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Kierangti

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26th Jan 16 at 22:18

Read this from start to finish lovely car so much time and effort fair play

Generation

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27th Jan 16 at 00:27

Pick up a new engine couple hundred quid. Job done

3CorsaMeal

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27th Jan 16 at 13:46

quote:
Originally posted by Generation
Pick up a new engine couple hundred quid. Job done

I like how people think buying some unknown, god knows how many owners engine from someone on the internet is the better option than fixing an engine you know.

Probably why most CS cars have problems, everyone seems to buy old engines with some tale about how it was in the boss of vauxhalls account department in 1992, paint the block with hammerite and its all of a sudden a mint engine

Generation

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27th Jan 16 at 15:43

I'm glad you like it.

Thanks for the over exaggerated example you have given.

--ToM--

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27th Jan 16 at 18:06

I'd keep the origional engine tbh as matching numbers will make a huge difference to its value in the next 5 years when these cars are worth over £20k.

Generation

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27th Jan 16 at 18:50

Generation

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27th Jan 16 at 18:50

That's my point tom, if was powerful
Or rate engine id say keep what you have and rebuild.

Since these are common, I'd find a running one and plonk that in until goes bang.

Corsa_Sport21

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27th Jan 16 at 19:09

Id strip it and go from there. Its free to strip it and might just be a failed head gasket or something else simple.

--ToM--

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27th Jan 16 at 19:16

Free to strip it? Does your garage make any money? I wouldn't strip a motor for free fuck that I'm not a charity.

Corsa_Sport21

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27th Jan 16 at 19:21

Assuming he could strip it himself.

l88fty

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27th Jan 16 at 21:12

Luckily the cars being well looked after by a local garage owned by a close friend, hopefully this weekend we will be working on it and fingers crossed once the head is off we will see a knackered head gasket.

I had look into so many different ideas with the engine, but at the end of the day is a Sport with lots of weight in the back and pointless putting a bigger engine it in.

It still drives like a go-kart, goes fast enough for me to loose my licence and have fun on the roads around the roads where I live

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Generation

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27th Jan 16 at 23:30

End of the day

l88fty

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31st Jan 16 at 00:10

So after a couple hours stripping everything down, the head finally came off and I have to say out of the possible outcomes, I was relieved it was this!!

So, new headset, bolts, gaskets, having the inlet manifold polished, some more Roose hoses and a full service whilst we're at it.

[Edited on 31-01-2016 by l88fty]

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--ToM--

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31st Jan 16 at 15:25

Skim the head

l88fty

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31st Jan 16 at 15:26

quote:
Originally posted by --ToM--
Skim the head

The heads already gone off to be done

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--ToM--

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31st Jan 16 at 17:21

There was no mention of it, just checking it was being done

anthcorsa

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31st Jan 16 at 17:26

nice nails bro

glad to see this is been repaired. stunning car

Ben G

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31st Jan 16 at 18:03

Who does your nails?

l88fty

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2nd Feb 16 at 23:13

That will be the girlfriends nails, to match her bright orange motor. She tends to work on the cars at the weekends and still has back scratchers like that, oh don't worry....I plan to marry her!!

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l88fty

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22nd Feb 16 at 19:41

Whilst the rebuild is slowly under way and the engine is having all new parts, one of the things that let it down before was the inlet manifold.

Now I'm not interested in power gains and upgrading the inlet, but what I was fussed about was making it look a bit tidier under the hood.

So this happened..

A week in the masterful hands of Bim at Pugz Polishing and it looks like this!!

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Generation

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22nd Feb 16 at 20:00

4 shiny Willys

l88fty

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22nd Feb 16 at 20:06

quote:
Originally posted by Generation
4 shiny Willys

Yep, lets hope it doesn't quite look that obvious once it's fitted

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anthcorsa

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22nd Feb 16 at 23:25

That inlet mani looks unreal

gavin18787

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23rd Feb 16 at 12:52

Good work

Glad this car is still progressing, looked really good last time I saw it.

Drives supercharged Tec with torque

kennySRi

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23rd Feb 16 at 22:10

quote:
Originally posted by Jambo

quote:
Originally posted by gidged500
£400 it's done 89k

Just reading this thread and was going to quote the exact same thing

they all haven't just done less then 100k, they've all done 89k!

Love this car by the way, glad it'll be an easy fix and you stuck with the sport engine.

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