my new cavalier 2.5 V6 CDX manual!

[cav_2.0_gli]

hey all,

just bought this car yesterday off of ebay for £250, and picked it up today:

1995 M-reg vauxhall cavalier 2.5 V6 CDX 5 door hatchback, manual transmission.
142k on the clocks
MOT til Aug 08
Tax til June 08
towbar, remus twin tail backbox & K&N panel air filter fitted and included.
recent: coil pack, oil & filter, aircon regas, cambelt & tensioners, rear pads & discs

standard equipment:

leather heated seats
air con
e/w x4, e/sr, e/m, e/a
c/l
abs, airbags, pas, t/c,
leather steering wheel & gearknob
metallic paint, front fogs, alloys etc etc

known faults with the car:

EM light is on & is supposed to be the knock sensor (£25) faulty( but the car runs fine, no rattles or knocking etc, and certainly goes very well indeed!!)
bit of rust on rear arch (easy to sort out)
bonnet release handle is broken (pennies from scrappy)

FUTURE PLANS:

engine:

3 litre G cams (bought these already)
4 bar FPR (bought these already)
superchipped ECU (bought these already)
6 new injectors
cylinder heads x2 - gasflowed + ported + polished
inlet manifolds - gasflowed + ported + polished
throttle body - enlarged + gasflowed + ported + polished
Ramair induction kit (fitted)+ enclosed in the airbox
dark met red painted engine cover (fitted)

exterior:

SRI spoiler (fitted)
colour coded number plate board (fitted)
opel badged front grille (fitted)
remove all bump strips off the doors
clear oval side repeators
colour coded vectra door handles
5 spoke vectra sri alloy wheels with new 195/60/15 pirelli tyres all round
'badboi' headlamp eyebrows
oval backbox
lower it 40MM

interior:

cavalier turbo recaro style front leather seats
richbrook alloy gearknob + handbrake + pedals + tax holder + door pins
white speedo dials
white VDO oil + voltage gauges in centre consol (fitted)
all dash switches blue LED (fitted)
all interior + speedometer bulbs BLUE
trip computer
centre consol armrest

ICE:

alpine headunit
vibe 3600w space subwoofer + JBL 1114rms amplifier
JBL speakers x6 (all round)

i think thats about it lol.



and anything else that takes my fancy.

PICS:










what you lot think then?

[SteveM]

cav turbo rims all the way

[Jasovanooo]

sort that arch man

[cav_2.0_gli]

Originally Posted by Jasovanooo

sort that arch man

i will be asap.
thats another one of my 'things to do' list.
need to book it in at a garage yet to get the engine looked at, to see if it is the knock sensor thats gone.

the chap who trailered it home for me yesterday, listened to the engine, and said that he could hear an ever so slight mis-fire on idle.

hopefully she'l be fine though, as i went for a test drive in it, and i could hear no rattles/knocks from the engine, and it was running very smoothly indeed.

cheers

[cav_2.0_gli]

fitted today:

opel badge to front grille
VDO dash gauges
irmscher badging
de-badged it

sprayed the lip spoiler & vectra handles for it

[SteveM]

Originally Posted by cav_2.0_gli

irmscher badging
de-badged it

waste of money

[dave's.cavy]

Looks good

looks like it has a saloon exhaust fitted

are you still building the GLi Turbo??

[cav_2.0_gli]

Originally Posted by dave's.cavy

Looks good

looks like it has a saloon exhaust fitted

are you still building the GLi Turbo??

yer i think it has at it does stick out quite far, but doesnt bother me.

yup, still rebuilding that GLI turbo, havent touched it in over 5 months, been waiting for good weather, and when good weather has come along ive had bits to do on my other road cars!! always the way. still in summer she'l be back on the road.

[cav_2.0_gli]

colour coded the rear number plate board & painted the engine cover.

shall get some pics up asap.

cheers

[cav_2.0_gli]

all switches/bulbs are being sent off this weekend to be changed to blue ones.

also, the engine will be heavily modified to increase power, with 3 litre cams, chipped ECU, enlarged throttle body, ported/flowed inlet manifold & heads, 4 bar FPR etc etc

shall get some new pics up on the weekend aswell.

