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Keith Piper

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17th Feb 04 at 20:29

Just bought a 4x4 Cav off my mate. How easy do u reckon to fit into a corsa shell for maybe a track day car?

AdamF

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17th Feb 04 at 20:34

how do you mean engine or 4x4?

Keith Piper

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17th Feb 04 at 20:36

Whole lot. Could be a challenge

AdamF

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17th Feb 04 at 20:38

yes very challenging mate will need to weld the cav floor pan in for propshaft tunnel, shorten propshaft and find someway of mounting rear diff at the very least.

Keith Piper

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17th Feb 04 at 20:41

Well everything was cheap so I might go fo it. Also I hear that a pug MI16 head bolts on to a 2.0 cav block. Anybody else heard of this?

miles

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17th Feb 04 at 20:42

Not heard of that.

Why would you want to anyway?

miles

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17th Feb 04 at 20:42

This is a 2.0 8v I take it?

Keith Piper

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17th Feb 04 at 20:44

2.0 16v red top. Thought 4wd might give better handling

Adam-D

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17th Feb 04 at 20:47

you would have to cut both floor pans shorten the cav one to fit, fabricate a rear suspension setup, shorten the proshaft and fit the rear cav setup for the hubs etc and possibly shorten those shafts aswell

Keith Piper

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17th Feb 04 at 20:50

And theres me thinkin it was going to be hard

Adam-D

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17th Feb 04 at 20:54

good stuff if you can machine all the parts go for it
only real headace for me would be the independant rear suspension setup and mounting the rear diff and finding a new home for fuel tank and filler and routing of the exhaust

Ian

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18th Feb 04 at 03:26

Keep us posted!

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18th Feb 04 at 10:36

quote:
Originally posted by Keith Piper
Well everything was cheap so I might go fo it. Also I hear that a pug MI16 head bolts on to a 2.0 cav block. Anybody else heard of this?

there isa thread on mig about this keith, apparently there very very similar and has been done before

BeArDy

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18th Feb 04 at 14:20

Used 4x4 system from Calibra Turbo or Cav.
Increased front track with of corsa so that it is the same as the cav. (as using cav driveshafts all round)
Removed steering rack & refitted 30mm higher up bulkhead so as to clear transferbox. Still very tight though.
Fabricated new lower crossmember to accept rear gearbox mount.

Rear- cut original corsa floor pan out to behind front seats. Weld in Cav floor pan to mount original cav independant rear suspension & diff. Petrol tank fabricated in boot.

Prop shaft shortened by 180mm. (taken from the the third section of the shaft at the rear diff end).

It is possible to do, but involves a lot of time to make parts, fit them, remove them, modifiy them then refit them etc.

engines is easy side

PaulW

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18th Feb 04 at 14:30

will be starting this myself within a few months once sourced a good enough cally turbo

uncle is helping me out with all the welding & body mods required, which is nice!

PaulW

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18th Feb 04 at 14:31

beardy - out of interest, do you know how much wider the front track would need to be to match up with the cally turbo one?

Keith Piper

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19th Feb 04 at 19:56

I might actually have a go at this now. Only problem is the missus hasnt spoken to be since I got home with mattb's old shell. 2 days of peace and quiet so far!