Hey,

Ive got a list of Mods that I would like to fit in the summer: -

Coilovers,

Sport bumper,

Alloys,

Plastidip chrome grill black.

Thats all I can think of at this time, does anybody have any suggestions to what else I can do?

Cheers

Write down the book value on your car and add up the cost of what you want to do including the insurance premium difference based on declaring your work. Now consider that when you come to sell unless you remove everything and put it back to stock then you severely limit your market and could end up getting less than a standard car. Also are you sure you want to keep the 1.2 long term and have you looked into it's long term reliability?

While it's your car and totally up to you i'd suggest you could be better off with a different starting point. The main thing the 1.2 has going for it is it's cheap to insure and reasonable fuel economy, this sort of requirement doesn't usually go hand in hand with modification.

Doesn't sound like the OP wants to touch the engine, which is fair enough as tuning a 1.2 is basically money down the drain.

Styling mods can be applied to any car, and there is plenty of info our there.

Vrs boot spoiler?

Colour code door handles?

Stuby ariel?

Wind deflectors?

Subtle headlight tint?

Window tint?

I have the 1.2 too, don't really see the point in modding either, though I would like to stick the VRS alloys on as they look rimping and maybe add wind deflectors.

You might be better waiting a few years and going all out on a nice VRS?

Nothing at all wrong with doing work on a 1.2, I just question if the op has considered he'll be paying out for the parts and possibly work and end up paying higher insurance premiums, so why not consider if starting with a car that has a better level of performance and would work out a better long term prospect and be better able to make use of handling improvements and perhaps comes with alloys as standard?

It's got to be worth looking at before spending time/money as the main selling point of the 1.2 is it's frugal nature, give it obvious insurance declared modifications and it becomes more difficult to move on without putting back to standard.

I have got to say I agree about modding a 1.2 engine is money down the drain unless u have a fair few penny's to place under the bonnet my old mate turbo charged I

His 1.2ecotec Vaxhaull corsa c using a sencond hand rover gti coupe turbo and manifold plus pipeing and managed to get his 1.2 running 187bhp with only spending £1400 in total so I wouldn't alaways say its a waste of money if u know what ur doing any way

I'm in a similar position and I've weighed up the cost of going for a VRS clone and I've decided to go down the subtle route, as I've got no NCD and modding a car is going to be pricey on parts and horrific on insurance. I'd love to go down and out with the car and get some sweet 17"s but not yet and most likely not on this car.

But that's just me.

His 1.2ecotec Vaxhaull corsa c using a sencond hand rover gti coupe turbo and manifold plus pipeing and managed to get his 1.2 running 187bhp

Wow that's impressive....how long did it run before it blew up?

It was still running ok when he sold it 30k miles later