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that looks fantastic 8) 8) 8) 8)

i know that problem well my son takes my computer over as soon as he gets in and its straight onto bebo/facebook/live messenger and bobs your uncle after spending a whole evening chasing down and eliminating all bugs and virus's there straight back on again > > >

ditch the rest and join up with the best ;D ;D ;D ;D

hi mate and welcome to the site nice to see another Mk2 cav going to a good home I'm loving the photo of the Opel manta A and the Mk1 sports hatch really cool retro stuff ;D

welcome to the site lets hope we get some good weather so you can drive her with the top down ;D ;D ;D your one lucky chap having 2 Mk1 Astra's especially a gte Ive got a few gte spares stashed away along with my spares for the ascona

welcome to the site nice lookig cabby you've got there have you any photos of your other mk2's please

definition of the word f**d Fix Or Repair Daily ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

how about something like this

hi mate welcome to this site thats a nice pair of asconas you have got there

welcome to mk2 cav base model ownership a least you have got 2 door mirrors on your cav mine's only got one on the right hand door no clock and only one rear foglight a big well done for firstly rescuing a low spec mk2 cav as these models tend to get overlooked in favor of the higher spec models and secondly for taking on one with accident damage which would have put alot of people off buying it good luck with your project

it sounds like you are not the only one to be suffering from a hangover whats happened this time fuel pump problems again ?

billing is one of the largest meetings of the year it caters of all vauxhall/opel/bedford models from 1907 right up to the present day billing is held near northampton in early july its a show not to be missed

if you only attend one show a year it has to be billing i would not miss it for the world

it would make an ideal starter cav because of the 1300 cc engine the tax and insurence would be cheap only snag is you can't drive it yet but don't let that stop you getting it

now you have joined up all we have to do is kit you out with a Mk2 cavalier there's one one ebay its a early 1.3 l hatch in red and it would make a nice little starter project its taxed until April and has mot until Jan 2010 so you can drive it while restoring buy it now £350 or best offer i reckon £250 cash and its yours

i thought rabbit was buying it has the deal fallen through ?

then i think we can forget about pistons/rings and rebore just replace the head gasket with a good quality one and bobs your uncle and don't forget to use new head bolts unbolt the exhaust manifold but leave the inlet manifold attatched as it gives you somthing to handle the head with but watch out for the rocker arm thrust pads falling off the top of the valve springs when you refit the camshaft

i doubt if the engine will need pistons or a re bore i had a Mk3 cav 1400 which is basically the same as your 1300 it blew a head gasket at 218,000 miles on the clock and when i took the head off and checked the bores for wear there was hardly any wear at all

do the head gasket mate its only a 3 to 4 hour job depending on how experienced you are at working on engines an engine swap would take a lot longer plus it would lose its originality the extra power would be partly offset by the increase in weight and the fuel consumption would be roughly the same as it is now 1.6 Mk2 cav engines are very hard to get now the other option would be a small block sv 1600 out of an early Mk3 cav but even these are getting hard to find spending an hour reading up from the Haynes workshop manual will save you time in the long run

here you go mate photo as promised

email the photos to me and i will post them up for you

welcome to the site mate you will find lots of new friends on here any chance of some photos of your cav is it a saloon or hatch in some ways you are lucky to have a 1.3 engined cav they are very few of them left now

you lucky blighter its a lovely looking cav i do hope that the mods you have listed are the only ones you are doing to her original early spec GL's are like rocking horse poo to find now i hope to see her at billing this year top marks to you for getting this one

hi bruce welcome to the mk2 cav site the answer to if you old sri is still on the road ive done a check on the dvla website and it's not looking good her last tax disc ran out on 31/1/1995 so the chances of her still surviving are very slim

my 1st car was a 1159 cc viva hb in blue my older brother had a 2000cc viva gt and i got fed up of being left behind at the traffic lights so i fitted an 2.0 lump out of a smashed up vx 4/90 along with the brakes etc had loads of fun in it utill some lowlife nicked it and wrote it off