
ant0ny
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Brisbane Australia
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Vauxhall Cavalier SRi
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Restore the Mk2 Cav
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As Steve mentioned I'll try tapping the thread first.
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True Mark but you must have skipped the bit where I said "First big problem... the 4 wheel bolts on the drivers side wheel where virtually striped and the thread in the hub is damaged on all four."
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Yeah the bigger ones are the go but I just noticed that the spring plate on the Calibra struts sit 2" lower than the Cav struts so I will effectively lower the car by 2" using the Cav springs but a grind and re weld would fix that... then the Calibra strut thread is bigger so it wont fit the Cav strut top and of course the Cav struts dont have a standard shock that just slides into the strut... it's oil and bits. So pack up for the night and I'll run a tap through the threads tomorrow arvo and see if it cleans up ok to keep it on the road for now and just buy shocks and mod the Calibra struts
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Drove the Cav to work today and wasn't confident with the brakes... so tonight I decided to take off the wheel and have a look at the pads. First big problem... the 4 wheel bolts on the drivers side wheel where virtually striped and the thread in the hub is damaged on all four. Might explain a vibration in the front at 110km/h so good thing I checked. Now this is having a big knock on effect because I just realised as I started to remove the strut the spare I have for the Mk2 Astra is a Calibra set... which is good having bigger brakes but now the 14" wheels don't fit so I either have to use
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Thanks ... hey where do you get the clear front indicator's from I searched ebay but can't find them... where they only on the 130? Antony
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All the Camira variants from Holden have air con so I will be doing a conversion at some stage and do a write up... the misus demands it if it is my daily driver. Yeah the parts people are selling are from the Camira variant, which is plentiful here. You would think a Cabriolet would be the go and for sure at morning and evenings but I live in Brisbane QLD and it's hot here in summer during the day and you often see people with the roof down but wearing a hat lol. I have seen some surface rust middle rear hatch below the glass and above the spoiler, passenger arch and on the bonnet but this
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No they weren't sold here under the Holden badge. We only got the sedan and the station wagon which are identical in almost every way. I don't have any idea of how many are in Australia and I have not seen another. I don't have the full story on the car as I just picked it up on Sunday but I believe it was an automatic and was converted to manual but you wouldn't know it by looking at it. I have a question: Did the Cav's have air conditioning when they came out? Antony
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Hi all i have joined your forum to share and get help restoring a Mk2 Vauxhall Cavalier SRi that was imported to Australia and is now in my hands. In the pic the previous owner put a Ascona Grill on it. [img width=640 height=480]http://thor.pointclark.net/Ascona_rear.jpg I have had plenty of experience with these cars having rallied a Holden Camira (Vauxhall Cavalier) JE Sedan for years that was build with parts from Harry Hockly and others. After I finished with that I reshelled the car into a Mk2 Astra building a replica Rally Opel Kadett GSi complete with C20XE and at the moment is p