SRi 16v W.I.P. (lots of pics)

[Greig Sri]

Taxed the Cav today, £112.75 for it tho.

Greig

[Envoy CDX]

Taxed the Cav today, £112.75 for it tho.

Greig

Shame it wasn't that for the year

[Greig Sri]

Aye, we all wish that.
I had the car out the night for a wee spin ,about 10 miles. All is running well with it. Except when the car is at about 65 mph the steering as a bit of a shake. So ill be getting the wheels reblanced.


Greig

[Envoy CDX]

Nicce to know it's running well

[Greig Sri]

All 100% now got the wheels blanced today. One wheel was a mile out the bloke said.

Greig

[Envoy CDX]

nicely done Greig

[Greig Sri]

Went round to Vaux today with it, Its booked it to get them to set the new head lamps I fitted a wile back. The car has been getting a few looks when out and about.

Greig

[Envoy CDX]

Went round to Vaux today with it, Its booked it to get them to set the new head lamps I fitted a wile back. The car has been getting a few looks when out and about.

Greig

Did they look like this ? or like this ?

[Greig Sri]

?

like that.

Greig

[Greig Sri]

This weekend I made a start to giving the car a service. Started out by changing the plugs.


Then the fuel filter. The screw that holds the bracket for it snapped . So I used some cable ties to hold the new filter in.


Today I started out by giving the Cav a wash and polish. A about 5 mins after finishing washing it. The rain started but never came to much.

Took the car out for a spin, but on the way back I could smell oil burning. Found the engine is leaking oil again. I think the leak was from the rocker cover gasket. So I changed it, had a new one in the garage all ready.



but Ive got a feeling that the leak will still be there and coming from the camshaft seal tho. So the cam belt might be coming back off again

Had a young bloke in a Mk3 Astra GSi flashing and waving at me when I was out in the Cav. Never seen him or his car before. The Cav has that effect on some foke

Greig

[Greig Sri]

New head unit is fitted. Took me about 2 hours to fit so far, still have the micphone to finnish wiring. Had a new controler for the steering wheel controls to wire up too. Had a bit of a problem getting all the wires in behind the head unit and not catching on the heater control.



Still need to set it up and have a play with it. It also still works my old multi disc cd in the boot.

Greig

[Envoy CDX]

Looks more expensive that my cav
Good work though

[Gaz]

on my headunit im gonna fit the mic to the light in the centre using an omega light with the mic on it, once id stripped it down it was the same fitment as omega one- wish id actually traced the omega one back but its done now.

[Greig Sri]

Looks more expensive that my cav
Good work though

Was just over £200 for it inc the steering wheel controler. Its the cheapest one pionner do that has the IP bus conector for the multi disc cd.The instructions for it are huge going to take a bit of getting used to it.

on my headunit im gonna fit the mic to the light in the centre using an omega light with the mic on it, once id stripped it down it was the same fitment as omega one- wish id actually traced the omega one back but its done now.

I am thinking of sticking the mic to the side of the omega sunroof cover. Ive run the wire up the A post and its hanging from the mirror just now.

Greig

[Envoy CDX]

All good Greig

[phalinmegob]

this is gonna sound like a really stupid question but as i aint got one i dont know the amswer,how do you control that digital trip computer thingy,by that i mean change to stopwatch or outside temp etc cos i cannot see any buttons on it.

[HAIRIBO]

I had a omega light which had the mic and alarm sensors. it didn't come with a plug and I ended up breaking it when trying to work out how to use it lol, I would look good with one in. but guess I need to find one with a plug and bit of the lume so I can work out what is what.

[Greig Sri]

Fitted the mic here.

Got my phone paired with it on bluetooth and spent ages getting it all working. Can now use the phone thru the head unit. On my way home stopped off at Asda and got a new 4Gig usb memory stick to go with it also.

this is gonna sound like a really stupid question but as i aint got one i dont know the amswer,how do you control that digital trip computer thingy,by that i mean change to stopwatch or outside temp etc cos i cannot see any buttons on it.

The buttons for the computer are fitted in the center consol at the front of the electric windows switches. If no switch is fitted then a cav has the slots for holding coins insted of the switch.

I had a omega light which had the mic and alarm sensors. it didn't come with a plug and I ended up breaking it when trying to work out how to use it lol, I would look good with one in. but guess I need to find one with a plug and bit of the lume so I can work out what is what.

I never knew that you could get the sunroof cover/ light with a mic in it.

Greig

[Greig Sri]

Late on Saturday afternoon I set about finding and fixing the oil leak. I striped the engine down to this.



Found the oil leak, coming from cam oil seal like I thought it was.



I had ordered a new head gasket set earlyer in the week, worked out cheaper to get a whole set than just the bits I needed. So this is the bits I have left over.



Took me 3 hours to fix the leak ( I hope its fixed this time)

Today was the Astras turn Fitted a new check strap and hindge pins to the passanger door. As it was banging all the time when driving along.



Then greased up the other hindges on the car. So thats the car jobs done for this weekend.

Greig

[Envoy CDX]

Sounds like its on the mend, and spares galore too!

[Greig Sri]

I had some spare time today, with not starting work till 5pm the night (doing night shift). So I thought I would give the car a wash, polish and then a wax. I got finnished and 5 mins later it started to rain. Typical



Greig

[Envoy CDX]

Still, it looks gooood

[Greig Sri]

Not seen the car since I cleaned it, Been a lot of yellow pollen blowing about and some rain. So its probley just as mucky again. Black is not a good colour to keep clean.

Greig

[Squig]

white is supposed to be worse

Looks really nice thou mate, I'd be proud to own that

[Envoy CDX]

Not seen the car since I cleaned it, Been a lot of yellow pollen blowing about and some rain. So its probley just as mucky again. Black is not a good colour to keep clean.

Greig

Nah, neither is silver, or blue
Just have to do it again at some point