Carried on from Jaygsi's bonnet strut thread, at least 4 of us have had or still have Vauxhalls, just interested in who falls into this bracket.

Here are my previous ones.

My Vectra 1.6 8v beastie

My Fav picture of the vectra










My custom paint jobbed Astra Coupe









My 300 Bhp Astra SRi-Turbo

 

i dont but one of my good friends has got a Astra VXR, he text me last week some pictures just saying, "Blown engine, cracked piston, turbo ****t3d itself and dumped 5l of oil everywhere and mongled the headgasket, engine is dead.... i win" followed later by also diadnosed as Ben valve and fried the piston rings. Turbo was a warrenty turbo fitted by vauxhall after his last turbo killed itself which was one fitted by vauxhall under warrenty but they left somethign loose which got sucked through it. There now refusing to do anymore work on it. Its a friday car for sure.

 

Ouch nasty. So many Nova's lost count, 1 corsa sport, 1 astra sport, few cavaliers. Vauxhalls old 8v engine was proberly one of the best engines ever, was completely bulit proof, and the nova 1.3 sr was just metal hard, you could thrash it all day long

 

chavtastic in here !

 

Hmmmm well if i count the 2 works vans...

Astra G 2ltr DI (works van)
Astra G 1.7 DI (works van after writing off the 2ltr dodgy tyres they put on )
Vauxhall Omega 2ltr 16v Automatic (P reg), loved that car, cost me 360 quid at auction, 112k and full service history, the 4 new tyres were worth more than the car (dunlop sports), just needed a torque converter (300 quid), it was a fun car, my mate wanted to keep it he loves autos and rwd but sold it for 1200 quid, was in very good condition for its age.
Vauxhall Omega 2.5TD (W reg new shape), last of the BMW engined diesels, auto, leather, 40ish to the gallon, great car for the motorway journeys and easy as hell to drive anywhere and park (considering its size), sold to purchase my next vauxhall!
Astra H 1.9 CDTI 120 (16v) sports hatch, got this one with a mere 16k on the clock from a dealer for 8600 quid, is a Design so better spec than the SRI/SXI etc, half leather, auto lights, auto wipers, still have it with nearly 60k on the clock now, 2 problems and that was a faulty boost solenoid (fixed under warranty) and the ESP warning light is up (ABS Unit fault, not buying new either, scrap yard for the part!)
Otherwise not too bad on the vauxhall ownership side of things

Tony

 

Oh where do I start??

3.0 V6 6-Speed Vectra B GSI.
With Omex 710 standalone management, piper cams, totally reworked engine, tubular manifolds, external oil cooler, Wilwood 4pots, coilovers, waaaaaaay too much to list.
251bhp/250lbft.









Before this I had a 2.0 SRI140 Vectra, and now I have an S reg, 1.8 SRI 120, for the work horse.

 

On one Vaux for me, I had this Mk III GSi for over 5 years, 2000 till mid 2005. I won a couple of trophies showing it.





they are a rare sight nowadays.

 

firsyt a 2 door white hc 1.3 vauxhall viva even remember the reg number foj 952l yes i have been driving that long.....then next vauxhall was a 1.3 vauxhall astra 5 door first brand new car c126 hob then a 18.8valve gte 3 doors d 428 mof, then kids came along so a 1.6l cavalier reg number g746 hku, then a brand new 1.8ls cavalier 5 door m848 jom, then a 1.8 ls 16 valve 5 door vecta reg p746 hku then moved to a jeep .... god i am getting old.....

 

not at all, now take your opinion and **** off

 

Chav lol if he thinks Vauxhalls a chavs car what he bought an impreza for. Its not the car you own its what you do to it.

 

Had a Nova SR about twnty zillion years ago.

In the days when people completely lusted after them and Irmscher did really well.

They still going??!

 

Started off with a mk2 astra 1.4 as my first car, then had a mk2 cavalier 2.0 as my second, then moved to a 2.5v6 calibra for my 3rd car and had a mk3 1.0 astra as a day to day runner.

Currently have a 1.0l corsa c as my day to day runner.

 

What Nova's? Yea now all the chavs have moved on to saxo's its just left the hardcore fans, eg lads that have got older and miss there Novas

 

I,ve owned 3 Cavaliers. First a 1990 Sri, then a 1990 Gsi and lastly a 1993 4x4 turbo. The turbo was very unreliable with the porous head and transfer box problems . Steve.

