7 omm
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lol...
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John G
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quote:
Originally posted by 7 omm
lol...
7 omm aka the irmsher whore!!
where do you get all your money from??
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Rich H
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 Jesus. The work and money going into this is phenomenal!!!
Gonna be easily once of the best C's once done 
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steve_b
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Nice one Tom,
Surley you could pick some stuff up a lot cheaper and save so much money from places like ebay, vaux message boards etc.
Steve
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7 omm
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i only work in asda part time mate.
im at colleage do a 6012 NVQ level 3 in gas heating and maintenence engineering. to you 'a gas man' lol.
and irmscher has a C innt dont offend my place of worship
i can see it becoming a 'stig' like enterance...
...some say his middle name is 'irmscher'.....others say he uses hi perants like barclays...all we know is he called '7 omm'
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John G
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if you work part time in asda def cnt understabnd where your moneys coming from,
take it your gonna be in alot of debt after this is finished then?
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Joe
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Seeing as you split your last one due to money, looks like your going all out on this one. Very interested to see what this turns out like.
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7 omm
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quote:
Originally posted by steve_b
Nice one Tom,
Surley you could pick some stuff up a lot cheaper and save so much money from places like ebay, vaux message boards etc.
Steve
im getting good deals on the stuff i buy and its all brand new so i know fitting etc will be all good, sometime getting things cheaper works out worse..
later on when i post another update you'll notice a do buy some second hand things like, my system is all ex-demo stuff of a mate's astra turbo, the
H.I.D's
telly headunit
surrounds
were all bought second hand off painz for a good price.
on the hi-spec's i managed to sort out a bulk buy deal (with Gary from Rimstyle) cause i bought them, greenstuff pads, braided hoses, FK coilovers and rear disc's to match all in one go
im planning on running the engine in standerd form and use as much as the factory stuff as possible to keep the OEM+ look i want for 2007.
after that towards the end of next year you might see changes towards a full weld in cage, phase 3/4 engine, loads of carbon fibre, stripped to the bone, anthercite comp-mo's 16's..
and other bits and bob's like that to which i'll then use it for track days etc...
unless i get bored in between
insurance seem's reasonable to for when im 20 next month with 3 year no claims (beginning of april) adrain flux seem happy enough to insure the car inc all mods fo about the £1800FC mark which i really dont mind paying at my age
it've got to get it in first and a engineer's report,tax sorted MOT sorted, kit fitted....
the list is endless..
hope that clears alittle up for you steve
Tom.
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7 omm
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its also been about 6 months since the last one was spilt i got about £5000 back in parts of it which more than covered my colleage course, the rest of thime time i've saved up and to date i have about £3000 debt to my dad, but i really dont think he's bothered about having it back...lol
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Liam
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Sooo
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Corsa_1800_SRi
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Hi tom, thanks for the pm on corsa-c only just notice youve posted this thread, read all the way tho it and ur doing such a good job, like said how do you afford it all at ur age lol ??good news on the insurance part too. How much is it costing you for the person to fit it?? will have to have a meet up when ur done as urs will have all the irmy stuff and the engine and mine will have all the irmy stuff then the engine is getting done early next year and will hopefully still be the first in the c with what am putting in.
Ive pm'd you back on corsa-c too. Good luck and keep the updates coming
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Ste L
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awsome project mate, love it
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jamesvalver
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so u sold the last minter because u needed the money for uni and now your building a new more expencive minter! love it!!!
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7 omm
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quote:
Originally posted by jamesvalver
so u sold the last minter because u needed the money for uni and now your building a new more expencive minter! love it!!!
.......erm.........correct
god i hope the perant dont read this post
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7 omm
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i've just got a box, HI SPEC'S are here me think's...
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Corsa_1800_SRi
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Get some pics up, gona be ordering mine soon, any way you can see if they fit under 16" rims as a wana put them under the sri's
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7 omm
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i dunno mate, they look huge, i bought the 300mm kit with the extra's..
i've left my usb cable at the missuses house so i might end up there again tonight so i can update my thread's..
