1971 Viva HC 2dr NEW ZEALAND

Welcome! There are quite a few vivas on here now so you should be able to find out what you want pretty easily. You can pretty much out anything in there, but it depends on what you can get passed as road worthy out there. Have search in readers rides for viva, firenza and magnum. If you laws are quite stringent then maybe you can just get a 1800 donor magnum for a straight transplant with out too much bother, but if you want proper power then go for a V8 or something. Someone on here used a back axle off an issuzu trooper or something like that which worked well. Either way, if your on a budget, changing the motor for something out of another car entirly aint gonna be cheap or easy. Depends what route you want to go down. Sweet ride though dude.

I don't think any of them had a stereo!

As far as lowering goes, you can chop the front springs and put some rear springs out of a vauxhall corsa (I don't know what they would call it out there - google it to see what it looks like).

Good luck and keep us posted

hey guys..thanks for all that...the Magnum 1800s are hard to come by..theres one in me local scrappie but would yield nowt as its been stripped....and now ive spotted a minty non-Magnum 1800 auto 4 dr which could be picked up for a song..I'm going to wave a shotgun around my overdraft facility...and then see if i can buy it..ill let u know how i get on.....

www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=220531710

Welcome along man, you should get onto oldschool.co.nz if you're not already. A guy with the username 'Fuel' had a Viva until recently and had it well dropped with some nice mods - he could point you in the right direction for parts and how he done his (might save you wasting money on more expensive routes/mistakes). He's a good guy and i imagine he'd have no bother giving you some info. He posts here from time to time but he easier to get closer to home for you!

yeah..I'm onto oldskool...just didnt seem to be anybody in my area..not suprising!..i signed with them last year..it was there I found about the Barina spring lowering tip..the colour of the Viva..well..it sez cream on the papers..but when resprayed in the last millenium..its gone awf..so its beige butter now...

part of the plan is to go for a mini-Impala look..its a scaled down version in my eyes..without the SS attributes..thats why i want try keep the original rims tho widened once I'm rich...and a change in powerplant is definito on in the years to come..ive seen a lonely Isuzu Piazza in a yard down the road..that could mebbe offer up a more tastier power topping..

and i need a daily driver cos I'm just BMXing or blagging it just now!

Good to see another Viva about. Congrats, looking forward to seeing what you do with it. Also, get yourself on www.vauxhallviva.com if you're not already on the forum.