corsa-vxr
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well swapped my gsi astra for this nova as i needed a diesel seems to have been looked after with alot off new parts fitted plan is to get a full respray 2 new front wings as theres abit off rust here and there
quite nippy for a td boost and fuellings turned up 1st thing i did on the drive home was remove the gay tints it had on it lol parts that have been fitted new to it recently are
Brand new transmech clutch done less than 1000miles
Brand new gearbox and engine mount
Brembo discs and pads
New handbrake cable
New wheel bearings (4)
Brand spanking new front valance, professionally fitted
New oil sump
New battery
Reconditioned alternator
Fresh engine and gearbox oil
New oil filter
Black hammerite brake callipers
New brake lines
New rear brake cylinders
Powder coated intake pipes
Citroen C2 VTS cone filter
Welded in section in place of cat (decat)
Midbox present with cherry bomb style back box (quiet untilyou hoof it, mostly induction and turbo noise inside car)
Fuel pump screw mod
Mumby developments Boost Control valve (holds 0.9 barcurrently, standard is 0.5. The engines will take up to around 1.4bar I haveheard but mine still has the standard over boost valve that opens at 1.1bar tokeep it safe)
Central locking including boot release all on key fob
GSI skirts, spoiler and bumpers
Single wiper with rally style tube washer jet
Road legal pressed plates
Solid battery tray (prone to rot)
Solid boot floor
Front wings and rear arches replaced 2 years ago whenresprayed
Focal front door speakers with cross overs and tweeters
Boost gauge
Recent headlamps
Road legal HID’s, low and high beam, LED white side lights
GSI interior
New alternator belt
New timing belt
12 months MOT
PLANS ARE
full respray in white bumpers as well
powder coat wheels white
fit my 2 wipers that i got today as it aint a single wiper on it old one has meant to have snapped
get rid off the gay red interior bits
coilovers down more DONE TODAY
fmic
bigger bore exhaust
em anything else ill add at somepoint lol
being the sx model comes with electric windows etc has remote locking and a boot popper installed aswell and from what ive heard there is less than 20 td sx's left on the road apparently pics as i got it home
and today i took adjusters out the rear and dropped the front down some more
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corsa_sean
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Looks smart that i wouldnt mind one as a daily
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corsa-vxr
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yea its not bad plan is to make it mind goes well for a td quite impressed
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Jed D
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how long have you had this, i recognise it
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sri boy
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Looks fine mate has it had the pump mod or that done or boost turned up
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corsa-vxr
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Since fri ngt bud yea robbie fuelling and boost is turned up nt sure on white ring mod but i recon it will be done
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sri boy
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Should be 120 bhp and a shit load of torq lll
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corsa-vxr
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hopefully lol tis nippy like poked around it today needs 2 patches welded one at the corner off boot floor and other at coolant expansion tank so ill get a mate to do that..
anyways today i took grille off and painted it up anthracite much better me thinks and also changed my broken rear light
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sri boy
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Ma wee nova van was ultra fun here was ca rr day a few years ago lolhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iue0t9lNYHg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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corsa-vxr
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Ah was that urs a had alook at that b4 a got mine lol
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sri boy
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Lol gave valver Corsas a run for there money mate
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corsa-vxr
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aye ad quite beleive that there pretty quick like yesterday got rid of the gay red pink interior bits had some anthracite so painted them up looks alot cleaner now also some fotos from m&ds car show on saturday
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BeetleGav
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Looks like this could turn out nice, speedlines need smaller rubber personally though
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corsa-vxr
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Tyres are new so theyl be staying lol bt cheers
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corsa-vxr
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well after arguing with the previous owner and his bullshit turns out the car aint moted so its getting done on friday and a visit paid to the little c##t so a mate welded up the bits that were rotting now shells 100percent almost
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corsa-vxr
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some more pics i found from m&ds car show
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kedowan
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nice wee nova!
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connollygt30
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Tidy wee car mate
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Corsa_Sport21
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Looks a tidy wee car that.
Whats the story with the MOT though?? If it had 12mths mot, how come its got none now??
Welding looks a bit shady, are you going to spray over the black stonechip??
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corsa-vxr
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its underseal mate its just to protect it atm itll all be redun in time basically the cunt told me it had mot took his word for it he said mot cert was at home..
so took nova txted him the next day he said he had posted it....
waited till tuesday still nothing checked dvla site came up not moted texted him again got aload off bullshit from him basically....
told him i.m paying him a visit then he tells me he never had certificate....
so a few off us are paying him a visit at weekend mot is tomorrow needed those bits welded so i did them quickly putting new inners in over winter so atm it makes the shell strong enough
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corsa-vxr
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after putting car in for mot on friday it failed no surprise there...
so after i did some welding new ttrackrod end it passed this morning...
also put on my espace splitter and painted inner arches up..
boost has now been turned up to 1.2 bar aswell
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Christopher
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I think speedlines were made for the nova! Looks great bud although IMO i think the espace splitter is a bit too much but thats just me! 
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corsa-vxr
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yup agreed lol espace is just there till i find a laguna at a scrappys which is hard down here lol will appear eventually
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Christopher
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Will look great! 
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corsa-vxr
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should do then respray next
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