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steve_b
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this must owe you so much already
great work tho great thread also
wish i could throw cash like this at a car tho, cant bring myself to!Lol
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STEvieXE
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only just saw this thread. top stuff buddy. gd luck, looks fantastic
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7 omm
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THIS IS WHERE IM UP TO NOW!!! 08.03.2007
we'll after sitting in for ages studing for colleage and working silly shift's at asda, i managed to get some more progress made on the corsa, and i've also found five to update the thread.
i'll start off with some pics of some more things that came through the post this morning *full on irmscher slut*
and inside the big blue blob
I believe i now have everything you can buy that is irmscher for the Corsa C. (apart from the stick on petrol cap/window post horrid things) and the gearknob(reason showing in picture below) once again it was all down to my main man Dave at www.irmscher-bits.com who has really help my little obsession along.
the reason behind no irmscher gearknob is this, an astra turbo gearknob fitted including cables etc for the F23 box. This is a really simple job as all the bolt holes are in the same place on the corsa as the astra turbo and the knob in my opinion looks the dogs danglies and adds to the OEM++ look im after
As i've been saying for a few weeks now the engine was ready to go in and i had the two side mounts sorted (there's four altogether)
If you look back to my first post i say at the end that i've sorted out and made the first mount, turn's out what we were told there was a load of bollocks.
I also forgot to mention i had a new recruit in my team. Some say he shites prototype vauxhall's. Other's say his penis is in the same shape as a vauxhall locking wheel nut....All i know is, he's called 'The R man' - clarkson style enterance
anyway, with the new man on my team i managed to get some thing's together, first off i needed to elongate the holes on the astra drivers side mount to match up with the smaller holes normally found on the corsa mount (only drilling out 3mm or so). We then had to had work out which offside mount to use to keep the gearbox in place, this is where its gets messy, most companies me and 'The R man' have spoke to say these mounts need to be custom made.
ONLY and i repeat ONLY due to 'The R man' not wanting everyone know how this is done i wont say or show what offside mount i used, but if you think 'it may have come some off a big engined car with a griffin on the front slightly adapted to fit' your going along the right route. With two of the four mounts oin place it was time to swing the engine into place, because you can only do one time at a time .i.e. work/take pictures, there are none of the engine on the crane, but there is some of it in the hole......BEHOLD....
POW...A Z20LET IN A CORSA C !!!
picture of the drivers mount in place
And now more random pictures some with front panel on etc.. this was just to gimme a rough idea as to how stright the engine is sitting (btw, its cock on)
Im really pleased with what we got done.
It wasn't just a case of bolting two mounts on and dropping a engine in, we also had to change all the starter motor wiring over from the corsa engine to the astra one, custom making it to make it longer so its fits,next up are the two stablizing mounts front and back, that sounds easy but whe you think that these need custom made and the engine needs to sit factory 7% angled forward, its gonna be abit of a ballache. Then the fuel lines as no corsa C have return pipe it'll be another astra borrowing job, then piping for radiators etc.
The intercooler/rad where just positioned there by me on the photo's and are not piped up. I just wanted to know if the standerd stuff will fit and with alittle trimming it looks like it will, this will make it better again for me as it will look more like it rolled out the showroom with the engine in the car which is the look im after.
Once again i hope i've made the post a half decent read for you and if i can help with any questions you have (other than offside mount) i would be happy to.
cheers for taking 5
Tom (7 OMM)
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Graeme
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lookes amazing sitting in there, so are you making something so that the mount lines up with that hole of driling another hole?
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cash_2_my_corsa
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oh yes im lovin it
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Matt H
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Im impressed with these
Oh, and the fact that the 2.0 turbo engine is now fitted
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deano87
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All that Irmscher stuff is the sex.
I'd love to do the same with my car, but Steinmetz stuff!
Am I right in saying that engine is out of an Astra VXR? Or the earlier 2.0 Turbo, out of say the Astra G GSi?
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Arctic_Monkey
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feature car right here
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