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Omega General Help / Re: 2.5 turodiesel - yay / nay?

« on: 24 March 2007, 20:30:15 »

YOU COULD WELL SAY IM BEING GREEDY   but i now own 3 yes three turbo diesel estates!!! all 2.5 bmw lumps and yes they are damn good when woken up!!! as to the service interval i just change the oil and filter every three thousand miles, takes ten mins to do,
Have changed the filters and fluid on the green one made a lot of difference to the quality of the change, thery are easy to work on for sure, engine blowups ocur when people dont service them properly, or when the garage dont know what they are doing!!
Omegatoy  

So you're the famous man they're talking about
What did you do to your Omega? I heard it packs a hell of a punch

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Omega General Help / Re: 2.5 turodiesel - yay / nay?

« on: 24 March 2007, 19:42:37 »

Great! I'm decent with woodwork, so cutting holes in the deck will be no problem.

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Omega General Help / Re: 2.5 turodiesel - yay / nay?

« on: 24 March 2007, 19:36:28 »

This is Norway, and the Omega is called Opel.. different markets i guess..

CD is the highest trim level here, and 2.0 diesels are pretty common. They all came with Bose i think.
But, are there speaker holes in the non-Bose ones? Thanks.

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Omega General Help / Re: 2.5 turodiesel - yay / nay?

« on: 24 March 2007, 19:25:14 »

Being a BMW and all, is it a straight-six? Probably heavy then, but I'll even it out with stereo equipment in the back i think.

How's the possibilities for a stereo in these? The 2.0TD i drove had a bose system which was decent, but i need something with more punch. Are there cut-outs for speakers in the front doors, rear doors, rear deck etc. even on a non-Bose equipped omega?

Does anyone have a link describing all the trim levels, i.e. CD, GL etc? I def. want climate control and generally a high-equipped version but that should not be a problem, CD levels are common on 2.5TD's in my country..

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Omega General Help / Re: 2.5 turodiesel - yay / nay?

« on: 24 March 2007, 18:42:24 »

Thanks, i didn't know! I thought the 150HP was a Vauxhall, hehe. Is it possible to make it handle more "sporty" but without losing too much of the comfort? I see performance ECU chips claiming 180-190 HP and 50+ more nM of torque, don't know if it's reliable but it might be a pointer..

Edit: http://www.chiptuningdirect.com/opel/omega/opel_omega_25_dti_150hp_/_110kw_cr_en.html promises 189HP and 378nM.. that has got to pack a decent punch for the price.

Are the BMW engines engineered well, too? Not much info on the diesels here, seems petrol is the more popular option  :-/

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Omega General Help / 2.5 turodiesel - yay / nay?

« on: 24 March 2007, 18:31:16 »

Is the 2.5 turbodiesel (not the BMW one, the one from 96 onwards) a "usable" engine in the Omega? Will it perform decently, perhaps with some bolt-ons? I'm drawn to the Omega for my next car because of the RWD, comfy seats and HUGE cabin space but it is a little too unsporty to me, this will be my second car (i currently drive an A6). I have only driven the 2.0TD and it accelerated decently (to me), but it felt almost like i was driving a bus But i see there are tons of upgrades on here to make it more sporting, i just changed the suspension on my A6 and it feels like a sport car now, so i assume i can do the same to an eventual Omega.  

Anyway my question is if i could make the 96-onwards Omega 2.5 TD a convincing "youth ride" veichle with some mods. Petrol is not really an option, too expensive.  :-/