Jay
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Registered: 26th Sep 04
Location: Liverpool
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Bought this as I do garden maintenance through the summer and was sick of shitting my vectra up with the mower etc, it had a properly tatty interior so I managed to get hold of a full GSi interior which I pick up on Friday when hes removed it from the car, also got two sport front seats but dunno which to put in yet... this is the result of about 3 hours work today, absolute ballache of a job and not looking forward to fitting the new one 
Only made a project thread as I quite like this little van, its solid throughout with no real rust on it, and im tempted to fit a different engine to it after the summer and keep hold of it... will be trying to get as much info as possible on how to convert it... anyone know if a 1.6 sport engine will be any good in it? Worth all the hassle?
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*JonnyG*
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Registered: 2nd Jun 08
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Stick the Turbo diesel from astra in, don't get the GM 1 tho. 
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Jay
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Originally posted by *JonnyG*
Stick the Turbo diesel from astra in, don't get the GM 1 tho.
Did read up on that but I think if I was goin to the hassle of changing the engine I'd rather change it to a petrol rather than another arl diesel engine
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Jay
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Few more pics from when I bought it...
Tatty interior, it was a hell of a lot worse than this picture makes out!
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*JonnyG*
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Registered: 2nd Jun 08
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Originally posted by *JonnyG*
Stick the Turbo diesel from astra in, don't get the GM 1 tho.
Did read up on that but I think if I was goin to the hassle of changing the engine I'd rather change it to a petrol rather than another arl diesel engine
But with the isuzu engine engine, you can wind the boost right up, and still have good mpg. 
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Jay
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Originally posted by *JonnyG*
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Originally posted by Jay
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Originally posted by *JonnyG*
Stick the Turbo diesel from astra in, don't get the GM 1 tho.
Did read up on that but I think if I was goin to the hassle of changing the engine I'd rather change it to a petrol rather than another arl diesel engine
But with the isuzu engine engine, you can wind the boost right up, and still have good mpg.
Yeh thats what I read but then il have an unreliable noisey tractor engine dont get me wrong im a fan of the new diesel engines but just not these old ones.
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Jay
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Registered: 26th Sep 04
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Have been searching on mig for answers but haven't got anything concrete yet plus they only seem to be putting XEs in them.
I'm just after a bit of info on what I need to change to get it from Diesel to Petrol, I'm either going to go for the 1.6 or the 1.8 that DaveyLC had (have already spoke to him about a few things) just need to see which ones easier for a car novice!
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cheekyalex
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Registered: 5th Jan 06
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I will be selling my 1.6 engine out my sport in the summer mate, comes with a rolling road print out of 121bhp and you know where i live so can come and hear the engine running before it gets taken out the car if you want.
nice to see a combo van project by the way, need to get some auto glym bumper car on those plastic arches 
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