Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Isn't that a carlton if its a uk car?

The police used the senator, which was modified to cope with keeping up with the crims.

Yes. Next question?

I knew you guys would understand, I was just looking for confirmation. Cheers

Isn't that a carlton if its a uk car?

I'm pretty sure the Omega & Carlton were both seperate 'native' models of Vauxhall in the UK. Apologies if I've missed something.

I've always thought senators were cool, especially reading about BRIXMIS's highly modified ones at an impressionable age: http://www.brixmis.co.uk/later-years.html
I think there's one on display at the National Cold War Museum at Cosford.

have fond memories of 'borrowing' an ex girlfriends dads Senator when I was very young and living at their house for the summer. I still don't think I have been as fast behind a wheel of a car since.

I'm not sure, thought the omega was the opel name, while carlton was the vauxhall hence lotus cartlon/omega.

I’m too old for rolling around on the floor already

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This motherfucker is worth its weight in gold

Up to 1625Nm of ''breakaway'' torque

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It's not mine, but it was extremely handy to borrow.

It was. Then the new gen of of Carlton and Senitor were rebranded and rolled into the Omega model. The model posted up there was an Omega.

Everyone I knew who had an Omega (usually V6) loved them.

Interesting how the trends for number of models has varried over time. God knows how many variations* of Audi and BMWs there must be now compared to the 90s.

*altho I also wonder how fundamentally different they are.

Chapeau.

Has it been a straight swop, or did you do any other work before putting the new engine in?

Those children foam mats make things more comfortable, https://www.amazon.fr/Interlocking-Tiles-Garage-Workshop-Floor/dp/B00KM420IY and make the floor more comfortable than old carpet.

Borrowed an ingersoll rand (20v but 18v in reality) one the other day and make many jobs easier would recommend impact sockets are used as normal chrome vanadium can shatter. Have a 240v impact wrench at home and that has been great but a bit big to get in to the places where I would like.

At the moment straight swap. The one that got taken out is the one that's going to have lots of work done to it, then I'll have to through this all again....

Feeling guilty I offered my services then missed all this happening. At least it looks like you're on your way despite the inevitable skinned knuckles and sometimes unavoidable misery big jobs like these can unearth.

Never done an engine swap so imagine it's a steep but rewarding learning curve. Was there ever discussion about putting in a vvt engine, or does that defeat the direct swap intention?

Should have thrown an old ford V6 in there while you were at it 😉

Some fools on the YouTube made it look easy ( read annoying and hard)

The silver one done by that dude who looks like a scarier version of Todd off Breaking Bad?

Lower?

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No problem, plenty of things to still get involved with, fun things like aligning the PPF and changing diff oil, if you want to get involved....!

VVT would have defeated the straight swap, I could go to VVT in the future but my car would need re-wiring and my ECU actually isn't truly "standalone", although it can do everything a standalone can do, it's connectors are MX5 and mark specific. The ECU has already been a big outlay so I'd rather not mess around with that again.

I'd probably make more power just putting a stock VVT engine in, but then I'd have no ITB fun. The blocks are all the same, but it's the heads that change, so MK2.5 non VVT head is the best head for the engine build.

The Rocketeer kit?

CASH MONEY Y'ALL

nope

My new runaround at the pumps. Sorry about the jalopy parked next to it!

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Yep, that's the one. Think it was car throttle or some channel that put the kit into a very worn out looking na mx5.

Glad to hear there's still plenty to help with, diff oil I can certainly do. I can smell that old diff oil already. If it is the Me221 fair enough about not wanting to buy another ECU after shelling out for it and getting it set up. Sounds like you've got a good plan together without going down the vvt route.

Yes that's the video, I'm interested in what the power figures are from this. When they had it on the engine dyno they defended the power figure saying the exhaust used there was restrictive but I'm sceptical as would have presumed the the system would be optimised.

Still fairly anecdotal but mounting anecdata suggests that 200 cell cats alone can get 20bhp out of an otherwise stock M96. There’s a surprising amount of power that can be released (and, of course, lost) in the exhaust.