Attack of the Turbo Squid ( Revenge of M515 EVL )

[ASTRA TD]

Well after the sad death of my red 5 door i needed a new shell to put my super boosted derv motor in. So i bought this.



luckily the previous owner mr John Avison bought the car just for the engine so i got the rolling shell for the bargin price of £100 win

here it is back home, let the fun begin



day one of the build, stripped down and started work on my front strut top



im raising the strut tops to allow more travel for my billy coilovers




plenty of room under the bonnet



here we go







thats the first one done

 

[Purpledrumstick]

Hell yes. Will be keeping a close eye on what you do with this one. Estate power lol

What's your plans for rear suspension as its a pretty crap setup in my opinion

 

[Mr Skint]

like it!

 

[ASTRA TD]

it will be coilovers on the back, along with tubbed inner arches and slightly flared outer arches

 

[Mr Skint]

pics of the nova, is it tuned?
i dont suppose your interested in my isuzu cabby?

 

[Purpledrumstick]

it will be coilovers on the back, along with tubbed inner arches and slightly flared outer arches

yes mate. Forget the fronts for now. I want to see you do the rears. Lol



If you are tubbing them does that mean you will have the shocks going straight up instead of the 45 degree angle?

 

[Kev_mk3]

so you bought it - he said I cant have any of the parts off it

 

[big e]

Impressive stuff..

 

[Andy_Mk3]

Awesome sauce! Will be keeping an eye on this thread for sure

 

[reno]

just epic, I know this is going to be full of win

 

[ASTRA TD]

mr skint- you don't want to see my nova, its nothing special, standard 1.5td its only bin de-catted and looks crap with its many different colours

purpledrumstick- iv got to do all the front end work before i can fit my engine, subframe and suspension. then i can turn the car around and do the back end, so it will be a couple of weeks before i get started, sorry

kev- sorry mate, i had it bagsied before john had even picked it up lol

 

[TMODAlpha]

Awesome. This should be good

 

[jimmy-sport]

Any updates on this? Looking forward to the finished stance should be epic

 

[BenAstra]

Yep would love to see some updates of this!!

 

[ASTRA TD]

update

First of i'm going to apologise, this is not going to be the big update it should be considering how long its been since the last update. Alot of my time recently has been taking up on a friends project, a chevette running a saab turbo engine with a holset hy35 hopefully around 500bhp. The chevette is a paying job so the derv has taken a back seat unfortunately.

Here's some pics




bit of filler and primer



then paint and lacquer






and today having left work early got her back on the ground



then turned it around so i can get the engine in and start on the rear suspension

 

[Purpledrumstick]

Still a decent update. Have you managed to fit the b204 in the chevette? I know of four that have tried and given up

 

[ASTRA TD]

cheers bud, yes we got it on its mounts this week

 

[Purpledrumstick]

Is that the one on airbags? How have you got around the sump issue?

 

[ASTRA TD]

yep thats the one, the bit of the sump that sits over the sub frame is very narrow

 

[Purpledrumstick]

is there a diary for it anywhere? im going to be putting a v6 in my chevette next year, should be interesting