Project: Lady Vette

[DannyE32]

beautiful car.

whats the specs on the engine?

[electricalbox]

Amazing, such an awesome car!

[Majend]

really digging the gt, thing is too cool

also loving the rado you had, the seven slots are brilliant, is there a build thread on that?

have a good mate who just picked up a 93 vr6 with 68k original, it's always fun to see what else has been done to them

i actually sold that car to buy this one hehe

Not quite sure where you`d find conrod bolts in USA, but i see Summit Racing are selling kits for the 2.0 16v engines, they would probably be able to find bolts for your CIH aswell Seeing as the GT actually has a following stateside Talking about brakes, seems like the earlymid nineties Pontiac GTO is also buildt on the Opel Omega B platform, could be another cheap source of parts for big brakes

sounds good, i went down with a couple of the guys i share the shop with to drop the motor and ran into a problem. i got everything off and ready but the speedo cable which according to the manual i need a special tool to get it out. gonna do some reading and see what i can come up with.

[Mad_Maxx]

Not quite sure where you`d find conrod bolts in USA, but i see Summit Racing are selling kits for the 2.0 16v engines, they would probably be able to find bolts for your CIH aswell Seeing as the GT actually has a following stateside Talking about brakes, seems like the early\mid nineties Pontiac GTO is also buildt on the Opel Omega B platform, could be another cheap source of parts for big brakes

[softg]

really digging the gt, thing is too cool

also loving the rado you had, the seven slots are brilliant, is there a build thread on that?

have a good mate who just picked up a 93 vr6 with 68k original, it's always fun to see what else has been done to them

[Majend]

i'll have to look into it, do you happen to know where i can find those rod bolts, i am having hard time finding parts. I did find 12.0 to 1 positions though... hehe

[Mad_Maxx]

Nice little GT! As for brake upgrades, i think Opel Omega MV6 brakes fit up front, with some modifications (enlargen the centre hole on the disc, and redrill it to 4x98mm, and i think you`d need to make some sort of spacer for the caliper) The Omega MV6 is the same as the Cadillac Catera over there, so shouldnt be too hard to find? I also see several cheap brands making brake kits that fit Opel Ascona\Kadett, but they tend to be pricey.... Got a Omega brake set for the front of one of my cars for a couple of hundred bucks, including steel braided brake hoses PS! The bolts for conrods seem to be kinda crap on old CIH engines like you have, so if they havent been changed, i`d go for ARP replacements
Shameless whoring of my Opel

[Majend]

Went down to the shop to work for a bit. Originally i was planning on pulling the motor but that didn't end up happening. For starters i didn't have anything to drain the oil into and i didn't want it to just lay around and i also didn't want to be under an unbolted motor with no one else in the shop.

So i ended up pulling everything that was left on the motor that needed to come off for it to come out (aside from the remote oil filter) and called it a day.





got our first real snow at the shop too



thats it for now. next is pulling and cleaning the motor and taking the two heads over to headworks for them to do what needs to be done on that end. It has been remarkable how easy a lot of this stuff has been coming off considering the cars age. it has made things so much more fun!

[Majend]

here is a little sneak peak of the skateboard...



wanted to go whole hog with building it since this is the kind of stuff i really like to do.

[ChristopherJason]

cant wait for more on this. seems like a fun little car to bomb around in.

[Majend]

picked up a board to make into a custom matching slam board to roll around shows. gonna try and finish it up this weekend and post some pics.

[Chuckdee]

that seems like a challenge. good luck with that.

[Majend]

Another small update. Went down to the shop today to pick up the wheels so they could be picked up by the new owner tomorrow and i thought i might as well do a little work.

I went to a bunch of different stores trying to find wire labels. I finally found some and then went down to the shop and started labeling the wires incase i needed to reference them later. However, after poking around and pulling some things i think it is going to be easier to just start fresh.



To give you an idea of how bad it was there were six different eyelet connections on the starter... Got a lot of the harness disconnected (enough to pull the motor) and set it aside for the time being.



you can't really see from the pic but where most of the harness goes through the bulkhead is sealed with a boatload of sealant and it is going to be a bitch to get it out so i can finish pulling the harness.

[Majend]

it is easier to work on than the corrado was which it nice but the motor i am using is hard to find parts for here in the US since it was never used in US cars.

took all of ten minutes to sell the wheels which is nice considering they will be useless out here in MN till the spring.

gonna go down tomorrow and start to label the wiring and maybe start pulling some of it out

[dav3design]

Phwoar!

I bet it is a pleasure to work on that car!