Dr.AK
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Sept 14, 2017 13:04:01 GMT
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Honestly, get that thing running properly with the wiring sourted out and turn the outside back to stock and you'd have a hell of a sleeper there!
I saw a bright turqoise Corsa B with a 3.0 V6 out of a Omega in it a few years back - mental creation.
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düdo
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Sept 14, 2017 14:42:39 GMT
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Here's something to relieve the eyes. Or maybe further torture them? Depending on taste. A friend runs a classic car workshop and sent me pictures of this item they've got in at the moment. I didn't know what it was. It's not entirely unrelated to this thread.   One way of ruining the classic lines of an Opel GT. It looks like a poor mans version of Mansour Ojjeh’s unique Porsche ‘935 Street’ Edit: Actually more like one of Strosek's creations - the Ultra 928 Version III Yes, it's an Opel GT. A Lenk Breitbau ( wide body) - now collectable apparently. A lot of the 'proper' 80s widebodies from recognised tuning companies are getting popular, particularly Porsches and Opels. I just checked those Porsches you linked to. Yes! Same direction. Lots of surplus plastic. |
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düdo
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Sept 14, 2017 14:54:38 GMT
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Honestly, get that thing running properly with the wiring sourted out and turn the outside back to stock and you'd have a hell of a sleeper there! I saw a bright turqoise Corsa B with a 3.0 V6 out of a Omega in it a few years back - mental creation. If I could get it TÜV'ed as it is I would - I like the Hannibal Lechter look - but if I started I think I wouldn't emerge from the shed for two years! As I mentioned, I'm building an Omega 3.0 V6 into a Tigra which I think - though long perceived as a hairdressers' car - has good GT/coupe looks that have improved with time. My inspiration is the MGB GT V8 filtered through the 90s and on a banger budget. Just got to try to finish it while they still sell petrol! |
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Last Edit: Sept 14, 2017 15:07:17 GMT by düdo
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Sept 14, 2017 17:08:57 GMT
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plain nasty!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating
'80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip
'97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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79cord
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Sept 15, 2017 7:41:20 GMT
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 I think you might have been too slow in capturing that beast before it released spawn. |
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CaptainSlog
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Sept 15, 2017 11:23:38 GMT
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Those grilles look bad on Audis, this actually achieves what I thought was impossible and looks worse.
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düdo
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Sept 16, 2017 21:33:23 GMT
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melle
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Sept 16, 2017 22:55:25 GMT
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Very much at odds with the atmosphere of your workshop, yet cool in a somewhat perverse way.
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www.saabv4.com'70 Saab 96 V4 "The Devil's Own V4" '77 Saab 95 V4 van conversion project '88 Saab 900i 8V
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düdo
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Sept 17, 2017 8:58:23 GMT
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The Cruiser Corsa combo with their browns. 
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Last Edit: Oct 22, 2017 20:49:12 GMT by düdo
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düdo
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Sept 20, 2017 18:09:11 GMT
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I put together a little tribute for the old beater with the stuff my son filmed when we collected it plus what the wife filmed last week. Lots of gratuitous revving of the V6. I was trying to get it to spit oil out the exhaust - something that the previous owner had boasted as a feature - but almost suffocated the wife!
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Sept 28, 2017 13:31:29 GMT
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Progress is s..l..o..w..w...w I'm lucky to get two hours a week at the moment as I'm too busy thinking up clunking puns for the title of this thread. The Tigra's engine is de-coupled and prone for a dump. Just got to attach the hoist. Tigra cost €50 after a nice lady drove around without oil and surprisingly seized it up. The fire brigade come round in October with a tractor and trailer to collect scrap as a fundraiser so I want the old engine ready to go. They love big metallic lumps, makes a change from the normal broken clothes horses,baking trays and bike frames though a couple of years ago they weren't too certain about the sight of a complete Citroen BX angle-grindered up into handy trailer sized chunks. Note the Omega 3.0 V6 just sat there awaiting its moment. Despite the video going global and a multitude of messages pleading me to save the Corsa ( fake news), it's getting dismantled. Anyone want some carbon look front door handles? Well fake F1 weight saving look.  |
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düdo
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Sept 29, 2017 21:19:17 GMT
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The wife's Tigra that I bought last year with 'motorschaden' engine failure - over-cooked . I put the new engine this time last year - standard 1.4 16v with a fruity Remus exhaust. Much welding, lows, leather. Commuting since January and the wife loves it.  |
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It looks awful, but I can't help thinking that if the bonnet went round the headlights as per the factory fitment, the grille was moved up to meet the leading edge of the bonnet and it was all painted a sensible colour, then it might not be so bad.
