Xedrah's Kadett GSi 2.3 16V

[Xedrah]

Well, as you may have read, I have a lot of plans for the coming winterperiod with my Astra.

In short:
- welding engine bay
- quickrak
- lower suspension
- 2.2 or 2.3 bottom end (tuned and renewed)
- maybe other cams
- Alu flywheel
- ultralight crankshaft
- stutbrace
- reprogramming DTA
- new head and rear lights
- some other things...

Last week I removed the engine, step 1



This week I'm working on the engine bay and I will disassemble the 20XE engine tomorrow.



The crankshaft is ready, only needs to be balanced in combination with the new flywheel. So that's on hold.











Keep u posted.

[Xedrah]

No comments, remarks or question anyone. LOL

[Rob_S]

thats a sweet bit of crank lightening mate!! work of art lol
you getting it re-nitrided or similar tho? as it will be weakened

[Xedrah]

you getting it re-nitrided?

Yep, I will do that.

[Rob_S]

sweet, good job
you do it yourself then? cos thats impressive (assuming it works )

[Jon S]

thats a mad crank . let us know what it runs like?

[Gander]

Impressive stuff, looks like your fully equipped for the task in hand, I just wish I had somewhere indoors to do mine!

[Tom]

How much have you lightened the crank by ? Looks very impressive !

[Xedrah]

Thanks all of you.

I do a lot of things myself, but I also have a lot of help of someone with many, many years of experience. He is the owner of a tuning company. FCG Engineering, see http://www.freddycane.com He has abused dozens (?) of crankshafts this way.

The crank was originally about 18,5 kilo's, now it's a bit less than 13 kilo's. At this moment I have more or less the same crank in my Nova 2.0 16V. I revs like a beast and idless perfectly.

[REMUS]

Very nice! what is this car going to be for personal pleasure, sprint rally... etc?

[Xedrah]

Ow, ow. I've had a bit painfull weekend. LOL

I planned to use my old 20XE pistons for my new 2.2 engine. But as I found out this weekend, the're worn to much. That means that I need new pistons.
Costs a lot of money...

To do it right, I ordered 88mm DTM pistons. It 'll be a 2.4 liter engine then.
It's a bit of a shock, because I didn't plan these expenses, but on the other side: it has some advantages.

[Rob_S]

nice move, you may as well

[Xedrah]

Mmm, scuse me. 88mm pistons makes 2301 cc and not 2.4 liter. Nobody noticed this?

[Rob_S]

i did, but i really couldnt be bothered questionning

[Xedrah]

Welding of the engine is almost done. I'll make a few photos coming thursday.

Ordered some new stuff today:
Mocal oilcooler 10 x 33 cm


Additional stuff


A quickrak