my cavi sri restro

[cavaliersri]

cheers.i used to fabricate garden gates for a living so have plenty welding skills.only a few more small holes on the floor to go and that will be the shell solid.then floor painted and the rebuild will begin.

[cavaliersri130]

Sounds good m8 well looking forward to seeing it and I bet your looking forward to rebuilding it.

:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:

[cavaliersri]

slow progress to the sri as gsi giving me grief.did manage to get front subframe from the scrappies so get it painted and fitted soon.(weather permitting)

[cavaliersri]

Does anyone have a pic of the wiring behind the dash after its been removed.i started fitting my complete wiring loom the other day and there's a few plugs I can't figure out where they go.

[Gaz]

check ads and dave 955 wip they have both had the dash out reacently

[dave955]

Don't know if this is any use

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[gazza1701-a]

This is one to watch.....Great work matey

[cavaliersri]

few pics of the cavi dash

[cavaliersri]

does anyone know where i can get a set of sri clocks.mine are damaged beyond repair.mine is an h reg with the rev counter.

[cavaliersri]

Can someone tell me.is a 1.6 8v single point and mulit point injection cylinderhead the same.
My astra is a multi point and the head is nackered and I can only find single point heads in the scrapys

[planetc]

Can someone tell me.is a 1.6 8v single point and mulit point injection cylinderhead the same.
My astra is a multi point and the head is nackered and I can only find single point heads in the scrapys

Probably is as close as I can get.

[cavaliersri]

hey folks.iv got another brain teaser for you..

iv just put a new head and camshaft on my 1.6 8v astra coz the head and cam were nackered
the car starts but smokes really badly
also code read a fault and cps it the fault and wont clear.
it also wont rev past 3500

the cars done 136k
could the rings be nackered.
it never smoked that bad before i done the head

[planetc]

If the timing is right then there is something clearly not right in what you have replaced. I had a 1.4 cav many years ago with a damaged oil control ring which smoked like hell when it warmed up. What colour is the smoke, it looks white in the picture?

[cavaliersri]

IV done 8v heads before and never had a problem.
its light blue smoke.
I thought maybe the rings were nackered.

[planetc]

IV done 8v heads before and never had a problem.
its light blue smoke.
I thought maybe the rings were nackered.

It could be rings, you could give it a bit of a run and see if it clears, but it wouldn't follow with the inability to rev past 3.5k?

[cavaliersri]

Its not so bad wen the engines hot.engine management reads cps but wont clear.tried a new sensor but still the same.think its in limo mode

[planetc]

Crank position sensor? What code? They won't usually start at all if the crank sensor is not reading right.
Thinking back, the last car I had smoking and running, albeit badly, had diesel in the tank. Daft but worth eliminating.

[cavaliersri]

Its reading camshaft sensor.think the oil rings are gone cause its burned all the oil out the engine.just gona bite the bullit and get another engine.

[cavaliersri]

well iv saved another cavi from the crusher.its a 1.8 expression auto.75000 miles on the clock 1 owner.needs new sills.fewpatches on the floor and the front inner arches at the bottom.gona make it a gsi lookalike.already got a full bodykit.and iv put a set of 17s on it.more pics to follow.

[cavaliersri]

new 17s