Corsa Turbo Project WIP

[Green Thing]

Signed upto Migweb not too long ago and just become a fully paid member so thought I might aswell put a project thread up, Ive had 6 Corsa's currently own 2 still, my daily run about which is my Green one which some of you may have already seen on Corsasport



And then my latest project, purchased off mig member flopstocks for £2400 in May of this year.



A few reicepts aswell


First prioritories where to get it running perfectly and mechanically sound

So up it went on axel stands to make sure the underneath was perfect, I know what older Corsa shells can be like so it had to be done
Its a very clean shell, only found one rust hole in the rear arch so it was welded up straight away along with a fresh coat of waxoyl


Next was new rear brake discs, pads and wheel bearings


Car was ready to go back on the floor for abit, problem being I had 4 alloys with knackered tyres, so I thought i would treat it to a new set of wheels

Before:


After:

Went for some 16" BBS RX Alloys in Anthracite, need new caps and a refurb, not sure weather to stay with anthracite, silver or white?

Needed some new plates so went for some fancy pressed plates


Also had a tigra scuttle spare so fitted that along with some new wipers


All was fine until the other day when driving it around town and one of the oil cooler pipes burst, all due to it digging into a jubilee clip, oil warning light came on and started tapping to hell so rolled it home
After getting it back up in the air we found the pipe and got it off.


So just awaiting some genuine Vauxhall 10w/40 Semi-syn oil and oil filter, and got to track down a new pipe, just in time for MOT Fingers crossed it passes but Im sure it will fail on something

Got along way to go with this project, just making sure its mechanically sound before i go any further with it, but next step is decent suspension, better brakes and then onto exterior and interior, have tons of plans but keeping them secret for now, so plenty of updates on the way.

Cheers

[tom_spanner]

i had the oil cooler pipe burst on my saab last month, lets just say the chassis wont be rotting for a while yet, oil is EVERYWHERE.

[Green Thing]

Originally Posted by tom_spanner

i had the oil cooler pipe burst on my saab last month, lets just say the chassis wont be rotting for a while yet, oil is EVERYWHERE.

in the same situation already had a layer of waxoyl but suppose a layer of engine oil wouldn't hurt lol

Bit of an update, took delivery of some genuine Vauxhall Oil today 10w/40 semi synthetic, along with a genuine vauxhall oil filter.

And the most important bit:


Should be back on the road this week

[rudd86]

I thought on flopstocks origional for sale add it had a boost problem? you sorted that yet?

[djivesp]

sweet! looks like a nice car to start with that new cooler pipe looks shekshy - where from ? Looks a bit different to the standard calibra pipe ?!
i hope the oil loss hasn't knackered the beast!

[Benn]

Love the green one, the turbo looks fun.

[Green Thing]

Originally Posted by rudd86

I thought on flopstocks origional for sale add it had a boost problem? you sorted that yet?

He listed it for sale twice, first time it had alot more problems then the second time, only thing still wrong is that it cuts out from time to time, so when I have the time next I will be removing the ICV and cleaning it out.
Rarely does it to be honest but its another job worth doing.

Got the cooler pipe off ebay, a guy selling lots of vauxhall clearence parts so snapped it up.
The pipes exactly the same as the one Ive removed from the car, the engine is out of a cavalier so im not 100% sure if the oil cooler pipes are different between the cavy engine and the cali engine?

We where lucky that the pipe burst a few hundred yards up the road and we just rolled it down to where we lived, we did put some more oil in it as we where going to move it but it just sprayed out everywhere, so we just started work on it outside instead and considered ourselves lucky.
Oil and oil filter turned up tonight and new pipes due tuesday
So more updates then

Thanks for the comments

[tom_spanner]

i read a while back of a group of landrover owners having a big group meet in sweden/norway where they have a party just before it snows and spray used engine oil over the WHOLE underside, due to the salt over there, some of the rovers are 40-50 years old so it must work, cheaper than waxoil, just think yours could be the only corsa b left in the year 2035, would it still look good i wonder?

[The Simps]

When I waxoiled my nova we mixed in old engine oil. Leaves it all tacky so that instead of the paint chipping off when a stone hits it just sticks to it. You won't get water held under the surface either.

[Green Thing]

UPDATE 9/10/08

Right havent updated this in a while, but its come along rather well



I got that pipe through off ebay, and turned out to be too short so then i had no choice but to go straight to vauxhall themselves
So went there and got a qoute for £110! for one pipe, wasnt happy about it but it was expected to be honest.

So I decided to have a nose around forums and have a look at what oil coolers people where running, Mocal came up alot so purchased the kit off ebay for £110 delivered.

So that arrived not long ago:


Compared to the old one:


And fitted:



Trial fitted the sandwich plates, with the new filter to check out clearence


Has been refitted better after this picture was taken, had trouble with oil leaking from the senders but finally got that sorted using some copper washers and some thread locking tape.

And finally filled it up with some new Vauxhall Oil, which makes it run a treat, it really is worth forking out for the GM oil, no tapping what so ever

Also had my matching Auto Gauge Oil Pressure Gauge Turn up


Should be fitted tomorrow along with the Oil Temp Gauge.

Whilst the car was in the air i noticed the track rod ends looking sorry for themselves so sorted them out asap

And the new one fitted:


Should be back on floor tomorrow with the gauges wired up and fitted.

MOT ran out a few days ago so thats next on the list of things to do, so should be back on the road sooner than expected

[showcorsa]

looking gd m8

[Gaz-M]

Nice wee project there mate. What kinda power is it running?

[Melv]

cant see the pics at work as corsasport is banned so posting to remind me to look at home.

[Green Thing]

Anyway, got back from work not long ago, got straight to work on it moved the sensors around and refitted the bumper and wheels.

The gauges in position


And turned on..



Think Im gonna relocate the boost gauge to the A pillar as Im not a fan of it in the heater vent like that.

Took it out for a quick spin literally up and down the road a couple of times to check for any problems, and none what so ever

And a pic of the front with the oil cooler on show


And a pic of it back on all 4


Had abit of a shock when i came to a stop and smoked just poured up from the engine bay:|
Luckily its just the left over ****ty oil which went everywhere when the oil cooler pipe burst, so everythings seems to be sorted:thumbs:

Just got to fit a new bonnet cable and catch and then its MOT time as it runs out today:lol:

[Green Thing]

UPDATE 6/11/08

This will be handy for everyone who has bonnet pull problems, as you may have read the bonnet cable came out not too long ago, purchased a second hand one but still the handle kept popping off inside and the cable was really tight, so I purchased a new one off ebay for a tenner and it now works a treat, also comes with a fancy black handle


Quick pic of it in the garage, been in there for so long and its damn filthy


I promised myself I wouldnt move onto exterior or interior until all the engine and chassis are sorted but got offered a swap with my other badgless grill so I did the swap and ended up with a set of these.


Its MOT time next week, Im looking forward to my failure slip:thumbs: :lol:

[Green Thing]

Oh I forgot I uploaded some video's aswell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqJcD...eature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTdK...eature=channel

[Noodles]

i LOVE that green one in the first picture. what colour / paint code is it?

[Green Thing]

Its leaf Green metallic mate, think the paint code is 38l last time i checked i think

cheers mate

[Noodles]

Originally Posted by Green Thing

Its leaf Green metallic mate, think the paint code is 38l last time i checked i think

cheers mate

that is the exact colour corsa i want now Thanks mate

[Ginge]

Looking good GT, nice to see you saved the black one, most would have broken it it made some money.

Ginge