Engine conversions easy? UPDATE PAGE 2

[Ben]

I know its a Corsa but we have had this brought into my workshop for us to sort it out, The car is a mess, you wouldnt imagine where people get there ideas from...

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Wiring anyone :roll:

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[peester]

jesus on a bike... :o good luck wit that one.

[Adam]

Christ :o

Whats with the blue tubing everywhere, whats in that? wiring? lol

[Ben]

Wiring, Accelrator cable, bonnet stay, water pipes, power steering pipes, oil cooler pipes you name it then its covered in blue tubing.

[Naysnova]

Good luck mate :idea:

[Mike.]

yep there are some real retards out there :lol:

good luck sorting it ben

[Lee]

um... rip it out, start again, charge a fortune and then punch him in the face.

LOL

[novamadcars]

all i can say about that is well what a typical cock 2 do somthink like that :D

[burgo]

i agree with Bottlethroddy deffo a rip it out and start again job

[srs1]

looks hhhhmmmmmmmm


colourful

[NovalutionGSi]

:o

looking at that i aint even got a clue where things are ment to go.....

follow Bottlethroddy's idea and follow thru with the punch in the face but give that to them as a freebie! :lol:

[Mark T]

The bloke had clearly been smoking crack. lol

[Mike]

yeah, good luck with that! what spanner put that in! prolly work better in backwards :|

[Philsutton]

thats beautiful, does that tubing come cheap i want some for my car?

[Riggy]

lol have fun ben :lol: :lol:

[DaveMarshall]

What a mess, people that do that to cars should be locked up.

[Col_Mk1]

haha lmao :lol:

[scott.parker]

That blue tubing is fucking well funny,who the hell spazed it all over the car!

They need locking up for there owne good! :lol:

[justnovas]

Looks like fun!!!
Well the engine and box are in, saved you some time.......
NOT...
good luck.

[cooper_nova]

ouch!!! what a mess :o

sod driving that about as it is, love the electrical tape to join the wiring!!! "nice safe motor that 'guv" :lol: :lol: :lol:

[MechaT]

So they spent time and money doing a turbo conversion and then covered everything in cheap tubing stuff? and held the wires together with tape??

's funny, I saw that tubing in a car shop and wondered what it would look like in an engine bay. Now I know :roll:

What's the story behind this car and owner then?

[Ben]

Some photo's of corsa atm..

New engine waiting to be rebuilt...

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Old engine removed...

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A erm empty bay...

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Who says alternator's dont rub on Corsa's...

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[krobinson]

I hope he wants that bay re-done, what an absolute mess!

Keith

[Ben]

Nope refuses to pay for anything except engine fitting.

[krobinson]

lmao, well at least you can laugh and be safe in the knowlage that it will be in the scrapper within a year or two! :lol: :lol:

Keith

[mikey14sr]

It looks like it's all ready been near the scrappy with the rust on that chassis leg.

[Ben]

The rust on the chassis arm is very very light surface as its had a plate welded over the orignal mount hole and this mount welded to that, its only where not been finished very well.

[Lee]

When you say 'engine fitting only' does that include the wiring?

Good fucking luck is all i can say LOL

[Ben]

Nope he wants to do the wiring himself to save money.

[scott.parker]

Nope he wants to do the wiring himself to save money.

Please tell me this is a difrent person to who did it the first time??? :o
Els just bin the thing now :lol:

[Ben]

:roll:

[Lee]

you might as well set fire to it now and save the poor fire brigade a job, and a load of poor commuters when it torches out, which it definately will.

That thing is one big short waiting to happen!!!

[novapearl]

So... lovely.. Thought I had seen some heaps of junk where i work....

Has that chap never heard of electrical connectors! always a good idea...
Also why bother with a Corsa... Do i properly and get a Nova.

Any way with reference to the wiring. A while back my place recovered a calibra, don't know what he had done but the whole loom is toast. Some mega underbonnet fire he had. Melted the cam cover, brake master cylinder, PAS pipes, rad hoses.

You know, nothing serious.....

Strangely enough don't think he wants it doing now hes got a quote!!

