HarleyMK
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Registered: 17th Apr 11
Location: Milton Keynes Drives: Corsa Sport
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Hello everyone and welcome to my thread,
Ill introduce myself first, my names Harley and from Milton Keynes this is my second corsa I did have a star silver 1.4 sport before but it decided it didn’t wanna play anymore and head gasket went, was going to get it fixed but this came up and couldn’t resist
1997 Corsa Sport 1.6 16v had 96,000 miles on when I got her but did have 12months tax and MOT so handed over £800 and took her home.
Sorry about the crap picture, it’s the only one I have from the day I picked her up
So far ive only done a few things to the car
Front coilovers
110mm rear springs
Sportex exhaust system
De-cat
15” Ronal Turbo wheels
Ill let the pictures do the talking
Shortly after getting the car home I was straight on the internet and ordered my coilovers
I don’t have any pictures of the 110mm rear springs... not that there would be much point as they only have 2 coils on them. Soon as they both turned up I got them fitted, didn’t bother measuring how low they went I just wound them all the way down and stuck them straight on, went and got my tracking done and got a quick snap
Decided it was exhaust time, I went for a sportex race system with 3” tailpipe
Took the car into work to get the exhaust fitted and discovered a slight problem…. I cant actually get my car onto a ramp…
So I improvised…
Got it fitted in no time, got the car home gave it a quick clean and decided it was time to loose the badges
A quick picture of the rear 
The car stayed like this for some time until my mate decided he was selling his wheels, I was always bugging him to let me have them so when they came up for sale I had to have them
2 of the tyres were almost bald so got them replaced and gave the car a good clean, polish and wax
Few pictures,
Got Stretch? Lol
Ignore the bumper hanging down, found out the hard way that the cars to low to go over speed bumps, ripped the bumper off and broke the clips on the n/s so its currently held on with cable ties
Before long id managed to put a hole in my cat from where it scrapes along the floor, so the was only one solution for this…
De-cat
didn’t expect it to make much difference performance wise but tbh the car does feel a lot smoother through the revs, people ive spoken to say after fitting a decat they end up with flat spots but I have none of this although on the down side it’s a lot louder which doesn’t impress the neighbours
One thing that has always annoyed me about the car has been the state of the plastic arches etc, so had a go at sorting them out excuse the masking tape had just polished the car and didn’t want to get back to black everywhere lol
Before
Standard back box was on as I took the other one of to polish it up cause it was filthy
And after,
To be honest once it had dried it hadn’t made much difference was slightly darker but could still tell that they had faded so think im going to have to paint them all at some point.
After I done the plastics me and my brother went and go a few pictures of our cars together
that’s about as far as the cars got at the moment ive got many plans for it but wont reveal them as ill properly change my mind about some things, but ill keep you all up dated
Comments and suggestions welcome
Thanks for looking,
Harley
[Edited on 16-09-2012 by HarleyMK]
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redtom
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Except for the stickers in the window i like that
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HarleyMK
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Registered: 17th Apr 11
Location: Milton Keynes Drives: Corsa Sport
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Haha cheers mate, the stickers will be coming off at some point
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GB123
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Registered: 21st Nov 11
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Looks really nice, try autoglym bumpercare or a heat gun on your arches/bumper tops, works really well to make them black. 
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HarleyMK
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quote:
Originally posted by GB123
Looks really nice, try autoglym bumpercare or a heat gun on your arches/bumper tops, works really well to make them black.
Cheers mate I'll give that a go, see if it does the job
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dannyboy17
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Registered: 27th Oct 11
Location: Aylesbury
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looks really nice, what did you use on the trim, linseed oil is good
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LukesCorsaSXi
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Registered: 2nd Jan 11
Location: Sheffield
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Love that  Looks sweet on the turbos.
[Edited on 26-02-2012 by LukesCorsaSXi]
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HarleyMK
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Registered: 17th Apr 11
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Was some carplan stuff was just like a black dye, put it on left to dry and wiped the rest off, but after a day or two it just faded again
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DansCorsaSXi
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Love that mate,plenty of black corsa's on here now.
Star silver C20XE SXi Project thread
Smoke Grey Corsa GSi Project thread
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HarleyMK
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Registered: 17th Apr 11
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*Update* ish
Took a trip down to vauxhall today to get a a couple of bits
inlet manifold gasket and crankshaft oil seal:
also got 2 free part worn tyres for the ronals of a friend 
cars currently looking like this,
running on the sport wheels atm as the ronals are off being refurbed
getting them powder coated instead of having them diamond cut as its a bit different
sorry about crap pictures was using phone
Harley
[Edited on 26-04-2012 by HarleyMK]
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Jamie-C
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Looks nice mate, quite like B's on Ronal turbos, think they suit them nicely
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Darryl H
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Looks good mate Will be good to see it on the 4th
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HarleyMK
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quote:
Originally posted by Darryl H
Looks good mate Will be good to see it on the 4th
cheers mate, hopefully will have the wheels back by then aswell
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Darryl H
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Awesome
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DanCobb
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Registered: 14th May 11
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Love ronal turbos
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HarleyMK
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Location: Milton Keynes Drives: Corsa Sport
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*** Small Update ***
Just a small update,
had a bit of spare time at work today so got a few bits done, i was cleaning the car but got a little destracted and decided to remove the stickers from the back window as i kinda went off them and didnt like them being there,
i was then going to dewiper the boot but found a bit of rust under it that the bung i had wouldnt cover  so left that on... for now
i then actually got on with cleaning the outside
but then i started on the inside, which again i got distracted with and ended up with this
hopefully ill have some spare time tomorrow so i can re route the wiring and get the rest of the sound deadening out... which is a complete c**t lol
finally finished cleaning and went and got some picuters
hopefully with have some more updates soon, should be getting the ronals back next week
Harley
[Edited on 26-04-2012 by HarleyMK]
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Darryl H
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Looks good mate!
Got a semi smooth boot here for sale 
[Edited on 25-02-2012 by Darryl H]
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HarleyMK
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Hmm tempting but I quite like having the lock on it just want the wiper smoothed tbh but if I change my mind I no where to come to haha
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HarleyMK
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Managed to get a bit more done today,
decided i didnt like the the carpet being there so i cut that down to behind the front seats
also managed to get the rest of the sound deadening out and took out all my old wires that were for my sub
will get some pictures up later as just about to sit down and have my roast dinner
Harley
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Darryl H
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Sounds good mate!
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HarleyMK
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cheers mate
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HarleyMK
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*** UPDATE ***
right only a small update, i thought id tease you all a little.
as you may know my wheels have been off getting referbed and i finally got them back today
i dont have any decent pictures, and the pictures i do have are off my phone so make the colour look shite but it would be rude not to show you so her we are.
the colour is actually arden blue and in person the colour is spot on, im not going to lie the quality isnt the best but for £35 for all four wheels im not going to complain.
i will get some decent pictures up once i find my camera
they should be on the car soon as my tyres turn up which should be monday
Harley
[Edited on 26-04-2012 by HarleyMK]
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DansCorsaSXi
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Good update mate,i reckon the blue will look nice and different.
Star silver C20XE SXi Project thread
Smoke Grey Corsa GSi Project thread
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HarleyMK
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Registered: 17th Apr 11
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cheers mate, went for something a bit different after seeing people with same wheels wanted something i hadnt seen before so mine stood out more
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DansCorsaSXi
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Ok nice one. Still coming to MK meet? Would love to see this.
Star silver C20XE SXi Project thread
Smoke Grey Corsa GSi Project thread
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