Vauxhall Corsa 2.0 XE Club

[Beenie]

with those holes in the bonnet, you need a reverse swindon head and stick the trumpets up and out through the bonnet!

[DaveB]

I'd love a reverse head but the wallet aka. the missus won't let me

[philip2]

think a bare swindow head is £3k

looking good dave...shouldnt be long til mines on the road, so ill have to come down some time, have a play

[Beenie]

save £300 a month you'll have a swindon head in less than a year then! make real use of those holes in the bonnet

[DaveB]

I save £400 a month anyway

[DaveB]

Well I started my strip-down last night (poor pictures as they were from my phone)

Dash out:


Then started to cut away the un-needed metal from around the gearstick:


Thursday night will see me finish cutting the metal away, and then start to trim down my loom

[Gaz86]

dashes are real fun in corsas aint they?

[DaveB]

Not at all My hands are shredded lol

[The Simps]

did you use the spot well drill mate? how'd you find it?

[DaveB]

It's quite er, a serious bit of kit. I now have 4 or 5 airholes in the drivers side exhaust tunnel where I got abit carried away with it

[The Simps]

easily done tho!

did you put a screw driver/chisel under the metal to apply pressure the weld? You should have that as you started drilling it would just pop.

[DaveB]

hmm, no LOL I'll make a concerted effort on the passenger side to be more careful - at the end of the day, extra holes are all weight saving

[The Simps]

Originally Posted by DaveB

hmm, no LOL I'll make a concerted effort on the passenger side to be more careful - at the end of the day, extra holes are all weight saving

...until you get wet feet...

[philip2]

liking ther idea of taking the dash out

i was arsed drilling all the spot welds out of those extra peices. looking good though.


ps......get rid of the heaters

[DaveB]

I'll get cold

[Mark_F]

Ahem

[ad4mb1nns]

Originally Posted by DaveB

I'll get cold

Originally Posted by Mark_F

Ahem

looking cool, have you decided if your going half or full dash yet?

[Benn]

Half.

[DaveB]

Mark; it's summer at the moment

Not decided on the dash yet, but my toolbox of bits needed to sort out my wiring came today


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[forestfighter]

Coming along nicely matey. Out of interest, where you from bud?

I had the same debate about dash in or dash out... I could take my dash out and make it lighter, but will need to buy a heated front screen (£250..!!). Then i thought, with all the gravel on the stages, it's quite likely that the heated screen may get damaged and can i afford ro replace it all the time...??

I decided to keep dash

[DaveB]

I'll definately have some dash, its just whether a full one or half one lol

I'm from Huddersfield, work in Honley I was coming back from Screwfix when I saw you the other day We'll have to meet up for a "yellow rollcage" car club meet

[ad4mb1nns]

dash looks ace

i think to keep it all now..

[DaveB]

Didn't go to Billing as I'm not one for static shows really

So spent Saturday putting my car back together







Pile of stuff that I removed (Weighed 2.2kg)


Dash half fitted


Complete:


Decided to fit the 'full' dash as I've still got too many wires (alarm etc) behind to make it look neat, plus I don't want to loose the heaters. Still chuffed with how it looks though, and I've saved a fair bit of weight with the metal supports being removed from the dash, the metal from around the gearstick and all the wires

List of things to do:

Fit Square Front numberplate to give air holes a chance
Fit Nylon Gearbushes that have just arrived from LMF
Get airbox for TBs finished (for track use)
Book in at Noble for Final Mapping
More holes in bodywork
.....LSD

[The Simps]

I see you never got the hang of the spot weld drill!

[DaveB]

Nope; be reet. Less metal