Seriously though that Corsa is just plain old dangerous. Stick the engine in & give him it back and hope you NEVER see it again. Looks like it'll catch fire as soon as he connects the battery any way....

[ANDYRACER]

The engine fitting is the easy part, wiring it in is the hard part imo. What a complete plank. :roll:

[Stuart]

wiring is a piece of piss. i dont quite get why people are "affraid" of it... never mind

[Lee]

wiring is a piece of p**s. i dont quite get why people are "affraid" of it... never mind
Agreed, itn not exactly a Z Let! Engine harness is plug and play, just 3 wires to power it up from the Interior loom. It appears hes attempted to make his own loom while blindfolded and asleep.

[ANDYRACER]

Yeh plug and play is easy, but i was talking about my experience with wiring in this 1.6 engine into a spi nova. Its not plug and play :evil:

[Alex]

wiring is a piece of p**s. i dont quite get why people are "affraid" of it... never mind

EXACTLY what i think. I hate it when people mention "looms". At the end of the day a "loom" is just a bunch of wires taped together. A wire goes from one point to another. If you break it down it is relatively simple. When i hear about people paying for "looms" i really do laugh.

[Nick]

maybe to people like you stu, it's incredibly easy as it's your profession.

it's easy for me as i've done electronics at 6th form but i can see why it's daunting to people. Playing with real electronics from scratch , on a breadboard it's easy to connect something ever so slightly wrong (wrong chip pin for example) and the whole lot wont work.

but yes, i suppose "looms" are pretty straight forwards. Even the dreaded digi dash can be wired up without even needing a guide. most of the time it's colour for colour

[phatnova!!!]

what the F**k is all that about please ? what a mess i agree do it properly but in a nova ! the car is a mess i would be ashamed of myself if i owned that pile of poo :o

[Jonlem]

Wiring or conversions are not difficult, off putting maybe as there seems like a lot of work there to do but once you get it all in front of you it usually comes together ok.

vauxhall wiring is so easy its a joke though, other manufacturers looms can be much more difficult to get your head round, try putting a gts skyline loom into a 200sx, not fun one bit

TBH ben if your customer come to me and asked for that to be put right but said he wanted to wire it then i would turn the work away,

I would only see the whole job done right or not at all as its not something i would to put my name to looking at the mess it was already in.

I appreciate you'll do a good job of the conversion but making it work right and look factory (which is what I always aim for) is gonna be hard when some muppet insists he wires it with a electrical kit he got in his Christmas stocking.

[Ben]

Now doing all the work including wiring, bigger brakes, mot etc etc etc

[ANDYRACER]

Thank fuk! Goodluck with it ur going to need it :wink:

[Ben]

Wirings not hard, just need patience.

[ANDYRACER]

But the state that engine bay was in, dont u need to start with another loom? that other loom looked pritty butchered.

[Ben]

The engine loom is all self contained and has not been touched a all just plugged straiht onto new engine.

Main problem is on the N/S where they have hacked the 2x looms apart but thats basic work as its match colour for colour as its only for tailights, fuel pump etc etc.

The main mess under the dash i found to be for some unbeknown reason he has removed the loom from the drivers door and coiled it up in the footwell so just need to refit this and thats that lot gone.

Then a good old check around removing unwanted clutter and jobs a good un.

[ANDYRACER]

Ahh right sounds easy when explained like that :lol: want to come finish off my wiring :oops:

[Ben]

Just break it down and do one at a time and remove any un needed wires.

[ANDYRACER]

Well been collecting advise on it for a few weeks now and am hopefully going to see if i can get it to fire up tomorrow. :twisted: Good luckwith the corsa :wink:

[sdn2004]

Sweet!! Looks like Fun.

[novapearl]

Damn good job you ended up doing the wiring mate... sounds like you know what you are doing.

Frigging diagnostics scares the hell out of me at work but hey ho only one way to learn.

Just got that CD multichanger to wire in me nova now. Got to find a live feed for the multichanger. Would it be Ok to pick it up off the feed for the head unit do you reckon?