It's still be a Corsa though, albeit with more than double the cc's and twice the number of cylinders than the standard Max Power mobile based on the same.
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düdo
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It looks awful, but I can't help thinking that if the bonnet went round the headlights as per the factory fitment, the grille was moved up to meet the leading edge of the bonnet and it was all painted a sensible colour, then it might not be so bad. It's still be a Corsa though, albeit with more than double the cc's and twice the number of cylinders than the standard Max Power mobile based on the same.[/quoteis Don't you mean - it looks awful(ly good?) Haha. I see your vision. Cheap to a loving home, minus a few bits like intake, gearbox, driveshafts, brakes If I could get it road legal without too much graft I would - it would be hilarious to cane it on the Autobahn. But it's several cans of worms. I could maybe - on the pretence of going for a test, take it out on red numberplates? Likely to get pulled - and no one seems to see the funny side of it . |
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I couldn't bring myself to buy a Corsa, let alone tramp over to Germany to drag the remains of one back here on a trailer.
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I couldn't bring myself to buy a Corsa, let alone tramp over to Germany to drag the remains of one back here on a trailer.  I didn't think you would! But no one would know it's a Corsa - it's an Audi innit? And the journey's worth it just for the beer I drove quite a way to collect it - my wife thought I was mad - but it was just at a point when I was overloaded and needed to get out. Took my son in the Cruiser and camped once on the way out by a river, once on the way back by a lake, swimming and beers. We had a great time and it stands out as one of the highlights of the summer. It came from a pretty mad corner of D - out in the former East where folk still build things like this. |
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Last Edit: Oct 14, 2017 20:48:38 GMT by düdo
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I enjoy your humorous tone you have embarked upon this thread. Kwality!
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Oct 14, 2017 20:35:09 GMT
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I enjoy your humorous tone you have embarked upon this thread. Kwality! Cheers!   I got the old plant out of the €50 Tigra. Saw the big crack in the sump where the previous owner had hit a rock and kept on going til it seized. Put it out next weekend for the 'youth fire brigade charity scrap collection'. Sizing up the empty bay for the Omega 3.0  ![]() |
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Oct 22, 2017 14:40:03 GMT
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A similar scene to last week - this time the mutant Corsa dropped its V6. The wife cut me some slack yesterday - I got several kid free hours on the spanners and wrapped up around beer-o-clock (20.30hrs). It's a big plant for a small car - got me wondering who was the first to put the Opel 54° V6 in a Corsa. The earliest I've seen is from 2000 - don't know if that was the first though? I've got to dispose of the Corsa remains then start melding the 3.0 and the 2.5 V6s together. I will re-use two of the Tigra's engine mounts with slight mods but the third one is going to be a challenge as I'm hoping to retain the Tigra's A/C and the third mount would have gone where the compressor is. We'll see if it's at all possible and also whether there's enough space for a condenser and rad and fans? The custom siamised exhaust manifolds off the Corsa's V6 are actually nicely done and this is a headache with the V6 conversions - clearance of the steering rack on the rear bank's manifold. Also bigger Astra GTE (?) brakes off the front. Lots to do but I'm into it .  |
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Oct 25, 2017 18:28:51 GMT
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This is how me roll.. in me Cors-ah  A friend came to help fit the doors to the new winter proof Tigra sanctuary. A mechanic in the next village gave these to me as he fitted new ones to his workshop. Heavy curse word - the big double door on the right must be 150 kg? Just hope the weather stays mild to get it wrapped up - quite a lot of closing off to do with various reclaimed materials. Wood stove ready to go in the corner. It's taken years to get to this point - only put the overhead beams and boards in last winter.  My friend drives a '93 4 door Corsa auto so he's qualified to construct the Tigra sanctuary   |
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I didn't think you would! But no one would know it's a Corsa - it's an Audi innit? And the journey's worth it just for the beer