ryan_fowler1985
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Been on here for a while now but havent put my project thread up as i spend most of my time over on mig but as this is a corsa site i thought id stick it up and see what your opions are.
Please bear in mind this is my everyday car and has been built on the road or in my 8ft wide garage  I dont belive in taking it to a garage for anything except tyres test and tracking lol
I have copied most of this over from my other project thread on mig so some bits may not make much sense, i will be keeping it updated from now on tho on here
Thanks for looking
Comments welcome
Ryan
256mm cav sri calipers with grooved disks and black diamond pads.
before
after
Dbilas inlet manifold to fit to the 1600 before the xe was even thought about
Powerflow backbox
z16xe cover modified to fit
New wheels
And a bit of mud after the wales rally gb lol
[Edited on 03-09-2008 by ryan_fowler1985]
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ryan_fowler1985
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Dial rings fitted
New wheels again 
a few with the astra rims
And a few when clean.
A few before pics
front tyre in arch
My method of getting the trolley jack under a car lower 60mm lol
Like a 4x4
Damage to the inside of my front arches and arch liners
New springs and old
Camber bolts fitted
Is my tracking out? Both wheels looked like this
And how it is now job done, 40mm front 60mm rear
Randomly bought an xe off a mate
Don knew something was wrong here but he couldnt figure out what was missing
So we started on the box and clutch off you come and up on the stand
Jamie and don couldnt wait to get it apart and cost me money the buggers
Off with the head all looking good here
Jamie needed a rest now lol and the engine needed some sun
Off with the Crap sump gasket
Then ev turned up when the work was done in his crappy french car, and a very clean coat what a w*nker
Time to admire the beautiful scenery and weather, lol
Car and lazy people
Picked up some more bits looked at the mess then tidied up a bit.
The good thing about a corsa is it will still fit in the garage even tho its full of crap
To the workshop of Fowler Engineering Ltd complete with air holes:doh:
And some of the working conditions i have im sure they are better in the third world countries
Before painting with some of the old flaky paint removed
Decided to go for black this time as i wont show up the dirt as much and if it does flake it wont matter as much
Been trying some colours for the cover, not sure what to go for yet, i was thinking red plug cover with white lettering and a grey rocker but darker than the car colour more anthracite, what you think? excuse the crap paint job it will be rubbed back and done properly when i decide for definate
new valve springs
compressing the spring, out with the old
new and old no difference in height but the new ones are noticably more stiff
one done
Filler primer to cover imperfections
First coat
Clear coat on
The belt cover im happy with but the rocker has some run marks 
Plug cover
How it should look
And my dodgy light, simple yet effective
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ryan_fowler1985
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Type 2 mount kit and rubber mount, and i thought as im doing the engine id get some shiney bonnet lifters
Some progress of my night shift in work, being an electricain it was pretty obvious these were for home lol.
Measured and marked out the correct dimensions
Used the giant guilotene to cut up the plates, this comes in very handy at times
Out with the hand tools, and the noisey as hell air kit grinder set.
Bit of cutting and fileing later and i have these, the front one is a proper one i borrowed
Few more ready to be finished tonight.
Front bumper off to look for rust
Not that bad its pretty solid just surface rust which aint bad for a 12 year old car i was expeting a little bit at least.
Don decided to do some washing up under my bonnet with his lovely gloves
Bits removed lots more removed but was running out of tme too quick for photos
will it ever look the same again?
Loom and ecu removed ready, just need to get the immobiliser transponder thingy out at some point.
New engine ready for the in.
Then had a quick tidy up so all the tools are together
Not much left connected now
Out with the x16xe engine
empty bay cleaned up a bit
The 12 year old dirt was no match
Nice and clean
Found these plate already here for strength
Somewhere in all this crap is my tools
New engine bolted in
Plugs go in
Covers on quite happy with the outcome.
