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so all in, everything ive spent, includig the mot, ive got a useful van with a full years mot and it owe's me about 90 quid!
and been told i can weigh my peugeot in for 60quid down the scrappy!
lucks gone my way for once
flew through the mot today
so all in, everything ive spent, includig the mot, ive got a useful van with a full years mot and it owe's me about 90 quid!
and been told i can weigh my peugeot in for 60quid down the scrappy!
lucks gone my way for once
Nice one Mr. R!
Teeth? LUXURY! When I was a child we ate by putting rocks in our mouth and jumping up and down.
one on my mate does bangers and always seems to use astras, and he happed to get a 1.6 si, so was heping him strip it and now the vans gained electric windows and central locking and looms, all for a afternoon helping him strip it out
Be careful man, you're going to lose the comedy of having Mig's lamest van.
Teeth? LUXURY! When I was a child we ate by putting rocks in our mouth and jumping up and down.
Originally Posted by Jack
Be careful man, you're going to lose the comedy of having Mig's lamest van.
lmao lmao
used the van today.....
to keep us dry as when it started chucking it down half way through changing the hub on my mates 306 rallye :laugh::laugh::heh:
gettin it taxed on the first so it will then be offically on the road
went to the scrappy with my mate who needed some bits and got a few bits for the van while i was there, as i drive it every day and the gsi's only for weekends fort i'd give my self some luxarys lol, got eleccy windows, central locking already, and got some sport/gsi seats for it today
(luxarys of vans lol)
heres the old flat beds
and the new super bolsers
pocketd a few bits aswel, got some clear side repeaters of the car aswel, and a got a nice alloy intercooler which im gonna ebay, should cover the cost of the seats lol
heres the ellecy upgrades aswell
got the central locking all in today, will do the eleccy windows tomorrow
I really wanna see this slammed on some nice wheels
got all the eleccy windows in today, why do vauxhall have to make it such a mission in the astra, when i put gsi eleccy windows in my nova sr there was a positive and negative to the switches, then two wires in each door tot eh motors, not in the astra, 5 wires into each door, 4 wires to each motor, 8 wires to each switch, to save a load of wires everywhere i used a old trailer bord wiring i had and ran that door to door, 6 wires all in one flexy lol
got the wheels off my nova just sitting hereI really wanna see this slammed on some nice wheels
but dont want them to put them on without getting some springs on there first in fear of small cars driving underneith the monster truck lmao
I'm loving the upgrade on a budget mentality of this van, it's got character already!
All you need now is a massive MIG Performance Vauxhalls stenciled down the sides in black...
Teeth? LUXURY! When I was a child we ate by putting rocks in our mouth and jumping up and down.
the van does have it uses, contrubited to the gsi build this weekend lol
Looks good. ive got a mk3 estate and im also sortin it out a bit, my springs came of a CAV, ive got 60 m drop cav fronts and 30 mil drop cav rear (but with the weight of the estate on hatch springs you get Way more than that), youve got to modify the springs because the pigtails are a different size at the ends. the van springs are bigger, but if you heat the spring with oxy cetaline(i know i know) but just say an inch from the end you can bend it with mole grips just enough to make it fit. , my estate is Really low... i dont think it possible to go any lower... rides a bit hard.. but it handles a lot better
it clocked round its 177000 mile saturday!
and at that very second, the gear selector snapped
got the one out of the gsi as i need the van on the road to get to work
so the vans a 6 speed at the mo :laugh: lol
thats pretty cool :-)
well as the gsi's not done i took the van to the eastern meet today! hadnt had a wash since christmas, and had done a bit of rallyin in it on me mates farm past couple of weeks lol
forgot to get a pic of it dirty, but done a pretty accerite photochop
no exasadiration, you really couldnt see the black bottom half any more! ha ha
all cleaned up and siliconed to the max lol
cleans up well for a 40quid van lol
makes me wanna van
had to spend some money on the van todaythe wheel bearing was an adviosery on the mot, and has been getting worse and worse, past the humming stage, to the fierce grinding stage, and now the the about the collaps stage! wheel moved like the wheel bolts arent done up
and through my work a genuine one wasa the same proce thru my work as a pattern one, so gave the van a special treat
most possibly gonna be a bit of progress on the van soon, as i might be getting a donor vehicle this week!
got they tyres finally taken off my old pug wheels and put on my old nova wheels today, been sitting in my garden for the last 6 months lol
gonna have a bit of a progress post on the van tomorrow
get ready for an update
I've got my heavy duty pants on. Update away!get ready for an update
Teeth? LUXURY! When I was a child we ate by putting rocks in our mouth and jumping up and down.
right, bit of a big pic post! taken ages to upload!
this was my weekend! plan was to do the wheel bearings and give it a splash over respray to brighten it up! as i wasnt going to be working on the gsi, as it was pissing it down all weekend lol!
so sat morning i started stripping mine out
one of my mates decided that it was time to get a new van, his needed discs pads and front shocks, so he went out and got a new shape vaux combi van, and said i could have his old one as he new i was on the look out for a turbo diesel engine for mine, plan was to swap engines and then go and scrap his!
he turned up with his, gave it clean off
its not the izuzu lump which everyone rants on bout being amazing, but not tuning it, just want more umph than the normally asperated 1.7d thats in it now lol
with its MASSIVE turbo ha ha
but looking round it it was pretty dam straight! had rusty arches, but underneith was solid, and all the panels were straight! so decided to re shell mine into that one, and do an engine conversion!
found a bit of racking laying about which looked perfect for replaceing the rottern arch lol
started swapping bits over
only damage on the car
had gash grey interior though! looks like a nissan micra lol
but has got fold down rear seats! in a van! how cool is that
starting prepping it up!
put my old nova 17s on, standard ride height! mmmmm :P
and lowered
that was saturdays!
then came in sunday
gave the whells a wash (been sitting in my carden for about a year lol)
remembered i'd had a astra or veccy rear dooe handle sitting in my tool box for years, knew it woruld come in handy one day lol delocked passsender door
got the van in the oven all papered up
and the bits in the other oven
last minute decided to ditch the V-grille
and smoved all the slat recesses
then my mate from work came in and brushed his experteese on the van......
and all painted! vauxhall casablanca white
then started the putting back together process! never as easy as taking it apart lol
colour coded the roof trims, and painted the rails black
colour coded all the washer jets
the inside is all ply lined
and behind that is all insulated! plesant suprise! nice and toasty
and ALL BACK TOGETHER
pretty low lol
bit of an comparresen
all done ready to roll
so a very busy weekend! came out really well concidering i didnt prime it, just wet-on-wetted the whole car!
happy
Last edited by rc; 07-04-2009 at 16:27.
thats one hell of a transformation Ronnie. Top work!
That looks awesome!
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