Re: Red-Corsa // 1.2 LS 1997
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:46 pm
UPDATE!!!!!!!!!! -- Yes, i am back.... (blame the college studies for my long hiatus, but hey i'm no longer going to college. So I am taking a gap year before "deciding" to go to university or not ).... So yes i've resumed this little project , here's the changes so far.
//. This came through the post today yay
(Thanks to http://forums.corsa-b.co.uk/viewtopic.p ... 3&start=45 (@stevethegreat91) for the inspiration - yes he's got a hot car too
)
First the old arch cover is gone (...good riddance!
)
Yes, yes, yes, I hate the weather (it was sunny , then it suddenly changed! ). I was stuck doing the arch covers inside while the rain calms down 
Here's the final result.
And the with the alloy wheel on (...yes i took it while it was still raining, sorry about the quality)
I've only done the back arches , because i ran out of fibre film .... So i will do the front ones next week.
Meanwhile , i had some left-overs of fibre . This happend....
Final result....
I know i love chrome, since that stuff pleases the eyes .... so i did a little project involving a few pre-cut strips.... I mainly did the vents...
(On the vents ^^, i did a line and skipped the next line , for styling purposes. I wasnt going to fill every line with chrome as thats too much haha )
Since the car is red... I got rid of my orange pioneer speakers (...orange? what was i thinking haha). So i bought these red ones instead, since they are "sony" the sound quality has been very crystal clear.
I got rid of the ugly 1996 front-bumper design. I got the newer ones (1999), overal the car looks better.
You might notice i had 17inch alloys but they were too troublesome and too fat to fit inside the arches (when going on humps etc). I used stock wheels for a while.
Then months later (last month in fact) i got some nice alloys which are 14inch as that seems to be an ideal size..... (I still need to get thinner tyres though
. Right now it's 185/65/R14, so i need to get something like 185/45/R14).
Here's how the whole car looks now with the alloys.
Side note: I know it needs to be lowered , i wanna do it so badly but christ the springs and shocks cost soooooo much!
(LOL) ... I wanted to buy 60mm springs and use my standard shocks , but i have heard that it will damage the shocks after a few runs ,so i guess its best i buy the whole custom set 
...
Anyways, due to the weather. That's all i've done today .
Comments and critics welcome
//. This came through the post today yay
(Thanks to http://forums.corsa-b.co.uk/viewtopic.p ... 3&start=45 (@stevethegreat91) for the inspiration - yes he's got a hot car too
)First the old arch cover is gone (...good riddance!
)Yes, yes, yes, I hate the weather (it was sunny , then it suddenly changed!
). I was stuck doing the arch covers inside while the rain calms down Here's the final result.
And the with the alloy wheel on (...yes i took it while it was still raining, sorry about the quality)
I've only done the back arches , because i ran out of fibre film .... So i will do the front ones next week.
Meanwhile , i had some left-overs of fibre . This happend....
Final result....
I know i love chrome, since that stuff pleases the eyes .... so i did a little project involving a few pre-cut strips.... I mainly did the vents...
(On the vents ^^, i did a line and skipped the next line , for styling purposes. I wasnt going to fill every line with chrome as thats too much haha )
Since the car is red... I got rid of my orange pioneer speakers (...orange? what was i thinking haha). So i bought these red ones instead, since they are "sony" the sound quality has been very crystal clear
.I got rid of the ugly 1996 front-bumper design. I got the newer ones (1999), overal the car looks better.
You might notice i had 17inch alloys but they were too troublesome and too fat to fit inside the arches (when going on humps etc). I used stock wheels for a while.
Then months later (last month in fact) i got some nice alloys which are 14inch as that seems to be an ideal size..... (I still need to get thinner tyres though
. Right now it's 185/65/R14, so i need to get something like 185/45/R14).Here's how the whole car looks now with the alloys.
Side note: I know it needs to be lowered , i wanna do it so badly but christ the springs and shocks cost soooooo much!
(LOL) ... I wanted to buy 60mm springs and use my standard shocks , but i have heard that it will damage the shocks after a few runs ,so i guess its best i buy the whole custom set ...Anyways, due to the weather. That's all i've done today
.Comments and critics welcome
I will most likely to paint them those bits of plastic which run along the chair and the door entrance. The door pockets where hard to find for me mainly because most of them are still grey .... So instead i sprayed them sapphire-red which is the body's color. I think it needs a re-spray due to scratches haha.
