my first car, opel manta 2.0 16v, 240 bhp, owned for 10 years
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my second, opel manta i240, 2.4, 162 bhp, only 8 uk cars built, owned for 2 years
[img]http://upload.turbosport.co.uk/getpic2.asp?
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my third, my97 updated to my2000, full ss system, owned for 14 months
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my fourth, 2001 p1, alcons, 18's, full ss system, owned for 18 months
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my current one, sti 7 prodrive, ss back box whilst waiting for ppp, owned since september
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mark

How the hell did you get 240bhp out of a B reg manta.

2.0 16v, thought they were only 8v. Learn somthing everyday

BTCC 2.0 16v cars were only 300 and that was only 5-6 years ago.

Good memories brought back seeing that car my mate had one of the special edition ones cant remember name, stickered upto the eyeballs, that was quite quick but weighed nearly 2 ton, real handfull in the wet, spent many anight facing the wrong way round a raoundabout.

the blue manta started out with a 2.0 8 valve 110 bhp, later had exhaust and filter, then a 2.2 bottom end, then group a head and cam, then twin 45's, then junked it and replaced with astra 16v engine with high comp pistons, road/rally cams, verniers and throttle bodies for 240 bhp and revved to 8k, the car was quite light compared to a scoob at 1040 kg
mark

I spy with my little eye a mullet. Bet they were the fashion in the 70s- Gregory's Girl etc

popeye
lol at the mullett
heres the 16v engine
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and heres the 240 when it was on the front cover of fast car back in 93
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mark

Fantastic fun I bet.

Should think that suprised a few people in them days.

dazza
your right , it used to, not as obvious as a scoob/evo
mark

Mark,

Bloody hell mate I've got that fast car mag up in the loft somewhere:)

Mark

I had mantas too :D That blue 16 valve one looks so cool :D Do you know if it's still on the road? I had the GTE but just put an exhaust and K&N filter on it. That must have sounded the B0llox :D Nice one

Paul

paul
theres a time warp, still got the mag in the loft, i lost all my old mags when my parents sold their house about 6 or 7 years ago, just kept the manta articles
the blue manta is sadly no longer on the road, i stripped it to a bare shell for a respray and found loads of rot, i'd bumped the car badly 3 times whilst i owned it , where new panels had been welded on it had burnt the paint and had been rusting nicely for about 9 years, i scrapped it, sold the parts, and bought the 240 but that never replaced my blue one, i bought the red scoob for an everyday car as the 240 was a show/track car and fell in luv with the scoob, sold the 240 to buy a rb5 wr, wasnt that keen on it , and got the p1 instead
mark

Mark

did the blue one still have the standard axle? I found that mantas just spin the inside wheel insead of putting the power down and you had to be a hooligan to get it going sideways :( second gear dip the clutch, 6500 rpm sidestep the clutch :eek:, sh!t loads of opposite lock :eek: and one hell of alot of smoke and a massive smile :D I miss that actually :( I have 2.8 capri for that now.

Paul

hi paul
it had the 3.67 axle from a 1800 manta, because the engine didnt produce any power below 4500 rpm there wasnt any probs like that, it used to have a 2.2 engine on twin downdraughts, with that there was a lot of low down power, loads of spinning inside wheel then, id bought an lsd from zf for it whilst it was off the road for the respray, managed to get a new one from zf for £500.
im running around in a lhd 1800 auto manta at the moment to save the mileage on the scoob, good fun in the wet !
mark

Hey!, Ive got that copy of fast car up in the loft!

That was back in the days when they told you how to actually tune up a car. And even I had a mullet :eek:

Nice looking engine that 16V, wouldve looked better in my old MK2 Escort though :p

Only joking!. But you were lucky to get the 1.8s gearbox to handled the 240bhp I thought they were only rated to 180-ish

Mark

Nice :) I like left hand drive too :) Must have handled brilliantly with an lsd :D I didn't even know lsd axles were available for mantas :(

Paul

the 1800 and gte box are the same inside, both good for 270 bhp, an lsd was about £300 back in 89 when i bought the car, couldnt afford one then as i was only on £90 a week !
mark

Nice lineup!

What about your neighbourg Fiat X1/9 :lol

that sat in the garden for about 2 years then it was scrapped
mark

mmmm, Manta's....superb classic RWD fun.

Mark,

You NEED to have the Prodrive 18" fitted to that STi.


How far off is the PPP? CVC seemed to get both of mine very quickly!

sorry, dont like the prodrive 18's, i had them on my p1, but dont like them on the sti, ppp is due jan/feb, say cvc
mark

Not the 10spoke anthracite ones, the 7 spoke speedlines, much nicer on the car than the 17"s and a fair bit lighter.

havnt seen those close up yet, how much were they ?
mark