20xe Corsa

This is gonna take a while!!!

Bought the car (mum bought the car) back in May 2008; completely bog standard 1993 1.2 8v Corsa B. 33450 miles on the clock and bar a leaky couple of gaskets on the engine and a few spots of rust.. really not bad condition. £600




I never liked Corsa's, still think they look stupid but it was cheap to buy, run and insure... Always said i wanted to change for somethin else but could never afford so mods were in order.
firstly sparco pedal covers


then debadge the boot lock surround


corsa b sxi alloys


rust on the sills got really bad so had them welded up... had to remove bits of the interior for this so used it as an excuse to take most of it out and leave it out... weight saving yooooo!!




found this under the carpet when removing the interior... my initials haha


footwell neons coz i'm cool


after getting a full time job spent my money on alloys, £250 with brand new t1r tyres


then an OMP 300mm steering wheel


blue dash lights


Thought my calipers would look better yellow sooooo.....



while at the scrap yard one day came across a tigra scuttle panel


wanted to improve the handling so got hold of a front upper strut brace which i think makes a world of difference


you'll also notice the new headlights there, morettes

after a lot of saving pennies; bought coilovers with 300lbs front springs ready for future plans




front done and set lowest while the rears are still standard haha


all done



after giving the car a really thorough clean it looked really nice and shiny ready for Fast Show 2011


painted the drums black while i was at it


stickers for the rear window


Bucket seats for a bargain!





3 point harnesses are sooooo much better than standard seat belts!! i know they arent very safe going straight down to the rear floor from the seat but that'll be sorted in the future.

ebay found me this front lower strut brace


no longer there as it was too low for the MOT ramp and got bent outta shape

painted the tyre wall name while the wheel were off too


couple of cool industrial pics



Just before Trax 2011 i bought some 2 litre brakes of Gav on here when he broke a cav for parts.. and the cav rear anti roll bar.. modded it to fit the corsa and painted it body colour as it the only paint i had handy





Had track time at Silverstone while at Trax.. pic from the pro photographers


and the mandatory track sticker, the other sticker was there anyway and i think its cool.. top corner of the windscreen


more clean pictures i like



went to a corsasport.co.uk meet with the rear end set this high


saw this...


and a couple days later mine like this


Now the large smash against the bank balance




car stayed here for a few weeks


while this happened


some Ku Rust treatment


all undersealed in the bay


adjustable top mounts fitted


filled all 3 engine mounts with tigerseal to make them stiffer and stronger


cut out a little part on the rear mount so i dont have to use spacers and extended gear linkage


in place below the car


bolted in, still a long way to go at this stage


extended fuel lines for the multi point injection


fitted the exhaust, downpipe sits just more than an iphones width from the floor :/




considered fitting bike carbs but it looks like it'll cost around £1k to get fitted and running so forgot about that one


All comments welcome,
thanks for reading

wow more tiger seal then power there

Starbo-Moorley wrote:

wow more tiger seal then power there

yeah but the engine hardly moves because of it!!

been busy on this mate, looks smashing

milanoep2dazz wrote:

been busy on this mate, looks smashing

Thanks

Solid mounts ftw

Nice build mate, my friebd Simon swears by these engines has one in his mk2 fiesta and his triumph spitfire lol

can you guess what i am going to say? .... besides the car is nice mate cant wait to see it running again!

blackvtspower wrote:

can you guess what i am going to say? .... besides the car is nice mate cant wait to see it running again!

The same thing I was gonna put on your RR status on Facebook?

its on! (obviously on a private road)

There's decent private road I know... Called the M1

Edges wrote:

There's decent private road I know... Called the M1

think i might of been there once or twice before

I wouldn't bother

Adams will blow up and throw tiger seal all over the place
and ben will go the wrong way and get lost like last time he went on the M1

Lol what jack said !

I have a sat nav! and the more tiger seal his car drops is better for weight lol..... untill his strutts fall out!

Tiger seal is holding the engine in.. Not the struts

Nothing is holding the struts in :p bar gravity

It's all be hacked out haha

You need cable ties buddy!