Liam
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Registered: 19th Jan 06
Location: Stafford
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After selling my old Astra SXi 12 months ago, I bought this about 6 weeks later, I travelled to York for it, paid at the time less than every other GSi that was for sale.
Few pics from 3 days after I bought it... after I replaced the 6x4 oval backbox that was on it with a smaller tailpipe/backbox.
All was great for 2 weeks, when I noticed a burning smell/smoke coming through the cabin vents. Took the car back into EH in Wolves (after arguing with the York dealer that there was a problem etc) and the turbo had failed  (  ) as the car was under warrenty it was all replaced along with other parts, such as the VXR cooling kit, I also put a whiteline ARB on when I got the car back, which is an amazing bit of kit.
I took the car to MPG to get the actuator setup correctly as it wasn't boosting right after they fitted the new turbo, stuck it on the RR whilst I was there and it "made" 205bhp with just a cat-back.
MattL took some pics sometime in August (I think) which are better than my iPhone attempts...
Fast forward to Jan 11 and I started to spend some more money on the car.
18" VXR alloys
which turned into
Weitec Coilovers
Courtenay hoses/dumpvalve & 63mm "plenum"
and fitted
Just this weekend had the wheels fitted, and also had the "Earth Mod" done, swapping the dump valve as the current one has failed, and bought a front poly mount from a reccomendation.
Immediate plans are to fit coilovers/engine mount, after that hopefully get the Courtenay Sport 1.9 CDTi box/80mm AFM and hopefully stage 2 map.
[Edited on 28-04-2011 by Liam]
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DansCorsaSXi
Organiser: Yorkshire
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Registered: 13th Jan 10
Location: Worksop
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Nice one Liam 
Love GSi's,nice one with the alloys,will look mega on 
Star silver C20XE SXi Project thread
Smoke Grey Corsa GSi Project thread
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Gareth T
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Registered: 14th Feb 06
Location: newcastle
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Any updated pictures?
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Liam
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Registered: 19th Jan 06
Location: Stafford
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Either tomorrow or later in the week.
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Pete_vxl
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Registered: 24th Nov 06
Location: Lochgelly, Fife
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very nice. Save yourself a bucket and get a 2.2 airbox though.
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Liam
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Registered: 19th Jan 06
Location: Stafford
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Bit of an update, firstly pics of the wheels I forgot to upload them the other week...
Last Saturday I went over to Wolves to a fellow AOC member who kindly let me use his garage space to get another AOC member/Me/Him to fit the Weitec coilovers and the engine mount I bought, here's a few pics..
Old vs. New
Fitted - I also bought some adjustable metal droplinks from a guy who makes them on AOC to replace the standard rubber part.
Rear
All fitted, i'm thinking of lowering the front a touch more also.
Next up is a service at MPG next month, then after that who know's  
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Jamie-C
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Registered: 3rd Jun 08
Location: Ballycastle
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Didn't realise how nice these were until recently, seen one parked in the shopping centre last week, went and had a look, I must've stood there for about 5 minutes admiring it  , looks like a nice example you've got there!
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Adam C
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Registered: 10th Jan 07
Location: Cornwall UK Drives:Arden Blue Gsi T
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That looks amazing on the new wheels, colour is perfect, I love it
My Arden Blue Astra GSi MK4 on BBS LM's Project Thread
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Liam
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Registered: 19th Jan 06
Location: Stafford
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Cheers guys. I really want a set of sharkeyes now, but can't really afford them.
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Mark.W
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Registered: 3rd Jan 07
Location: County Durham
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Love it wheels look better than i expected too
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