shauny bizzle
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Location: Sheppey, Kent Drives: Vectra GSI V6
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Hello all i thought i best do a proper build page of the corsa, i purchased on my birthday on the 31st may 2009 for £350 of Tpot of here, seeing as i havent got a job this car is just what i need i guess, its a 1993 L Reg Corsa Gsi with the C16XE engine with supposidly some sort of headwork yet this has not been proven, when i got it back home i stripped it out and gave it a bloody good clean inside as the car has sat for 2 years, found a couple of quid lol that was lunch paid for i guess, had a good look over the car and its very solid underneath and has only 110000 on the clock which is 50k less at least,
I knew how exactly i wanted to do things on this corsa, being my 5th corsa lol the plans so far are:
Front Strut brace
Rear strut brace
Whiteline Rear ARB
Uprated Brakes
Rear Disc Conversion
Polly Bush Front End
Coilovers
Harnesses
Respray in the blue it is now and attach bodykit
De-cat
4 Branch
stainless exhaust system
alarm & delocked post 97 handles
Depo Lights
HIDs
MHW Rear Lights
Corsa B / Tigra Coin and whatever holder
Irmy door pins
sport black plastics and door cards
uprate sounds
Small Sub & Headunit
LED Bulbs for rear lamps
GM Flat Blades
Cams but supposidly has cams no proof but pulls bloody hard
Airbox & Panel Filter once ive tracked the c16xe one down lol
Stamped Out Plates or ¾ plate for the front
smooth fuel cap
uprate leads
wind delflectors
Possibly a post 97 rear bumper with recess made
I know so far it needs a l piece on the drivers side and all the jacking covers, skirt clips, N/S/R window rubber, a clutch and an exhuast system and some TLC on the body work, the badboy bonnet is cracked slightly and so is the boot and dents in the drivers door, came with the dreaded lex-arse lights and angel eyes i knew they had to go straight away, the exhaust center box was absolutely rotten and blows like a bitch, theres trim bits i need but thats not a problem, the steering pump whines, and few bits here and there(radio to be rewired), so off to the breakers got a few bits:
Tigra Scuttle Panel
Mk4 Astra Repeaters and smoked
Few Bolts and screws
Standard Rear lights
Passenger dash trim thing
Velor Mats
Rear Mudflaps
New Aerial unit
Got my cousin over and he wet - vaxed the whole interior come out like new, im gonna get MHWs in time just didnt like starring at lexarse lights TBH, Fitted my old sill plates from my last Gsi, fitted my breakers bits, went to remove the wheels to find locking wheelnuts had to hack my N/S/R drum apart but after that removed the others easy lol, removed the calipers to paint up blue but noticed on removal the ABS sensor on the O/S/F was half missing the support for the sensor was also miissing, ive got some wheels of Pazz1991 coming, some white Gsi rims fresh rubber and paint, upon bleeding the brakes the master cylinder seemed too whine and the pedal didnt seem right im taking it as where its sat for 2 years, good side though all the front discs are new as well as new rear shoes and front pads, seeing this has NO service history what so ever so ive decided:
New Cambelt & Waterpump
Oil, All Filters, Plugs
Coolant Change
Brake Fluid Change – already done
After a few days has passed and got some money through from selling my lights and bits and pieces i bought my front strut brace off ebay for £29 delivered
Debating on rear bumper weather to use a post 97 bumper and a fiesta recess as the one i have now has covered the rear tow eye, took the front bumer off thats gonna be up for sale as i dont like the cold air feed that doesnt work. Also removed the rear wiper motor and covered the hole with eleccy tape lol.
Fitted some blue LED bulbs in the speedo and MFD, had a play with putting a boot popper in, also got a Mk2 Golf rear strut brace started making that fit, finally got it in and called it a day, the following day i decided it was gonna go to a Fast Road car with the rear seats stripped out, so started to strip it out, also got a MK5 fiesta boot switch and finally got the popper working, seeing as i was stripping the rear out and not having a rear wiper i decided to get a bit of hardboard and have it covered in black leatherette and painted the clips up black.
Stripping pictures
Boot Switch
After a few weeks got some corsasport.co.uk stickers off a fella off here, and decided to paint the sparewheel well black, also got another mk5 fiesta boot switch with blue LED and fitted new heater control bulbs, also took another trip to the scrappers to get a steering coloumn as i found that the bearings were shot, also got my eye on some bucket seats from Selfridge off here, also after a long think i decided to get an Astra GTE Digital Dash, started to mould the fibreglass for it and wired it all up had a trial fit of it all working.
ive fibreglassed all the digidash to my corsa bit like this
Got bored of having cream platics so took them out and decided to paint them all black, once i started getting them fitted i thought its time to see about the headliner being re-trimmed so i had my bro-in-law help me re-trim it and removed the sunroof and painted the trim up, refitted it in and put all the plastics in, some need a touch up but thats no trouble, after some time thinking i decided to put a fake floor in and put a sub in the wheel well and install the amp under the seat also got some 20mm thick power cable and a massive 50amp fuse all i need now is the RCA leads, amp cost me £1 off ebay so cant be bad works a treat. Just need to cover the fake floor.
