Ronnie's new runaround - Project VAN!

[rc]

lol no, always said the vans stayin diesal! this is my fuel saver run around!

[Jonny Martin]

Sometimes wish mine was a diesel!

[rc]

not done bugger all to the van lately, just fixed the heaters last week but thats about it!

just a couple of pics i took today!







even tho its a bit dirty lol

[rc]

got a delivery today for the van



came up cheap as chips so couldnt resist lol

had a little cellotape try on to see how'd they look










door gaps a bit out lol



pretty dam cool i think

just gonna stick them in the shed for now, donna gonna touch it till the gsi's finished!

[donvaux]

those skirts are gonna look sexy as funk when you've sorted the gaps mate. thanks again for the flywheel mate

[Gaz86]

them skirts look good, ive got a pair of GSi bumpers filtly cheap if your intersted in chucking a GSi stylee van kit on it.

[Jonny Martin]

Cant wait to see them skirts fitted, Coming on very well!! Gonna put mine to shame!!

[rc]

well not done nothing on the van abart from 1500more miles lol



had to spend 185quid on it saturday

bloody road tax!

[rc]

well was gonna do a bit of work on the van today, got some 60mm corsa rear springs to mod to go on, but weathers stopped play!

[MarkW]

Fook me Ronnie, thats low!!

Looking good though chap.

[2.2DTIdarryl]

so whens these skirts going on it mate

[rc]

dunno yet lol

gsi's more important!

[dan-j]

skirts would look ace in black to match the bumpers!

[rc]

hopefully getting phase1 gsi bumpers to match too so they'll all be white!

[turbo_nik]

348 or 355 matey?

MR2 as said previously,Targa top kinda gives it away.

[fix]

Im just about to buy a mk3 van tomorrow already got a gsi front bumper and skirts to go on.

Are you gonna paint the rear bumper white aswell? Thats what i was gonna do

[rc]

Im just about to buy a mk3 van tomorrow already got a gsi front bumper and skirts to go on.

Are you gonna paint the rear bumper white aswell? Thats what i was gonna do

yea if/when i do get a full gsi kit i'll de-pimple the rear bumper and paint that white too, prob the mirrors too at that point!

[rc]

well as the turbo's not gonna be making it to the show now, and my mig stand pass came through i thought i might as well make good use of it on the van

but as ive been just using it as a work run around it was pretty dam dirty lol (white cars never seem to look dirty on pics lol)



so gave it a quich clean off to get most of the dirt and grime off



and got it on to give it a nice machine polish! really the whole van could do with flat and polishing, but its not that privalaged so it just got a nice hard cut and buff!

before



and 2-3hours later





next was to sort the rear suspension, all this time ive just been running on heated up standard rear springs, naughty naughty lol, and my back had had enough, as there was pretty much no suspension travel on the rear, it was the bumpyest car/van/tractor id ever driven lol

so one of my mates gave me some 60mm corsa springs to try and see what happens, so took the olds springs off





no wonder there was no travel lol

and the corsa springs



i let the van back down on the ground with no springs or bump stops or anything on just for a laugh





and it only sits about 30mm lower than when its got springs in

fitted the corsa springs, the bottoms just slotted straight on but had to chop a little bit of the pig tail off the top as the locating lobe is slightly thicker on the astra to the corsa! and all on, i did cut the bump stop down a little bit too to give me a little more travel!

next was to clean the inside





the inside had a full valet and then outside for a proper wash! and looking cool











then took it home and got into my head i wanted to fit a dump valve on it, a gary boy urge lol

so the power plant



with no astra work comenceing at the mo id missed a bit of fabracation, had to make up a t-piece for the dump valve







all ready





but tried a few different vaccum feeds but no ptchhha not sure why not, gonna have to some investigating!

so anyways all cleaned and looking good









and remembered i had some indicators i'd got off drizz ages ago, so fitted them too



will prob get some new number plates made up at work next week to finish it off! gotta get some tyres too before next weekend, prob gonna be the biggest expence on the van EVER!! lol

[<tcc>]

isn't the dump valve not hissing because it's a diesel? there's no back pressure on the turbo diesel engine because of the way they recirculate the boost as far as i remember. you can get DV's for diesels but it's just for the noise, they do nothing at all for performance and cost around 260 quid

[fix]

Im sure diesel dump valves make a noise?

[vxlgsi]

no vacuum as there is no throttle flap. can and has been done loads but im not sure how. im sure google could help

[Jack]

but tried a few different vaccum feeds but no ptchhha not sure why not, gonna have to some investigating!

If you think about it works, there's no throttle flap, so there's no build up of pressure when you snap your foot off the throttle.

You won't make a peep with a dump valve on a diesel engine.

[CoupeUK]

You won't make a peep with a dump valve on a diesel engine.

Hmmmmm

[Jack]

Sigh.

[fix]

If you think about it works, there's no throttle flap, so there's no build up of pressure when you snap your foot off the throttle.

You won't make a peep with a dump valve on a diesel engine.

You will with this! Lol lmao


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