DEEKS old 380bhp vectra to be saab powered

[westyvan1]

after owning deeks old saab powered astra van i sold this last year and missed it so much i decided to build my own 2.3 saab mk3 astra van same spec but with a quaffe lsd f28. i havent yet finishedthe van to how i want it but its on the road and running very well. i then spoke to deek about buying his vectra as with no engine so we agreed a price andi then took it home i am now going to put my spare saab 2.0 turbo engine in hopefully the next few weeks

[westyvan1]

ok a little update jet washed the engine bay and it is pretty mint seems the car had a full respray so ive lowered the engine in place running a f23 gearbox im after a f23 front gbox mount if anyone has one

[Spankee]

Remember that vec well ..how is deek these days not heard from him in ages Great project on his old motor thats right it had a full on respray ages back lovely colour has it still got the cage and 19 inch rims .......

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[westyvan1]

hello mate i speak to deek a few times a week hes keeping well still at saab lol. hes off the car scene now just has a chipped diesel saab. the car has no cage but everything else im trying to get the wheels off him friday but may opt for a different set i will post pics up weekend the car is still mint as of when he had it

[woodenspatulas]

B204L I presume?
Worth doing, mines been pretty faultless for over two years now and I'm just peicing the upgrades needed to push closer to 300bhp.

Be interested to see how you over come the height of the wedge shaped cam cover

[chip]

Suprised Deek never did that himself TBH, he certainly thought about it as he was telling me he was thinking about it when I featured his van.

[woodenspatulas]

I remember reading about his vectra and thought he was going to beat us to getting one in a vectra. I remember thinking he was a git for getting into TV with a Saab powered Vx first

[chip]

Van feature was a bit of a pain, it totally and utterly chucked it down when we were trying to get the pics, had to shoot a lot of it indoors in an abandoned anderson hut out the back of a kart track.
Fair play to the photographer though, still managed to get some great shots and then followed it up with a few awesome outdoor ones with dramatic skyline etc when the raised eased off

[westyvan1]

deek had ideas of building the vectra to 500hp but hes renting a house now so has other things to come first i suppose. all ive done so far is lowered the saab engine out of my 900 into the vectra as im waiting for a f23 gbox mount. im not sure what i will come across as ive never fitted one into anything other than my mk3 van but any info will be appreciated mate we have quite a few vauxhalls in cambridge a good few yrs ago my mates cav turbo was featured along with deeks vectra and its still mint and running 300hp and theres a modded corsa vxr which looks stunning maybe we could get all of us together and do a shoot one day