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Spend 2k on a already fast car then the other 2k on insurance if you want to go faster.
Otherwise put it in savings and wait till insurance comes down to reasonable levels.

It may be your pride and joy at the moment but once you age a little you WILL regret spending 4k+ on a 10 year old Corsa :)
 
Lashout_UK said:
It'd (obviously) still need insurance in the first instance then, or you'd need a suitable towing vehicle, trailer and license to tow it to the venue.

I'm suprised you can't get decent quotes on something different - I'd have a serious plough around the classifieds and the like and run a few quotes for whatever usage you intend....don't forget to look at oddball stuff too, beside the usual 'tuner' models...
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Aii cheers mate was thinking about getting the corsa vxr or sri turbo same engine less tuned heard they can get some descent bhp out of them properly done.:D
 
To be honest, i kind of like those wing mirrors :o

However, the raise the car a bit (i know you've said you need to do this), remove the sunstrip and don't put a rubbish exhaust on it which makes it sound like it's farting. It doesn't sound good and nobody thinks it's fast.

Keep this for a while and upgrade properly, to something.....a bit better then spend money on upgrading that car.

Upgrading cars only really works on cars that are good in the first place unless you totally overhaul it.
 
C20lets with 6 speed are still going for £1000, zlet is not really an option as it'd end up costing even more. So the LET with shafts, hubs, mounts, coilovers, exhaust + other bits and pieces your looking at £2000 minimum really. Plus your 19..... LOL insurance will be £1000 at least but probably more. So basically no, forget it. My let nova was £650 fully comp when i was 27.
 
Like Lashout said, XE it and leave it. A Corsa is still ridiculously quick with an XE, and they'll make ~170BHP reasonably cheaply anyway, if you're that way inclined.

A LET in one of these is absolutely pointless, and I tell you this from experience, it is literally just impossible to get the power down, although spinning the wheels in 4th as it comes on boost is quite a novelty initially.

If you want a better setup, and money isn't too restrictive, get a (or stick to?) an X16 and ITB it, combined with a few choice mods and 150BHP isn't too difficult either.
 
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Kezz said:
Look good without handles :D
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It didn't look good before you removed the handles, it doesn't look good without the handles, and it won't look good regardless of what you do to it, except for possibly ignite it with many, many flammable liquids.
 
That is the most offensive looking car I have seen this month, aahhh my eyes etc.

Now that is out of my system...

£4k for a turbo conversion on a corsa and you will be running stock internals? Good luck with that, enjoy the torque steer and hopefully a week later it will blow a piston out the block and you will scrap it. ;)
 
Kezz said:
Got a selanoid switch on the pasanger side and my side is key fob to open it

Look good without handles :D

and at the moment it has x16xe init 1.6 with throttle bodies air filter and 4-2-1 exhaust manifold running about 140ish bhp
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and the insurance on a C20LET corsa wouldnt ? i can imagine the phone calls now.

"hello yes i want you to quote me happy. Its a vauxhall corsa, with a 2.0 Turbo from a vauxhall cavalier running nearly 300bhp"

"click brrrrrr"

Even the performance car specialists like Adrian Flux are going to raise an eye brow when they ask you what % increase your new engine has over standard. over 100 % ?

Your young, and dreaming of nice fast cars. We all did at that age. Save the money and save for something you really want.

Look beyond just making your first nice car as fast as possible. Have a car like an Evo or an Impreza that was made to handle 300bhp. If all you've ever dreamed of is a corsa turbo, then by all means help yourself.

But most lads are being impatient, their life long dream isnt to own a corsa.
 
Kezz said:
jsut fancy somit tbh i no these C20LET can eat scooby evos etc power weight ratio
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Well it would have been useful if you could have written in English, as it would have saved me needing to use Bablefish to convert from chav, but whatever.

So let me get this right, you're most interested in power to weight ratio? Why would you possibly want to take this to a track, unless you're talking about a drag strip. Yes a shopping trolley with a CET will be fast in a straightline, but it doesn't mean it'll handle, particularly so all the additional lard from the new engine.
You really would be better getting a more capable car to start with. Why not checkout something like a 200SX, which can easily be tweaked, has a reasonable weight balance and at least drives the correct set of wheels.
 
paradigm said:
It didn't look good before you removed the handles, it doesn't look good without the handles, and it won't look good regardless of what you do to it, except for possibly ignite it with many, many flammable liquids.
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Like I said all have our own taste in what we like.

and this was all about engine mods btw


so please keep your mouth shut! :)
 
Gaygle said:
300bhp?? I thought the CE20LET produced circa 200bhp?
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depends entierely what you want to do with it

Buy one of these on the second hand market, and barely any of them are standard anymore.

You could find a wrecked original car with an untouched LET in it, but most have already been in a corsa or westfield etc.. and have been heavily tuned. Their reputation is immense, as such demand from people looking for big power is quite high all things considered.

Not saying you cant buy a standard one, but with a ton of tuned ones producing near 300bhp on the market, what young lad would have the sense to turn them down for a nice stock 200bhp one ? i know i wouldnt at that age ;)

Kezz said:
Like I said all have our own taste in what we like.

and this was all about engine mods btw


so please keep your mouth shut! :)
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THing is, a Corsa C20LET is a one trick pony. It wont handle like an evo / subaru does, and it wont sound like a nice subaru will with that lovely boxer burble.

Whats more, floor the throttle off the line and all you'll do is spin the wheels. Its only trick is pulling hard in mid gear acceleration. Bit like my old vectra really, that was 300bhp and FWD, so ive been there. But that had fancy electronically adjustable suspension to try and keep it on the road. You could thousands tuning the handling of the Corsa so it can handle that power, but wouldnt it be so much better to be putting this money into tuning something that you've always dreamed of, that can actually handle the power ?? do you honestly want no car other than a corsa ?
 
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MikeHiow said:
. A Corsa is an X16 and ITB it, combined with a few choice mods and 150BHP isn't too difficult either.
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Im looking at about 140-150bhp now i have some dblias throttle bodies with mapping , janspeed 4-2-1 manifold
 
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