Green Corsa B Track Car Project!

[banfield297]

Read the whole thread mate, it's all in there..

Cheers mate think i've got the wiring sorted now, nice little thread that!!!

[banfield297]

cmcomposites

[banfield297]

Thought id stick this on here to remind myself whats what:

Wiring colours are as follows:

XE loom

Green - revcounter feed, wire to green on corsa plug (some corsas may not have this wire, in which case use a bullet connector and run a green wire to the rear of the clocks if you wish to fit a set with a revcounter.

Brown/Blue - ECU light, match to corsa plug

Brown/White - Diagnostics, match to corsa plug

Brown/Yellow - Diagnostics, match to corsa plug

Blue/red (thick) - Fuel pump feed, match to corsa plug

Blue - Coolant temp sensor feed for dash clocks, match to plug

Red/White - Autobox, unused in conversion

Red/Blue (thin) - electronic speedo feed, match to corsa plug

Red (large) - Battery +ve

Black (thin) - Battery ?ve I moved this inside and matched it to the corsa plug
Black/green - Aircon, unused in conversion

[banfield297]

Well not a bad couple days got all the brake lines fitted, just gotta buy the stainless flexy lines:










Undersealed the rear end:




And got the tank painted:

[banfield297]

Next up weld in the front crossmember strenghtening plates in and paint that and front chassis legs in green.

Then i can finally get the engine in!!!!

Must be the longest build ive ever done.....

[carnegstar]

nice brake lines, my new ones i made are corroding, need to paint them

[banfield297]

nice brake lines, my new ones i made are corroding, need to paint them

Cheers bud, was thinking bout painting them!!!?

[banfield297]

Got bored at work last night so thought id make a couple linkage bushes out of phosphor bronze:



Dunno how they will work but will see?!

[banfield297]

Quick pic of the veccy

[banfield297]

Got my new rear strut brace today looks good, ill get that fitted tomorrow.....

[banfield297]

Had a few hours spare today so got my tank back up and piped in:



Painted the standard arches black see what they would look like?? They'll do till I get my gsi ones sorted:



Got the rack back in and painted a few bits to tidy up the engine bay:



Undersealed the front arches:



Started cleaning up the front cross member ready to weld in the strenghtening plates:

[banfield297]

Does anyone no anyone selling decent front strenghtening plates on here? If so who and how much?

[rseeley392]

Does anyone no anyone selling decent front strenghtening plates on here? If so who and how much?

ive got a set here mate £25 posted, also have a set of rear disc conversion plates if your interested,
Ryan

[banfield297]

ive got a set here mate £25 posted, also have a set of rear disc conversion plates if your interested,
Ryan

How thick are they mate?

I've just looked through your thread, very nice corsa!!!! Hows it going these days?

Don't need rear plates i've already sorted my rear beam!

Cheers

[banfield297]

Managed to get a bit more done, sorted the drivers seat mount:





Just got to get it welded up now and its sorted!

[banfield297]

Defo get some base mounted seats soon and weld in some proper seat rails thou!!!!

[Corsamitch]

Coming together mate..

Them bases don't look very strong though mate?!!

[banfield297]

Coming together mate..

Them bases don't look very strong though mate?!!

Cheers mate...

They are pretty strong its 5mm 6061 aluminium alloy angle, once welded all together should be sound!

I'll see how it goes, it was only really a trial anyways. Wanna get some base mounted beauts!!!

[banfield297]

Coming together mate..

Them bases don't look very strong though mate?!!

How did you mount yours mate? Loving your motor by the way, quality workmanship!!!!

[rseeley392]

How thick are they mate?

I've just looked through your thread, very nice corsa!!!! Hows it going these days?

Don't need rear plates i've already sorted my rear beam!

Cheers

there 4mm mate, m the engines out now have a c20xe ready to go in just need to get a clutch sorted,
Ryan .

[banfield297]

there 4mm mate, m the engines out now have a c20xe ready to go in just need to get a clutch sorted,
Ryan .

Sorry buddy ive already got some now.... Nice 1 anyways

[banfield297]

My god its been a while since touching the corsa project, all because my good old vectra let me down!!!!

The cambelt tensioner died and cambelt slippage happened!!

Probably my fault as i didn't actually no when it had all be changed last.... NIGHTMARE isn't the word!!!!!

So after thinking is it actually worth fixing i decided its a vauxhall so it would be rude no too......

[banfield297]

So couple weekends back me and the boy decided to have a look see what was going on:




Why vauxhall thought they would make it so hard just to remove the rocker tops is beyond me!!!
I think i could have done a whole cambelt change on my XE in the time it took to remove all the shit off the top and remove the rocker tops!!!! lol

[banfield297]

Anyway got all that off and saw the timimg was all to shit (which i'd already new) so rang my mate and bought a 86000 miler X25XE out of his sri..

Only bought another engine just incase it had ****ed the heads on mine!

So stripped that engine for the heads and oil cooler:

[banfield297]

Then set about stripping and rebuilding them:






What a job it is re-seating 24 valves and putting on the stem seals, took hours!!!!