Forum: UK Owners: Diaries, Restorations & Tuning

Hello , here is my SRi , its a nice car just in need of tlc, it was repainted with new 1/4 panels and a few nice touches in 2003. A blone brought it from a forum member in Glasgow a few years ago , then another forum member bought it and kept it in good nick. So far I've only put a badge on...

Hi all, thought I'd better introduce myself, or rather my car .... Some of you may have seen my post over on MIG, thought as this is a MK2 forum it would be well placed here too :Banane44: Way back some time ago I owned an Astra GTE 88, had it for quite a few years and did a couple of...

After 3 years off the road, and 10 months of restoration my old bus is back on the road again. Passed the MOT on Tuesday, 300 miles later and I'm still getting grinning from ear to ear. Heres the old bus as she looks now: Picky of the inside - still got the origional radio/cassette...

Going to be doing a few jobs to the car over the next few weekends to rectify some problems that the previous owner "covered up" before i bought the car My dad owns an MOT station and has inspected the car, he told me that if he had MOT'd it then it WOULD have failed :yuck: Problems so far ...

Well thought I'd start my own diary on here for my white GTE so you can all see how its progressing. Anyway this is as I bought her, a white 1990 GTE 16v with 135k miles... Prevous owner had spent a fair amount on money having full respray with new rear arch's, cills, polybush's all...

right here goes, about a year ago i was the owner of a mk3 sport fitted with a c20xe engine [/URL] but due to some old dithering git not been able to see my parked car this happened...... (http://img94.imageshack.us/i/p120809075001.jpg/) so i now had a dilema...! i needed a car QUICK but...

Well finally started on my restoration project. Well when I say started I mean plans have been drawn up (it has been raining today:) ) Made a note of parts needed and parts to be replaced, also worked out what needs doing first. Not too many parts needed but some will cost a bit. Bodywork,...

Well I am a new member with a new car and I thought I would start a build diary or what ever you call it, I have had a couple of GTE's in the past and these days being a bit disabled another project was called for, my other project (non vauxhall) will be a long time yet so I need another car for...

hi guys heres my astra gte 1.8 turbo technics i bought on the 8/8/10 from a guy in devon i traveled from derbyshire to collect. i took it to santa pod today did 4 runs best time was 16.6 did not really hook up a good run up tho. it will need a fair bit of work over winter and did develop some...

Well it's about time i started one of these considering it's back in the garage now after a 7 year spell in the back garden. he's the story, hope it doesn't bore you guys to much.. when i was 16 (now 26) my dad owned a garage, a customer wanted a quick sale on a mk2 astra 1.2 merit. it needed...

Ok well thought I'd add the story of how I got my car and what its been doing read if you like dont if you dont hehe :D Well it all started off in march this year when my beloved civic finally bit the dust with bottom end failure. I needed a car quickly and cheaply as I was stoney broke at the...

Well the GTE has been sitting around for over 10 months now and i've done sod all lol. But as after having a look around spankee's Mk2 at Billing it is certainly time to crack on, along with a lot of motivation from my track car partner. Started stripping the bay

Thought would start a progress thread . sorted a few things out today it had a really bad oil leak from gearbox fault was drive shaft seal on FWD kit and allso the gearbox sump plug was hand tight (shock) and allso missing the little collar for the FWD kit lucky i had spares of everything...

I was going to do the body work on my current car but the GTE Tom Stickland was selling came at the right price and looked in good nick so went down to take a look and its now sitting on my drive :veryhappy: My plans are as follows. Spend the time to prep and carry out preventative work...

It's been sat in my garage a year and I'm finally getting around to doing stuff with it. Purchased full Champion interior from Fez off here last month. Yet to fit. Purchasing some paint and champ graphics off Mick G. Purchased Cosworth T3 turbocharger off Ebay yesterday sending off for...

I thought it was about time I posted some pics of my girlfriends SRi. I made her buy it as it was to good to miss and I already had a number of cars registed in my name at the time. It was bought in Feb 2005 with 28K on the clock and it was originally a dealer owned car which was then bought by an...

hello peeps thought i would share some of the problems i have found with my belovered gte as you can see from the pics i have some work to be done am aware of hadrian panels just would like some thoughts and veiws n witch way to go forward as i want the gte back on the road for summer time...