Random photo
More mess
Don used most of this can to clean things including the light bulbs for a smoke effect
Finding tools started to get a bit annoying
A factory fit finish
Who put the hammer in here?
AFter it was all running we came across a major leak from the oil pump gasket and had to strip it agin to change it
well some photos of my wiring, yesterdays and a few of progress from saturday taken by jamie as i forgot lol
up in the air to get the oil pump off
How i would like the rear end to look
Looking like a car again
And just for don some of my wiring, told you id solder them lol
The pas pipe then burst in tesco car park resulting in lots of smoke and oil lmao
the joint that has split on the pipe
where the pipe runs now
split on the joint
im thinking of running the new pipe between the manifold and the block and using 10mm hydraulic fittings to joint it to the 10mm pipe at the pump and at the point where it has broken.
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ryan_fowler1985
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Got it on the rollers and it was a bit down on power due to running a 1600 exhaust and eml light on
A few photos of interior work, more to follow
How the seats look after a clean
Seats out and carpet cleaned
Frames swap from old to new
Rounded this bolt off :doh: so had to get a new one
Heatedness
How it looks at the moment
As some of you may no, i got the car tidied up a bit and fitted the rest of the leather and set off on saturday morning on route to castle combe circuit.
Had a good day despite the rain and took the car out on the track for the first time and had great fun even with no grip
The car survived the track and made it home with no problems which i was more than happy with, but then on sunday on my way shopping locally the bottom end gave up on me and left me stuck with a big puddle of oil and some bits i collected off the road.
I havent had chance to strip it completely yet and find out exact damage but i will get photos hopefully tommorrow all i know is cylinder 1 is 3/4 up the bore and 2 3 and 4 are all around center
The engine as it stands at the moment looks like this
In need of a car for work i went out and bought this off a mate for a runaround,
The cav lasted one day then got swapped for this beast which will be my donor for its engine hopefully next week sometime, 82k miles dispac xe with no taps smoke or knocks at all even from cold.
So here we go again, progress will follow:doh:
the engine is out now ready for the new one begining of next week when i have alternative transport to drive.
The head is slightly damaged with 4 valve bent, also looks like something has entered chambers 2 and 3 somehow and marked the head. The piston is cracked twisted and in bits, the rod has blown to pieces and gone throught the baffle plate, sump and block in 2 places, also broke through my pas bracket
a few photos
Enjoy
Bent valves
Crank scored
Got the engine out of the van and into the car but when it came to start it wouldnt go past tdc, found that somehow a nut had got in there 
Old engine stripped of its useful bits and thrown in the back of the van
The engine bay of the corsa box left in
Engine in van being stripped ready for the removal
And in the car, red plug cover looks better than the yellow imo
Forgot the bloody rad
Saturdays work strip it back down after it was so close to driving
Reverse head xe anyone?
And the damage that is caused when a nut goes in the cylinder i was lucky it didnt do more damage by landing on the valve seat
Some of the mess we made, some how we managed to take up 6 gargaes with bits and cars lol
Head cleaned up ready for refit
Just over 70000 on an n plate
First trip after the rebuild i found this monaro i think my corsa will win 
and a few photos i just came accros that i forgot about
Mite fit this one day
Ready for a good cleaning session
Leather all fitted
Decat pipe
Some spacers i knocked up
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ryan_fowler1985
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Brand new piper cams
New cams still with the phosphate coating on.
Old cams and lifters out with assembly paste on.
My other lifters ready to fit
Old bits
Bit more limited to space today than usually due to the local carnival, unfortunatly i have no photos of this as it went to quick lmao
More Lube
The engine was then timed back up and ran for 20mins at 2500rpm as instructed.
We then moved onto the new fan
Old one out for more space
New one on although the final position was the right of the rad due to bonnet shut.
