Wife just had a dunt in the snow:furious3:

ouch!!!, welcome to the damaged car club!!

hope she's okay!

Gutted mate! It's no consolation but at least everyone involved is ok! Just pure shitty luck

Anyhoo...do I spy an all-nighter rebuild sesh on the cards? Free most of the weekend if you need a hand with anything mate!

Parts should be here on monday/tuesday woot

Parts still havent arrived, so after a silver vec came into the local scrappy, i took advantage of it.

First mod of the day to get warmed up

Slam panel and wings off

Slam panel and wings on


Bonnet off

lights on


Bonnet, grill and bumper on

Arch liner going in

My mechanic

Done

BIG Thanks to Martyn for helping out with collecting parts for me. Cheers Mate!

Flagship Off TMS Looking Gd M8

Keik said:

Flagship Off TMS Looking Gd M8

Click to expand...

cheers bud

Good stuff

Keik said:

Flagship Off TMS Looking Gd M8

Click to expand...

right, this has turned into PROJECT POWER lol

in the next few weeks i will have a lightened flywheel in, 2.6 clutch, 3.0 cams and maybe a few other bits, so i should be looking at just over 200 bhp and with the new flywheel being 10KGS LIGHTER, the lazy 2.5 will spoolup rapido, watch this space

Sounds like fun

:O 10 kg lighter ? what was the original weight ?

what is 2.6 clutch and 3.0 cams ?

orginial power of the car?

Ming

YcMing said:

:O 10 kg lighter ? what was the original weight ?

what is 2.6 clutch and 3.0 cams ?

orginial power of the car?

Ming

Click to expand...

I'd assume the clutch from a V6 2.6 and the cams from the 3.0 V6 cams. Dunno about original flywheel weight though.

Can't see they cams doing much for your MPG! lol

the standard flywheel weighs as much as a seicento LOL, 15 kgs, and the new billet one is 5.6kgs, clutch from the 2.6 v6 vectra, its a bit bigger friction face than the 2.5 one.

the cams are from a 3.0 v6 omega lump, but msd (motorsport developments, who did the gsi for vauxhall) also put them in the vectra gsi. As for mpg, can cruise at about 40+ to the gallon at 80 mph

original bhp is about 167bhp ish

So we are looking at gains almost double what my 126 has?

what power has the 126?

23. 20 something years ago.

whoop, started today

but because of the rain, there was only internal work done, so got steering wheel and roof pocket from a facelift vec, so far so good


EDIT: The weather cleared up, so went to my mates and changed the passenger side door, now just 2 doors to change(due to the dredded rust) and it'll be a near minter again

Got the doors headlights, bumper, and wired in the headlights done, thought that was enough work for one day, so went for a game o golf:laugh4:

today, im painting the lightbrows and fitting the radiator cover.

tomorrow is the day that i attempt a cam change (first time) and timing up the engine, so tomorrow is the day that i (should) hit 200BHP

here we go, wish me luck, next time you see me i will either be very pissed off or very happy,

:wave:

Good luck with it, sounds like a fun way to spend a day