Bigpower

Not to sure where to post this so feel free to move where necessary.

First thing on my list was to increase my stopping power! To begin with i had the 256mm brakes off the Cavalier GSi. Dont get me wrong these where awesome, but a set of Calibra Turbo 284mm brakes came up for sale. These are amzing on such a small car!

284mm brakes under 15" wheels



Whilst scrolling through the vauxhall forum trying to find some 15" 4stud steelies i stumbled across these So me and my brother travelled 255miles to County Durham to pick them up.

Cavalier GSi alloys or 'Cav Clabs'



And a friend of mine kindly let me have one of his 2 stickers, he brought for his Escort RS Turbo. I thought it suited his Escort to a tee, and i love watching people trying to read it.



Will take some pictures of the car in its current state once the weather gets a bit better, and will get some of the engine when i go into work tomorow.

Job List:

Coilovers
Vauxhall mudflaps
Conversion Kit
Get crank checked
Get bores on the block checked then bottom end balanced
New clutch
New big/main bearings
Baffled sump
Waterpump
Oil Pump
Cambelt kit/tensioners
New piston rings
Port and Polish head
Lightened flywheel
Alloy bottom pulley
Lightwieght alternator pulley
High lift cams
Titanium springs
Solid lifters
Vernier pulleys
Full silicone hose kit
Get everything powder coated and looking new again
Grooved discs and uprated pads
Polycarb windows
New headgasket and full seal kit
Mocal 13 row oil cooler
ARP big end, mainbolts and head studs
Calibra leather heated front seats
Custom stainless steel exhaust manifold all the way back
Strut bars upper and lower at the front and one for the rear
Smoked front headlights
Carbon fibre inner rear quarter panel covers
Carbon fibre front door cards
Fibreglass boot
Fibreglass bonnet

and a brand new 1.2 badge to go on boot !

all i can think of for now


shane

Nice shopping list you've got there.
A couple of points and i'm not picking faults. Your sticker has a spelling mistake "carbon fiber should be fibre". We had some graphics on our car for 6 months before someone pointed out a spelling mistake:banghead:. The other thing is, are you planning on tracking the car much if so I would think about the leather seats as depending on what you are wearing you will slide around in the seat even when strapped in.

yeah i did notice that must be american! And i dont want to try and cahnge them around and not get them to re-stick. thats a valid point about sliding around, will have to have a re-think cheers for the input

shane

Thats it kick the yanks
I have got a list of bits to do on my Camaro about that long.I like the small car big engine setup you have,sure you couldn,t have squeezed a V8 in.
Pete.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjrgAp82ENc 'Opel Corsa A' known to us as a nova saloon,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExGQ5XVOH9A

i have no idea were this was released but from what i found on you tube looks like it was put into production
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMWgMqVK01g

This has to be my favourite tho!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B2OYEMOprw

a couple of pics of the car in question

Love the lack of badges and spoilers, a mini Q car.

little update being as its xmas i thought I'd treat myself and brought some nice shiny new coilovers and got my mudflaps fitted, will post up pics once the coilovers have arrived

Good looking spec you got planned there.

Who's doing the tuning for you? Courtneys?

I take it your running a redtop lump?
Got a couple of friends who are Vauxhall nuts, was surprised how quick 1 of their 2ltr corsa was!
1 of them has a standard looking Nova with a c20let lump in running silly power, is awesome once its stopped spinning!

no all work is being carried out by myself as im a mechanic by trade, where i work we do tune a few cars we have a few members cars we look after and they range from Evo's to RS Turbos, we have quite a selection of types of cars we look after, one of my two favourites has got to be the honda integra we fitted with a 2.2 stroker engine and jenvy throttle bodies, sounds awesome at 10,000rpm! also currently helping a lad out with an autograss project its a space frame with a 2.0l redtop on bike carbs should go like a bat out of hell when done! will post up some pics when i go into work