When I first finished rebuilding the KX125 I put a Brembo copy master cylinder on it, since I had it laying around and I wanted some tart value. But as ...
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Early on the 22nd August 2010 a van pulled up outside the house, I knew inside it was my new toy. I found it on swapz.co.uk where I'd advertised the ...
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Well, 15 years after it was lovingly crafted by Vauxhall, the Corsa has reached 100k miles. My Fiesta of the same year didn't have enough digits in the tacho to ...
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So as some of you may have read, I aquired the KE175 as little more than a frame and a few boxes of parts. I put some of it together ...
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So since I've moved house recently to a bigger place, more importantly one with a garage. My nice new driveway was just the venue to notice that small oil patches ...
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So I discovered a website, swapz.co.uk (guess what you do on it). I found a guy advertising a motorcycle rack that bolts onto a car tow bar and carries the ...
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So I've been using the retrimmed Calibra leather seats for a while now. They're not incredibly comfortable, for the first week or so they caused intense muscle pain in my ...
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I was initially planning a swap, my Corsa for a white Combo van. The swap was all arranged, so I started stripping parts off the Corsa. Strut brace off, steelies ...
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Well, I had bought a bicycle speedo, but let's face it, it's a bit of a bodge.
So I picked this up from SV650.org, it's an Acewell universal clock thingy. It ...
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So after a bit of discussion on bikechatforums.com I thought "Hmm, actually why doesn't the o/s side cover have a gasket..."
It didn't have one when I got the bike, but ...
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So I phoned up this morning to insure my SV. I'd just looked at my bank account and a payment had been taken out by Bennetts, which I thought ...
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I'd bought a rev gauge and a single pod holder since my clocks don't have a rev meter.
I did a bit of research and on the diesels there's a pea ...
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Booked on the day the original MOT expires. Scary times, the car was still smoking but not nearly as badly.
I booked it into MOTMax in Grantham since they only charge ...
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Well, I've booked my last MOT for 12:50 on 25th March 2010. The same day the MOT expires.
Even after replacing the injectors it was still smoking exactly the same. So ...
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I spotted these on eBay for £65 buy it now, not a million miles away from me.
So I drove down and picked them up, they're in remarkably good condition given ...
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Well, my efforts to quel the smoking in the Corsa goes on. This time it's a set of £50 eBay injectors from a 46k mile car.
First I spent £11 on ...
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Sadly I don't have many 'before' photos because I tend to avoid them in photos but there were two very pronounced rust scabs on the o/s. One on the driver's ...
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So after aquiring the SV I realised a few things:
The rear brake pipe is routed the wrong side of the subframe, no front indicators (and when you plug them in, ...
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A pair of Pirelli Diablo SuperCorsa 2 race scrubs so fresh that they still have the casting marks on them.
£50. Can't say fairer than that.
...I've wanted to debadge the boot for a while, and I had some spare time.
A heat gun and some t-cut and it was all done!
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Well, since the second MOT showed up that they were both 'significantly weakened' I thought I'd probably better replace them. It wasn't a job I was looking forward to though.
Started ...
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Fail.
Reasons for refusal of a Test Certificate:
001 Offside Rear position lamp(s) not in good working order (not working)
002 Nearside rear Brake cable has wires broken ...
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This thread involves all costs, excluding non-specific tools and including all postage:
Stupid partridge.
...After selling twice on eBay, and being messed around by both buyers I relisted the Fiesta on eBay with a £200 buy it now. Precisely 4hours and 20minutes later the ...
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When I bought the Corsa it didn't have a lot of MOT or tax left. Not a problem, I could sort that. We filled in the v5 and I left ...
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So after failing on a few different points my first job was an oil and filter change on the Corsa.
I parked the Corsa into the garage front first, and jacked ...
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When I bought the car, it had some MOT, but not a lot, I know it ran out in February or March.
So 13th of Feb I booked the car in ...
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I made my way to Paul's house in Kings Lynn to fit the newly purchased tow bar to my car, and one to his aswell. We started early in the morning ...
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I was chatting to the guy I got it from.
Turns out when Grantham Police Station moved sites, this bike was a bit of an after thought. It had been seized ...
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Today was a very eventful day. I'd picked up a pair of white, post 97 colour coded bumpers, an aluminium strut brace, and a set of Jamex 40mm lowering springs.
The ...
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Originally posted by "Beer" on Visordown:
"This is how to register an off road MX type bike on a daytime MOT; it get's your bike legally
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A mate of mine very kindly gave me a Boss CX950 2000 watt, 2 channel amp, and 2 x 10" Fli ...
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First up is a strut brace. I spotted it on corsa-sport.co.uk for a bargainous £20. Or £15 if picked up ...
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So there it is, the Ministry of Sound MOSCA099. It's a single DIN head unit DVD player with SD input, USB, ...
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I'd not been happy with the CBR 600 for a while. It had a fantastic chassis, rode well and had decent power. But the scabby looking fairings always got me ...
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When I bought the 15" steel wheels it gave me an idea for the direction I want to take the car in.
The plan is "modified black and white poverty spec".
