liam4
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car looks nice mate,a white showcage would look perfect on it
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gez bay
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Registered: 14th Feb 08
Location: South Wales drives: Vxr
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no cage!
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swill_omnibus
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Registered: 12th Dec 07
Location: : S. wales Drives: Dodge Caliber
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No cage unless it's an OMP one so it'll actually do something!
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shaunmods
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Registered: 12th Mar 07
Location: Glascote, Staffordshire
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No plans for any roll/show cages guys. Wouldnt suit the style of the car imo 
While im here I might as well post the pics I took of it at PVS 
Was a really good day once the weather had cleared 
More updates coming very soon! 
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scaron5188
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Registered: 17th Apr 08
Location: Chippenham, Drives: arden 2.0 sport
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so good to see this car in person mate, was lovelly, and good to meet you.
good on ya for getting on your hands and knees making it look white again  
also my friend over from AOC said your car car alot of interest from them
[Edited on 08-06-2009 by scaron5188]
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red_top_corsa
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Registered: 29th Oct 08
Location: ramsgate kent
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hi mate nice car you got there. saw you washing it. notiched your smoothed lock cracking what a bumer
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swill_omnibus
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Registered: 12th Dec 07
Location: : S. wales Drives: Dodge Caliber
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Was gutted i couldn't view this in the metal personally. Looks mint.
You do that whole clay bar thing or?
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shaunmods
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Registered: 12th Mar 07
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Cheers Scaron. Was nice to meet you too lol the car got so dirty on the way in, I couldnt leave it in the state it was lol
quote:
Originally posted by red_top_corsa
hi mate nice car you got there. saw you washing it. notiched your smoothed lock cracking what a bumer
Thanks dude. Yeah your right the boot has cracked slightly 
Wasnt going to post this update until tommorrow but sod it lol. The boot cracked pretty a couple of days after I'd had it painted. Was gutted and tbh kicking myself for doing it on the cheap. Should have listened to you guys lol. Those of you who know me know how much of a perfectionist I am, it was really starting to annoy me everytime I saw it so decided to do something about it
Got hunting for a new boot. Within 10 minutes I spotted a mint GSI boot on ebay and snapped it up. Went down to wales the next day to collect it. To say it was mint was an understatement! Perfect base for a semi-smooth boot.
Day after I collected it I went down to Spice paints who do all the bodywork to get it semi-smoothed. Paid a bit more than I was hoping to pay but now I've got it back im glad I paid that little bit extra as it just perfect. Its been fully welded this time Only got it back on friday though so didnt have time to fit it for pvs was gutted
swill_omnibus. Yeah mate I do use the clay bar on the car. Only every 3 or so months though to keep the paintwork mint.
Cant wait to get the new boot on now!!
[Edited on 08-06-2009 by shaunmods]
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cayenne15
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Registered: 28th Sep 08
Location: Cheslyn Hay, Staffordshire
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u wanna fit it on wednesday mate? im free!! could go for a little photo shoot
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Ollie_B
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Registered: 1st Jun 08
Location: North Wales/Wirral
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Are you going to do your conversion yourself mate?
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red_top_corsa
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Registered: 29th Oct 08
Location: ramsgate kent
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sorry to have brought it up tho mate. new boot looks mint. perfect base car for a engine conversion to finish
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shaunmods
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Registered: 12th Mar 07
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quote:
Originally posted by red_top_corsa
sorry to have brought it up tho mate. new boot looks mint. perfect base car for a engine conversion to finish
lol dont worry mate I was going to make a post about it anyway I've learnt my lesson now though. Leave the bodywork to the pros
Ollie, me and my dad will be doing the conversion ourselves. Going to quite new to me, my dad will be be teaching me as we go.
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red_top_corsa
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at least doing it your self mate if you have any probs with it down the road you should know how to fix it. and you can get a new sticker (BUILT NOT BOUGHT) lol
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Ollie_B
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will be
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B3KAN
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New boot looks mint shame about the other 1 cracking live and learn i guess
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xa0s
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Registered: 4th Mar 08
Location: Dartford, Kent Car: Turbo'd Fabia vRS
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Loved your car at PVS.
If it was my car it'd get a GSi bumper with white Morette's and carbon bits like a carbon bonnet. Strip the fucker out with a white or black cage, buckets and so on. It'd look so cool.
[Edited on 09-06-2009 by xa0s]
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pow
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This car looked epic on the stand!
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NeilGSI
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Registered: 14th Jun 08
Location: Northern Ireland
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car looks well some transformation. top work,
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big.mat
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Registered: 14th Jan 09
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your corsa is stunning mate.
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shaunmods
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Registered: 12th Mar 07
Location: Glascote, Staffordshire
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Thanks for the comments lads
Picked the engine up last weekend Really pleased with it and cant wait to start working on it! Hopefully I'll have it on the engine stand by next weekend so I can start cleaning all the crap off it from over the years.
Heres a better picture of it
Also got my new semi-smooth boot fitted this weekend a HUGE thanks goes to Luke (cayenne15) who helped me swap it over. Couldnt of done it without you mate, owe you big time!
After a bit of head scratching we got the old one off easily enough and then stripped it of all the bits needed like the lock, popper, wiring etc.
Then we set about getting the new one on...which wouldnt fit  In the end we had to grind down both the hinges a fair amount to get it to slot on. After about 5 attempts we got it Fitted the lock, struts and wiring loom then called it a night.
Heres how it looked this morning
For some wierd reason the boot doesnt sit 100% straight Going to take the headlining out at some point next week and try to adjust the hinges slightly to get it sitting better. only needs to move over a 4mm max
Finally I stuck the plate back on and tigersealed the spoiler back on Just waiting for it to set now
Waxoiled the inside of the boot around the weld area to keep it as mint as possible. Just got to wire my popper back in, sort the line of the boot out, oh and get the "corsa B GSI" scribble off the window 
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red_top_corsa
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looks great mate
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SeanXE
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Looking nice mate
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jonnysri
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your car is perfect shaun. no other words to describe it.
be so nice with a LET in it
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shaunmods
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Registered: 12th Mar 07
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cheers peeps
jonny, maybe one day lol. Im only 18 though, the 1.6 will be plenty quick enough for me
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dale_sri_2009
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Registered: 10th Jan 09
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looks better now m8 weather its da camera or not but on the old boot it looked like ya didnt get the line streight just above the numberplate?
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