Project Freeze My Ass Off (rear Poly Bush's Astra G)

MikeS

does it not replace the existing oil pressure switch ?

evocarlos

MikeS said:
does it not replace the existing oil pressure switch ?

no idea mike ive never fitted one before
is there room down there at the front for the sender ?
found a plug at the rear of the head thats m12x1.75 so will need to get an adapter if i put it there

evocarlos

after a quick call to vx they tell me the standard oil pressure switch is m14 x 1.5 can anyone confirm ?
will have a look under the car to see if theres room may need to run the sender remotely or use that rear plug m12 x 1.75 hard to come by pirtek dont stock anything locally 🙁

evocarlos

i want to do something silly to the car i've run out of things to do lol
thinking along the lines of
z22net
aftermarket ecu
remote turbo
stainless manifold
engine prep
anyone lend me a few quid lol

corsaZ22se

stick the latest 2L turbo lump in it from the astra gtc, 280hp in standard form. and its based on the good old z22se! (y)

evocarlos

corsaZ22se said:
stick the latest 2L turbo lump in it from the astra gtc, 280hp in standard form. and its based on the good old z22se! (y)

thats gonna be sooooooooooo expensive lol

here some its not my car but dads 4x4 i took it for an mot this morning
if failed 🙁
rear anti roll bar link and front anti roll bar link and a brake pipe corroded

set about getting some spawning brushes for me pond then realized there was a europart next door to the water life shop lol

what a fuck up that place europarts is not going to be buying there again
brake pipe and fittings (let me know if you need any made up 🙂)

kernakerd rear ARB link

new one fitted

the front was a right ball ake euro parts gave us the right part but for the wrong side it was a RH in a LH box
heres dad looking happy 🙂

had to cut the link in half then remove the anti roll bar
the lower bush part was stuck on the car and had to use stilsons to get the bit off

happy im not lol not with the 19 year old car and not with euro parts messing the parts up

evocarlos

corsaZ22se said:
stick the latest 2L turbo lump in it from the astra gtc, 280hp in standard form. and its based on the good old z22se! (y)

have been looking just need to find the part numbers for the manifold and turbo then
overnight parts from japan 🙂
twin scroll turboage 🙂

corsaZ22se

wount be long before they are around in the breakers complete engines for a few grand. work out cheeper than converting a n/a to turbo. or just get a b207r lump I think it is from a saab for a lot less! saab boys running into 400bhp with out major mods just bolt on parts. 🙂

evocarlos

i have already found a complete vxr j engine 🙂 but its about £2500 out of my price range

dads car almost done just need to make the brake pipe up
arb links done after a 2nd visit to europarts

right on to my car its not good :s
my oil pressure light on the dash has not worked for as long as i can remember so picked up a new pressure switch today for europarts when getting the right part for dads car well they fucked it up again its the wrong part i'm just going to leave it unplugged for now

i then went on to redo the center joint on the exhaust as it was blowing but found a problem broken flexy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlVRpGHdQqw

so started to take off the the down pipe and had one of the studs snap off in the flange
then went to take the manifold of to fix the broken stud but then found 4 of the studs on the manifold loose and one broken
one broke the tip while trying to remove it

bastard! thats where my ticking has been coming from

all out

and here shows the blowing and the broke off stud

next step
no idea cars off the road till i can get it sorted

MikeS

lol mani studs dont like you 😛

it is so easy to snap em off

I refuse to use a socket on em

evocarlos

MikeS said:
lol mani studs dont like you :p
it is so easy to snap em off
I refuse to use a socket on em

its tru lol
but this one was already broken all that was holding it was 2 threads
you can see the end of the broken stud is dirty meaning its been broke a while if it had been just done it would be shiny like the star bit that i broke off 🙁
it was done when the cat was bashed on a mates drive some time back

pottsey

ahhh shit not good carl ,hope you get it sorted soon mate

evocarlos

makes me wish i had £500 to just buy the engine i want but im fucking skint

evocarlos

just nudged me dad and he give me these

have to say its great having a dad thats an engineer
will see what the morning brings

evocarlos

manifold fixed

3 way egr cut off lol manifold blanked off with weld egr blanking plate and inlet egr pipe blocked off

corsaZ22se

good work as allways (y)
when you refit the manifold use copper nuts, makes removing in future much easier!
should be copper on down pipe to mani as well.
i'll have to see if I can borrow a can of JD penetrating fluid for you, its great stuff, even better because its free!!
stripped the head of my cousins disco yesterday in 1.5hours with tidy up time too soaked all bolts with fluid easy job 🙂
2.5k for astra j engines not bad if its the new gtc one, bit steep if its the old z20ler though.

MikeS

is that closest to the chain ?

evocarlos

MikeS said:
is that closest to the chain ?

yes mike its the pain in the ass one as theres no room for a drill lol

i used an old m4 tap to mark the center it took 2-3 hits to get it marked then i did start with a 4mm drill but was too big and starting to go blunt so dropped down to an 3mm i think

found the center and went about 8mm in

bit of plus gas on the stub and a wait of 30 min for it to penetrate

#2 stud extractor fitted

woo fuking hoo 🙂

not alot of room to work lol

MikeS

nice work m8

need mine doing as well 😛

evocarlos

cheer mike 🙂
yours is the other end on the top ?
might be able to do that one with just removing the pipe work to the heater matrix

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