Your car would be fine in your car, you might want to think about fitting some bigger brakes, but thats only cheap.

The better your brakes / suspension the more you will get out of what you have.

already got an exhuast and bfo cone.

not worth doing much more to a 1 litre is there!

it past its mot as cheap as u can and then get it superchiped, powerflow exahust and pvd induction kit if its more power your realy after!!!!!!!!!!

i know my local garage said they might be able to do it for nearer £300.

but tbh im just looking for an excuse to get a new engine! lol. any ideas on price?

take it to a back street garage and get it fixed there, dont take it to vaux, ever! unless under warranty, lol

my car recently failed its MOT :| and i thought okay shouldnt be too much to sort out...

until vauxhall phoned me back quoting £535 for what needs doing! so anyway i was thinking fcuk that... spending over £500 on my 1.0 12v but then i had a good idea. shove another eninge in there!

i dont wanna go for a 2.0 cause it costs too much and i dont wanna have uprate other things. however will i get away with putting in say a GSi engine and keeping my suspension (lowered 40mm on PI springs) etc? how much am i looking for the engine, and how much to install it? and where would i go about doing this? please help cause i need to sort it soon! cheers :)