Vauxhall Corsa 2.0 XE Club

[wazpaz]

panels first, imo.


so i can have your boot.lol

[gejm10]

Awesome work mate

[adam c]

great thread just read it from the beginning.where are you looking to do trackdays?id get a lsd first

[DaveB]

Hoping to do elvington on the 19th of November as a mini-shakedown to make sure stuff doesn't fall off lmao

Then I'll be onto proper tracks.

[DaveB]

...this weekend should be good

[Tom Williams]

final welding in of cage or is that already done?

[DaveB]

cage isjust sat there ready for the drive to FPE. front bars, door bars all to be made. fitting of new seat, and moving battery to boot, and welding of rear strut brace, and fitting of new ally bottom pulley

[Chris S]

po sunday dave? your round?

[DaveB]

yes; as long as we're swopping coilovers?

[namkeaps]

like the design of that cage! especially the bar at the bottom of the front two legs

[vxlgsi]

cage looks superb!!

[Benn]

Love the cage,
Has the tb tuned up yet?

[DaveB]

no mate

[Benn]

Rihght i'll post one tomoz dude,

[CraigGreen]

Looking good Dave.

[PERALBOY]

What sort of cage is that?

[DaveB]

...custom one

[DaveB]

Right; my biggest update so far I think.
First up, the softstars were too poncy for my needs, so they had to go. They were replaced by a set of cav gsi rims, with brand new Toyo T1s wheels. Wheels were taken to local bodyshop and painted;

So it now looks like this; much more hardcore!



Right, off we go over to FPE to have the rollcage fitted.. loads of pics; I think it's obvious from the picture as to what's going on so I'll leave out the commentary












Cage and strut brace all fitted


Mark wasn't happy with all the welds on the cage; so redid alot of them; this meant that once it was in place I had to repaint it; and the back of my car...again!






...and the finished article (no daylight pics I'm afraid)


Another pair of cav gsi rims came up cheap; ie. free so I thought it'd be rude not to upgrade those to be my trackday rims. Also, a pair of R888s came up cheap that same day so off I went to collect. I got them fitted the following day; cav gsi rims look bland in silver though so a rattle can of satin black later and we have this





Up next, battery relocation. I got the battery box cheap too (notice a theme here? LOL)
but I'm not into red, so that got dose of satin black paint also, with some yellow detailing




Mount securely in boot:



Battery starts like this:


To move it, you need this:


Distribution block and negative terminal mounted:


Battery in place with HUGE ground wire, lol


Engine bay now looks like this: (tray will be removed at some point)


Check the charge... voltage meter it say yuusss very good charge


...and then put to bed in its box



Alloy bottom pulley still to fit; doing that tomorrow

[LongLiveTheNova]

Nice work, i hate cav gsi rims, but oh well lmao

Cage looks cool.
Good to see some proper man sized wiring for the battery too

[wazpaz]

Had a go in this today, very good fun indeed.

I have heard its the 2nd fastest Arden Blue corsa in our region...?

[Benn]

Love the cage making/adding too,
Not a fan of ya rimmage tho... the slicks look like fun tho...
battrey looks cool in the boot, glad you got the tb too.... funking rr.

[DaveB]

Rims make the car way more purposeful I love em myself.

[namkeaps]

good work fella!!!

you know how i feel about the wheels though haha

[ben21]

looking good Dave, gonna be a full on track car before too long!

[@ndy]

Will look forward to seeing this haring round some tracks next year.

Don't like the bit stuck on the front bumper though.