dewismotorsport's C20LET Corsa gsi

[Soul]

Ah gottcha, should be a reliable engine even at the power your looking for then. Aha cant blame ya nothing like a stripped out racer .

Ah that is a shame, should find an excuse for the workshop having one and try get your higher ups to get one in lol

[dewismotorsport]

Ah gottcha, should be a reliable engine even at the power your looking for then. Aha cant blame ya nothing like a stripped out racer .

Ah that is a shame, should find an excuse for the workshop having one and try get your higher ups to get one in lol

Yeah engine is practically new with all the bits in it, so should see me proud, will use it on the road first for summer as i love terrorising motorbikes as they try and shake you on the motorway, priceless

if i can find an excuss for them to get one i will, when i go solo and set my own business up it is on my list to buy

[Benn]

Awesome working on working out then machining the discs.

[Soul]

Yeah engine is practically new with all the bits in it, so should see me proud, will use it on the road first for summer as i love terrorising motorbikes as they try and shake you on the motorway, priceless

if i can find an excuss for them to get one i will, when i go solo and set my own business up it is on my list to buy

lmao sounds like a good laugh.

Just tell em its a life or death situation lmao

[dewismotorsport]

Awesome working on working out then machining the discs.

cheers mate saved me well over £200 doing it that way

[dewismotorsport]

lmao sounds like a good laugh.

Just tell em its a life or death situation lmao

Yeah although they are as excited about me getting it finished as i am, not sure they'll spend thounsands on one for me just to make stuff

[dewismotorsport]

Been busy with work and making inlets etc but have made some time to do my car, not been leaving work till gone 10pm every night just to try and stay on track with the build time etc

Stripped front suspension, hubs and driveshafts off, pressed new bearings into both sides and painted them up as well as the tie bar mounts



this one decided not to want to come fully off so i showed it whos boss with my trusty angle grinder


Also gave the AVO's a quick freshen up


Made a start on cutting out the strut top so that i could fit the econcentric top mounts


cut them out so the mount can be span 360 degrees and has the maximum castor availible


Painted up


Fitted 4 new CV gaitors and re greased them all and fitted jubilee clips as i'm sick of the crap clips leaking grease every where


went to reasemble it all and found that my previously shortened tie bars are the wrong hole type, so quickly made some more


The shoulder is shortened by an extra 15mm to add some more castor to the suspension leg, all painted up


reasembled everything only to find my ball joint lowering kit wasn't needed as it made the CV gaitor foul on the bolt :cry:


So off came the ball joint again and fitted back in it's original position, also had to make new bolts for the tie bars as i've added an extra lowering plate and that meant my bolts were then too short

All assembled and you can clearly see the extra castor i have gained


Made the final spacers for the calipers and painted them up, just waiting on my stud kit to arrive for ease of fitting wheels etc, lowered the car and found it sat about 1" lower due to the change in top mounts, so off came the wheels again and with a blur of C spannering i had that sorted in no time msl:

A few new bits turned up like the missing oil pump nut and washer, camber adjusting bolts, inlet gasket, fuel tank lid and a new cam belt got them all fitted up except the fuel tank lid and inlet gasket as that needs to come off again just to finish the loom and vacuums etc underneth


And finally while it was off i re sprayed my belt cover as it had started looking a bit rough

[Olsrey]

You did the ball joints wrong mate, they go like this;

Ball joint goes directly under the lower arm, then the spacers then the tie bar.

[Benn]

Good work.

[corsadonk]

Won't them hose clips, cause a vibration?

[Dale]

i was going to say the same about the ball joints?? and i wouldn't use hose clips on cv boots!!

[dewismotorsport]

Won't them hose clips, cause a vibration?

I ran the old ones like that and never had any problems tbh counter balance themselves by putting the screw bit opposites, and with around 450bhp i doubt i'll feel it with all the wheel spin and torque steer lmao

My bad with the ball joints, have put them back in the standard position now anyway, and i can't run the tie bars underneth like that as it's such a low car, once i put the lower front anti roll bar on i'd have about an inch of ground clearance

But cheers anyways lads

[Olsrey]

If you don't lower the tie bars you'll have problems with the F28, such as smashing the casing . . .

[Rich_J_Williams]

i will be checking my ball joints when i get on the car next then!! i wouould be guuted if i smashed the gearbox..lol.

good work dewis, car is looking awsome!!! will be good to see it in the flesh again soon!!

[dewismotorsport]

If you don't lower the tie bars you'll have problems with the F28, such as smashing the casing . . .

They are lowered mate but at the cross member end, and clear the gearbox fine, same as how i had them before

[Olsrey]

They are lowered mate but at the cross member end, and clear the gearbox fine, same as how i had them before

Perhaps but whats the point half doing a job?

[dewismotorsport]

good work dewis, car is looking awsome!!! will be good to see it in the flesh again soon!!

Cheers mate yeah seems wierd the only time you get to see it is when it's all finished, same as the last bout of mods i did just before pvs 09 lmao

[dewismotorsport]

Perhaps but whats the point half doing a job?

It's not half a job as i can't lower the wishbone end as then when i add my anti roll bar it's far to low so this way works best for me tbh

[dewismotorsport]

Right got a bit done on the car lately, first of all was the wheel stud conversion, makes it so much easyer


next up was to strip the front end off to get in to fit the turbo (gt3076r)


While the front was off i decided to fit the solid engine mounts, was a bit of a pain as you have to take the mount off the engine and chassis leg bolt it all together then re attach it all, also had to drill out the top hole a touch


The gearbox side was a real pain as the hole in the mount where machined 2mm out so had to enlarge them and i also decided for ease to cut the metal away from around it just to get to the bolt easyer and to help my 4" intake pipe fit through into the wheel arch


Fitted all the new water lines for the turbo and knocked up a quick oil return pipe


all fitted up


also finished the oil feed pipe and highered the car a touch as it was still a touch to low

[dewismotorsport]

Got the car up on the ramp and first of all fitted the solid rear mount


Then removed the rest of the rear brake lines ready for me to connect the internal braided ones


Then set about the exhaust, i was never fully happy with it as i made it in a rush for PVS 09, so first of all changed the flange for a V clamp one, then made the motorsport cat removeable as i V clamped either side so i'll make a de-cat pipe at a later date, also added an extra silencer on the last section before the tailpipe



Heat wrapped it back up and fitted


And my favourite shot


Also bought a lower front strut brace haven't offered it up to the car yet so don't know if it will fit yet with the 3" exhaust


Only have some loom wiring changes and finish the fuel system and it's ready for start up and mapping

[Benn]

Turbo looks huge. Is looking very good.

[dewismotorsport]

Turbo looks huge. Is looking very good.

Cheers mate, look even bigger if i had it facing the other way as the exhaust snail is bigger that side

[corsadonk]

Nice. Will you take it on track, or will it just be for 1/4 mile times?

[rc]

very nice, liking the exhaust

[dewismotorsport]

Nice. Will you take it on track, or will it just be for 1/4 mile times?

Yeah will be used on road, track and drag this summer and then come winter time I'll be doing a full interior strip and adding a cage, buckets etc