*Edit* Had planned to get a Corsa. Ended up with a Nova, instead. Never mind .
After getting shot of the Corsa, i'd bought for a tenner a while back.
Wanted to build a project car again (after Astra CDX I had), this time it wouldn't be a my everyday car. Melv's Corsa and Jack's old Corsa project had been giving me ideas too lmao.
So I bought a 20XE off a friend.
It's needs a good amount of work as the woodruff key snapped and mashed half the vavles:doh:. But with block, loom, ECU and a F20 it only stung me £60. So i'll spend a bit of time rebuilding the XE. Even managed to get a Corsa/Nova XE exhaust manifold too.
Then started looking for a shell for this lot. Thought I’d stuck lucky again with a chance of a black Corsa Sport. Even better was the 1.6 was shot too. Price of it too was VERY keen at £150 with some goodies attached to it. Had to pay it up though as my other car needed tyres at the time. No front seats either, gutted! Some really nice Cobra buckets too :doh:.
Then a surprise when the guy I bought the car from told me what it had nailed on to the 1.6.....
Which changed my plans. As I now quite fancy a X16XE now and the Sport shell is not the greatest either :doh:.
So i'm going to look out for another Corsa and break the Sport. That said i'm not in rush either. Which means it'll be slow progress for the time being.
It was just sat behind the head. Never really looked if it even came close to matching the ports. It was ment for the Rover 45 i've got, CBA'd to fit tho.
Rebuild head
Get a good 2nd head
Find a another XE block and head. Use the F20 and loom from this one.
Not in a rush TBH. As i'm now planning a small block XE, sourced engine already. Needs stem seals tho, that said i'll check out the head on the Sport i'm breaking. Good time to put that Mantzel to use.
Then the small matter of getting a car to throw this lot in. Again not going buy the first car and money also dictates that too. Ain't got any at the mo, so no Corsa shell YET!
Bought shocks and springs off Melv on Monday as well.
TRYING to take the interior/engine loom out and any other 'goodies' I can find. Got the engine loom just about out and the inlet to match the Mantzel. Been a bit slow getting everything off, But i've never this far into stripping a car. Been fun tho learn a little bit more about the small block XE's.
Bought a Sportex 4-branch off KennyBarbour on here, might help the engine breath a little better. Might get some ARP rod bolts at some point too. Might not need them for standard rev limit, but can't hurt to have them in case.
A base car MIGHT be sorted tonight as well. A 1.2 LS in flame pink for much cheapness, just waiting to hear back.
Just reduced road noise will do me mate. Yeah, electric ones are fine. I can add a hole for the winders. lmao
Correct, carpet doesn't bother me. If it's that minging I can put a lightweight racing mat down. Either that or spray it with black paint lmao I will PM you.
There is bound to be a fairly decent shell come up with a boiled engine. Especially once the temp up here get's above zero
Yeah i've just got wait a wee bit longer for a base shell to turn up.
The carpet isn't that bad, just has a *** burn it. Was going to use the door cards and carpets, but why hang on to stuff when i've nothing to put it into.
Thanks to Marty (M4rtin on here). We got the dashboard, engine and dash loom out of the scrap Corsa.
As I thought it'd be easier to wire in the 1600 that way. Try and keep it simple for myself lmao. But I will give all the wires the once over. Might lighten the loom, doubt i'm going to bother fitting air con.
I've bought A Corsa, just not the one i'd planned to get......
After rambling about getting a Nova. I bought this one on a whim.
Found it sat in a local garage next to a fireplace shop outside of where my Granny lives. Laugh is, only gone to pick up a bloody bit for her coal fire and ended up with a soddin' car!!
She's a 1.0 Spin in Miami blue with a GSi front bumper and skirts. Also came with...
The Corsa C SXi's you see there
SR red door cards, rear seat and dash controls
Digi dash
Aftermarket steering wheel and gear knob
256mm front brakes
A shell that had all the worse bits welded up or they're rot free. Even the doors aren't too bad either.
Now broke, into my overdraft. But my word it was worth it!
Bilstein front struts (B6's I think?) off the Corsa I broke.
To bin off, what looked like Standard shocks with Spax springs.
Then off with the SXi's for the Steelies with good tyres. Then rockin' the centre caps.
Binned aftermarket MOMO steering wheel and sparco gearknob for OE Vauxhall stuff.
Plan to source the rest of the interior that this 'Spin' was born with. Bar a set of different front seats.
Also hope to re-fit the 'Spin' decals some time in the future. But i'm going to do some thing about the 1.0 and 4-speed that's in the mo. Change for a X16XE with a F13, then add the Mantzel and the latest purchase. 4-2-1 exhaust fanimold. At a price far too cheap to turn down.
It had the usual rot in the battery box, slam panel, front chassis legs where the inner wings meet. The rear chassis legs have had patches let in, but that's nowt new, she is getting on a bit now.
But someone has taken the time to weld those spots up. Only bit i'll need to sort is the corner of the boot floor, 20p sized hole to have welded up.
Agreed melv! Ive never liked black wheels (the pro race 2's on the van were new condition, and i couldnt be arsed painting them, so they stayed until i found the 18's) anthracite yes! But you just cant go wrong with silver!! They will suit the nova perfectly.
Thanks Gary. Wish my Nova shell was as clean as yours, certainly gave me the idea for a small block'd car in the first place :nod:.
But to throw something else into the mix, wheel wise. Can't but help be a wheel horderlmao. Picked these wee beauts up the day.
OZ wheels in 14inch. Got them for a swap for some Rover bits and £20. Thinking white with the proper OZ/Sparco graphics :nod:.
Then! After dropping some MK2 Astra GTE teardrop alloys to Melv. A run to the scrappies was in order. For this rotten mess....
A 1.2 SPi Nova. Needed one or two things of it, got the VSS trans (for the 1.6 16v) and the SPi engine loom. Need to go back for the fuel lines for some point and maybe the fuel tank. Could be easier to save up and get a new SPi tank. Think that one was bit rotten.
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