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happy driving mateCongrats and commisserations at the same time Robert.
Ive noticed that quite a few regulars have put their Omegas up for sale in the last few weeks.Hoping to keep mine for one more year.After that who knows,I could be dead by then.
An old Merc 190D or Skoda 1.9 TD are looking like the most likely replacements for mine when the time comes.
Thanks, I did enjoy my final drive today and was sorely tempted to put it in the garage and keep it as a plaything. However, the cost of insurance, tax and MoT come to over £500 a year - which I really can't justify. I have left the car in significantly better shape than I found it - so I guess have made a "contribution". On the downside, I have scrapped 4 other Omegas in the last 3 years or so as it made economic sense at the time.
what are you driving now? 500 isnt to bad i thought! my tax alone is around €1100 a year in ireland then there is an other couple of hundred for nct (mot) and insurance 
ya that's what i thought i just want the wheel to fill the arch a bit more.see all kit cars are just that low and cant really rise them up and it is used on the track as well as the road. i don't plan on dropping my omega that low at all. in fact was only thinking of lowering the back a small bit30mm (from standard, 15mm from LSC) is about the maximum to lower an Omega. Irmscher springs and B4 shocks are a good setup. Any lower, you're always scrapping cats, diffs and everything else under the car. Not to mention skirts, tailpipes, bumpers and splitters if you have Irmscher bodykits.
i was thinking coil over kit for it more than lowering springs so i can adjust them as i please are there any good coil over kits that anyone would recommend?
At risk of asking the obvious, surely, if the car is already lowered and you've broken 2 sumps already, then surely you would either slow down a bit or raise the suspension, and not lower it furtherthe car isn't lowered yet and the plate is 6 mm thick it wont buckle too easy. and cause there are bends in the steel that will help it be stronger and wont let it buckle as easy. my dad put a sump guard on his kit car west field cause the sump is about 3" off the ground and he made it out of 4 mm plate and that's holding up perfect and that scraps the road alot
Rear saloon screen will fit all saloons as the body shell never changed only bumpers and trim and various bolt on panels between prefacelift and facelift so it appears the manufacturers have just done a bodge jobthats what i thought but i have it cut up now so to late to return
Pressing on down Irish country roads,it will always be a good idea to have one.i don't plan on a hole for the sump plug cause its only held on with 4 easy accessible bolts but wouldn't be a big job to drill a hole . and i think a sump guard is so so so so necessary Irish roads, they are desperate and the sump is so low on my 2.5td. i love driving in England your roads are so good your back roads are better than our national roads. and plus i plan on lowering the car a bit so need a guard. and already broke the sump twice
See pic below for visual explanation.
