Jodi_the_g
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Registered: 7th Aug 01
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Where would people recommend I source the engine from
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Ally
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Registered: 2nd Jul 03
Location: Pontypool Drives: a Skoda
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could rip the engine out of my dads car, you could pay me and we could pretend it got nicked?
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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depends, do you want the 8v or 16v engine...
if 8v get from a Cav SRi 130, if 16v, then either Astra GSi Mk3, Mk2 GTE 16v, Calibra 16v, or Cav GSI-2000
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Daimo B
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An auction 
Get a whole Astra GTE for around £300-£400
Nab the rear discs
Poss the digi dash
engine
front brakes
Then sell the rest as parts, then scrap it 
Cheapest and bestest way. Otherwise ur payign £300-£500 for an engine alone.
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Jodi_the_g
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Don't want some oldish engine the engine in the corsa at the moment as only done 26k
Also is in possable to put all most any GM engine in a corsa
[Edited on 11-05-2004 by Jodi_the_g]
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PaulW
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Get a shitter of an XE then, say try find a blown one but with a good box & loom/ecu for about a ton, maybe 150 tops...
take the block to vaux & hand over 1200 quid, they'll give you a new block, head, basically the main part of the engine all brand new & ready to drop in!
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Daimo B
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quote: Originally posted by Jodi_the_g
Don't want some oldish engine the engine in the corsa at the moment as only done 26k
Also is in possable to put all most any GM engine in a corsa
[Edited on 11-05-2004 by Jodi_the_g]
Mine had 45k when i fitted mine (96 P reg car). Bit daunting putting a 90k+ engine in it, but worth it.
Unless you put a new engine in it, i can't see how you could do it cheaply.
Only other thing is to fork out for a complete re-build, but then if the engines ok, theres not much point.
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Siberia
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Registered: 9th Oct 03
Location: Leprechaun Land Drives : Zafira GSI
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quote: Originally posted by Daimo B
An auction 
Get a whole Astra GTE for around £300-£400
that cheap??? fark!
[Edited on 11-05-2004 by Siberia]
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J da Silva
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you wont get an XE or LET these days with lower miles than 60k miles unless its rebuilt
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