corsa gsi - tb wip

[philip2]

thought should put some pics up of little project i started couple of months ago.

main reason for doing the car is because i collapsed end of aug, and cant dirve til march(6months) and after some **** with 'mates' decided to **** it and strip the corsa and build a TB'd xe on f28 as a bit of a toy

hope you like. any comments welcome

heres what started off like, nice and standard





then fitted spax adj. shocks/springs, inlet, rebuilt engine, ashley manifold/system etc and fitted some astra gsi rims.









seeing as i cant drive i started on stripping the interior, and sorting the wiring out, dash, roll cage etc.






dash was out and marked the bits that i wanted to keep and i started to tidy the wiring






i removed the heaters, and started to prime the floors, until i realised i had the cage to weld in, and a small hole in the passeneger side wheel arch, so ignore the white primer. inside will be painted in body colour.

dash back in, and i spiral wrapped the loom instead of tape so i can access it easier if need be. cage is also fitted/bolted in.






im just waiting on my unit off my uncle so i can cut all my door bars, turret bars, diagonals etc for the cage. so to save some £££ i popped up the road to demon tweeks and bought a tube notcher ready for when i can get in and finish the cage off(engineer so no probs cutting/welding all myself). then paint it all nice and red.

Whilst im waiting for that i started on the motor, i bought a 20xe off a mate, but only used the block, crank and sump pan. heres a few pics of the motor all cleaned up, just need to bore block and order steel rods next month. got some of the gaskets, will be using arp all the way through.




started to port the head(inlets are roughed out)

these arrived today from QED so i can now crack on with fitting the guides, cutting back into ports to finish inlets, and crack on with the exhaust and build it up




also got my pistons...nice set of flat top slippers from redline






thats sort of it at the moment, will try to get head all ported/polished this coming week when im off...still need cometic HG to match the chambers too, then thats done. then order rods/arps next month and a steel oil pump gear. just read how much the valves, guides and springs have cost me...trip to the bank now see what i got left!! lmao

hope you like, should go well when done!! hopinig around march/april time

[TigraTurbo]

nice pistons mate,got cp low comp,what CR are those?

[dearing5]

looks good mate

i see your inlet went on fine lmao

[philip2]

im not to sure i have the CR height from centre of pipn to top of the crown, but id have to measure everything when i build it to get CR i want. im looking for around 11.5-12.0 will decide on final CR when i make a 100% choice on cams


ant - nope...big hammer lol

[DaveB]

looks a cool project. Looking forward to updates

[philip2]

be engine wise for the monent until i get into unit where ill be blitzing the cage/paint

cheers for comments though

[newton]

looking good mate! not into ya astra gsi wheels tho ...get your head sorted out phil u gay and get the corsa gsi wheels back on it

[Ste L]

nice project - why the F28 though?

[peester]

cool, a few of these up as projects now, like it..
Look sharp in red i think.

[LongLiveTheNova]

Looking nice.
The f28 aint needed tho, and is more work to fit, and more weight.

[philip2]

true, some thinking behind it is that i could go eventually for a custom gearset, e.g. long 1st gear, slightly shorter 2nd, 3,4,5 pretty short, with an overdrive 6th to keep revs down.

could probably do it with an f16/20 with quaife gearkit anyway. just dont know how much stick a stock box will take unitl i could afford to uprate it, especially when the f28s will take the abuse turbo motors give alot better. fair enough its the torque that kills them anyway.

anyone have any specs for the f16/20's???

[Melv]

looking good so far. Who owns the porker and the integrale?

[philip2]

porker is my dads...even though its been at mates bodyshop for 13months getting repaired after an astra pulled out on him.lmao its also caged and dropped on its arse on coil overs

the grale is my mates, had to weld half the boot floor for him last month, goes alright though!!lmao

[Alex16v]

Nice work la. Ill have to pop down for a look.

[MOL]

Lookin good Phil keep up the good work mate

[namkeaps]

looks well in the flesh too. you need to lose the dash bar though forgot to say that when we picked you up

shame you didnt have the keys i wanted to take the 1600 out see how she goes before you take it out

as always need any help gimme a shout

[Warren-G]

would of been nice if you got my new inlet too me!!!

[philip2]

tiny update, started to get engine ready to take out. rad removed, inlet removed, manifold ready to come off, loom pulled through. power steering disconnected.

would of liked to of got it out today, but night on the lash and no engine crane til late 2night, looks like motor shold be out 2morrow

before pic.




loom pulled through, inlet removed.



hope to get engine out 2morrow, if not too wet!!!

[Benn]

Loks like alot of fun.

[philip2]

be alright if can get the engine out tomorrow, and start cutting the bulkhead out for clearing the tbs when engine goes in!!

just **** when no1 else about and weathers craplmao

[braders]

starting to make good progress phil, give us a shout if you want a hand and ill come down an help out if you want.

[philip2]

when you off work??lmao

[Grant_nova]

looking good mate should go well!!!

[braders]

when you off work??lmao

weekends are best for me mate.

[philip2]

this grant?? saw pics on darknights...very nice...if your coming PV you'll see the car