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


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


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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!!!


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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


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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 smile


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Originally Posted by placidmaster
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


do they, any examples ?


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

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 smile


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


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no

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.

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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
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Originally Posted by placidmaster
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


so thats abit optimistic then


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


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hmmm yep she does omg how u know that ?


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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!


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

smooth hammerite mixed with celly thinners worked great!!

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