
[Edited on 31-01-2011 by shaunmods]
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Raz18
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your car looks mint as ever, is that washer universal for corsa's, ive got a leak from my sump plug and need to change the washer when i do an oil change
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shaunmods
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quote:
Originally posted by Raz18
your car looks mint as ever, is that washer universal for corsa's, ive got a leak from my sump plug and need to change the washer when i do an oil change
Yeah its one Halfords do one specifically for Vauxhalls bud *Touch wood* I haven't seen a drop of oil coming out the bottom of it yet lol.
[Edited on 31-01-2011 by shaunmods]
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Raz18
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quote:
Originally posted by shaunmodsYeah its one Halfords do specifically for Vauxhalls bud *Touch wood* I haven't seen a drop of oil coming out the bottom of it yet lol.
Ahh great, will have to get one soon.
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danny90
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where did u get your silicone hoses from m8
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shaunmods
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The hoses were direct from Roose
http://www.roosemotorsport.com/
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