[cav_2.0_gli]

heres a few pics. bit naff as its in a dark garage lol:

opel badge on front grill & dark met red engine cover:




colour coded number plate panel:


will get some better pics of it when its out the garage, n ive fitted the rest of the bits to it!

gona get some swanky number plates made up for it as well.

[cav_2.0_gli]

just bought some cavalier turbo leather front seats for it.

alloys will be fitted soon with new pirelli tyres on it.

lip spoiler is fitted.

ramair induction kit is fitted

going to spend 3 days on it next week doing everything i need to do to it on the list.

just bought some 3 litre cams for it, and a superchip for the ECU too.

heres a pic of it with the lip spoiler:

[X30XE_Cav]

Looks excellent Mate! Will look great, is it Spectral Blue or that darker blue?

[cav_2.0_gli]

Originally Posted by X30XE_Cav

Looks excellent Mate! Will look great, is it Spectral Blue or that darker blue?

its polar sea blue mate.

and thanks

hopefully have it ready in time for PVS!

im spending mon/tues next week working on it solidly, so that all thats left to do is take the engine apart lol.

so il post up some pics of when thats all done! will be out the garage so i can see it properly for a start.

[X30XE_Cav]

What next then? Any other not-perfomance mods in plans? Are you willing to attend PVS to show of your car then with other club?

[cav_2.0_gli]

Originally Posted by X30XE_Cav

What next then? Any other not-perfomance mods in plans? Are you willing to attend PVS to show of your car then with other club?

this mon/tues i will be:

removing bump strips off doors/wings
fit oval side repeaters
fit all the alloy stuff to interior
fit the vectra colour coded door handles
fit the trip computer to the dash (once found where the loom is)
removed the blaupunkt CD player
fit the headlamp eyebrows
remove the speedometer ready for white dials + blue bulbs
re-fit all the dash switches
fit the centre consol armrest

plus much more. just cant think what atm lol.


then all thats left really is fit the cav turbo front leathers, the 5 spoke veci SRI alloys, and the oval backbox when it arrives in the post.

then all i need to do is make a start on the engine!



yer i want to get it ready for PVS, and have it on a club stand if possible.

should take me a week tops to strip the engine done, port+polish the heads + throttle body + inlet, put it all back together, change the cambelt + tensioners + waterpump, put the 4bar FPR on, and fit the G cams.

well im hoping it will take less than a week anyway.
ive got 3 weeks til PVS anyway, if not longer, so thats plenty of time.

[cav_2.0_gli]

my complete (ish) mod list of it:

FUTURE PLANS:

engine:

3 litre G cams (bought these already)
4 bar FPR (bought these already)
superchipped ECU (bought these already)
6 new injectors
cylinder heads x2 - gasflowed + ported + polished
inlet manifolds - gasflowed + ported + polished
throttle body - enlarged + gasflowed + ported + polished
Ramair induction kit (fitted)+ enclosed in the airbox
dark met red painted engine cover (fitted)

exterior:

SRI spoiler (fitted)
colour coded number plate board (fitted)
opel badged front grille (fitted)
remove all bump strips off the doors
clear oval side repeators (bought)
colour coded vectra door handles (bought)
5 spoke vectra sri alloy wheels with new 195/60/15 pirelli tyres all round
'badboi' headlamp eyebrows (bought)
oval backbox (bought)
lower it 40MM

interior:

cavalier turbo recaro style front leather seats (bought)
richbrook alloy gearknob + handbrake + pedals + tax holder + door pins
white speedo dials
white VDO oil + voltage gauges in centre consol (fitted)
all dash switches blue LED (fitted)
all interior + speedometer bulbs BLUE
trip computer (bought)
centre consol armrest (bought)

ICE:

alpine headunit (bought)
vibe 3600w space subwoofer + JBL 1114rms amplifier (bought)
JBL speakers x6 (all round) (bought)
i think thats about it lol.

[X30XE_Cav]

So you will be on MigClub stand, well done, would love too see it in metal!

[cav_2.0_gli]

Originally Posted by X30XE_Cav

So you will be on MigClub stand, well done, would love too see it in metal!

yer or the cavaliercrazy one, not sure which one yet