A week or so later after my buckets had turnt up had them fitted, me and dad made some frames up, repaired the drivers hook thing for the seat and got them in all i need now is harnesses, also got some bonnet lifters and had them fitted. The following day me and dad got some welding done on the boot and repiar the boot, not a bodywork man myself but have had a good go and come over very well and smoothed my fuel cap, also got an exhaust system off a guy on here for free, which has a center exit twin oval magnex back boxes, ive been told id need to cut out my spare wheel well to fit so think i’ll swap this with someone maybe and its suitable for an XE as the car it came off was a redtop corsa. Also got a lightened flywheel and new clutch and an airbox coming from GregGsi off here and got a couple of ebay bits coming like a K&N panel filter and some 35mm lamps for a nice touch.
This is how it ended up today (07/08/2009) what do all you guys think?
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shauny bizzle
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Registered: 2nd Aug 06
Location: Sheppey, Kent Drives: Vectra GSI V6
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small update removed the gearbox and clutch came out in 10 pieces lol decided to get a lightened flywheel off greggsi off here my dads mate does powder coating so i hadthe Front ARB coated white and the rest of bits were done black, whilst everything was apart i decided to go down the polybush route which only cost £40 for the front kit, whilst i wait for the flywheel ive removed the hubs to paint them in black hammerite and the steering arms.... decided im going to waxoil the underneath and inner arches as the front arches are fooked so getting some new ones and theres not a spot of rust underneath the car or any signs of welding
decided to change the colour scheme im going artic white and black roof, mirrors and alloys and a semi smooth boot
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shauny bizzle
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after ages sitting on my drive doing nothing and after getting a payout off the polo, i took the engine out and decided to strip down and see what the internals are like, so far ive stripped the ancillieries off and manifolds and drained the oil, got a load of bits off ebay including all the servicing stuff and gaskets etc, also got a lower ecotec manifold and MHW rear lamps off mr Warren G, bought a vxperformance inlet too gotta get a few more bits of the engine, but decided to do the block caribic blue and rocker cover and sump black/ graphite, the engine bay will be satin black and the car to be caribic blue, hopefully gunna get the car in the garage once i can get another car out, sorry for lack of pictures, but will post pics up of engine progress soon
MHWs & Inlet
Powerbox
engine on stand ready to be stripped
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shauny bizzle
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09/01/2010 update
sourced a exhaust sytem down due to get that in the near future its a janspeed decat system, also got money aside for a 4 branch but watch this space plans have changed so its a surprise to do with the engine
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corsaglasper
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ive been looking at those vx performance manifolds, cheaper than a mantzel. When you get it going itd be interesting to know whether they work!
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shauny bizzle
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ill let ya know it'll be a couple of months yet though matey
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shauny bizzle
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another update, bought a few more bits for the corsa such as Depo smoked headlights, rear disc conversion, front door cards, and some magnecor leads so going good 
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sri boy
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keep up the good work m8t
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shauny bizzle
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finally an update, after waiting patiently i was informed by wooly101uk there was a set of vectra 4 stud rims in his local breakers after finally arranging it over the phone with the breakers i purchased a set arranging courier tomorrow, also sold the white gsi rims, went outside today thought id take a few pics seeing as i havent in such a long time, just waiting on my Crank Sensor to turn up as this happened whilst stripping the engine down
got this from the scrappies yesterday to run my digi dash oil gauge
all the bits that await fitting lol got so much to i.e underseal it etc etc strip the bay down to paint it, rebuild the engine, the original plan was not to rebuild just a service as there was no history, with it just got to buy rings, shells and ARPs, so far this is what i have lol
my depos, leads and door cards turnt up today massive thanks to the people who sold them to me 
my rear disc conversion hubs turnt up massive thanks to ecclesturbo who supplied them went out to start painting the calipers and both bleed nipples sheered on me  but as you can see progress pics im going to try using an easy out to get them out
so finally after packing up for the day this how shes left
my mates got my bucket seats atm thats his one lol
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shauny bizzle
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quote:
Originally posted by sri boy
keep up the good work m8t
cheers fella
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Ste L
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nice collection of bit's your getting there..
should make a nice corsa when complete
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shauny bizzle
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yeah got my work cut out for me lol just waiting to get the firebird out the garage before i can do any work lol
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Ste L
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ahh cool, just dont give up on it, like i did with mine 
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shauny bizzle
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lol nah i dont intend to keep finding more work tho lol im pulling the rear axle of to paint so poly bush that now, dropping the tank to paint and underseal the floor lol
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dalejones
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good work! lookin nice mate!
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shauny bizzle
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cheers althought all this maybe for sale lol
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mar_cus
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Did you paint your plastics black yourself? What did you use? Or was it just black in the first place??
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shauny bizzle
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i panted them with regualr gloss black paint, only the a.b.c pillars were painted
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mar_cus
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Ok, cheers mate
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SR91
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Nice exhaust that ;-)
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shauny bizzle
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now splitting guys
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flybikeslee
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good man
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shauny bizzle
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quote:
Originally posted by flybikeslee
good man
lol yep vrs coming close noooow
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SXi_Tim
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You selling the Corbeaus?
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shauny bizzle
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sold
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