It's Back!

**kevseymour** · 03-07-2007 08:27

I tried posting these up last night, but Mig was running so slow i gave up!

Anyway, for those of you who haven't already seen - Tada!

**danielleG** · 03-07-2007 08:30

oooooohhh! shiny!

**Stu_CDX** · 03-07-2007 08:38

Very Nice ! Love the saloon astra!

**mind_crash** · 03-07-2007 08:40

good as new

......................bring on the photo shot after I get from france at the end of the month

**@ndy** · 03-07-2007 08:42

Ooohhhhhh shniney!!

Subtle colour too what is it?? Almost a kind of Euro colour

**Dave GSiT** · 03-07-2007 09:15

Looks spankers big K.

**A2!** · 03-07-2007 12:30

Good as New

**Brian Stirrup** · 03-07-2007 14:50

Nice one Kev, it looks like they have done a good job.

When do we get to see it?

**Spinbitch** · 03-07-2007 20:10

Excellent work fella, and Brian not 'they' just the guy you can see in the photos on his tod lol.

**Brian Stirrup** · 03-07-2007 20:12

'They' as in the business Chris.. lmao

**Spinbitch** · 03-07-2007 20:13

but there is no 'they'...............................

**Calibra_se8** · 03-07-2007 20:15

Looks good mate, rare to see a saloon about aswell

**phunky monkey** · 03-07-2007 20:20

looks spanking mate!!!

**kevseymour** · 03-07-2007 21:20

Thanks guys - i'm dead chuffed with Pauls work.

Brian, so long as everything goes ok tomorrow it'll be there Saturday, i'll be there from about 8/9ish i would have thought.

It's booked in to have some things looked at tomorrow, the EML comes on, and there's some knocking from various places i want checked out.

Plus it could do with an oil change and i just don't have the time to do it myself.

**MarkW** · 03-07-2007 22:19

Looks spanking Kev, bet you're glad to have it back.

**Drizz** · 03-07-2007 22:21

Originally Posted by Calibra_se8

Looks good mate, rare to see a saloon about aswell

Not in these parts lmao

**mind_crash** · 04-07-2007 08:54

Originally Posted by Drizz

Not in these parts lmao

haha

**Spinbitch** · 04-07-2007 18:29

Theres more of the bloody things in east anglia then there are in south africa!!! lmaolmao

**mind_crash** · 04-07-2007 19:45

Originally Posted by Spinbitch

Theres more of the bloody things in east anglia then there are in south africa!!! lmaolmao

buy a South African astra....all the cool people are doing it

lmao

**kevseymour** · 04-07-2007 21:07

Originally Posted by mind_crash

buy a South African astra....all the cool people are doing it

lmao

hmmm. well after the conversation i had with the garage manager today - i'm not sure i'd advise that tbh.

Dan and I had both long had the suspicion that the eninge in my iE wasn't necessarily the one Opel gave it. Today that was confirmed.

I've got an X20XEV.

To quote the mechanics at the garage; 'it looks like they've just thrown it in there, shut the bonnet and f*cked off'

Refering to the wiring, some small bits that haven't been mounted, vacume hoses that have been blocked off with a screw and the general condition of the thing.

I should note that this is not anything to do with the crash.

And, to top it all off, i've got a bent steering arm, bent track rod, buggered lower arm (not the one we replaced, the other one), buggered or missing ARB drop links, shagged rear wheel bearings, the exhaust is resting on a small pipe that connects the 2 sides of the fuel tank, and it cost me £91 labour to find all that out!

Oh, and i nearly forgot - because of the VERY dodgey wiring, they can't tell if the 2 fault codes for the crank position sensor and cam shaft sensor are because of the sensors or the wiring - they tried to test the wiring, but couldn't understand how it works because they didn't get readings from wires that should provide them!

**Dave GSiT** · 04-07-2007 21:17

Kev, buy a complete XE from a smashed up Astra and swap the lot. Wiring, ECU, G'Box everything.

**kevseymour** · 04-07-2007 21:25

Originally Posted by Dave GSiT

Kev, buy a complete XE from a smashed up Astra and swap the lot. Wiring, ECU, G'Box everything.

I have considered that, believe you me!

Would it be easier to XE it than try and sort the wiring on what i have?

**MarkW** · 04-07-2007 21:33

Probably in the long run yes, and also remember XEV engines love to munch a head gasket, downside is, take away the XEV and it's just an astra saloon with an XE, without seeing the wiring, I obviously can't comment toom much, BUT, I may have an X20XEV engine loom knocking about, if I haven't, I know a man who has.

**mind_crash** · 04-07-2007 21:39

go XE matey....in the long run will be much easier to put in a known working XE than try to rewire your engine unless you find a full loom.........just do it...use it as an excuse.....you know you want to.......

**MarkW** · 04-07-2007 21:47

^thats good advice I must admit^

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