shaunmods
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Cheers peeps, its getting there now slowly 
Mark, pop round whenever mate. Not back at college till next week so I'm around this week 
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M Sutton
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MINT  
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jungle
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irmy splitter would look lush on that mate
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mark_gsi
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just had a look through this, brilliant work on the car mate such an improvement to it, will be perfect when the 1600 is fitted. looks great and well done.
[Edited on 14-09-2009 by mark_gsi]
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swill_omnibus
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Sofa-King cool
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shaunmods
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Cheers guys. Me and Luke made a little bit more progress with it on friday I cleaned up the lower inlet during the week and gave it a fresh coat of paint so it looked tiptop. We stripped off the old gaskets and replaced them with some nice new ones. Also fitted my new GM Oil filter
Could resist trial fitting the vx inlet on!
Getting there now  Next couple of things I need to do is clean up my Throttle body so I can fit the VX inlet properly. Got a few other little bits to clean up and paint as well so I'll get those done sometime next week Still plenty more to do though!
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marklawton
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looking good mate, have you thought about blanking the egr valve off?
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DannyB
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Great progress mate
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shaunmods
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Cheers chaps. Yeah thats the plan Mark, just need to get hold of a blanking plate
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marklawton
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vauxhall sell them for about £5. someone on here will get you the part number
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dan-sport
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looks mint mate, im loving the rocker cover and inlet
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swill_omnibus
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Looking awesome fella
Is the blanking plate the same for every engine or do they differ!?
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shaunmods
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quote:
Originally posted by swill_omnibus
Looking awesome fella
Is the blanking plate the same for every engine or do they differ!?
I'd imagine they are different mate but I can't say for sure
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shaunmods
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About time I updated this I reckon! Well as im sure most of you know the Corsa got rear ended roughly a month ago. This is the second time this year someone's gone into the back of me. However, this time the woman made sure she did a proper job of it lol. The insurance declared it a total loss but I very luckily managed to get a cash in Lieu settlement so the car didn't get put into a write of cat category
The car that hit me was a brand new Kia which had a tiny little scratch on the bumper. Mine came off a hell of a lot worse. cracked back bumper, bent boot and a creased and dented back panel. Just goes to show how much better made newer cars are!
I got paid out £800 to repair the car myself and also got another just over another grand for personal injuries as I'd torn a muscle in my neck. Seriously chuffed with both payouts!
I decided to take the car off the road so that I could repair it properly and is now parked in the back garden. I decided to get a cover for it as the cats round here love it under the car port 
Today is the first chance I've had to start work on the car. Took the knackered back bumper off so that I could see how badly damaged the back panel was. Its a lot worse than we first thought but my dad seems pretty sure that we should be able to repair the existing panel rather than replacing it with a new one
Also bought a new boot on friday Was watching it on ebay and managed to get it for a tenner! no rust on it what so ever!
Just waiting for my new bumpers to turn up then I'll getting it all down the bodyshop to be sprayed
Also bought a little runaround to use while mines being fixed Peugeot 106 1.1. Gave it a damn good clean today as the paintwork was flat as hell on it! Don't think its been polished before Came up great though
More updates coming very soon! 
[Edited on 02-01-2010 by shaunmods]
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swill_omnibus
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You gonna put that 1.6 in the sametime or hold back?
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shaunmods
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quote:
Originally posted by swill_omnibus
You gonna put that 1.6 in the sametime or hold back?
Yep the 1.6 is going in as soon as possible Swill Got a fair bit left to do to it though before its ready. Need to crack on with it! We are aiming to start the conversion after new year
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cayenne15
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Nice one Shaun just give me a text, if you need an extra pair of hands, with repairing or engine transplant!
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Danny W
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Good stuff Shaun, new engine is looking Fresh
Back pannel doesn't look too bad compared with a few i've seen, when my bro bumped his it was far worse than that and had pushed into the spare wheel well Due to not having a crash bar behind the bumper! 
How far has the crashbar pushed the rear pannel back? has it pushed into the rear quater's?
You should be able to knock that out fairly easy and underseal/spray it.
Worst thing is making sure the lock aligns up with the tailgate once its all pulled out & getting the tailgate to sit propperly
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shaunmods
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Cheers Danny. By the looks of it because the cars so low the woman's hit above the actual crash bar as all the damage is above the bar along the lock area, upper part of the rear panel and the lower section of the boot. The panels been pushed back roughly 30-40mm I reckon. Rear quarters are fine though luckily
[Edited on 08-11-2009 by shaunmods]
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Adam C
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Soo glad your sticking with it, shall only be better and faster when it comes back out
My Arden Blue Astra GSi MK4 on BBS LM's Project Thread
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Chris x
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Well done! Bit of a result with the payouts! Thats the reason mines looking like it does today! 
I noticed you put bumper's' so what you getting on the front?
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shaunmods
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quote:
Originally posted by Green Thing
Soo glad your sticking with it, shall only be better and faster when it comes back out
Couldn't give up on it It will be back bigger and better than ever mate
Chris, all will be revealed very soon  hehe
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Chris x
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Fair enough!
How you finding the pug?
My mate had the 1.0 verstion, 4speed. Found it was faster than my old 1.2 8v. But it did have 17's on which made it alot slower!
Find the pug faster?
[Edited on 08-11-2009 by Chris Corsa B]
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DannyB
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Strip that 106 when you're done, I'll have loads off that
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shaunmods
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106 is alright actually yeah. Its the 4 speed one but its deffo quite a bit quicker than my corsa! It's interesting to drive in the wet to say the least
Danny I'll let you know lol
[Edited on 08-11-2009 by shaunmods]
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