deano87
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Is this a popular thing to be done? Is it an easy and relatively cheap thing to be done?
Only reason I ask, is I was watching Fifth Gear yesterday, which featured the car show at Disney Land, and the black Corsa C's they use are RWD. No silly wide arch body modifications to accomodate it. They looked standard. Even down to the Active alloys.
I know they have pretty much infinite amounts of money BUT surely if it cost that much, they'd use another car?!
 
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Mike
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They're rear engined rwd. Bike engines iirc so it's not exactly a small job. Easy and relatively cheap? No 
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SabasSRi
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I've seen the show, yeah they have motorbike engines in them, awesome show
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deano87
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Fair enough. Case closed
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CorsaSport14
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Ive seen these cars close up when i went to disney, and these are far from standard 
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Kurt
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isnt the "astra" shell mounted backwards too?
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Jules
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I'm glad you abbreviated RWD in the title or I'd of struggled to work out what ie meant :S
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Corsa_Sport21
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Im sure it said on Fifth Gear that the 1 in question was a tuned 1.6 putting out 130bhp.
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Graeme
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tuned 1.3 putrting out 130bhp, there bike engine and ther mid mounted engines, a bit of work to do and would cost a few grand tyo get done.
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alan-g-w
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I've been looking at this and have promised myself to do it to a corsa b at some point. Maybe when the wages are a bit better.
1300 hayabusa turbo would be rapid 
[Edited on 07-09-2008 by alan-g-w]
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SVM 286
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quote:
Originally posted by Jules
I'm glad you abbreviated RWD in the title or I'd of struggled to work out what ie meant :S
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deano87
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quote:
Originally posted by CorsaSport14
Ive seen these cars close up when i went to disney, and these are far from standard
No, but they look standard. Compared to some RWD things you see which look mental.
I wonder if they sell used ones 
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M16KE B
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heres my thread from 2004
http://corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=159778
god knows where the pics are, but i think we came to the conclusion that they are rear engined, rear drive bike, powered machines. when you are queuing for the show, the queue goes past the maintenance area where you can see some being worked on. fairly complex looking bits of kit. look great fin to drive.
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