Zapmole's 5 door project

[zapmole]

hey guys heres my corsa 1.4 litre 5 door

midnight blue i think its called or moonlight not entirely sure!!!

around 69k miles brought for £550 off liam.d good condition just needed bit of a tidy up

LS model so nothing too special.

mods are:

-LED's behind dashboard and MFD
-6 x 9's in the parcel shelf
- ceasro alloys
- debadged rear
- debadged drivers side
-de bump stripe drivers side (just a little glue left)
- some led gear knob thing i want to change this!
-led driving lights in the grill

Planned mods are :

-Calibra leathers front and back seats Done
- 60mm lowering all around Done
- colour coding mirrors and arches and door handles
-possibly new head unit sub and amp Done
-central locking kit Done
-maybe re spray alloys? thoughts comments on colour maybe?
- thinking of tinting windows not loads but not too little
-flat wiper blades Done
- fiat merea rear wiper
- sort out interior tad messy WIP

-replace full dash which is in lot better condition
- new gear gaitor
-new handbrake gatior
- new shoulder pads
- performance exhaust hangers damn the rattle of the exhaust! half Done
- refurbish wheels
- take bonnet dent out
- new wing sprayed and fitted
- new arches
- vectra electric sunroof Done
- spray roof lining?
- go around fixing as many chips and scratches
- get lots of air fresheners as my car stinks for some reason :/
- new exhaust
-black door cards
-boot with proper false floor
-boot lock still playing up not pushing mechanism far enough
-electric windows - A maybe now depends how hard it is to do
- heated seats switches and wired


anywhere here are some pictures some of you may have seen them on main car chat























de badged side

any comments advice is great

[zapmole]

right finally got rid of all bump stripes and debadged still tiny bit of glue left.


i still fail at washing it lol

anyway started sanding down dashboard where some super glued plastic bits are left as you can see in the picture. will take time but get there eventually

had a thought, if i want to spray the wheels which color do you think would suit or should i just leave them as it is...



cearso alloys on dark blue body color.

[zapmole]

been long time since i updated this. mainly due to fact me not being able to drive it

finally mot'd tax'd and insured so im happy im driving just paying off debts on credit card anyway. so far ive only brought flat wiper blades defiantly worth the buy. thinking of getting badgeless grill but weather to keep the led bar strip lights. need comments on that

would like to be colour coding soon. and get some leather seats in

[Corsa_Alex]

Originally Posted by zapmole

thinking of getting badgeless grill but weather to keep the led bar strip lights. need comments on that

yeah, i'd say keep the led bar strip lights, they look sweet. And if you haven't already decided about the colour of your alloys, i think they look good in silver
you should get a new gear stick gaitor, yours look shattered

why has noone else commented on this project??
anyway good work mate, keep it up, its definately one of the best, if not the best 5door corsa i've seen, love the colour and alloys

[Watts]

cars looking good mate, defo need to get the gear gaitor though, how did the sanding come out in the end?

[zapmole]

sanding still messy like that. not had chance go buy some wet n dry and primer and spray paint. with being in debt atm so dont think im going to do that til im out the red. annoying i know.

[Corsa_Alex]

Originally Posted by zapmole

sanding still messy like that. not had chance go buy some wet n dry and primer and spray paint. with being in debt atm so dont think im going to do that til im out the red. annoying i know.

ahh unlucky mate, hope it works out for you!

[zapmole]

right has been a while since i updated.

firstly while back just before Trax i painted calipers and drums white. as i have no other paint and have just kept them that colour. not sure what colour to do them properly :S

next recently i found my wet and dry paper 800 so started smoothing mfd down. not got a picture but definitely looking better. started on the dash getting slowly there. once thats done be time to get spray paint and spray it.

today got some mudflaps off liam.d again although they didnt quite fit properly had to use like 3 screws. think they were pre 97 which im assuming are different to post 97 bumpers :S so they nearly touch tyres although when i drove along one of the roads here small like long bump that comes quickly when driving at 60 heard it scrap. did say to liam.d look euro style lol. as it did when first put them on

also suggested bright orange wheels for winter? sounds good but wouldnt look right me thinks

pictures!







last picture is crappy camera phone just at night lot worse. fine in day time as seen by other 2 pictures

[zapmole]

just brought 60mm springs off mr mushypeas so hoping just after christmas ill get them fitted christmas present to my self

[b3an6030]

cool gota love Christmas presents to yourself

[zapmole]

cant go wrong for £35 for 60mm springs was gunna go for 40mm but as these came up cheap and dont need to replace shocks. although eventually will want to

[zapmole]

well got my springs



and debadged grill slighlty broken on top slate but other than that cant complain when its free


And just lowerd back end today. as i knew what i was doing first attempt went perfectly fine although had little troublle getting my bottle jack out when springs were in was getting too low!


fronts will be done when ive got time and its not too cold lol

[Drewber]

looking good mate, i like the callipers/drums in white you cant see them too much through the alloys anyway.
were you on the stand at trax???

[zapmole]

no unfortunately. i was going to meet up the convoy but got to silverstone saw the queue plus was behind on time getting there. but still had a great day. hoping PVS will be on stand there and car will look better bodywork is terrible serious want like £300 to sort out paint work lol

[richie-rich]

hi mate i got a door aswell and im i need of some slamming was just wondering if you had any camber angle problems?

[youngsezer]

tidy car mate, will look sweet when the front is lowered too, look forward to seeing this at pvs

[zapmole]

Originally Posted by richie-rich

hi mate i got a door aswell and im i need of some slamming was just wondering if you had any camber angle problems?

not that i know of lol back end is only lowerd so far only problem ive had is scraping because my tyre profiles are 60 only when its a full car though

Originally Posted by youngsezer

tidy car mate, will look sweet when the front is lowered too, look forward to seeing this at pvs

yeah will look good also when get new tyres on the back. and it will hopefully look good by then although probs have all the scratches and crappy body work on it lol

right more progress today and recently

firstly while ago if you read it i had small crash in my estate due to snow and ice




so that is still currently like that. only spending money on what i need which is to keep car running servicing etc.

new items i got were new mfd as old one was sanding it down and cba with it and needed to spray it etc. new door cards which the grills haven't been cut out. found a gls in scrapyard thought buy these put them in found out had a problem couldn't wind down drivers window lol but got the side taken off with buttons now just about 3 holes. I may upgrade to electric windows don't know weather to and how hard it is.




then today i went over to Leighton buzzard as this tool kit was like one of last few left last one in Leighton buzzard i got and there was one more in Aylesbury so reserved it and got it today. 123 piece tool kit challenge extreme.

very useful tools also came with right spark plug socket thank goodness for that i can now change spark plugs and also allowed me to fix my boot lock now i have a working boot! tool kit cost £25 reduced from £50 bargin and i had a £20 gift voucher!




and as a mini project i have my old head unit sitting in my room which works on pc power supply so i may if ever get round to it use some old mdf i have put it in a box and have it in the garage with these speakers i was given ages ago!




and that is the updates as for now. getting my ALG back pay tomorrow hopefully so that be lots of money too but not so much on car pay back some debt more to come soon

[richie-rich]

Ahright thats good then cuz my mate dropped his civic by 40mm and put his camber out bad news for the tires. I got like a 80mm gap between the arch and tyre not a good look at all.

Must be gutted bout the crash alot of my mates have hit there cars in the ice pissing about in the local tescos and bending there rear hubs and smashing there wishbones to peices lol

[Vegas]

Just so you know the colour is Spectral Blue(your first post you was not sure) Don't want your spraying broken bits from crash with wrong colour

[Marc24]

Keep up the good work, looking good.