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Ojc
28-07-04, 11:11 AM
Oh my gosh is all I have to say, so much faster than my Corsa GSi

Just blatted it up my road.

The car feels like brand new, idles like a standard Corsa, clutch is light and gears are solid and punchy, brakes need bedding in but have much potential.

LM Styling aka Lee Mitchell aka God, you are a diamond.

You can see it all finnished at Trax on the 5th September, so excited :D

P.S anyone got a EGR valve they don't want?

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/1342/novaback.jpg
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/1342/novaback1.jpg
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/1342/novaback2.jpg
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/1342/novaback3.jpg
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/1342/novaback4.jpg
(Yes I know the exhaust is wonky, its only a shitty Sportex system so that I could get the car to bodyshop and to Powerflow to have a proper backbox fitted)
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/1342/novaback5.jpg
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/1342/novaback6.jpg
Excuse the sock, Rachel has my airfilter on her car at the moment.
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/1342/novaback7.jpg
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/1342/novaback8.jpg
Dpnova
28-07-04, 11:25 AM
Nice one
-Bruce-
28-07-04, 11:31 AM
looks like a nice engine you got the mate!! any probs with it running? very smart

bruce
Ojc
28-07-04, 12:03 PM
No problems with it at all.
dan_mk1
28-07-04, 12:16 PM
Is the engine standard?
good work there mate, should look nice
Snowface
28-07-04, 08:10 PM
get a mantzel oinlet manifold. they claim 20+bhp increase.
J4MES
28-07-04, 09:42 PM
great mate, thats a better option than a 2litre in my opinion!!!
Mel
28-07-04, 09:53 PM
that is looking very nice indeed.

them door cards really set the white off nicely.
Will
28-07-04, 10:26 PM
X16XE blocks are right oil burners the fukers :lol: :lol:
dan-hipgrave
28-07-04, 10:52 PM
looks well nice mate. Whereabouts in Reading are you? i'll have to keep an eye out for your car.
Barn
29-07-04, 01:03 AM
was the conversion hard to do mate ?

how much it cost you all in ?
whitty_nova_1300sr
29-07-04, 02:11 AM
looks gd,

wots the total cost so far m8 (if u dont mind me asking)
Ojc
29-07-04, 10:12 AM
LM Styling, Lee Mitchell who does all of the conversions for the Corsa boys done it for me.

He also does C20XE conversions and C20LET conversions, infact any conversion you can think of for very very good prices.

Everyones goes on about how hard it is to wire the X16XE in because of the immobiliser, transponder etc but Lee had no problems at all.

Engine cost me ?350 quid, that came with loom, ecu, gearbox, driveshafts, Lee fitted the engine, fuel tank, wired it all in and fitted brakes for ?250.
Ojc
29-07-04, 10:14 AM
looks well nice mate. Whereabouts in Reading are you? i'll have to keep an eye out for your car.

Tilehurst mate.
Ben
29-07-04, 12:33 PM
its easy to do wiring if you have all the parts, very easy in fact.

Ditch the EGR much better off, only need to send a live feed to the ecu from it to not kick up faults.
Will F
29-07-04, 12:56 PM
I would be interested how the immob was by passed.
I had to use a blank ECU.

How much did it cost, as he prob bought a blank ECU?
Ojc
29-07-04, 01:32 PM
You don't bypass it at all, its wired in how it would be wired in in a Corsa.

The transponder and the chip are sitting next to the ECU in the footwell, hidden by a bit of interior trim.

I have a speed sensor which is attached to a pickup wire but not plugged into the gearbox, that also sits in the footwell.
dan-hipgrave
29-07-04, 04:56 PM
Tilehurst mate.

Cool, i will definately be seeing your car out and about then, im only just around the corner, and i used to live there so got plenty of mates in Tilehurst.
Ojc
29-07-04, 07:29 PM
You got a Nova then? Whats it look like?
dan-hipgrave
29-07-04, 08:09 PM
see my feature mate. I live in Tadley, but am around Tilehurst most weekends, will keep an eye out for you.....
Ben
30-07-04, 08:34 AM
I would be interested how the immob was by passed.
I had to use a blank ECU.

How much did it cost, as he prob bought a blank ECU?

The reason we couldnt do that with yours Will was that you never got the chip from the key of that tosser of a scrap bloke otherwise would have been simple.
Will F
30-07-04, 02:42 PM
Yeah, I know all that, but the way he (Ojc) described it, I assumed he didnt have the transponder etc.
Ojc
30-07-04, 03:37 PM
I have the transponder and chip
smitty5door
30-07-04, 09:42 PM
the car is looking rather sweet 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) :wink: :wink: :wink: :D :D
Ojc
30-07-04, 10:05 PM
Its not even been sprayed or anything yet lol
Ben
02-08-04, 01:43 PM
I have the transponder and chip

Make sure its well insulated etc, a guy from bristol who is a Vaux freak put a X16 XE into a Nova way back in 1996 and he had it for about 2 years and for some unknown reason the chip failed.

He had a nightmare sorting the wiring out. and i have never meet anyone with such an intense knowledge of Vauxhalls.
Ojc
03-08-04, 05:16 PM
Can't see how the chip could go wrong?

I know my Corsa GSi & SXi keys had chips & I was forever dropping my keys in pints, puddles and nothing ever went wrong with them.