1986 Jamaica Yellow 1.2L Project

[Edd]

Very nice

Decided to keep the both then?

[Southie]

I posted this in the wrong thread

[scott.parker]

Very nice

Decided to keep the both then?

Edd, I'll be keeping both Novas, as the Astra is getting wrote off after a lorry reversed into it at work.

[corsakid]

Real nice

[scott.parker]

So....... After another failed fuel line, as I only replaced it the other year, got that sorted then I turned my attention to the brakes, as the o/s caliper has been sticking for a while, decided best option was to change to the ate set off the corsa sport I've got for the x16xe.
So switched it all over, seems to be working fine, so if I can ill wash and polish it before popping up to the national on Sunday.





Had to destroy one dust guard as the screws were solid, and I bought and Eezibleed kit, awesome stuff..











Scott

[scott.parker]

So today I decided to try lower the rear end a bit more, I did it the pikey way, I took a quarter of the bottom of the springs, and flattened the bottom and top with a flap wheel.

So heres a pic from the national..



I tried to recreate it to show how much has come down by.



Probably only about 5-10mm max, but it seems to sit better..





The one of parked at an angle up the drive





Oh and I noticed that one of my mudflaps has lost the round griffin badge, well pissed off as there the original ones, never finder a new set

Scott

[EwanG]

Did you go from the standard 1.2 breaks to the corsa ones? If so how much better is the braking? Do you still have to push the pedal as hard? I have the standard setup on mine and the calipers are brand new, the braking power is fine for me I just hate how I have to put effort in to push the pedal. Maybe I am just lazy

[SimonTW]

Looking good. Any pictures of the spring mod?

The lock surrounds could do with a lick of paint to bring them back to up the same gray as the handles.

[scott.parker]

Did you go from the standard 1.2 breaks to the corsa ones? If so how much better is the braking? Do you still have to push the pedal as hard? I have the standard setup on mine and the calipers are brand new, the braking power is fine for me I just hate how I have to put effort in to push the pedal. Maybe I am just lazy

Yep, from standard 1.2 to corsa sport brakes and they are allot better now the pads are re worn in.
Less effort to push the peddle also.

Looking good. Any pictures of the spring mod?

The lock surrounds could do with a lick of paint to bring them back to up the same gray as the handles.

Simon, there the last thing I'm worried about mate there's loads that need doing to it, but it's all on a long list of things I want to get done, but money is not so flowing now days.

Ps: no sorry no pic of the springs, all I did was cut a quarter of the bottom of the pigtails, and then flattened off both the top and bottoms.

[Adam]

New rear height looks well. Even if it was done the pikey way