Thought I'd put some details and pics up of my latest omega, some may be interested, most will be upset its a vauxhall, but it has some bits of mild interest.
The other reason is I have a comlplete lack of ability to finish a project as I generally start with very little parts and even less money :smash: alas, I started this one with many omega parts and no money, so the chances of failure are much less :wack: that and I'm not overly bothered where I go with it so Im not pursuing 1JZ's and V8 DTM specs, just something that ticks many boxes...
Started as 2 and become as one...
A few may remember the old white drift wagon I dragged up to awesomefest, a 3.0 early ex plod motor, previously owned by a few careful owners such as, the met, the met skid pan dept, a man who took it to the 'ring for a laugh, Inital J/Dan Chapman, Me... so it's been a well looked after and understressed car... :wack:
(Mods at that time, 3.2 headers, lowering springs (estate!), front poly bushes, short ratio welded diff, bucket seat, air filter, cats cut out)
at the time I was breaking a few of these on the side and came across this...
Early 3.0 Elite Auto with Irmscher bodykit and wheels, looks like its had a full respray too at some point, tints and posh back box... money to be made when pulled apart... plus I missed out the first time it was on ebay as decided it went for too much... the 'winner' didnt show so I got this second time round...
Alas, I'm a big sack of rwd vauxhall loving shit and decided it was too nice to pull apart (plus the previous owner pleaded I wouldnt!) so I thought I could break even on selling the wheels and back box and keep it.
This obviously meant it needed manualling which would require bits from the white one. I decided best thing to do was pull the engines out of both and put the whole sha-bang into the blue car. Yes the engine had been thrashed, but its proven and pulled well. So at GMasterT Heavy Industries international construction and development centre (a barn I rent) This happened
Revealing this...
While engine was out, new cambelt was fitted (genuine GM, £12 from garage clearance on ebay!), DMF removed and replaced by 2.0 turbo solid unit (C20LET) with vectra cover and spacer on CSC in the box (around a 3rd of the weight), as well as 'G' cams across the board (G are the inlet cams found on the 3.0 and 3.2, now also on the exhaust side and are the most aggresive standard vauxhall cams in the v6. If fitted into a 2.5, around 15-20bhp is often gained!)
New cam cover seals invested in too as they often weep, 8nm is the key there and the most important tourque figure on the engine! :smash: Anyway, I digress, this is getting geeky even for me...
Engine going in... I was'nt going to mess around with the air-con, but just after It went in, it was really hot :ghey: so I transferred over all the gubbins... whats the point of elite spec insides without the coolness eh?!
so, the bulk of it in. You can see varying degrees of holes I drilled into the air con fan surrounds to try and help with throughfare, also, the polish red box of pikeyness... the omega as standard has a dual ram inlet thingy that changes the air tract as the revs gain, this is a polish copy of an expensive german tuning part that Serek, the pilish god of Omega's recommended. We tried it on the white car and on the rolling road and the tourque and power curves were beautiful. plus it sharpens up the throttle response so must do something! Also the long pipe with the filter. This drops through a (cut) hole to behind the drivers foglight for cool lovely air... rather than hot engine bay air...
Once it was up and working, I took a couple of shots...
Also note the one of the 2 hyabusa cans you can see at the back, bit wonky as still need to sort a nice hanger for them.
