New guy from SA

Danny Boy · Post by **Danny Boy** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:25 am

Hey Guys how u doing?

Well i am from South Africa and stubbled upon this site!

I own a Opel Corsa GSi which is 1600 8v... i took the Daewoo Lanos 1600 16v head and bolted onto my Opel block and then turbo'd my car

The car produces 205 kw's and 324nm's of torque on the wheels!

Here some pics of my car and conversion

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 8:48 am

very very nice car man... got pics for the head swap job??

MMamdouh

Danny Boy · Post by **Danny Boy** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:41 am

MMamdouh wrote:very very nice car man... got pics for the head swap job??

MMamdouh

no bud sorry i dont have the pics of that, but its a straight bolt on from daewoo to opel... only thing u need to do is get the complete head with pulleys and everything cause then things differ there with the pulleys!

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:51 am

i asked this 'cause i am thinking of doing that on my 1.5 SOHC... only difference is that i have 3mm smaller bore so iguess it will work for me as well.

MMamdouh

Danny Boy · Post by **Danny Boy** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:56 am

what size is ur bore?

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:31 pm

where did you get the turbo manifold (since there aren't very many that bolt straight to the head)

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:15 pm

Danny Boy wrote:what size is ur bore?

76.5mm (3.01 inch).

MMamdouh

Danny Boy · Post by **Danny Boy** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:20 pm

didnt get it anywhere unfortuntely i had to make that manifold myself!

bought the flange that goes against the head, steam tube t pieces and 90 bends and welded that myself. the had it heat stressed to avoid it warping later once hot and the face skimmed and put on the car!

Danny Boy · Post by **Danny Boy** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:55 pm

that fine it will work cause my bore is only 79mm!

Post by **Efratech** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:20 pm

Im like that... thats a perfect sleeper...

Post by **PrecisionBoost** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:14 pm

That's a really nice looking ride.....welcome aboard

What do you have for internals?? ( stock/aftermarket)

Did you lower the compression??

bluesheepbrian · Post by **bluesheepbrian** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:00 am

Wow!! :P Thats awesome welcome aboard. What other mods do have on the ride.

What are future plans for your ride?

Danny Boy · Post by **Danny Boy** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:09 am

well the internals of the motor are standard!! pistons, rods everything!

i lowered the compression by having a gasket made 2mm thick out of hard drawn aliminuim, then put a head gasket on the block, the spacer on top of the head gasket and the head straight onto the spacer!

Well currently the car runs on 4 standard injectors and 2 big extra injectors controlled threw a piggy back chip on the standard management!
I have now purchased a full management system, 4 big injectors, ARP rod bolts and an ARP stud kit!

Gonna put those in and then rev the car to 7300rpm and see what happens. i think we can get some more power out the car, but most importantly the management will make the mid range power more lively!

Danny Boy · Post by **Danny Boy** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:12 am

The car got a F18 gearbox which is off the 2.0 Opels and has 2.0 Opel Superboss brakes in the front. I dropped the car 40mm and added a boost gauge and thats all i have done to the car.

when i take the car apart to put the other odds in i am gonna pull my gearbox out and have a copper clutch made. Currently its got a standard clutch and when i light the tyres it warms the clutch too much and then it starts slipping!

bluesheepbrian · Post by **bluesheepbrian** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:38 am

man that is a very nice ride, great job!!!! :P