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djgritt
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Irmscher Splitter is a good choice - I facelifted mine so that I could get one on my old Corsa.
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quote:
Originally posted by LukesCorsaSXi
Looking good mate! Love the bonnet Quite difficult to get hold of!

I'd get the rear lifted though, got loads of rear rake. You thinking about getting any sideskirts?



Cheers

yeah I always liked badboy bonnets on Corsa B's , the front will be coming down eventually to match the rear.

I'm not 100% sure on side skirts dont know if they'd suit my car


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Irmscher Splitter is a good choice - I facelifted mine so that I could get one on my old Corsa.


I really like them, keeping my eye out for one but have something else in the mean time now
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Decided i was going to put the laguna splitter on this morning, i still like the irmscher splitters but i haven't found one yet and i want to do other stuff first anyway so decided i'd put this on for now

Got my spare bumper out to measure and cut the splitter



Then took the standard splitter off mine and put it on.













Still need to drill and screw it onto the bumper as its just wedged in the gap the standard one was in at the moment but i'll be doing that tomorrow before i drive the car
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Laguna splitter on properly now, secured on by 6 self tapping screws

Probably no more updates for a while now saving for some paint to be done at bodyshop


[Edited on 22-03-2015 by Jason x]
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very unexciting update, but never the less got a few bits done today.

First of all the top part of the grab handle needed sorting out, when i originally put the chrome handles on i had to file down part of the handle plastic to prevent the chrome handle catching. This worked great as it doesn't catch whatsoever now but it did leave marks from being filled down. So today decided i was going to sand them down to get rid of the marks and paint them, didn't want to do them blue again like i did before as they looked tacky so decided i'd do them gloss black to keep it subtle.

Primer



First coat



After another coat and a couple coats of lacquer







Then primed and painted the other one, i only managed to do one coat though as i ran out of paint so i'll finish as soon as i get some more black paint next week.

few pics of the one with lacquer vs one without





next up was sorting the driver side chrome handle, due to changing it like an animal the first time it suffered from some damage

Luckily i bought a set of four so had one spare for each side, so set about getting that changed over.

off it came



said damage, also had some scratching on the face



new, un-damaged one



and onto the Corsa backing plate



back together



by this time due to the nice weather, the handle had dried enough to put back on





Not that much different, but looks much better to me. Passenger side one needs another coat of paint and then lacquer but that will be sorted next week once i've got some more paint.

Made a smallish to do list for the next few months.

•Paint center console
•Replace heater bulbs (again)
•Boss + new steering wheel
•New leather gear gator
•Gloss black bumper tops & arches
•Lower front another 30/40mm



[Edited on 06-04-2015 by Jason x]
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It's the little things that add up and make it look much nicer overall

You thinking of going to PVS?
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Yeah there's lots of little things like this that need sorting

I'm not sure if I'm going to PVS it's so far away I dunno I if I CBA.
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Same here, I really wanna paint my plastic trim as it has a scratch on it from the previous owner that's always annoyed me

Santa Pod isn't it? It's a 2 hour journey for me so I'm guessing more if you are on the other side of the border!
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Four and a half hour drive each way according to Google maps

If I was spraying the outside trim I'd have put more effect into smoothing the texture off etc but I'm not that bothered about inside
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I was on about the wheel arch trims and that, lad on allcorsa did his gloss black and it looked the balls imo

Lol that's quite a trek for PVS, what about Castle Combe? It's 50 mins for me
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yeah gloss black bumpertops look good, will be getting them done on mine just not sure weather ill do it myself or take to bodyshop.. leaning towards getting it done by a bodyshop at the moment though.


Castle Combe is just over 2 hour drive, i'm not close to anything
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So much better black than the blue mate

I aerosol painted all my interior pillar trims blsck in my old corsa , even sprayed the head lining and it looked spot on
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yeah soon went off the blue, ill be doing my head lining as soon as i figure out how to remove the A pillars

[Edited on 05-04-2015 by Jason x]
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right, done a bit more today.

first of heres a better photo of newly sprayed handle



then took the centre console off



put everything else back so i can still use it



after a VERY long time rubbing down i finally got all the texture smoothed off



and primed



Will be getting colour on tomorrow if weathers still nice just trying to decide between a very dark anthracite or gloss black

[Edited on 05-04-2015 by Jason x]
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What sandpaper grade did you use for the plastics?
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I knew you'd see sense eventually and get rid of the tacky blue, much better!

Not a fan of the splitter, never understood why people fit them, always seemed a "can do it, so will" mod.
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Like the look of this mate keep.up the good work
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What sandpaper grade did you use for the plastics?


I'm not sure tbh pal it's just what I found in the shed, it's very fine though so not to create deep scratches in the plastic then went over it with steel wool.
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I knew you'd see sense eventually and get rid of the tacky blue, much better!

Not a fan of the splitter, never understood why people fit them, always seemed a "can do it, so will" mod.


At the time I really liked the blue but soon went off it, especially when I put the leathers in.

I like the splitter though, looks good. Nicer than standard anyway and goes well with badboyyy bonnet.
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Looks decent the Finnish on those handles man.
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Like the look of this mate keep.up the good work


Cheers bud
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Looks decent the Finnish on those handles man.


Cheers bud yeah not too bad got the other one today update coming now
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Got some more stuff done over the past few days, first of all painted the centre console.. Went with Anthracite as Its a nice contrast to the black

Photo before lacquer



replaced the heater bulbs before putting it all back as old ones stopped working





then got the centre console lacquered and finished and put it all back











then finished the passenger door handle today, good shine



[Edited on 08-04-2015 by Jason x]
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Got some more done today, painted A pillars satin black

















Need to do B/C pillars and roof lining next

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