At billing i managed to pick up a set of caps for £8 for my wheels, think they look alot better than the original ones
I have also looked into a chip to go in my spare ecu, ive ordered one that can be programed so the limiter will be moved to 8k
old ecu and the chip to be replaced
Rubbed back
Masked up ready for primer
The worst of the wheels as you can see its pretty bad
Halfrauds filler primered
Paint of choice for today, always found ive got a tidy finish from the can when using simoniz products to paint wheels
The back of the dodgy wheel sprayed, still rubbish but its all one colour and i aint worried as its the back
This was the bad wheel when i started now all done
The finish on one of the spokes
Back of the wheel
The other one all done
The run mark that annoyed me
enjoy, will get some tidy pics when they are back on the car.
not sure if i need to do anything with them now like g3 or just leave them and give them a damn good polish and wax?
Hids fitted
As you can see my drivers side light is ever so slightly high lmao
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ryan_fowler1985
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At last this weekend i got around to a few of them jobs ive been wanting to do for a few weeks or even months lmao
my new crank sensor arrived in the post friday a nice metal one rather than the plastic one so i decided i was going to fit that along with my frot alloys now they are black , also i decided it was about time that i got my arse in gear and changed the sump gasket and rod bolts so i could treat the engine to some decent oil and a new filter as it was running on 15w 40 cheapo nasty oil which was making my lifters a bit noisy.
First of all my front wheels were kerbed and needed refurbing so after a rub back they looked like this
a bit of filler and some black spray paint they were almost like new
A few of the bits i needed to fit:
Stainless manifold shield i made on nights lmao lmao
Arp rod bolts and 8v bonded gasket, f20 gasket set to fit when i get a new box
Set about stripping the car down
Manifold off which was a pain in the arse with the pas still on, afterwards i realised it needed to come off anyway to get access to the crank sensor
Anti roll bar off seems to have taken a bit of a beating and gone flat lmao
Minging sump covered in oil and ****e, cleaned up real well but no photos :doh:
Car up on the ramps needed to remove the bumper to get near the ramps
made a bit of an oily mess that annoyed me as i got covered in it
And a few of the underside of the engine with the new bolts fitted
Ive got a few more little bits to finish off which i was gonna do today but its raining and the garage is a mess, gotta refit pas pump, fit arb with new polybushes, sort my exhaust blow and back box positioning, all will be finished this week ready for castle combe on saturday where i have 2 track sessions to abuse it.
ill get more photos as i go
cheers for looking, comments please
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richard_cooper
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Did you do this with standard lights ?
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flybikeslee
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awesome build up mate, although i did prefer the old astra 6 spokes 
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Mark Prydderch
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Remember seeing this at PVS, good work mate.
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DannyB
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Nice, the astra wheels suited it so much better.
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Ste L
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seen this on Mig - great project
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Neo
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Fantastic 
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ryan_fowler1985
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cheers for the comment guys, i liked the astra wheels but i think the shape of them was too soft, would of had cesaros if i could find any bt the others came up first which i think looked good. The astra wheels are now on my girlfreinds black sport and will soon be done white so not gonna be getting them back lol
the headlights where done using depo replacement headlamps, it is also posible to do it with the valeo ones but they are harder to split apart
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quote:
Originally posted by flybikeslee
awesome build up mate, although i did prefer the old astra 6 spokes
yea x2 on that, when i was down 60mm i really like this car, didnt think the seats would look good being in a gray car, but they look fucking great, get the door cards done and keep up the good work
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epic thread
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ryan_fowler1985
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ive got a few things flying round my head about what to do with the interior,posibly refit the gsi interior or get a half cage with 2 buckets. bit fed up of the cream getting dirty
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ryan_fowler1985
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took the car to castle combe on saturday and got out on the track, first session was very wet and spun coming out of the first chicane , then had great fun in the dry.
Ive now got the car up for sale and im looking for around £1700 if it doesnt sell im gonna be putting some money into it and will be buying a cage, coilovers and a few other goodies
A few photos i took when i got back from combe
For sale ad
http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/cars-sale/371774-1995-corsa-gsi-c20xe.html
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