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Detatch the sensor and spray WD40 on the connection, do the MK3 have ABS rings like the Vectra? Are these corroded?

Did I see you roaring round liscard this evening?

Theres nothing wrong with the brakes, the wire has ripped out and vauxhalls wouldnt sell me another one!

If the car sounded like a rally car yes but i don`t roar around, could`nt put my foot down in a built up area even if i wanted too, exhausts too loud.
lol.

ill vouch for that, never heard one like it

Lol. You were going slow at the time. But there was a police van going past at same time lol. It looks better in real life than in the pics, the black parts do actually look good!

You should of heard my probe lmao!!!!

What's the performance like on these?

I know the redtop develops about 150bhp, I imagine it's a bit of fun to chuck about when sorted?

It's alright, nothing special but is quiete quick, I don't know what the bhp of this is or if anything in the engines been modded when it was rebuilt but it does perform well with a lot of newer cars.
I'm going to do a c20let conversion on it at some point then it will be in another territory.

Err yeah, well discovered an air leak t other day and ive quick fixed it with an old rubber innertube until i get the new oval shaped powercap hose off ebay for £17, much quicker now.
Polished it for the 1st time since i`ve had it today, also polished the custom sprayed original wheels which i`ve put back on it as the other ones couldn`t get traction and they were pissing me off wheel spinning all the time. (Traction control is temporaliy disabled due to a wire missing).

When i give this car a little abuse it seems that the clutch is starting to slip, annoying really as i don`t really want to put one in it until i take the engine out for my black SXi, it`s hardly noticable really, just me being fussy but it can wait until it`s engine change.

I have now put all the interiour in apart from the 2 rear side panels and rear seats, the whole of the inside is now BLACK, i hate any other colour on the inside, it should be black in all cars but thats my own personal opinion.
I do need to dye the carpet though.

I have the original sales brochour for this car, its BHP is

BHP 150 Its a lot more than that now.
Top speed 137 MPH
0-62 8 secs
I`d say it was 7 to 60 atm, really, i`m not joking, this thing flys.

Still on the lookout for a C20LET but would rather get a complete car so i can dismantle it myself, also, that way i would more than likely get the 7 speed box with it.

Pics

I love this car man, not sure about the wheels tho. Old School kool

cooool! I quite like those wheels

Yer, he's a bit dodgy is that wheels!!



Looks stunning that Ste mate, a lot of hard work and effort gone into it, certaily worth it though! Impressive!!

Good effort on the work you've put into it, done a great job, keep at it.

I cant see it being 7s to 60. Mk2 Astra GTE weighs 1022kg and the later 1032kg and does 0-60 in 7.3s
Mk3 Astra GSi is around 100kg heavier, and your clutch is slipping

I wouldn't judge a cars performance on 0-60 anyway.

Nice work Ste,she's looking good!

Right it's been a while since I done any work on this here vehicle and at the mo it's just sitting in work doing nothing.

The time has come to do a turbo conversion and for this I will be using a SAAB as a donor vehicle (SAAB 93 & 900 are a vauxhall Astra mk3) only problem I will come across is the SAAB uses a speed sensor for the ECU which in turn controls the engine, if that isn't fitted correctly the engine won't run properly but not everything in life is so easy eh?
We can only try!