my new mk3 astra gsi...... turbo ;)

[Brian Stirrup]

Yes the LET's do.

[rc]

yep they do

as i've just ordered these
http://www.chrisastleymotorsport.co....32dd99dbe08c89

lmao

[rc]

went to meanstreet cruise last night down in arina essex, so spent the say cleaning up the astra!






got up there about 6ish, after a boost hose blowing off 3 times on the way! bloody thing!!









wasnt a very big turn out really, not many major modified cars at all, few years ago wen i started goin there there was redline mag, max power cover cars the lot there! but at least my enige bay got alot of attention that nite

[rc]

oh and got stalked by miss bumps off here lmao

[astra16V2004]

looks good mate. one of the best astras about at the minute.

[DarrenH]

still looking in good condition. keep meaning to dig out that old revs it was featured in. unless someone has sorted you it

[rc]

na still havnt seen the feature yet, only heard about it!

[DarrenH]

try these

http://www.oddball123.pwp.blueyonder.../J61RBM_01.jpg

http://www.oddball123.pwp.blueyonder.../J61RBM_02.jpg

warning. 2400x1700 res (and thats half the original)

[rc]

ha ha thats my car! cheers mate!

[DarrenH]

REVS november 2001 btw scanning fee in the post

[Steve!]

You should contact Revs and tell them it's still going and it didn't end up at the Scrapyard!

[TonySR]

You should contact Revs and tell them it's still going and it didn't end up at the Scrapyard!

Wake up! Revs no longer exists, hasnt done for about 2years....

[rc]

todays task was to fit new radiator as it was gettin to the point of leaking a expansion bottle full of water every day, not only the water loss was doin my head in, so was the fact that it was spreyin water all around the engine bay!:sad:

it was leaking where some one previous had attached the fan to the rad with cable ties, and low and behold.... vibration beat the radiator!

picked the new rad up last nite! cheers Drizz!

guess which is the fecked one???



and put some supports in for the radiator to mount to, so not to go thru another rad!



rad all in

[rc]

while it was all off i wanted to fit a bigger oil cooler i purchased, an my standard one has had all the metal pipes bent around and the coolers dented up.

came with jublee type attachments



but with the bigger intercooler and the griolle and bumper to work around its not gonna fit! to tall!

so donna go to a hyduralics place on monday and get some adapter fittings for it to use thes banjo oil pipe fixings! as it will fit behind the grille nicely with these fittings!

[rc]

and............

also as it was all off, id noticed every now and again, mostly just after its blown off a boost hose, theres quite alot of oil smoke out of the exhaust, dead turbo time this spells to me, but it only does it sometimes!

speakin to me mate with a LET nova, cheers andy, and he sed first thing to do is look in thew intercooler as when the engines breeth, it all gets caught in the intercooler, so took it all off and the pipes from the turbo to the intercooler were spotless, no trace of oil at all, but the other side of the intercooler had a rite slime of oil, as did the pipes going up to the maifold, just from the slight bits of oil bein passed thru, and caught up in the intercooler, he said he gives his a wash out every couple of months!

so took it all off, filled the intercooler up with petrol and swooched it all round!
took att the pipes out and cleaned them aswell, all like new now!





all put back on now



all good!

i want to get a nother samco hose to replace the dump valve t-piece as im not running a dump valve, good old wastegate chatter , and it looks messy and also prob quite a restriction! will investigate into price of this aswe!

not a bad days work

[Benn]

looks good at the front dude,

[Gaz86]

that looks sweet

[Adam]

sheeet hot

[rc]

and just brought a nice shiny oil catch tank off gsi rich

[Gaz86]

forgot to say

theres no such thing as wastegate chatter!!lmao

its called turbo stall

[rc]

wahoo got another new bit today

oil catch tank! another bit of bling





cheers gsi_rich!

gotta find a space to put it now tho!




dissisions

lmao

[rc]

Tax runs out at the end of the month so im gonna take the opitunity to take it off the road for a while, got a growing list of things that i need to do, so this will be the ideal time.

things on the to do list so far:-

-take gearbox out and investigate wether its time for a new one or its repairable
-replace oil return hose out of turbo - leaking
-replace coolant hoses coming out of turbo - one split so put a joiner and piece of pipe - hopefully replace with samcos
-paint engine and gearbox
-reseal and paint engine bay - sealers bit sloopy after it was seam welded
-get matching boost pipes, samcos again - got a bit of a miss match at the mo
-fit rear seat belts - never came with any
- fix front bumper, got crack in splitter
- maybe respray it, dunno if i'll have time
- refurb wheels - hopefully have time

EDIT:- and a bigger air filter


got some more but cant think at the min!

and pv is one month after, so will all be done by then!

[rc]

just finished cleanin it for the RR session tomorrow

cant wait to meet everyone finally lol

[Coley123]

rc please please look after this car my friend used to own it 5 yrs ago the shortskinhead bloke someone referred to ealier in this thread last i heard of it he sold it to on of our friends mates in belfast never heard anything of it till yesterday was and is my favourite astra and my 1st experience of a c20let always wanted to own it glad its still looking fresh was in a bit of a state when it went to ireland if you ever sell it or lose your license becasue of it i want 1st refusal please lol

[mickygsi]

hmm nice mk 3