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89p and about half an hour

Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 7:14 am
by martint2k4
take ur rocker cover off, and scrub it with wire wool, this is mine

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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 9:18 am
by club_casualty
My rocker cover is plastic, i started scrubbing mine with wire wool (not realising if was plastic) and all the paint started to come off!

Where can i get a rocker cover for an 1.4 SRi 8v?

89p and about half an hour

Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 10:43 am
by punkheadgray
yeah same with my vectra rocker cover, i put it in the acid bath at work for a bit and then realised its plastic when the dirt came off, i thought it was too light for aluminium. thats some shiny engine work going on there!

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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 10:48 am
by VKleita
Hmm think mines plastic as it has \"Vauxhall\" in a pretty pattern on it

pity I like the chrome effect :(

Re: 89p and about half an hour

Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 8:49 am
by tom87
[quote=\".\"]tis quite amazing what 89p can do to your car!!! i poped to savers earlier and bought a boz of 10 brilo pads and heres the results after just half an hour and using 1 pad


it had actiually got worse than the before picture, but tis only other engine pic i could find. I\'m pretty impressed...

and before somebody says that i should remove that metal bit where the hot air feed plugs onto i tried that but the bolt got stuck in my only 10mm socket and i can\'t get it out and too fiddeley to get a spanner in there[/quote]


or you could use this autoglym engine cleaner, much better than brilo pads im preety certain

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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 9:27 am
by amanda
my engine doesnt look like urs :? is your an ecotec??

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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 9:32 am
by PaulW
si I\'m gona be rippin that heatshield off at PVS... :|

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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 12:02 pm
by punkheadgray
si I\'m gona be rippin that heatshield off at PVS...


seem to remember it needing a bit of persistance when i took mine off, i think i ground the edges of a spanner down :lol:

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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 11:34 am
by VKleita
Your engine bay looks completly diffrent to yours

anyone know of a website showing diffrent engine models etc?

be interesting to see

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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 1:17 pm
by VKleita
ahh
I *Think* mine is a C14 SE
tis complicated with all these diffrent versions!

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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 1:34 pm
by VKleita
Ahh I thought they was all MPI

Learn something everyday!

does anyone know of a page that compares them all?
mines ment to be 82 BHP but I have no idea if thats true or not

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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 1:37 pm
by hobsey
If you have a copy of total vauxhall, they have a spec section at the back that compairs all the sports ranges.

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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 3:35 pm
by tom87
total vauxhall is preety wank though, they think the corsa c is the corsa b, and the corsa a the corsa b which infact is the nova

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 4:03 am
by sweet_corsa
// same \'ere how can a CORSA a be a novaaaaaaargh??

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 7:55 am
by VKleita
ahh even i know this bit :)


The Nova was the nova

In the design stages the nova had 2 names corsa or Nova, Nova got picked

the nova and the corsa are related by several parts, wheel hubs certain panels etc, the corsa is just an evolution on.

Unofficially the Nova was called the Corsa so when the \"real\" corsa came out it got nicknamed the Corsa B

So if you think about it if there\'s a b there must be an A somewhere ... Tada 1 Nova :)


Hope that makes sense :)