Ronnie's New Family Car - Cavalier GSI :)

[Melv]

looking good Ron. I'm sure it will be even tidier once you have had it for a wee while. Plate has got to be worth a few quid too being a single digit.

All the best for the arrival of ickle Ron. Bet you are looking forward to sweets and chocolate getting mushed into your car seats in a few years time lmao

[Galahad]

That is a nice GSi 2000...... i'll have another before they are all gone!

Nice one.

[Dave Dempsey]

Nice looking car. Always had a soft spot for the GSi;s. The mate used to have one identical to that7-8years ago which I was going to buy but it got stolen

[Benn]

Looks great out in the sun. Good work with the bits youve done.

[humbucker]

nice to see another cav project on here! the best stock colour too imho

[rc]

cheers lads great welcome to the cav

but im afraid all the subscribee's are gonna be pretty disapointed, there really is nothing major going to be happening to the family car, its here for that running the family around, will just be tidying it up here and there and little bits and piceses speccing it up not even going to open the bonnet unless something breaks

had a trial run of the baby seat



and then gave it a colour magic up today





now to go for a airport trip to pick up the missus's mum lmao

[Gaz86]

aaaahh those seats were the bain of my life for about a year, i'm lucky my nipper is in a booster seat now lmao

how long till the new arrival?

[Adam]

good stuff rc its mint

help this guy out btw pm on way lmao

[ollied]

but im afraid all the subscribee's are gonna be pretty disapointed, there really is nothing major going to be happening to the family car, its here for that running the family around, will just be tidying it up here and there and little bits and piceses speccing it up not even going to open the bonnet unless something breaks

Hmm i give it a year

[brad35]

Stick a diesel lump in it. You know you wanna.

[A2!]

Looks very nice ronnie

[duneii]

i've always loved the cav GSI's and specially in that colour! stick a laguna splitter on it, the personally think that splitter really suits them!

[leesturbo]

swoon. sits lovely ronnie the styling is just right probably why it never changed for the flagship turbo's

[SteveM]

oooh nice ron, i have a FULL black leather interior (dash, all trim etc) you can have very cheap if you want

[rc]

Had a VERRRY busy time at the mo with everythings, negecting the internet, got some spare time now so heres some responses,,,,,,,

Ive just broke a Cav gsi if there is anything it needs? Got the other rear spoiler. The one that goes ontop of that one. With light.



Looks clean tho. ALOT cleaner than the one i had lol.

cheers mate i'll bare that in mind if theres anything i need, i know the spoilers you mean and i think it ruins the rear end i love the way the back of the sallons are so square with the standard spoiler

very cool!

subscribed.

cheers mate

looks nice

cheers mate

nice looking new project. Im subscribed cos if it ends up 1/2 as mad as the van itll still be mental

as said, noting mad will be happening to this, its just as a family car to start ferrying my little boy around, ive got the astra to be a nutter bastard project

very VERY nice



just need a 4x4 system and a v6 under the bonnet with some nice leathers to help to slide around in when you take fast corners

lol, poor mpg and id have to raise all the suspension up for the 4x4 system,, no thank you very much

i love cavalier saloons!!

subscribed

cheers mate, me too

Cleland BTCC replica!!, go on you know you want to and either way its still got 5 doors so will always be "practical"

now thats an perspective i could try and put accross to the missus

f00kin hell mate all that effort into that astravan and all the problems you had with it and still managed to stay out of a mental hospital, you are a legend.



i nearly cried when ya sold it LMAO!!!



mint work lad cant wait to see this

cheers mate, i did put alot of time in the van in the end, but thankfully i never had any problems with it really, it was prob the mot reliable vaux ive had

finaly got one then mate very nice motor to keep baby safe and to travel in reto style



get them quad lights in it next and get some mud flaps on her

cheers mate yea still not sure bout the headlights, might put them in just for a try but m not really a mudflap sorta guy

subscribed

will be disapointed lol

Never fear, Steve is here!

horrah

That's lovely.

indeedy i love it

Im liking that looks very clean for its age.

cheers mate, its no minter, but does shine up well could do with a restoration really, but as my runaround its not gonna happen, maybe in a few years when the astra done

any bets as for when it gets v6/c20let/throttle boddies???



looks nice though

my money is on a v8 lol

V12

nooo i kepp telling you lot you're all gonna be very disapointed if your waiting for something big with this cav

Love it, shame the van had to go but as little ron jr on the way then its a must!



Looking forward to the random updates and the speed at which it transforms into a robot or something..



Ginge

cheers mate, yea i can say i was pretty gutted to let the van go, even more so now i havent got it and do miss the speed, race feel and coolness but its all worked out for the best with the baby and the cav yea there will always be progress in my life on cars one way or another

looks like a tidy motor bud - wheels set it off.

cheers mate got these 'rare' wheels on my entire vauxhall fleet now

very nice,,

nice looking cav, wheels really suit it well

cheers lads

Nice



Wanted one of those myself many moons ago, but I ended up with an SRi instead. Was still a nice alternative tho. And looking at yours... you know, I still would

cheers mate yea was looking at some sri's, some with red tops too, but i really do love the saloons, and next to the the hatch's dont look qite right, and with all the kit its just had to be a gsi

looking good Ron. I'm sure it will be even tidier once you have had it for a wee while. Plate has got to be worth a few quid too being a single digit.



