View Full Version : Corsas are gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Philsutton
16-07-06, 12:34 PM
Right the mission for today was to go down to pod an try and break into the 11 seconds now that ive changed a lot of things an upped the power quite a lot, but gay corsa had other plans.
I was going down the m1 in the middle lane when all of sudden the outer cv joint just locked up, thus throwing my across three lanes of the motorway an going side ways :mad:. Luckyly didnt hit anything, anyway i managed to limp it back to the garage where i though i would quickly swap it over an carry on down to pod, i would have made it there for just before dinner so still get a few runs in. Well about 10mins on the motorway the second time it did the same again making me almost crash locked up but this time i got it all the way home without it actually exploding.
Ive never had this, happen before, faulty batch of cvs? when you take the remains of it off the shaft you can see where the shaft has gone purple from the heat and like wise to the cv.
Ive done three now in a week, the first actually welded the bearings to the cv joint, the second locked up and the exploded when i turned a corner, and the third i cant even be ****d to go an have a look at at the moment.
So i was thinking of going for the big shafts with big cv joints on, the ones where you need to machine the hubs down ect.. as it would seem to be less hassle. Any ideas on what to get or where from?
Also all these have gone without me ragging the **** out of it so has nothing to do with the increased power im running now.
Phil
You should be banned from motorways, your a hazard!
As for the shafts in a corsa you can run the equal length shafts from a Cav/Calibra as the corsa's are just wide enough.
You need to get the hubs machined down to fit into the corsa bearings, IIRC i paid the local engineer ?20-30 or similar. Very easily done by anyone with a Lathe, you can go for either the 4 or 5 stud hubs depending on what you want to do.
Then just beat your bearing out your corsa carriers and fit some nice new ones with the bigblock hubs in.
Then obviously you are running the shafts that were designed for the power of the car.
Quick pic of my 5 stud hub machined down, can get some beter ones if you need, its compared to the standard corsa one (obviously the 4 stud one).
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/lurk75/Picture256.jpg
Philsutton
16-07-06, 01:09 PM
Phil
As for the shafts in a corsa you can run the equal length shafts from a Cav/Calibra as the corsa's are just wide enough.
Ah i thought you could, next job then is to try an find some shafts in the massive pile at the garage. Need it doing soon as really, job for tomorrow i reckon.
Philsutton
16-07-06, 01:27 PM
Right im not sure if i'll have any cav/calibra hubs, are the Astra GTE ones the same as weve just striped one of them an have shafts ect...?
Astra GTE shafts are single piece and TBH if your going to do this use the 2 piece,
The hubs though will do, or any bigblock hubs will do. from a 1800 astra or similar, obviously just try the shaft in the hub before you get them machined
TommySR
16-07-06, 05:41 PM
gutted Phil, hope ya get it sorted asap as i want to see your "gay" corsa run some more stupidly quick times lol
Philsutton
16-07-06, 06:04 PM
well ive found out some astra GTE shafts an hubs, dont we have any equal length ones at the moment but these will do for time being. Its not the actual shafts im worried about snapping at the moment just the cvs, although i have snapped some before in my time. Thing is ive missed out on my testing day before totb so i wont know of any other problems until they arise there.
gutting for you mate. never heard of that happening before though!
Thats very odd phil, especially happening 3 bloody times!!
Bet you **** when it happened lol, fair play for keeping it on the road. ive seen nasty stuff happen from seized wheel bearings!
TBH i would think that the shaft was faulty hence going through 3 cv's.
Philsutton
17-07-06, 02:29 PM
^^ correct the shaft was wrong, took it off and apart an measured it up to one we knew was a corsa one and for reason it was shorter but not as short as a nova one as far as i know? Dont know how that one made its way on to my car though. Strange thing is its been fine up until now.
BigStan
17-07-06, 02:51 PM
Blimey, Hazard or what !
Talking of Corsas anyone seen the pictures of the new Corsa ? Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay !
scott.parker
17-07-06, 02:52 PM
Blimey, Hazard or what !
Talking of Corsas anyone seen the pictures of the new Corsa ? Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay !
lol lol lol lol
Philsutton
17-07-06, 03:14 PM
all corsas look gay, some more than others
Its a mini Astra, thats all lol. Everyones doing it now. Fiesta is a mini ****us, mazda 3 is a mini mazda 6 etc.
The designers are obviously not being paid enough
stuartp
17-07-06, 04:59 PM
We''ll phill like you said to us on saturday when we picked the nova up you thought they weren't gona last and you were right? So you gonna fit the bigger shafts? p.s. the nova's stopped leaking!!!
TommySR
17-07-06, 06:41 PM
Must of been fitted in its past before you got hold of it Phil and has finally started giving you problems now your running the extra power etc?
On another note...
p.s. the nova's stopped leaking!!!
Is that a red 2.0 8v Nova that was down Just novas recently??
BigStan
18-07-06, 03:20 PM
Its a mini Astra, thats all lol. Everyones doing it now. Fiesta is a mini ****us, mazda 3 is a mini mazda 6 etc.
The designers are obviously not being paid enough
It takes the piss, whatever happened to being imaginative and different ?
Just take a thought for a while and imagine what it would look like if they did a new Nova ? :eek:
Might look like a 2 door Meriva with a lower roof lol
stuartp
18-07-06, 03:55 PM
Yeah that would be my red nova! had the crank seal changed for the 3rd time! think its stopped leakin now! (hope)!!
TommySR
19-07-06, 11:33 AM
lol, yeah seen it mate, not far from me mate living in atherstone.
Might look like a 2 door Meriva with a lower roof lol
http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/6134/novamk3yv8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
WIP (lol)
A
i would of thought you would be using bigger driveshafts anyway working at 'novas ??
FFS Are you all Stupid!!!
The corsa was a new nova so guess what the latest shape of Nova will look just like the sodding corsa thats about to be released!
BigStan
20-07-06, 02:50 PM
http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/6134/novamk3yv8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
WIP (lol)
A
lol lol lol lol lol I'd buy one ! :roll:
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