Vauxhall Corsa 2.0 XE Club

[lee303]

only problem you might find with that setup is there isnt much room,so the spring may well end up coilbound far too easily, which isnt great

[DaveB]

Lee; the springs are nowhere near becoming coilbound - the 150lb ones I had on there before weren't compressed that much; and my new springs are 300lb ones!

Old and new


Bits removed


Nipple cut off


Grinding to make something nice to weld to


Mounting bracket for new coil spring made


Mounting bracket welded in place


Pics end there because my phone is crap and doesn't have a flash on it's camera. sorry

[spanishfly]

On the left we have a spring that has huge gaps off the car between coils. The are also tapered. On the right we have a lil 4 " spring that is untapered, there is less gap between each coil now, add some weight to it the gap will become smaller, then go into a corner and hit the kerb mid corner (on track) and all of a sudden you have a coil bound spring which means you might as well put scaffold poles there instead.

I can see no matter what me or Lee say your not going to listen, but I'll like to warn you that if you were to do the above scenario the chances of the car going belly up are highly likely. I spoke to Olly about this last night, I didn't realise he run this set up. He's going to look into it now.

[DaveB]

There is hardly any compression in the spring when the car is on the ground Rob; there is no way I could ever manage to get these springs coilbound; there is just not enough weight in the back of the car

[spanishfly]

Well I hope i'm wrong and you right mate! Just keep an eye on it!

[DaveB]

I will
I'm actually going to mount the new teeny tiny digital camera I've just bought to the underside of the car, and I'll video what the spring movement is like when driving.

[Orange Peel]

Originally Posted by DaveB

I will
I'm actually going to mount the new teeny tiny digital camera I've just bought to the underside of the car, and I'll video what the spring movement is like when driving.

I can see some useful application for that camera

[DaveB]

Originally Posted by Orange Peel

I can see some useful application for that camera

I'm hopefully strapping it to my dogs collar tonight when he goes swimming in the local lake

[spanishfly]

Good idea on camera!

[wazpaz]

Looking good Binns!

What is it like to drive? Noticed any great difference?

[DaveB]

Originally Posted by wazpaz

Looking good Binns!

What is it like to drive? Noticed any great difference?

Nope, didn't break any speed limits on the way home; terrential rain so I didn't want to test it out

[ad4mb1nns]

looking good as usual,

its always raining in huddersfield

[dan_adams_c20xe]

alrite dave. cars looking good. got myu polycarbs today. got any advice on removing rear windows???? the front windows are easy. just having trouble removing back sides!!

[DaveB]

Originally Posted by DaveB

Yesterday was time to fit my rear polycarb windows and grp tailgate

I started with the rear windows:

Removed the outer seal and then cut through the bonding with cheese wire


Rested window on the car, marked up and drilled the holes in the new windows




Pulled back some of the covering and screwed in the windows into the car





All Done

[dan_adams_c20xe]

top man

[Benn]

Why is there the thread bar welded in to the nipple?

[Gaz86]

to screw the adjustable mount onto without it rattling around.

[Lee H]

Originally Posted by Benn

Why is there the thread bar welded in to the nipple?

To bolt a strip of metal to to hold the spring in place when its fitted.

[Benn]

Ah, will the spring not be held in when the cars lowerd down?

[Lee H]

There is nothing for the top of the spring to sit in though when its lowered down now so needs bolting in.

[Benn]

Ah so it replacces the nipples totaly, i get ya.

[DaveB]

No picture update:

Did some mincing with the new rear suspension setup last night - the car was way too low as it was on it's lowest setting. So I raised it about 10mm; doesn't sound like much but made a big difference and the car sits as it should now.
There was some slight knocking with the new setup; after jacking up the rear beam of the car and removing a wheel I could see that the spring coil was catching on the FK adjuster cups - to rectify I simply slackened off the new retaining nut, and moved the spring backwards to a better angle. Retaining nut was tightened and all was good. It then started raining I still went out for a little jaunt and the car feels massively different! a BIG improvement over the other setup. I've just to give it some proper abuse in the dry weather though, but expect a proper report when I do. (unless I hit a bump mid corner, and the spring becomes coil bound, and I rollover and die )

[Gaz86]

@ the last comment,
rallydesign do all the components to do this conversion, i priced them up to around £50 for the lot which imo is very cheap i just never got round to doing it.

[Aditi]

Looking good,
nice progress with your car.

waiting for your next step..

[DaveB]

New seat ordered. I collect it tomorrow Should save me abit more weight (and yes I really am clutching at straws now)