Black Corsa Sport mini project

[jimkg]

Called in some favours and managed to get the kit sprayed for 200 by a friend of my boss, so picking up the kit tommorrow and will hopefully get it sprayed in a couple of weeks (:

[Jamie1991]

nice, should look mint tbf, havent seen many black corsa's with gsi kit

[jimkg]

just picked up my gsi kit, this week im gonner start filling the scrw holes and get ready to take it to be sprayed cant wait, took a couple of cheeky snaps of the crappy mudflaps and exhaust tip phwoar or what.. lol not.

[jimkg]

Right thinking my engine bay needs abit of tidying up, so i painted a few caps and my wipers and scuttle bord..

before.



after.

[l6tbm]

Its getting there mate, Try some autoglym bumber care on the black plastic bits. Should come up aright with that

I used it on my rad fan then buffed it up, Came up a treat. Check out page 5 on ma thread an you'll see the diff bud.

[CorsaB1993]

best thing for the engine itself is something called Gunk. My dad had some laying around and it worked a treat! as for the muddy bits, a bit of effort and cleaning and she'll be looking great!

Heres a picture of how my bay turned out after about an hour of cleaning....

[jimkg]

Got all these today cheapy cheap,



but only had time to change the spark plugs and HT leads today and has made a noticable difference to acelleration and speed
engine flush oil change and filter changes tommorrow and hopefully abit more engine cleaning (:

this mother came in which left me no time to change the oil D:



these were the old spark plugs..



and finally a cheeky snap to finish

[jimkg]

took off my side strips today, and underneath was abit of a state :/ theyve been glued on with super glue or somthing, its dead crusty and hard and fulls the paint off when tried taking it off, and took a few pictures of all the rust damage i have. not sure really what to do, i need the kit spraying obv the boot bumpers and the doors will depending on the damage so looks like ill have to save for a respray in the meen time i can get smoothing out and filling in the dents. so will be driving around in a smoothed out mix match of different colours for a while i think which meen the gsi kit can go on at the weekend hopefully (: unless anyone has any better ideas on how to go about it ?

[CorsaB1993]

i think thats the main reason why i havent taken mine off

[jimkg]

took my front bumper off today to discover its quite abit more rotten than i thought, any reccomendations on how to go about it ?







weld this one up ?
weld a new one on ?
put new bumper on and hide it ?

any way the new bumper looks awsome fitting it tommorrow and archs and side skirts hopefully

[PRICER]

Is it actually rotten or is it just surface rust? If its just surface just clean it all of and paint it black with some hammerite or something,

[jimkg]

the left side is starting to go, and the right side is just surface. im just gonner rub it all down, paint it, and when mot comes up at the end of the year do all the welding at once.

[jimkg]

rubbed it all down today, rust guarded it then painted (: will all be welded at a later date (maybe when a 2l goes in )
bumpers going on tommorrow

[nath2905]

some good work, that lower cross member looked bad :/
you driving around with no bumper?

[jimkg]

its rotten away where the bottom left radiator bolts to it, but its a temporary job thats sorted it for now.
shh, only backlanes to work and back, only a couple of miles away