d0gz_bollox
Member
Registered: 8th Apr 02
Location: Walsall
User status: Offline
|
confidence for what?
you get stuck, ask some1
|
Rob H
Member
Registered: 28th Oct 00
Location: Staffordshire Drives: Astra SRi
User status: Offline
|
They stopped using the engine in about 94-95 i think, thinks its even before then. You try and find a 9 year + old engine thats done less than 80k. If you think the average is 12k a a year, and most of the cars it was used in were large/meduim family cars prone to doing lots of milage, your going to have a job finding one.
[Edited on 18-06-2003 by Rob H]
|
cobra148
Member
Registered: 27th Oct 01
Location: Here in front of my monitor.....
User status: Offline
|
They might get lucky and get a Sunday driver one like yours Rob 
|
BeArDy
Member
Registered: 7th Aug 00
Location: Manchester
User status: Offline
|
i was lucky i got a engine with 70k on for 250  (no box)
i am using tappered driveshafts and no problems at all, and Vauxgirl has used them for 4 years and no problems aswell, u just here all the storys of them snapping, never the ones that are ok.
can do a engine conv in 24 hours (if everthing is ok)
[Edited on 18-06-2003 by BeArDy]
|
BeArDy
Member
Registered: 7th Aug 00
Location: Manchester
User status: Offline
|
price is-
500 engine,box,loom,ecu,brakes.... (alittle expensive but u get a 6 months garentee)
500 fitting parts
500 labour
|
Rob H
Member
Registered: 28th Oct 00
Location: Staffordshire Drives: Astra SRi
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by cobra148
They might get lucky and get a Sunday driver one like yours Rob
Yeah, but then my engine was 6 years old, and came from a corsa which is Driven by hundreds of grannys across the country, who also use theitr cars to go to the shops once a week 
[In case your wondering what he's talking about, ive got a P plate 1.2, that i bought with 8,900 genuine miles on the clock in september ]
The problem with the 2.0's is that most of them are going to be in cavs and callys that have been used as company cars, or in astras that have been used a family cars, so the milage is gonna high in most of them.
Only other option is to use the Ecotec 136Bhp engine. Its not as cheap to tune than the redtop, but your much more likely to get one with low milage, as there still using the engine to date, or at least they have been upto the last couple of years 
|
lee mitchell
Member
Registered: 26th Jan 01
Location: kent...drive's: eveyones conversion cars hard lol
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Dave Hay
what driveshaft setup do you use then lee ????
powercap used in your conversion too?
i use pvd shafts and hubs. make my own mounts and spacers. and then either use a powercap or the vauxhall ecotec pipe. just depends on what people want
|
