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N13L X B

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25th Oct 11 at 19:45

Lol, sweet mate.

I bought it in these colours, really like it.

N13L X B

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27th Oct 11 at 13:02

Right i thought it was time to become a premium member so ive just sorted that

Had 2 nice parcels this morning, all going towards getting the car ready for 2012

Firstly a nice new Oil catch tank as my old 1 pissed me off lol

And my new Gaz coilovers turned up, old 1s were getting on abit.

Thats all for now

[Edited on 27-10-2011 by N13L X B]

N13L X B

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5th Nov 11 at 17:01

Another nice part for the corsa, new passenger seat. alot nicer than the cheap Forza sport thats in there at the min plus its now all black so matches my revolution wrap around

Corbeau Sprint

All for now.

Mieran

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5th Nov 11 at 19:48

First time I've seen GAZ coilovers with helper springs.

What spring rates did you go for, front/back?

Edges 58

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6th Nov 11 at 09:55

quote:
Originally posted by Mieran
First time I've seen GAZ coilovers with helper springs.

Mine have them too

N13L X B

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10th Nov 11 at 19:05

quote:
Originally posted by Mieran
First time I've seen GAZ coilovers with helper springs.

What spring rates did you go for, front/back?

Fronts are 300 and rears are 160's mate, that sound about right?

Linch

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12th Nov 11 at 11:36

300 front for a xe is good, should ride well.

N13L X B

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13th Nov 11 at 16:32

Yea think im currently running 300's on the front, can't quite remember the rear but il check them when I take the old coilovers off.

N13L X B

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19th Nov 11 at 15:53

More new bits ready for the winter makeover, Corbeau ally mounts for new seat. (also match drivers side)

And my compomotive Th2's came back from a fresh powder coat in white

M Sutton

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20th Nov 11 at 09:50

Sweet!love this car

N13L X B

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20th Nov 11 at 17:51

Cheers mate

Right finally making a start on the winter work now ive got all these bits. Firstly got her up in the air.

Stripped off the old front coilovers, driveshafts and took out the standard diff, heres the new against the old.

loads to do more progress soon.

N13L X B

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3rd Dec 11 at 12:40

Right still collecting bits for the big winter maintence build lol.

Firstly i bought this airdam splitter off SeanXE on here so thanks for that pal, think im going to make it removable so i can get on the trailer etc.

Then i bought this rear disc conversion kit off ebay, some thing ive been wanting to do for a while now.

Oh and a shite loads more bits as seen below

Front discs machined to take out warp (wobbly under braking)
New rear drilled and grooved discs and mintex pads.
Wilwood bleed nipple pack for my front 4 pots (1 had snapped off)
Wilwood high temperature brake fluid
plastic speedo ring (to fit onto new diff)
New diff bearings
2 new motorsport conversion hubs
2 new wheel bearings
2 new outer cv joints
Pair of new track rod ends
Pair of new ball joints
4 x Vauxhall oil filters

A fair few bits lol, still more to come

dewismotorsport

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3rd Dec 11 at 23:08

Some very nice bits going into it, as for rear spring rates it all depends how you like it to feel on the limit, I personally prefer a bit of over steer at the limit so have thicker anti roll bar and will be changing up to 300lb springs

Dan295

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3rd Dec 11 at 23:22

quote:
Originally posted by N13L X B
front discs machined to take out warp (wobbly under braking)

eh?

[Edited on 03-12-2011 by Dan295]

bigron1988

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4th Dec 11 at 00:03

what ball joints are they ? if there just some cheap ones i would not be using them , dale had some cheap ones fail , especialy with it now having a diff

also not getting some front hubs made up with the golf bearings ?

chris_uk

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4th Dec 11 at 14:23

are you entering the time attack?

Dale

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4th Dec 11 at 14:38

quote:
Originally posted by bigron1988
what ball joints are they ? if there just some cheap ones i would not be using them , dale had some cheap ones fail , especialy with it now having a diff

also not getting some front hubs made up with the golf bearings ?

Agree 100% with this don't use cheap ball joins and shit conversion hubs... They will just sheer off..... Do it properly with non machined big block hubs and machine the knuckle to take golf bearings alot safer!!

N13L X B

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4th Dec 11 at 18:24

quote:
Originally posted by Dale

quote:
Originally posted by bigron1988
what ball joints are they ? if there just some cheap ones i would not be using them , dale had some cheap ones fail , especialy with it now having a diff

also not getting some front hubs made up with the golf bearings ?

Agree 100% with this don't use cheap ball joins and shit conversion hubs... They will just sheer off..... Do it properly with non machined big block hubs and machine the knuckle to take golf bearings alot safer!!

Can you explain that further please, I am using big block hubs already? And what ball joints will you go for? Cheers

N13L X B

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4th Dec 11 at 18:26

quote:
Originally posted by chris_uk
are you entering the time attack?

I've been looking at maybe entering 1 or 2 events next year tbh yea. Ain't got the money some of the big boys have go to throw at it though.

N13L X B

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4th Dec 11 at 18:27

quote:
Originally posted by Dan295

quote:
Originally posted by N13L X B
front discs machined to take out warp (wobbly under braking)

eh?

[Edited on 03-12-2011 by Dan295]

The discs where warped, so had that machined perfectly flat again.

bigron1988

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4th Dec 11 at 21:03

ive just had a set made up for mine and mine are getting delivered on tuesday , have a read on here

http://www.vauxhall-sport-forum.com/phpBB2/fitting-big-block-cvs-to-a-corsa-correctly-t16071.html

as for the ball joints , i bought a set of the cheap ones and changed them to gen vauxhall ones , think they were about £120 for them but you can also get hh ones

Dale

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4th Dec 11 at 21:23

quote:
Originally posted by bigron1988
ive just had a set made up for mine and mine are getting delivered on tuesday , have a read on here

http://www.vauxhall-sport-forum.com/phpBB2/fitting-big-block-cvs-to-a-corsa-correctly-t16071.html

as for the ball joints , i bought a set of the cheap ones and changed them to gen vauxhall ones , think they were about £120 for them but you can also get hh ones

HH lower ball joints won't fit with big block CV's unless you use HH knuckles, They have a larger gap from the wheel bearing edge the the lower ball joint hole to enable use of a threaded nut!! I use comp brake lower ball joints which are here... Only for early setup tho which means changing lower arms and TCA's

http://www.compbrake.co.uk/Suspension-Acc-39-s/Wishbones-TCA-S-Compression-strut/Vauxhall-Tigra-MK1-08/94-05/97-Uniballs-Suspension-Ball-Joint-Front-PAIR/prod_615.html

My broken ball joint next to the uniball ball joint (which are rebuild able + rose jointed)

After talking to compbrake about what i used the car for and Harry Hockley versions they said i could use there "Rally Version" making it still a fair bit cheaper than HH version

As you can see it has the extra thread + nut

Clearance and the reason the threaded ones won't fit

As for Knuckles link is where Ron said there is about it in my thread...... HH do machining too look on there website! Heres a quick comparison

Conversion hub

Standard big block hub

The bearings I used are rear 1988 mk2 golf synchro which are OD 68mm, ID 39mm and W 37mm, they cost me a whole £14 each iirc

Sorry about the long post

[Edited on 04-12-2011 by Dale]

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