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Author My £80 Merit Project
Markus
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21st Jun 09 at 00:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Recently bought a corsa merit with 12 months m.o.t for £80
Needed a new wing and bonnet, £25 later and it looked good.
Today is how the car ended up, the engine was abit tired so
decided to have it as a project car and get the engine out
Will be making it all tidy and hopefully a 1.6 8v to go in if i can
find one close and cheap enough
This is how the car came, real sorry paintwork thanks to rich h
for advice on cleaning it up, spot on mate didnt have enough
money to buy your products so i used cheap versions will use
you next time !
The future plans are as follws, need to get a job first !
- Post 97 white bumpers
- Rear tailgate with boot spoiler
- 1.6 8v engine
- 4 branch manifold + cat back system
- Calibra leather interior + Subtle Silver interior plastics
- Lowered 60mm all round
- Cav slab alloys - Maybe tigra
- Smoked Depos
- GSi rep skirts
- General tidy up including a new drivers door

This is how the car came to me -





After I put a new wing on and gave it a clean it looked like this -
As you can see the paintwork came up great, needs a drivers door.



After deciding to keep the car as a project i took the engine out -



Hopefully i will shortly have a job to buy a new engine and continue,
as for now all i'll be doing is cost free things such as cleaning, stripping
and making it nice and tidy, comments and suggestions welcome

[Edited on 21-06-2009 by Markus]
Liam B
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Fair play dont clean up that bad, cheap corsa's FTW
Markus
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Today i decided to clean the engine bay
remove some rusty parts clean them up
and underseal them, the engine bay came up better than expected.

Before -

After -



Undersleal -

I also removed the gearbox and stripped
down the 1.2 of any parts i wanted to keep



After that i removed the ecu and other
things that want cleaning / changing



john_c20xe
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what engine you putting in?
shaunmods
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Its got great potential mate. I'll be keeping my eye on this
Markus
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quote:
Originally posted by john_c20xe
what engine you putting in?


Hopefully a 1.6 8v if i can find one close enough
all the ones i find seem to be 200 miles + away

i dont have the knowledge to do a 1.8 / 2.0
so i will stick with a 1.6 1st then see
im learning as i go along
SteveoBC
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reminds me of when i started mine, gud luk with it markus
Markus
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Cheers mate,
Sprayed the center console
The tray where MFD normally sits in sports
door handle covers

will get pics up tomorrow
john_c20xe
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make sure you keep with it mate
corsa-Ben
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mine now with my engine in!! cheers mark.
haha
Markus
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Thast true, my project turned into bens new corsa, he got ripped off with his so trying to make him a cheap run around
radiator battery few more wires to go
not bad for a days work



corsa-Ben
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looks wel good. i cant wait to get drivin it!lol.
Markus
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should be all finished tomorrow, you can do the rear hub & brake shoes =D
corsa-Ben
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haha gdgd mate! lol dont u wona!?.ha.
corsa-Ben
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i got big ideas for this!! hah
jimmy1987
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like not writing it off going over speed bumps
corsa-Ben
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haha shut up jimmy!lol.
when can u meet me for them lights pal?
Markus
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Corsa now gone to ben, pictures of the black one going in a mo, ill leave it up to ben to update his thread !
Markus
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jimmy1987
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update salla you crashed it yet>?
corsa-Ben
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quote:
Originally posted by jimmy1987
update salla you crashed it yet>?


haha no i havnt crashd it yet!! lol. im a get sum pics sorted and then update it!!

got my own little project thread now!! lol. but dont be expectin awt too lush people! lol.
corsa-Ben
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MY PROJECT THREAD NOW!!

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hahaha.

[Edited on 10-07-2009 by corsa-Ben]
corsa-Ben
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it was lookin a little something like this when we finishd it!

right..work soo far..
since i got it home i decided to go for the stripped out race look, also subtle and low!
i have:
-added my corsa sport exhaust system
-fully stripped it out from back seats, to front and bak door cards, roof lining, most interior plastics, carpet,etc. and removed that black sound deadin stuff from the back (which ways a tonn!!!hah.) also put my 2 sri seats in the front! also had to make a DIY interior light holder out of the old sun blind holders!! hahah.



(just need to finish removin the seatbelts!ha.

- de badged / de stickerd it!

- also fitted clear side reps and colour coded mirrors

- put my white 13"s on it! STILL NEED TO FIT MY 60MM LOWERING KIT COZ ITS WAYY TO HIGH FOR MY LIKIN ATM!!LOL.

-fitted my clocks with a rev counter outa my old corsa.

-then added the subtle silver painted interior bits and also some checkerd bits and my carling mat that i got from work! lol.



THINGS TO DO...
-lower it!!!
-checkerd roof
-general tidy up..
-front and rear struts (maby a cage too)
-bucket seats and harnes's
-put my post 97 bumpers on, also my gsi spoiler
errrrm.... cant fink of much else atm!lol.
il keep ya updated when i can. cheers, ben
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i sold P some black cobra daytona buckets seats ask if he will sell em dont think hes done out with them ive got the frames for them to go on the standard corsa frames also got some sparco harnesses if your interested!!
corsa-Ben
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yehh.. ok i mite! and yerr. txt me abwt em when u get this please mate!

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