Corsa B C14SE SRi rep PROJECT

[Balley77vauX]

Well bought a Corsa yesterday to run through the rest of winter so I could clean my Nova up, Its a Corsa Swing fitted with a C14se engine and box out of a SRi and has a stainless cat back + GSi interior.

I was impressed when I got there, looked fairly clean and had never been welded and was nearly rot free (bar one small section on the sill). Towed it home and then things turned sour!
Took the car for a spin and it lost drive!!! First I thought it were the clutch then it became clear it was final drive related... As everything looked ok from the outside I decided to wip the engine and box out ( wouldn't of bothered but the car was a nice example and I wanted to save it from the crusher )

Got the lump out and relised what had happened, turned out the last 5 mm of the drive shaft had broke and was wedged in the planet gear in the diff thus stopping drive.
I guess the drive shaft was not in all the way and when it was in lock it had come out enough to put all the load on the last 5mm (seems they only drive on around 12mm of planet gear anyway)!

So while its apart am going to fit a new clutch, cambelt and head gasket and paint everything up nice.

I took all the engine out today, sanded the bay and painted. Will hopefully get engine in next weekend.

Any way heres some pics

On the way home






Engine out




Sanded down


Brush primed




Sanded and painted






How I left it

Very happy with results so far, will clean up engine and bloke in the week and paint.

Plans are to get SRi badges, bump strip, spoiler, colour coded wing mirrors, Corsa 1.4 Si badge (basically everything to make it look like and original from the outside)
And then register it as a 1400

Should hopefully be on the road in a month then i can have a clean and tidy corsa

What do you guys think ?

[Jay]

yeah great clean corsa good base for a nice project

[Balley77vauX]

Cheers fella, I wanted to tart it up, just didnt think I would of had the engine out and bay painted in less than 24hours of ownership

[Balley77vauX]

Also Got a 4 branch fanimold of haylewis68 so will stick that on once its MOT'd as it needs a Cat atm

[Jay]

Also Got a 4 branch fanimold of haylewis68 so will stick that on once its MOT'd as it needs a Cat atm

Not Bad

What you planing engine wise?just keeping 1.4?

[mk1nova_rich]

looks clean mate, shame about the driveshaft and diff though

[Balley77vauX]

Keeping it standard engine wise other than Induction kit and 4 branch,

Cheers, the silverlineing is the fact that I can do the headgasket etc now and know its going to be fine + it will look fairly good under the bonnet

[Jay]

Cool,just give it the sleeper look

[Liam1805]

What method did you paint the engine bay with, brushed, spray can etc.
I have a bit of rust in my bay so when i remove engine next i want to be sorting it.

As for the car its a good buy, love the corsa in this colour

[Balley77vauX]

I wirewheeled the big bits of rust off, then used a palm sander (this tuck about 1/2 and hour) then degreased it all, brushed the bare areas, lightly sanded, sprayed with a rattle can, the a good coat of lacquer.
Only took about 2 hours to do the hole thing !

[Balley77vauX]

Cool,just give it the sleeper look

Thats what I want, completely standard on the outside, might get some sri alloys aswell

[Jay]

Thats what I want, completely standard on the outside, might get some sri alloys aswell

yeah the sri ones are quite nice

or even go all out and do 5 stud conversion,with cavi turbo alloys

[Liam1805]

I wirewheeled the big bits of rust off, then used a palm sander (this tuck about 1/2 and hour) then degreased it all, brushed the bare areas, lightly sanded, sprayed with a rattle can, the a good coat of lacquer.
Only took about 2 hours to do the hole thing !

What did you do with the rack, wires, cables etc mate. How did you cover them up.
Im looking at doing mine now the next few weeks. My slam panel is the worst.

[Balley77vauX]

I didnt mate , I pulled the wires out the way and sprayed round them, I didnt spray near the rack and only did a small piece of the bulk head , basically I only sprayed the bits which were in primer. The bulkhead was good enough not to touch (you cant see it anyway) I masked the odd little bit but nothing much I just didnt't rust patches ... and thats the reason I painted the bits I did

My slam panel was bad aswell

[Liam1805]

I didnt mate , I pulled the wires out the way and sprayed round them, I didnt spray near the rack and only did a small piece of the bulk head , basically I only sprayed the bits which were in primer. The bulkhead was good enough not to touch (you cant see it anyway) I masked the odd little bit but nothing much I just didnt't rust patches ... and thats the reason I painted the bits I did

My slam panel was bad aswell

Ahh ritee no worries. Only the top of the bulkhead is bad and the slam panel so i wont have much to do myself then. Cheers for that. Give me the will to go do it now haa.

So what are your near future plans now then ??

[hay_lewis_68]

i think my parking there was awesome lmao 4 spaces = win lol

bugger about the shaft init?
and you dont fecking hang about do you? can you imagine if i was doin that with my old man? we would have almost got the bonnet up by now lol

when do u want this manifold then mate?

[Balley77vauX]

Well Wen its MOT'd, Before the Dyno day though as I need it atleast to be decated by then!

[Balley77vauX]

Right well when I got home today I degressed the block and wirebrushed it. Then gave it a lick of VHT Red Lacquer...


And I also removed the throotle body and gave it a good clean
No pictures of this though.
Will hopefully get the head off tomorrow

[BOYA]

looks like you have done a great job so far mate! i was gutted to see it go! i cant apologise enough about the shaft either!!! al be keeping an eye on this thread to see how the "green flash" is getting on hahahaha (lads from work started calling it that)

[Balley77vauX]

The green flash lmfao

[BOYA]

lmao

[ginger gsi]

nice little project kid

[GaryVaux]

nice project, cant beat a bit of cleaning and painting to freshen things up. Block looks good, and genuine vauxhall oil filter, always a good sign when buying a car Shame about the shaft mishap, but i suppose it was the excuse neededfor the wee rebuild

[Balley77vauX]

Well been working flat out every night noe, got it all painted and ready to stick back in tomorrow morning!

Inlet manifold painted gun metal


Head in silver, resitted all the valves and decoked the hole thing




Head on, spent ages cleaning the cam cover with thinners as it had been painted white and looked terrible, as you can see the original colour is in perfect condition!




Trial fit of the Manifold,


Well tomorrow is the big day so will hopefully get some good photos for you then !

[Liam1805]

Some good work there mate. I like it, and keep it up. The engine is looking sweet fair play