I'll ...
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I adored the wheels on my old Corsa, they were Team Dynamics multispokes powdercoated in anthracite.
So I've been looking for a similar set for this Corsa. Until something completely different ...
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Prices include postage, and include everything except tools that aren't specific to the car.
Spent so far:
I swapped my 2 Cobra Monaco black bucket seats for a white and black trimmed Calibra interior.
It's the two front seats on subframes, and matching ...
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I first spotted the Corsa for sale on coventrybikers.co.uk advertised with no photos and sparse info for £500. So I fired off a few idle questions at the seller for ...
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21st December 2009, snow, snow and more snow. (With some ice too).
The new owner rode(!) the CBR home. I'm not sure if I admire it, or if I'm more concerned ...
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A few days ago in a rather cold snap, the Fiesta failed to start as I came out of work. "Fantastic" I think, the battery must be on its way ...
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When I bought the Fiesta it came with the OE tape-deck. Amazing. The gap is 1.7 din, which is a real pain in the arse. If it was 2 din, ...
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The clutch swap commenced with being rudely awakened by my 'phone alarm at 9am after arriving home from work at 1am.
Into Claire's car I got, and trundled over to my ...
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This is to log all spending on the car, in chronological order. It gets scary after a while. All prices include postage. It doesn't include items I'd already bought and ...
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So I'd had the Fiesta for a tender time of about 26 hours. I'd covered 83miles in that time and driven to work and back. I was working a late ...
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Yesterday I was driven to Rugby by my girlfriend's mum where I collected a red 1.8L diesel 1996 (mk4) Ford Fiesta.
I'd been on the lookout for a new car, endlessly ...
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Well, I drove the Audi around for a month or so. It was nice to drive, quick, comfortable.
But it niggled at me, my head touched the roof if I sat ...
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The whole moral of this car is cheap. And since it needed a CV boot, I wanted to do it on the cheap. So I took a semi-bodge tip from ...
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This is to keep tally of total spending on the car, I told myself I wouldn't do it this time, because it made me realise what a horrible loss I ...
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Well, it failed its last MOT. It failed on...
Dodgy o/s windscreen wiper
Split CV joint gaitor
3 suspension bushes excessive play
Blowing exhaust
Exhaust mount missing
Excessively corroded brake hose
Rear offside tyre has a cut ...
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One of the things the Audi needed for its MOT was 3 lower suspension bushes. Both nearside, and one of the off side. I thought I'd do all of them ...
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This info shows that BMW held an MOT until 29/04/2009, only just over 2 months before I bought it. And it has had no advisories for the past 2 years, ...
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As you may know from other parts of the website, I have aquired a 1993 BMW 318i, very high mileage, no MOT and with a blown head gasket.
This thread is ...
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The BMW was originally swapped for an engine I paid £50 for. But I gave away a few other bits with the engine. So let's call it £100 for the ...
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Well, thanks to a friend we managed to get the BMW from its previous owner in Norfolk to Melton Mowbray on a borrowed trailer behind his Volvo.
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I bought the pitbike for £250 from Bath near Bristol after getting into Mini Motos but finding them too painful to ride regularly. A pitbike seemed ideal, supermoto tyres, bigger ...
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Shows 14 previous owners, not stolen, colour not changed, not scrapped, never written off.
All is good with the world. £3 to mytextcheck, texted the reg to 83600. Worth it just ...
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Here we have 2 halves of generators. The one in the frame has an engine, electrical generating bit, and petrol tank. The engine has dropped a valve though.
Also with it ...
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For swap is my Corsa, it's a 1.2 Corsa B, 1995 'M' reg. With approx 91k miles on the clock. It has:
The stock backbox on the Corsa has been blowing for sometime. And when I inspected it the other day I found it to be holier than a very holey thing ...
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Bumper and bumper bar thingy off.
Bar bolts inside the boot. Needed 6 11mm holes drilling. Two in the boot floor ...
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Whilst I was home I took the opportunity to do the jobs that have been niggling me.
One was the gear knob kept falling off, so I replaced the small rounded ...
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So far I still need:
22 spline drive shafts from a Corsa diesel or GSI - £40
2 x MK2 1600 Cavalier inner CV joints - £60?
Astra throttle cable - £20
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1 advisory for a warped rear brake disk. It also had a blown rear bulb, but luckily it had 2, so it still passed.
It was nice and sunny too, so ...
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So the project starts. The engine is losing gearbox oil. The previous owner thought that it was burning the oil via knackered crank seals. But I think it's actually leaking ...
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Here it is! My new lock up. £50pcm and it's slightly bigger than a single garage. Hopefully the car will fit in there along with ...
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The seat started like this..
So I ripped off the cover..
And put on the new one. Incredibly badly. Oh well, ...
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Well, the GS500 was today swapped for a 1989 Kawasaki KX125. It has USD forks, powder coated frame and carbon reeds.
I can't wait to play with it/rag it!
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This is the £20 frame I got ages ago with the intent to rebuild the GS500 into this frame. I got a new lockstop fabricated and welded on. Then everything ...
