Had this car for nearly 2 years now.
Travelled from NE Scotland to Edinburgh for a 1 female owner, 45K mile, FSH, 5dr 1.8 Sport. Totally standard plus a cat 1 alarm
Took it home and fitted the 15's I had on my old TD along with Irmscher door badges.
Little did I realise these were ph2 GSi wheels or i'd never have sold them for £80
I then found owners clubs. Bad move (in a good way) as I've modded it to my taste now.
got a customs backbox made (twin square pipes FTW ) and fitted some truly awful wolfrace wheels (these change, don't worry) and painted the calipers in high temp post office red
lowered it 40mm on a spax non adjustable kit
wondered why my windows steamed up in the rain
fitted GSi rear lights (better pics below) a regal sports cat (no pics im afraid) added a K+N panel filter, 60mm rear springs and had it rolling roaded
126.4BHP at wallace performance in Aberdeen. Nice!
The chrome lip on the wheels decided they didn't me and ended up like this
not good. so off they came and they were thrown in the garage over winter.
I also removed the smoked headlights I had. Driving with them on at night was dangerous. You could drive on full beam with 100/80W bulbs and other road users still didnt know I was on full beam!
I left on the smoked indicators and smoked v grill for a while though and added flatblade wipers.
It was then back to the fine weather so I fitted the wheels and stealth shelf my other half had on her GSi replica and raised the rear from -60 to -40 again.
in my infinate wisdom I then bought another sport from Ox on mk3oc.com for £200 to rob some parts from.
I removed the front bumper, blue LED switches, electric sunroof, rear wiper motor, interior, cams, coil pack, plugs, leads, illuminated visors, illuminated grab handles, some other bits and bobs oh, and this...........
3ish week old Lexhaul manifold (retail price new - £330)
Result!!! I then sold the bumper, sunroof, interior, rolling shell and some other bits and was left with a Lexmaul manifold, CC handles, LED switches and a £10 profit. :heh::heh::heh:
A mate then bought a 2.0 8v mk3 which had Masitaly presidents on it. I offered him a straight swap for my fooked wolfrace wheels and amazingly he said yes! [Mr Burns] Excellent! [/Mr Burns]
I also de-tangoed the rear lights. What an improvement IMO
Next job was getting the manifold fitted. big thanks to Murray, neil105, Lugy, coupe-bertone and m4rtin from here for the help at the McMIG BBQ '07 meet
I have now fitted mk4 side repeaters, returned the grille and front indys to standard. (no pics of the repeaters as yet)
Took it on the 1/4 mile at Crail. with a pair of sport steels on the front. 16.362 secs @ 85.4mph
I fitted a set of 6000K hi/lo HIDs (thanks to Houghtimo from mk3oc)
a set of genuine Vauxhall ph2 headlight protectors
Thats about it so far. I will get some updated pics once I get the masitaly wheels fitted again and lower the rear back down to 60mm
Current spec: Car
Astra Sport 1.8 16v 1995 5dr
Engine
1.8 16v Ecotec (C18XEL)
Regal Sports Cat
Custom Powerflow Backbox
K+N Panel Filter
De-restricted Airbox
Lexmaul manifold
Transmision
Standard 5 speed gearbox (F18)
Suspension
Spax suspension kit with 40mm drop front and rear.
Brakes
Standard setup with Mintex front pads
Calipers painted in Post Office Red
Wheels and Tyres
17" Masitaly VT5 / Presidents (et45)
205x40x17 rubber.
Styling
Astra GSi rear clusters
Site stickers
mk4 Astra repeaters
Interior
Standard sport spec
Scotland Magic Tree
Ice and Security
Pioneer CD headunit
JBL 6x9's, stealth shelf
All protected by a Cat1 alarm.
Performance
1/4 mile - 16.362secs @ 85.4mph
Rolling roaded as having 126.4bhp
35 - 39 mpg.
Future plans:
Get it on the rollers again
Maybe some cams
full 2.5" exhaust
When the Ecotec gives up fit an XE
Comments welcome.
