bigjim172000
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Registered: 3rd May 05
Location: New Buckenham, Norfolk
User status: Offline
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Well i bought this 4 years ago, got it home and found the tosser on this forum lied in many ways about it, headgasket, rings, stem seals fooked, all the alloys were buckled. that took some effort!
Anyway, over the course of 18 months did the work and got it sorted, for them the knock sensor to go, then the coil pack the next day!
Used it for a short while, only really to go out in as for work it was getting filthy. Then had my cosworth project 90% finished so didnt renew the RFT and finished the cossie off.
500 miles into cossie driving and the bottom end began knocking  The engine centre had sold me some duff big ends, Mains were still mint upon inspection but big ends, fooked so to fund it, i sold the corsa to a mate. He did some bits to it, got some different alloys, two new tyres, GSi front (had bodykit on) and got it professionally painted, fitted standard airbox, got some i think sport interior for it, took carpet out and pressure washed, etc etc.
He then got it MOT'd and on the second night he used it, went and put diesel in it lol. He only put £7 in but then topped it up with £27 of petrol. Got the 7 miles home and drained it all out. Refilled with fresh petrol and took it for a drive, seemed ok he said until next day and really started playing around. We both put this down to the diesel. He now gave me the car back  For 2 weeks i drove the car without any problem, then one day it started to play up and did everyday since. Anyway, turned out to be coil pack Took ages to find fault as no codes
Anyway, its now sorted, put my Kenwood headunit back in, Infinity components up front and Pioneer sub in the boot. Need to sort the wiring out behind the headunit though as the speaker dont all work all of the time ie dodgy connections where someone cut n shut the loom
Just fitted my bonnet lifters today, started on the SPAX 35mm springs, rears done tonight, just started to remove front struts and said sod it and came home.  When i took the rears off, compared the two and NS one was 1" shorter than the OS
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