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Head gasket, workshop manual for the engine and rocker cover gasket. It's all getting there slowly. Still to purchase is:
Corsa ...
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I've been umming and ahhing about getting one for a while. I've always wanted one, but always thought the conversion was too much effort, too expensive, and I wouldn't be ...
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Any comes out with the same wheel bearing. For a while the car's been making a weird rumbling noise when I steer left, so I booked it in to have ...
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Straight swap, looks good. Gave it a wash too. Simple.
Well here she be.
The colour coded mirrors, bumpers and arches are on. It has new (beautiful) alloys, lowered 30mm, new door speakers and 6x9s in the parcel shelf and of ...
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When I pulled the front bumper off I found a sensor hanging off around the area where I was told the temperature sensor was.
So I ...
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While various pieces of bodywork paintwork was drying I had lots of time. So I set about changing the cam belt.
First of all the airbox had to come out. Then ...
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Rear bumper was £21 off eBay including postage. I bought a tasty front bumper but it turned out to be for an Escort and would in no way shape or ...
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When I got the car it had a Moss alarm installed but had been disconnected to stop it draining the battery while the car was stood.
I took one look at ...
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First thing was to remove the passenger seat. One torx bolt and one allen key bolt after removing a fiddly bit of fascia... Angle the seat forwards and it pops ...
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Ok, I have a couple of weeks off work over christmas. So I'm doing up the car. So far I've bought....
New rear bumper in primer £21
New front bumper £45
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God knows why, but Vauxhall in their infinite wisdom decided not to put cigarette lighter sockets on their early base model Corsas. Now in the days of sat navs they're ...
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So who didn't see it coming?
£50 on eBay scored me a set of 15" TSW alloys with decent tyres. I picked them up from Northampton and on they went!
Didn't take ...
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So after months of driving Claire's car to and from work. I decided I'd better get one of my own. So I found this bad boy on eBay for £450. ...
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Well, today I went to Hein Gericke and I think I tried on every single lid at least twice. I planned on spending around £150. I very nearly bought an ...
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Today I picked up some parts to rebuild the GS. I got a 1992 frame including v5, swing arm, rear mudguard, front mudguard, front wheel including crusty disk, both side ...
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Well, I start my monday to friday 60 mile each way commute in 3 days. And the bike has had its complete pre-commuting service.
I've:
Changed the rear tyre 31/07/08
Changed the oil ...
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One day whilst starting up my bike to show a friend. Click, goes the noise of the starter solonoid and a flat battery.
No big deal, hooked it up to the ...
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Since the GS500's going to be a 'use every day' commuter I decided it really needs a top box, and a big one at that.
So I bought an eBay item ...
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Now whether this bike is actually a downgrade or not from the KLR 250 is a matter of opinion. But the facts are, it was cheaper and it has more ...
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Well, when I did the trail bike trial I was advised not to run too low pressure without a rim-lock in case the tyre span on the rim, ripping the ...
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Well, looks like the KLR's here to stay so I've got a few improvements to do over time. Roughly in importance order:
Oil change (bought 3 oil filters on eBay)
Check valve ...
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Moped madness is a 3h endurance race run by BMCRC, it was first brought to my attention by a thread on essexbikers.co.uk. I posted it on bikechatforums and very quickly ...
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I know I know, a trail bike trial just sounds like a bad idea. A midnight chat with Dave 'G' Giffould had put me onto the idea. It was only ...
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The story starts on the 25th of May 2006, which unfortunately was also the date of my girlfriend's 17th birthday, and also 2 months before I was due to leave ...
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Well, the original eBay auction stated the KLR needed new fork gaitors due to splits in them. A £12 set of gaitors from a local bike shop and a couple ...
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After the sale of the SRAD a gap was left in my life. A bike shaped gap.
The corsa just couldn't scratch this itch. So she goes to her new home ...
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After 2 stints on eBay. My beloved GSX-r sold to an enthusiast for £1400. I'll miss you gixxer!
(It also ...
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Here it is, the corsa gets a noisy backbox. In reality, it sounds nice. And was £17 including postage. Everyone loves a bargain.
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One rainy night I sat in the car with my ever patient girlfriend Claire.
With the aid of my Haynes manual I popped off the door pockets and unscrewed the standard ...
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After debadging the rest of the car, lowering and fitting alloys, a simple yet decent looking mod is to fit a debadged grille. 2 bolts and a bit of brute ...
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After a shady meeting in a service station just inside the M25 I came away £80 lighter and 4 Astra wheels with tyres heavier.
2 of the tyres are Pirelli P6000s ...
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First step is to whip off the wheel. I started with the front driver's side. Then all you have to ...
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For Christmas 2007 my parents bought me a nice new set of Lucky Strike fairings. So soon after I set about fitting them.
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'The MZ' as I've come to know it, started life like this. £212.47 on eBay. Who'd have thought it'd end like ...
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24th April 2005:
Took delivery of TZR250 that I’d not seen before I’d agreed to the purchase, it was in a ...
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The story begins on Easter Sunday 2006. The date of a trackday at Silverstone National. On one of the straights, the ...
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