danward
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Well, I read the WIP threads every other day and enjoy seeing what others have done with there motors, so figured it was time to get my WIP on here!
Well, after stupidly losing my license for a year I purchased a bog standard faded red 1.2 ls, this lasted me two weeks before the clutch exploded all over the dual carriageway on a journey back from picking up some new tyres for some alloys I had just bought it.
Then came a little red Fiat Cinquecento Sporting, this served me well for a couple of months but after losing third gear completely and some costly repairs, I hit a massive puddle one night and rolled it onto its side. It was at this point I decided it was time to move on.
I missed having a Corsa and I always preferred them over any other small hatch, so I decided to buy a slightly better model than my first and hope that it would last me a little longer. I very quickly chose this:
Vauxhall Corsa Sport 1.4 16v
I was very happy with it, it had a little more power than the Cinq and I'd wanted another Corsa ever since I broke my first one. This one was a good price (or so I thought) and had just had a new head and engine serviced, it also came with some mods!
The mod list is as follows:
Drilled and grooved 2ltr discs
15" Cav Cesaro alloys with low pros
Lowered about 30mm
3" single exhaust backbox
K&N induction
Blue interior LED conversion
Unfortunately it also came with:
Lexus lights
Chrome LED washer jets
16v badges stuck on rear pillars
Light brows
Some funny mirrors
Here's a couple of photos when I got it home:
So I was dead chuffed! I drove it round for a few days and it was great. But inevitably something soon went wrong.
After a night at the pub with my local cruise site I went to go home and my key snapped in my drivers door, locking me out of the car holding half of the only key that I owned for the car! It stayed outside the pub for a few days and a wad of cash later and I had two new keys. Unfortunately the snapped peice of key still remain in my lock, meaning I have to open the damn thing from the passengers side (you have no idea how annoying this is).
Anyway, next came some modifications (if you can call them that). First thing that needed doing was the replace the shite lexus lights with some standardsm, this improved the look of the car a lot! Then the LED washer jets were removed and the standard items plumbed in.
Then two weeks after purchasing the car:
Not good... blue smoke over all three lanes of the carriageway and a car that no longer starts! It emptied 5 litres of water in 30 seconds! So now the car was put on my drive, where it has been sitting for a while now until I could work out what I wanted to do.
Whilst it was sitting there I put Punto rear wiper on it, and replaced a component in my sunroof which I noticed had gone wrotten:
Then, yesterday night - one road trip later:
This thread is to be continued.... 
[Edited on 02-05-2007 by danward]
[Edited on 02-05-2007 by danward]
[Edited on 02-05-2007 by danward]
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danward
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Haven't updated this for aages! So here goes:
Basically since the first post the car is back on the road with the 1.6 GSI lump running!
I fitted some leather fronts from a Calibra:
And have since also trimmed the door cards in leather and stripped the rear out!
At this point I got some cool photos taken of it:
Then I fitted a front lower splitter (standard).
This week I've had a straight through center section fitted:
And I finally sorted out my brakes as they were bad:
The new ones are called Rotor Discs and look awesome and after testing them I can confirm they work just as good as they look!
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lil_g
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Looks good dude 
Any pictures of the leather door cards I really want mine done 
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danward
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Heres a couple:
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Kurt
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makes me wish id gone the leather route :jealous: looking really good that! you need a new drivers pretensioner though, mot fail that and kinda dangerous 
any pics of the rotors fitted?
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danward
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Yea I've been meaning to sort the pretensioner... need to get a leather gear gaitor too as my current one doesn't fit properly! Could really do with some new car mats as well... really let the team down.
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Kurt
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simple things to fix tbh and it still looks good
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lil_g
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Fancy doing my door cards? 
Very lovely motor there I remember when you thought about selling up i wanted it
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ash87
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Looking good mate, where did you get the material for the cards?
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M Sutton
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Looks realy nice.keep up the good work
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Danny W
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looks great mate, sure i saw you sat at the lights near hi-q in rushden yesterday?
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danward
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Cheers guys!
ash87 - I went down my local fabric shop, cost me about £11.99 for a square meter, covered both cards = bargain!
Danny W - Yea that would have been me mate!
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danward
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I now have some big door pods with 2x Directed speakers in each side: 8" and 6.5"!! They are quite big and I've almost finished fitting them so will post up pics soon! they are fully stitch trimmed in leather to match my interior too. Also coming very soon are front and rear strut braces!
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danward
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UPDATE:
Got some nice new beefy door builds (cheers to LukeC) I love them - think they are the business!
Then a trip to MK and I pick this up:
A rattle can later:
And something to match:
More pics coming soon...
[Edited on 13-09-2007 by danward]
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Iain M
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I had some Directed audio stuff they are  .
Door builds look awesome
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Danny W
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Very Very nice mate, cars coming along well.
saw you driving into irchester the other day too
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sam13
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nice project m8 looks top.
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danward
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Project has gone on hold for a little while now. A lady pulled out in front of me last night in Rushden, causing me to swerve round her and smash into the curb (narrowly missing a lamp post). Witnesses say there were a lot of sparks. When I rolled to a stop, the gear box oil pouring from underneath the car evidently wasn't a good sign.
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