jr
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Originally posted by PaulW
jr, you have any info on the weight of the fibreglass boot & bonnet?? Tried emailing them on motorsportdirect, but yet to recieve a reply 
he's on holiday till the 20th 
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Andy
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Registered: 28th Dec 99
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quote:
Originally posted by jr
 i need a strut brace to fit round the mantzel
This is a Sparco alloy brace - fits over the Mantzel box no probs - I know cos I had it fitted when I had my Mantzel box on....
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jr
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sell it to me. sell it to me
how much do you want 
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Andy
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Registered: 28th Dec 99
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U have U2U
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PaulW
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not sure if this looks about right, but starting planning on stage 2 of the corsa
need to get dimensions of the calibra floorplan still, but I think this is a rough idea of what I need to cut out of the corsa (floor & inner-arches (pos cos of suspension)) but will know more when I get the donor car.
(blue = to be cut out)
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Tom
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Paul what u doing 
Andy you buy the best mods 
U been out in it much lately?
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PaulW
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Originally posted by Tom
Paul what u doing
4x4 LET corsa
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Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
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wonder how much mine will weight with comromotive wheels they should be lighter
if i ever get a 2nd job the corsa will be for fun and ill have a day to day car
wonder how much mine weighs now
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Adam
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Mine is 50kgs overweight doubt AK's is sub 800, not got much more than me taken out
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PaulW
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get it on some scales 
There might be a few scrappies which have a weighbridge near you. One I'm taking mine to is about 2 mins away in car, and shouldn't cost anything to weigh!
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Adam
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mine was free to weigh unless i wanted a print out
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Daimo B
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I've added nearly 80kg to my car
JR, go down Longfield to PinBins and weigh it on there. Accurate to 7kg i think. Thats where i weighed mine and it came out at 1.02tonnes.
£2.50 or £3 or summit. Just turn up.
Would be interesting to see what it weighs. U need some lightweight 15"s as well, bin those brakes for 4 pots and did Matt fit a lightened flywheel?
Theres 20-40kg odd there alone with those three mods.
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Patrick
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Anyone want to donate a few £££££'s so that I can make a carbon fibre Astra Coupé shell and I'll join the club.
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
quote:
Originally posted by Tom
Paul what u doing
4x4 LET corsa
Very nice?
Not thought about a Twin LET conversion? Getting them in would be easy enough (well, easy ish ) but mating them up, gear linkages etc would be pretty hard.
What 4x4 system are you going to use? Would love to see this Mid engined 4wd
Thoguht about making it just RWD?? Prob easier than 4x4 as well. And can be tail happy
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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have toyed with twin LET, but like you say joining gear linkages & mating them all up would be a bitch, plus if they need to be producing pretyt much the same amount of poer & torque or they'll be fighting over each other which can cause problems
Plus where would the fuel tank go? I want to have a 2nd seat in the front to scare the shit outa ppl by taking them round the track or something
4x4 system will be from a calibra, but with the prop being shortend, plus will be running same track width as the calibra turbo, so using all origianl shafts & hubs, should keep costs down a bit then for maintenance as won't keep needing to get custom fit jobs (unless the prop fooks off)
so far costing it to be around 3-4k to convert the car to 4x4, includes donor car & budget for parts, and as will be doing most work myself (with a little help off my uncle), should keep costs down further!
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vibrio
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quote:
Originally posted by jr
sell your body to me. sell your body to me
how much do you want
Think Andy usually charges around £20 for head work 
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vibrio
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sub 800 with or with out driver. AK is a big bloke
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