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.....or if you are brave, put a pair of molegrips on it and carry on driving it :o Is that brave, or just totally crackers !! :shock: :lol: Depends how good your molegrips are. :D I have actually done this, and even folded a corroded and split brake pipe back on itself to seal it off in order to ge...

....if adding a second battery helped that backs up the case for a starter fault. A battery will not fail under these circumstances, if the cables were iffy then it wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference. What generally happens when a starter is turning over slowly is that it is drawing excess...

Robsey wrote:
I was able to do a full gasket change in approx 1 1/2 hours

pmsl, at my peak I could turn them around in about 15 minutes, admit though this wasn't lapping valves

Envoy CDX wrote:

planetc wrote:pmsl, the wife only puts in a fiver at a time!

Can't see the point of doing that. I do more than 30 miles a day on a normal run.

tell my missus, lol, I do roughly 200 miles a night on average, only ever fill the tank

.....or if you are brave, put a pair of molegrips on it and carry on driving it

They also usually miss from a cold start for a few seconds too. A chemical block test is a more reliable method than compression test, but I agree with what has been said already

the ecotec 16v also has more rollers to break on the cambelt run

pmsl, the wife only puts in a fiver at a time!

Prefer older Vauxhalls tbh, the modern stuff I don't know so well hence has no appeal.

if it was an ecotec I'd be more inclined to let it go, the 8v is a better engine.

some of the later stage photo's, limited to three per post, will be here all day, lol. Looking through, I don't think I have any of the engine bay, probably 'cos it was never finished!

fantastic, always fancied a brooklands but this looks the part (without the price tag?!). got any engine bay snaps? Got a couple of hundred photos, taken throughout the rebuild, will post some when I get a chance to get my daughter away from 'my' pc, as I'm currently on the old celeron 466 laptop, ...

droofer wrote:if it was white, it would kinda look like an 80's touring car.

that's probably why I like it

Fair enough. 175s are history though, 195's are the standard for any base Cav nowadays. Maybe a base model wouldn't handle as well as a transit sport, but a GSi, i very much doubt it would hold up a van. Absolutely, SRi, Gsi and Turbo, and anything that has been modified at all would be very differ...

Very nice! Manual? 2.8 injected manual yes. One of the last Capri's built, and for those that don't do Capri's, they finished the run with 1038 of these with 15" wheels, leather interior and brooklands green paint. There is estimated to be less than 400 left I believe. Bought to replace my Cor...

You'd be surprised at the late Transit, they have gone backwards on reliability but the chassis is pretty good. I do around 30k a year in it and I'm not saying it's a Porsche, but it's far more confidence inspiring than a Cavalier on 175s with standard oil shocks.

I think I'd lose the bonnet buldge, put a slightly more subtle rear spoiler on, get rid of the clear rear lenses and put on some decent rims. I am a fan of taking bits off rather than adding bits on, but I think that would tone it down just enough on the exterior. Then lose the harnesses and use tha...

My 280 Capri, I just thought I'd post a piccy.....

Actually, I like that now I've seen the daytime photo's. The current boy racer style is not usually my cup of tea, but I had a dream of doing something similar with a MK2 Belmont back in the day. Always preferred the look of a saloon modified in this way. Don't like the tape though, can't you colour...

VauxhallGirl wrote:No good for me...I live up a farm track!

4x4 with jacked up suspension and mud tyres then, lol. that would be interesting

Envoy CDX wrote:Right, so I finally found a temp resistor So I might do this tonight

useful mod if you spend a lot of time in traffic, otherwise I don't think I'd bother

VauxhallGirl wrote: critics used to say the Cav didn't handle well...

Having not driven one for a while and being used to driving a Transit, the Cav is pretty crap by comparison!

Think my money would be on the starter though with all that oily gunk all over it.

Envoy CDX wrote:

Very true, but if you want to, you can ground out the o2 plug sense and it should ommit that issue (Andy K or Mark T of VXoN covered this )

and the tank vent valve?

I vaguely remember that they will run on both ecu's, but the C20NE will wind up running in limp mode because it wants an o2 sensor signal. If it were mine I'd be searching for the right ecu, which will be optimised for the engine. Senseless having that little bit extra that the SEH has, and then str...