Forums Forums BrightSparks: 1981 Astra MK1 GL 1300S

ive also pushed out the belly in the rear pass side door its hardly noticible now woo!

keep at it but take your time, look how well joe has done with his beemer

Thats a nice motor mate, don't see many of these knockin round and its in fairly good nick. I love old school cars, gotta lot more character then all the new stuff. Looked at gettin a chevette a while back an throwin a red top engine in it, old school and drifty!!!

get a shoveit and throw in either the sierrs 2 litre dohc engine or the old 3.5 rover v8 in it, they both fit, and also the astra is looking cool

Love the Mk1 Astras, got so much more character than the new ones.

Any plans for a red top conversion, or even a slightly simpler 2.0 8V transplant from a Cav SRi?

Still 130bhp from the 8V, but Im pretty sure the Mk1 aint that heavy

do they, any examples ?

...anything will fit if you have enough ££££

The HSR was the Rally daddy, but very unreliable.

The Rover V8 only put out 150bhp, but made a nice sound, and the 8V Sierra DOHC motor wouldnt pull you out of bed - tbh if you where going to fit a new motor to a Chevette, go redtop or Cosworth DOHC and stick them on TBs

so they wouldn't just drop sraight in then, or would they - but with new engine mounts, loom, engine managment, drive shafts etc etc

It would need a custom front subframe, the transmission tunnel may need modding to fit a gearbox to suit the engine, then you need a diff to suit, which may include a new rear axle.

The original car was on carbs, so it would need an ECU and loom, unless you stuck with a carb setup...

Im pretty sure you would need to seam weld the shell also as a std Chevette was never designed to take much power - with the HSR being the exeption but that was seam welded from the factory for rallying.

well i will have a spare 130bhp 8v knocking about when the redtop gets used so was going to put that in the 1300s. not sure yet

if u want RWD fun, get a manta :):)

and fit a c30se out of a senny 24v or a carlton gsi 24v
204bhp straight six beast, inderstuctable engines



........oh and fit a blower :D:D

so thats abit optimistic then

A Long shot, but does your mum work in Arrowe Park Hospital?

hmmm yep she does how u know that ?

haha I talk to her most times. She spotted me in my Mini, as I also work in Arrowe Park Hospital, she was talkin about her son into MK1 Vauxhalls etc, and said what you'd done to the car etc, I was thinkin In the back of my mind, I only know 1 Mk1 Vaux round here! So yerh, small world!

well im going off my 17" monsters, so im putting the ronals back on.... this time... white

smooth hammerite mixed with celly thinners worked great!!