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Mk4 Astra gsi - Arden blue

9K views 6 replies 4 participants last post by  racingsnake2  
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Finally got a new project after loosing my way with cars recently

Been on mig years but keep in the back ground, car history

Few nova's - 2 sr's gte gsi
Mk3 Astra gsi - speedline mistrals, throttle bodied c20xe, custom interior owned 7 years broke for parts
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Mk4 Sri turbo - few mods
Mk4 Sri turbo - fully modified 280bhp bbs ch etc and total Vauxhall feature
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Mk4 Sri turbo - bought as cheap track car 300bhp
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Mk5 Astra cdti 888 - awesome car but money pit and baby boy on way meant not practical
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Mk5 Astra Sri turbo 200 - 5 doors and boring, wife got an Astra estate allowing me a
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Which leads to the current mk4 Astra gsi and hopefully hear to stay as had to many swaps in last couple of years

Plans - tidy, tune generally make it a very clean fast road car, want it quite original looking but with big brakes, decent suspension etc

After a long search finally found a decent example 84,000 miles fsh and far better than a lot of others I looked at, and standard

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Came with xenon s and washers
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So far car is been stripped and cleaned more progress to follow
 
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Yes loved the black one, but got a good offer and sold it, sort of regret but then I got to own a 888, well car is cleaning up well must be one of the cleanest cars left on the road, amazed me more and more as I clean it
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Update - selling up as recent redundancy and now new job means diesel and van needed gutted but needs must, will add pics what I've done to it, but its immaculate body wise and had brand new brakes all round, brand new bilstiens and eibachs, drop links, powder coated alloys and new toyos, car did 10 miles in five months then new job I've done 2000 miles in 4 weeks lol