All the best for the arrival of ickle Ron. Bet you are looking forward to sweets and chocolate getting mushed into your car seats in a few years time

cheers mate, yea the plate might be, is quite an unusual plate, has been on it since new, so will prob just leave it on yea looking forward to all the mess the little buggers gonna make lmao

That is a nice GSi 2000...... i'll have another before they are all gone!



Nice one.

cheers mate, yea ive wanted one for ages, and this was a pretty good excuse to get one

Nice looking car. Always had a soft spot for the GSi;s. The mate used to have one identical to that7-8years ago which I was going to buy but it got stolen

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Looks great out in the sun. Good work with the bits youve done.

cheers mate yea does shine up well as long as you dont look too close

nice to see another cav project on here! the best stock colour too imho

cheers mate, yea do think they look very classy in this colour

aaaahh those seats were the bain of my life for about a year, i'm lucky my nipper is in a booster seat now



how long till the new arrival?

tell me bout it, took me bout half an hour to work out how to put the bloody thing in lmao babys due date is 2nd august, but is looking to be any day now

good stuff rc its mint



help this guy out btw pm on way

cheers fellow cavver lmao i'll get onit

Hmm i give it a year

lmao nope i'll reist

Stick a diesel lump in it. You know you wanna.

i was gonna get a diesel and put a gsi kit on it as the new family run around, but i new i really would of got bored with that and put a red top in it anyway lmao

Looks very nice ronnie

cheers mate exactly wat i wanted

i've always loved the cav GSI's and specially in that colour! stick a laguna splitter on it, the personally think that splitter really suits them!

i did see loads at billing with lagauna splitters and really suited them so if i come across one in the scrappy it will be going on

swoon. sits lovely ronnie the styling is just right probably why it never changed for the flagship turbo's

yea ive always loved the cav gsi/turbos, look perfect, must of caused quite a stir when they came out i would of thought i was only 5 at the time though

oooh nice ron, i have a FULL black leather interior (dash, all trim etc) you can have very cheap if you want

pm coming your way

[djivesp]

OMG, i'm pretty sure they're my old wheels lmao roybacer picked them up from me on the way back after buying this cav lmao. Legendary. They've been all over the fookin country lmao.
Looks nice though, liking it muchly

[rc]

OMG, i'm pretty sure they're my old wheels lmao roybacer picked them up from me on the way back after buying this cav lmao. Legendary. They've been all over the fookin country lmao.
Looks nice though, liking it muchly

lmao cheers mate, small world hey

[rc]

was browsing through ebay, and saw there was some mint diplomat leather seats, 15miles away i was on it, emailed him, phoned them up, and went and got it today





all the seats, but he didnt have the cards



he did banger racing and he had a whole diplomat he broke to use for bangers, and he threw away all the other stuff, all the matching door cards and trims, all the aircon and stuff if only he'd advitised the whole thing before he raced it could of specced it up to the max aw well

so my seats all out



front seats went all in as expected, but i had been told diplomat rearleather wouldnt rit as the floor are different for cars with independent rear suspension (*gsi's and turbo's) rather than the rest of the cav range with a rear beam, so i though id see how much was wrong, the two ends of the back rest were fine, but the middle wasnt



but a couple of self tapping bolts and happy days, the bottoms were totally differnt though

fit in the place nice



but fall out as soon as you try and touch them



theyre compleatly differnt, the hinges and back where it rests



so it needs some turbo rear seats..... or some super custom brackets

but for now its got the light grey standard stuff lmao



looks a millions times better with black interior



now heres a real total scool boy error that everyone is gonna laugh at.. ok ok.... but ive never had a cav before lmao

on the centre consol buttons (what a crap place to put the window buttons by the way )



what does the round button do that's between the child lock window button and the drivers seat

how the hell do you set the clock on the trip computer

and where do the heather seats buttons go on a diplomat/turbo?

[SteveM]

I think you hold the button in to force the windows to move, and ignore the safety feature where they stop moving when they feel resistence. useful if it ices up i think. Trip computer you set with those 2 tiny buttons on the seperating bit of the switch, use a pin or something. And the heated seat switches go in a special panel in the cubby hole underneath the ash tray

[Fow16v]

and so it begins lol

[escort1989uk]

can you not take the covers of the rear bench and transfer it to the cloth seat base's

[rc]

I think you hold the button in to force the windows to move, and ignore the safety feature where they stop moving when they feel resistence. useful if it ices up i think. Trip computer you set with those 2 tiny buttons on the seperating bit of the switch, use a pin or something. And the heated seat switches go in a special panel in the cubby hole underneath the ash tray

ahhh i didnt see those two little buttons for the clock untill just seeing that pic up big ah that'll be why the button doesnt seem to do anything then, been pressing it for ages, prob wore it out now lmao

and so it begins lol

ahhhh no this is what i origionally said put the big brakes off the van, and give it top spec leather interior

can you not take the covers of the rear bench and transfer it to the cloth seat base's

na the normal saloons have two piece rear base, and my gsi cloth has a one piece base, i beleive the turbos also have a one piece base!

[Dell Balallan]

very nice! Looks like a clean example, I will be watching this one to, these threads always seem to be a great read!

[rc]

very nice! Looks like a clean example, I will be watching this one to, these threads always seem to be a great read!

cheers matey

[leesturbo]

the button actually turns off the rear elec windows so ya kiddies can't mess
Edit: opps just re read that! is it a button? i don't remember being any other button maybe a position for something to go there but not actually a button
p.s you do know about the pull the headlight switch for interior light ? and to close all windows if you've already got out the car using the key? just hold the key in the lock position for 3secs then the windows go up