My 1985 moss green xe'd gl!

[Dec16v]

Awesome John, can't wait to see it in the flesh

[Graeme]

Cheers for the centre cap advice, can wait to see it, one lovely car!!!

[John]

Just a quick couple of pics from pvs. The trip has highlighted a few issues that need sorting, the major one being fuel starvation, hopefully have this cured for billing by fitting a gte tank and extenal pump. Need a new n/s rear tyre too after a puncture on the way home, turns out i must have hit something in the road as the sidewall has come away inside the tyre.
Thanks to all for the positive feedback over the wheels, almost everyone i spoke to wanted to know more!





Also had LOADS of folks asking where they could get the midlands area sticker too, lets hope we have a few new members/forum users!

[Breeny]

That rocks!

[Adam]

Looks awesome


Whats the fuel starvation problem, what tank are you using?

[Steve]

Carb iirc, ive recently changed mine to the gte setup and its miles better now.

[John]

Cheers breeny/ad!

It's currently using an spi tank with a v6 vectra internal pump, which doesn't fit all that well in the tank tbh. I've never been that happy with it. Gets a bit of starvation under heavy accelleration/cornering! Need to do the fuel lines in copper too.

[Rexy]

i do like this john it is a nice example of how it should be done...

I take it you have to be very careful with pot holes etc with the banded steelies then?

Any plans to lower the car anymore at all as it looks like it needs to be hugging the tyres. I know this could cause some problems with scrubbage but its all fun.

[John]

i do like this john it is a nice example of how it should be done...

I take it you have to be very careful with pot holes etc with the banded steelies then?

Any plans to lower the car anymore at all as it looks like it needs to be hugging the tyres. I know this could cause some problems with scrubbage but its all fun.

No not really tbh, The puncture i had only deflated instantly as the tyres run inner tubes, they'd actually be better without them.

As for the lowering i need to mod the rear arches over winter, both 1/4 will need re-painting. The front coilovers are on the bumpstops in the pics! The rear will go right down.

[Adam]

Hmm, should be fine on that tank.

Mines fine(even round combe etc)
But i use a mk3 astra pump. Maybe the veccy one doesnt fit in the tank too well, and so doesn't pump 100%