Vauxhall Corsa 2.0 XE Club

[Aamir]

Originally Posted by DaveB

Went street racing last night in the midlands; the car held it's own too

What cars you race & who won ?

Looking tidy btw !

[CraigGreen]

For Pink slips?

Saying V5's isnt quite the same is it?

[vallanc3]

looks very nice with the softstars and non colour coded bumpers

[DaveB]

aamir; this and that. Come down on Sunday

Craig; it's not quite that organised, and it's V5c

[DaveB]

Can't seem to leave the damn thing alone on a weekend, so I just have to tinker with it and try and fix things that aren't broken

I started by painting up the new rear drums I had fitted afew weeks previously, before they started to rust.



I then fitted the anti-rollbar that I acquired from a scrapyard last week, after first calling over to Chris Astleys to collect some of the ally blocks to lower the anti-roll bar


Next job was to try and strip some more weight from the inside.
Off came the last bit of sound deadening on the roof


Then I moved to the footwells in the front of the car:


Then I removed the gearstick surround, airbag ECU, airbag ECU mount, chopped abit of metal out that looked scratty, and then threw abit of black paint over it all


All back together


While in the scrapyard I spied an airbox from a tigra 1.4 16v. I've never been a fan of induction kits (TBs are more my thing ) so decided to buy it. I acquired a 2nd hand K&N for it for not much money and set about fitting it into the car. It fitted, but wasn't really straight, and the inlet hose was quite abit smaller than the XE one.


I decided I could improve on it by replacing the inlet part of the airbox with some err, drainpipe.

Picture for size comparison:


What's left of the airbox


Drainpipe all bonded to whats left of the airbox


and finally all fitted back to the car


It's not the prettiest by a longshot, but then the car/engine bay isn't meant to be. Function over form I'd say replacing the induction kit has made a big difference, the car seems to pull alot better from lower down, and that half-arsed attempt at induction noise has now disappeared

[Drizz]

Busy Bee!

[wazpaz]

good read.

what you painted the drums with?
hammerite?

[DaveB]

oh, . I wound down the front suspension by about an inch and it scrubs, alot

[DaveB]

Originally Posted by wazpaz

good read.

what you painted the drums with?
hammerite?

found a can of black paint in the garage, used that

[namkeaps]

lookinggood mate .. although no point indoing all that stripping and leaving the carpet in

[DaveB]

why? carpet weighs about 300grams?

[namkeaps]

about the same as the plastic shroud around the gear lever then dave? :P

looking tidy though dude!

[DaveB]

Not so; under the plastic shroud was the airbag ECU, metal mount for it, metal support for the dashboard and airbag wiring. That all weighed in around 2.5kg, the sound deadening from each footwell weighed in at around 2kg a side

[namkeaps]

2kg for the sound deadening! didnt realise was that much although it did make the bin rather heavy

twat though cos we have now put the seats and harnesses in .. although no airbag in the poverty spec merit we have. cant wait to have a blast against yours. should be fun mate

any luck/news with the fibreglass?

[CraigGreen]

Atleast I'm not the only person looking to use a std(ish) airbox.

Any reported loss in power at all at high revs possibly? I'd expect better low down torque.

[LongLiveTheNova]

Liking the bumper/trim colour, it looks so much better than colour coded.

[Benn]

i love the air box, very trick.

[DaveB]

Originally Posted by CraigGreen

Any reported loss in power at all at high revs possibly? I'd expect better low down torque.

Arse dyno says its nicer to drive all round. Still pulls as hard as it did before at 120mph+ so don't think I've lost any power; gained lower down definately.

[nathan1600]

Nice work. Really like the bumpers and arches. Top job

[jav786]

Looking Good mate

[DaveB]

No updates with pics, yet.

This week I've:

Saved some weight off the bonnet by cutting off the bracing on the underside of the bonnet
Bought a pair of oil temperature, and oil pressure gauges including senders (these will be fitted where the MFD currently is)
Bought a weld-in rear rollcage(this will be collected this weekend and fitted next weekend<hopefully) and the front bits added bespokely
Taken off the front wings and trimmed the arches back to stop the tyres catching
Ordered some 300lb front springs for the front coilovers to make the car abit more stable

[Jack]

I love it! I love projects like this!

[snowman1]

Hi mate, nice project there, on page 2 you said your coolant temp sender wasnt working so that was prob why it was over fueling, how can it cause over fueling, my xe van is over fueling and jerks when you come up to junction and my temp gauge isnt working, any ideas

[Ste L]

Originally Posted by snowman1

Hi mate, nice project there, on page 2 you said your coolant temp sender wasnt working so that was prob why it was over fueling, how can it cause over fueling, my xe van is over fueling and jerks when you come up to junction and my temp gauge isnt working, any ideas

coolant temp sensor, not sender...

the sensor send's signal's to the ecu, nothing to do with the temp gauge

[snowman1]

sorry mate ment to say sensor, but what has that got to do with over fueling?