Minty_Fresh
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Registered: 1st May 08
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get some new plates it will freshen it up..
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dan-sport
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Registered: 9th Oct 07
Location: Bushbury, West Midlands
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its all money mate lol i will when i have spare money but id rather get the important stuff done first
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Sean-B
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Registered: 1st May 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: 200SX S14a
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I'm going to break your legs you pikey
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dan-sport
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Registered: 9th Oct 07
Location: Bushbury, West Midlands
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why this time and can you not put silly shit in here thanks
[Edited on 19-08-2009 by dan-sport]
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Jamie-C
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Registered: 3rd Jun 08
Location: Ballycastle
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quote:
Originally posted by Sean-B
I'm going to break your legs you pikey
Quoted in case Dan gets his legs broke and you delete the comment 
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Sean-B
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Registered: 1st May 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: 200SX S14a
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quote:
Originally posted by dan-sport
why this time and can you not put silly shit in here thanks
[Edited on 19-08-2009 by dan-sport]
same reason as before, you've just bullshited me around with this bloody bonnet, and i'm pissed off
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Minty_Fresh
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calm down superman..
he said he was having a backbox off me and never did, just the way things are..
[Edited on 19-08-2009 by mk4_boy]
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dan-sport
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Registered: 9th Oct 07
Location: Bushbury, West Midlands
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i said maybe with the backbox if i needed it for the mot but i didn't
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FruitBooTeR
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Registered: 18th Jan 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: S15
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C20XE is running just needs exhaust and a few other things doing then is can be driven 
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dan-sport
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Registered: 9th Oct 07
Location: Bushbury, West Midlands
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james i told you not to bring this back up lmao you complete and utter ring piece haha
edit - and i never said which engine i got just relised
[Edited on 04-11-2009 by dan-sport]
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FruitBooTeR
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Registered: 18th Jan 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: S15
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Youl thank me when your 95 and want to look back an read it
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dan-sport
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Registered: 9th Oct 07
Location: Bushbury, West Midlands
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suppose i better post the few pictures i took of the conversion
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dan-sport
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Registered: 9th Oct 07
Location: Bushbury, West Midlands
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i didn't get any pictures of the old engine coming out and i didn't take that many of the conversion as i just wanted to get on and get it finished. 28th august i got delivery of the following:
redtop
f16 box
conversion mounts
motorsport driveshafts
mtech conversion hubs
anti roll bar spacers
and other conversion bits and bobs
the engine:
1992 c20xe
coscast head
arp head bolts
chipped ecu with raised limiter to 7700
the weekend was then spent putting it in and getting it running
while the bumper was off i gave the engine bay(no pictures) and under the bumpers a tcut and polish
almost finished
but then i went to turn it over and nothing happened yep i forgot to plug the starting and charging loom in haha, the redtop was orginally in an 8v corsa but after a year of reliablity(shocking i know) the previous owner(a mates mate) split the car and me being the tool i am got rid of the 1.6 with the 16v starting and charging loom and the redtop had the 8v one on.
so after alot of searching in local scrappys i found a tigra so i had the loom from that and fitted it on saturday 31st october, i fitted the battery went to start it but no power was coming from the battery but after some investigating i found out it was because one of the wires that goes onto the positive for the battery had been taken behind the engine when i fitted the loom. once i had found that, i went to start it and it just turned over then i remembered i had ran the 1.6 out of fuel before the conversion, so a quick dash to the petrol station and once again i tried to start it and it what do you know it started. best sound ever haha
this is what i left it like on monday
jobs left to do:
master cylinder vacume pipe
sort exhaust
and thats all really just need to tax it again as it runs out end of this month
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Adam C
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Registered: 10th Jan 07
Location: Cornwall UK Drives:Arden Blue Gsi T
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Awesome mate, nicely done
My Arden Blue Astra GSi MK4 on BBS LM's Project Thread
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Jamie-C
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Registered: 3rd Jun 08
Location: Ballycastle
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Insurance know about this conversion?
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FruitBooTeR
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Registered: 18th Jan 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: S15
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Even his mom and dad still think its a 1.6 
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dan-sport
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Registered: 9th Oct 07
Location: Bushbury, West Midlands
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quote:
Originally posted by Green Thing
Awesome mate, nicely done
cheers mate, i don't think i did too bad considering it was my first redtop conversion. they seem totally different to the small block engines its weird.
quote:
Originally posted by Jamie-C
Insurance know about this conversion?
well its not gonna be my propper car for obvious reasons and i've seen a brocade 1.4 sport that im gonna keep my eye on. this will be taken care of now though, all new underseal ect
i know i have changed the plans for it alot in the year i've owned it, so im not actually gonna say what im doing with it now so i don't seem a tool if it changes haha. The only 2 things that are deff going to happen is coilovers for the front and 1 of 3 wheels astra gsi fanblades in silver,cav slabs in black or comp mo's in black.
[Edited on 04-11-2009 by dan-sport]
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Minty_Fresh
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Registered: 1st May 08
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good job the logbook doesnt show how many engines its had like the owners..
looks a tidy conversion for your first xe 
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dan-sport
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Registered: 9th Oct 07
Location: Bushbury, West Midlands
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tbh its the airbox haha makes it look so much neater then a random filter but cheers
and im its 5th owner and its on its 4th engine haha and when i got the car it was on its first
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FruitBooTeR
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Registered: 18th Jan 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: S15
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Update?
Piks of new parts...
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dan-sport
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Registered: 9th Oct 07
Location: Bushbury, West Midlands
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no pics as i just wanted to fit them and getgears again lol i did a video on sunday though that i will upload
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FruitBooTeR
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Registered: 18th Jan 07
Location: Wolverhampton Drives: S15
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Oh well you could at least say what parts you got
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dan-sport
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Registered: 9th Oct 07
Location: Bushbury, West Midlands
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heres the vid of it all up and running, yes its a tappy fucker but im doing the tappets after christmas.
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dalejones
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Registered: 9th Dec 08
Location: Swansea, Wales
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nice!! good work!
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taylor2008
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Registered: 3rd Nov 08
Location: wolverhampton
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fair play mate, 1 guestion tho. why the f--k are you spending all this money on the car when you carnt evan drive :-s, you havent evan got a provisional licence, your doing all this work to a car that you probly will never be abble to drive legal.
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