 

2 Astra mk3s, Vectra SRi130, Astra MK4 SRi, Astra MK5 SRi (xp) 5 door, Astra MK5 SRi-T (xp) 3 door, Astra VXR (Dreamscience remap)

 

Ive owned mk3 cavalier 1.8 gutless car. then I bought a cav 16v mk3 Sri Loved it

Then I bought a mk3 Astra gsi running R1 bike carbs 168.9 bhp loved but just missed the scoobs too much

Pics of Astra are in my garage don't knw how to add them too this thread

 

I had a Nova TD about 15 years ago and with some tweaking it was good for out dragging GTEs/GSIs and the handling was go-kart like. Followed that with a V6 cavalier that ended up in max power about 10 years ago, then traded up to the scoob

A couple of pics of the cav...

 

Ha! I actually meant Irmscher

Funny,in the eighties there was nothing actually 'chavvy' about Ford's compliment of XR's XR2,XR3 XR4 etc and the same for Vauxhalls GT's GTE's ,SR's and SRI's and Peugots 205 and 309 GTI's.....they were all up there with the Golf GTI

It was a fantastic time for cars

 

Was the Lotus Carlton classed as Vauxhall or a Lotus

 

its classed as a Vauxhall tuned by Lotus.

 

I was on team Vauxhall for some time before finding my first scooby.

Cav SRi - I was 19, hence the body kit, bad I know... 16.0 1/4mile


Calibra Turbo, made just over 300bhp, when it worked. 14.1 1/4mile


V6 Calibra on N2O, liked this car, only quick on gas though, had a nice sound system though. 14.6 1/4mile




Vectrs SRi, boring car, but lots of space inside.


Astra GTE 16v, absolutely awesome motors, spent a bit on handeling, much fun! 15.6 1/4 mile.


AStra 2.2 coupe, had this car for 2 years, very reliable and quite capable. 16.5 1/4mile.



The astra was sold in January, making it the first time I haven`t had a vauxhall in 10 years.

 

nice collection you've had mate.

 

Man that i want a gte, still not finished me vauxhalls

 

had a few over the years, started with a 1.2, 4 speed nova, then had a mk3 1.4 si (that i crashed) so bought another nova, this time an sr, then bought a mk3 sport (that i still own) bought a corsa gsi, then two mk4 astra vans, also had a corsa c as a family car then a mk4 astra (which we still have)

pic or the mk3 i still have and use for track days etc.




killed the ecotec engine at llandow a few months back so am in the middle of building a c20xe for it.

 

Yea ecotec engine sucks better off with c20xe

 

I'm an ex-Vauxhall man, always wanted a Calibra or Cavalier turbo but got a promotion and had enough money for a brand spanking Scoob instead, although I still ponder about the old school Vauxhalls'.

2nd car was a 1.3L Mk2 Astra, had it a year, finished my apprenticeship and got a 2.0l 8v GTE at 19, loved that car and never got tired of the digital dash and recaro style seats, had 68k when I got it and part ex'd it 4.5 years later with 148k and it felt just as quick as it did when I first drove it (probably wasn't).
Fitted a big stereo and the bass sometimes opened the boot, also done a top speed run with a mate once, had the sunroof and front windows open and the rear windows popped open with a loud BANG, scared the cr4p out of us

Crappy scanned picture but it's all I have at the mo, PECO big bore 4 FTW!!



That's my Dad's old Omega in the picture, 2.5 V6 CD with the electric rear window blind (great fun), he had that for 11 years, lovely old barge!

 

Just looking back through a car mag thought I'd seen something about its name

Says"Because its bosses werent able to sign off the Hethel-developed braking system the new car wasType Approved as Lotus"

I digress.If any lucky sod has had one

(still be a Vauxhall Carlton to me)

 

ive had a couple of old cavs and still got these 2 vectras..






tbf ive never really had any (major!) problems with any of my vxs

 

the only major issue i've had is due to NOT doing the timing belt on time, and the water pump collasped and smashed my valves to bits in my SRi-T

 

Cavalier 1.6L
Cavalier 1.8GLi
Cavalier... there's a theme developing here.... 2.0Sri (8v - the SEH engine, meant to be bullet proof mine had a crack... in the block)

Calibra 2.0i 16v Turbo 4x4 (Diamond Black... lovely colour)

I loved that car - got through 3 engines. Only one of which was my fault.

TXB was faultless, 'cos I took care of it Phase 2 kit with Samco hoses, stainless exhaust and other bits and bobs got it to 280bhp with 290ft/lbs

Had a delightful habit of blowing the bloody hose from the turbo to the FMIC off at full boost. I put the biggest damn clamps I could find and still it came off... grrrr.... I got very expert at whipping the bumper off, loosening the clamps, forcing the hose back on and tightening everything back up.

In the end it just got too expensive to run, but it was a blast while I had it. I wrote a buyers guide for the Cally turbo ages back when I was a Mod on cc.net.

In fact - the Cally turbo was why I first posted on here! Someone was slagging 'em off, I got told by someone who posted on both sites and popped on here to put the record straight.