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i have decided to throw cash at it and get a refurbed engine and transmisson any ideas of where from ???

another project car is cuming soon not a vaux tho

Lexus is200

should be fun

Yet i havent forgoten about KEO the transmission was sorted this weekend and it now moves again i am thinking of selling my alloys and gettin some standard rims on it for a little while


also how hard is it to rebuild the axels and brakes putting discs on the back and bigger brakes on the front whilst i am doing my suspension

any help will be much appriciated thanks

i think god hates my car

because now i have 3 holes in my exhaust and it sounds like a mo ped gone wrong so there is another 150 pounds on a new one or may just go on ebay and buy one maybe one to cut the silencer out

but i dnt want a "boy racer" car that trys to sound like a scooby or evo just want it to purr if u no what a mean lol

but i now have a set of carbon fiber mirrors coming soon thanks to Carl Cooper = legend


i am going to put the project on hold for a few months whilst i save enough money to get either another x14 engine or a 1.4 ex rally engine there is a few things a want to do before i spend on the little bits

i need the interior done but thats going to be the black door cards with either black or cream leather and im getting new cream or black leather seats and going to redesign and make a new dash board as the standard corsa b one looks a bit tacky lol so i want one with more digital displays and a more smooth design but i dont know ill post piks of the design when i have done it.

i also am going to get new suspension and new brakes hope fully (fingers crossed) a rear disc convirsion kit aswell and bigger front brakes. i want to re furb the axels and stearing just basicly make it a new car as i have far to much body role whilst cornering and the brakes are just poo spongy just lock on its poo. also i want to maximise my ICE meaning a boot build not just a sub wacked in the boot that slides about like a mother fu***r i am going to recover the back seats t match the back seats i want a new carpet aswell the black one in mine is just a tip its messy as. i dont know what colour to go any one advise a nice colour for a silver car for my interior black and silver cream and black basicly any comby of colours



Thanks

Cool well mirrors will be on way shortly bud, I have a 5" flameburnt carbon bike backbox too but may keep it im not sure yet lol. Paid enough for it lol. If i decide to get rid of it i will let u know

and fitment lol

will i have to make sum kind of bracket lol

but im wel up for that

car got abused last night

mud all over it

i mean every where

so today im going to finish work and clean it till its perfect again

a bit devvoed but no damage i hope

just a quick update


my holy exhorst has been sorted

i got a new mid section and a new back box ill take sum pics and upload them tomoz

i had to angle it coz it was a basterd lol

next i want to fit a refurbed cylinder head of a 1.6 on it ive heard you get a slight power increase is this right

coz as you all know i got tappet issues and want them sorted


can any 1 help do i need new cylinder head for the power and the tappets

i think i am going to get a new oil pump aswell

please let me no

well the x16 head does give a slight increase, but to be honest, you would be better off saving and getting a full engine. these things can only go so far. and you gotta make sure you do it right.

Especially if you need a new oil pump...just swap the engine out for an x16 unit.

well easyer said than done as im like a monkey with a wrench i havent got a clue what im looking at and i dont know what i am doing chrex u ARE THE CORSA GOD i dont know what i am doing i need help i just want to do the best thing for KEO is it get the 1.6 engine or swap it for another 1.4 will i need to change looms and ECU's and drive shaft and clutches and gearboxes

im not fussed on the work its gettin it bang on which is what i want

chrex thanks for this

or just buy a gsi???? there was some tappets on e bay the other day for £60 for a full set of 16.
im going to put a new oil pump in first then the tappets.

im thinking about doing a full engine strip clean then get my cylinderhead ported and polished

then light weight cams forged pistons uprated tappets light weight flywheel dimond clutch short shift

then it might shif

does any one know where i can get another 1.4 16 valve engine from with about 50 70 thousand on it

let me no urgent

ebay?... :O enginesrus.com?

i think i may have a 1.6 gsi engine, trans, loom and ECU

woo

but i will let u all no i will try them all when i finish work



cheerrrss pariah