Morley
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Registered: 17th Dec 03
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Morning.
I last logged in to this site maybe 2 and a half years ago, so I will re-introduce myself...
I used to be a well known cruisinuk.com member and travelled Europe to modified car shows such as GTi Inetnational at Magny Cours in france several times. I'm a Corsa B/Nova fanatic, and i am from Lancaster, 60 miles north of Manchester.
I just finished (TODAY!) building my second Corsa B with a Nova SR engine in, running twin 40 webber carbs and pushing an estimated current 120 bhp.
The point of my post is to find out if there are any other Corsa owners on this site with twin carbed engines, as I feel a little lonely right now in a car world where everybody around me wants to move on to buying modern cars with fancy gadgets...
Has everybody lost the love for the raw down-to-earth driving experiences?! Power steering... what's that? :-D
Morley
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dan-sport
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Registered: 9th Oct 07
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alright mate welcome back car sounds good will have to get some pics up asap!!
chrex off here has a 2.0l 8v seh engine from the mk2 cav sri 130 and its on bike carbs, so your not alone
i would love a car on twin carbs they sound the nuts
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Morley
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Hi mate, cheers for the welcome back.
Yeah I will take some pictures tomorrow. I'm a manager at a particularly busy nightclub so I kinda live nocturnally, and winter doesn't agree with my camera when it comes to getting decent snaps!
Bike carbs... nice. Jealous!
The twins do make me want to sex-wee when I use the feel-good pedal I have to admit!
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Morley
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Incase anybody reads this thread during the daytime and is interested in the engine spec...
14NV engine bored pretty much to a 1.55
ported and polised
4 in to 1 exhaust manifold
full straight through system (haven't bothered fitting it to this corsa yet, give it a few days and I will be doing that)
Twin 40 webber DCOE carbs replacing the original single carb
I am going to fit a high lift cam in January, once christmas is out of the way
that's about it I think...
Don't have any accurate figures as this engine was fucked around with about 4 years ago, and I havent even had it in a shell since mid 2006, but last time I had it in a corsa B shell I was beating 2.0 XEs upto 90mph in a straight line, and ALLWAYS whooped them round corners :-D
To be honest I am pretty excited about getting this one on the road as I miss going out on Sunday afternoons along the biker lanes near me.
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mad_mike252
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hi
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dan-sport
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that spec sounds quite tasty, things like this ain't about speed though their about the sound and the smile they give you when you plant it
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dangsi
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Registered: 9th Oct 08
Location: Berkshire Drives: lexus gs300/ vauxhall corsa b
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spec sounds really gd m8 cant wait to see pics
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Ste
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quote:
Originally posted by Morley
The point of my post is to find out if there are any other Corsa owners on this site with twin carbed engines?
Has everybody lost the love for the raw down-to-earth driving experiences?! Power steering... what's that? :-D
Morley
Nope, although it isn't in a corsa (too heavy and lacking style) it is a c20xe
You are right about the power steering thing, doubt there are many hard corers out there that have binned the brake servo too!
I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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jr
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Sounds intresting need pics
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Adam-D
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i have a nova engine'd corsa with twin 40's
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Morley
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quote:
Originally posted by Ste W
quote:
Originally posted by Morley
The point of my post is to find out if there are any other Corsa owners on this site with twin carbed engines?
Has everybody lost the love for the raw down-to-earth driving experiences?! Power steering... what's that? :-D
Morley
Nope, although it isn't in a corsa (too heavy and lacking style) it is a c20xe
You are right about the power steering thing, doubt there are many hard corers out there that have binned the brake servo too!
Nice! I'd love a caterham 7 or kit car but I have too many cars as it is and my missus would actually physically kill me then feed me to the cat.
I bet that engine sounds awesome too.
I like the filters you have on the carbs, I can't fit anything as nice as that to my 40s. I have had to get the shortest pipercross trumpets and I cover them with pipercross socks/filters. The bulkhead is just too close to them!
Right, as promised, here are a couple of pictures, but as I already said, the dark winter night and my camera do not agree with eachother!
It needs a wash!
It's nothing special, but when you learn that I spent £200 on this car as standard a few weeks ago with a fooked engine, and bought a second corsa (again with a knackered engine) for £100 just 2 days ago which had the wheels and suspension on... Bargain!
Christmas wish list is simply upper and lower front strut braces, and then in a couple of months, a high lift cam.
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Ste L
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Registered: 3rd Jul 06
Location: Manchester Drives: 106 16v Rallye
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alright...
your name sounds familar for some reason....
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Morley
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I know, and used to spend a fair amount of time with jacko... he had a corsa B on 20" wheels, wide arched, hydraulics, loads of different flip painted colours, so maybe you recognise my name from back then? To be honest though mate I last used this site propperly before you even registered.
Nice nova by the way, I wish I still had one of my novas!
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Linch
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Do throttle bodies count 
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Ellis
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Aaaaah, it's a been a while since I've heard 40's
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Ste L
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Registered: 3rd Jul 06
Location: Manchester Drives: 106 16v Rallye
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quote:
Originally posted by Morley
I know, and used to spend a fair amount of time with jacko... he had a corsa B on 20" wheels, wide arched, hydraulics, loads of different flip painted colours, so maybe you recognise my name from back then? To be honest though mate I last used this site propperly before you even registered.
Nice nova by the way, I wish I still had one of my novas!
thats my old nova lol..
it's not from here, may be another site, novaload or poss dc?
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Morley
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Ste L - I was a roybacer member mate, never used novaload or darkcruisers. I was allways on cruisinuk though back in the day.
Linch - Hell yeah, I plan on getting throttle bodies for my Golf probably within the next 6 months. How much did a set of throttle bodies for a x16xe set you back?
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Ste L
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Registered: 3rd Jul 06
Location: Manchester Drives: 106 16v Rallye
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ahhh - roybacer it was then...
used to be on there before it died using the name Ste SRi i think
used to have a white nova sri, then the nova in my avatar now back then
[Edited on 10-12-2008 by Ste L]
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wilson_sri
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Registered: 31st Aug 04
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Dont think theres many corsas around with 8valves and carbs these days, everybodys went 16v TB crazy!
Iv got a nova with courtenay turbo 1600 though, keeping it real yo 
[Edited on 10-12-2008 by wilson_sri]
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Jozza_and_Roza
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Lancaster 
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Morley
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I used to have a White L-reg Nova GSi on speedlines and I loved that car to bits. I only sold it because I absolutely HAD to get rid of my cars. Miss it loads too 
Turbo'd... I am jealous now that I didn't keep mine and plough a bit of money on things like turbos and Nitrous
The only reason I have an 8v engine and carbs are because I am hugely an old-skool car fanatic, and I like doing things my own way, totally differently to everybody else. I also have a Mk1 Golf Cabriolet sat in my garage. I'm going to be buying a written off A3 1.8t hopefully just before summer if one pops up so I can start this project malarcky alllllll over again!
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Morley
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Daylight pics!
The car cost me £200
A donor car with the wheels, suspension, a load of things like bucket seats that I am selling, and a decent exhaust on it cost me £100
Engine cost me a LOT but I spent that money 4-5 years ago, so I just had to fit it, which I did right there in the street
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chrex
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Nice to have a reference in the 1st reply! 
Anyways, yea...here is my GSi wit a 20SEH running 1999 R1 carbs. Sounds great but i have yet to drive it properly.
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corsacalvin
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^^^^^^^^^
that looks mean,,how much ruffly did that cost 2 do?
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