my best ever bargain :)

[burgo]

last weekend i was strolling around my local scrappy as you do when i came across a cavvy sri, i thought rude not to have a look under the bonnet!! which is where i find a c20xe!! on closer inspection in turns out to be a coscast dispak xe :) so go and have a word with the scrap yard owner he says £70 for the engine, loom, ecu and f20 box which has equal length driveshafts :). bargain! so i say yes instantly obviously and he says he will remove it and i can pick it up whenever.
so today that is what i did :P

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a226/sclurgess/S7302266.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a226/sclurgess/S7302270.jpg

no core plug
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a226/sclurgess/S7302267.jpg

and the stamp :)
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a226/sclurgess/S7302268.jpg

so i am now a very happy bunny and cant wait to rip it to bits to start the rebuild

[General Baxter]

whats with the funny shape powercap lol

[burgo]

lmfao thats actually an sfi box cut down and stuck back together. its in the bin ;)

[twistysnovagte]

exellent find burgo whats your plans after the rebuild,will there possibly be a relationship with the loon? imo id be tempted to put it back into a mk2 astra gte.?:)
is it a runner?

[burgo]

dunno if it ran but im rebuilding anyway so dont really matter. the plans are it shall be finding its way into the light blue loon

[Adam]

Bastid! lol
You pay'd £70 for that?
The head sells for £200 lol

[burgo]

i know :) hence why im so fooking happy

[Stoo]

coscast head??
GM Stamped!!

Bizarre!

[Jack]

Nice work mr burgo :D

[burgo]

coscast head??
GM Stamped!!

Bizarre!gm stamped here aswell mate
http://www.sbdev.co.uk/Info_sheets/Cylinder%20heads/Coscast_heads.htm

[burgo]

:) thanks mr jack

[Count Vaux Alot]

What a find!

[hendrix]

awesome!!! lucky barsteward lol
The scrappies round by us have cottoned on to what xe's are worth. about the only blooy thing tho :( lol

[Benn]

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a226/sclurgess/S7302267.jpg



Might sound stupid, but where are the holes to mount the dispac bracket? They are in the side of the head.. and should be in that pic..? Mine are in that place..

Nice find tho.. scrappy by me cuts the engines out.. so the loom dies as so fuel lines shafts pipes...

[Ernie]

Good find fella B@#tard lol.

[Ste L]

must be an early costcast, as i've got a late one, as it's got the bracket's for the dispac on it...

[Adam]

Its a old dizzy coscast head then.
Hence why the dispak isn't fitted in the normal way, and is sitting horizontal instead of vertical.

[brainsnova]

£70 Wooooooohhhhhhhhhoooooooo

[burgo]

it is an early one that has been converted to coil pack ;) the homemade bracket bolt onto the back of the head.

i pulled the loom back through from the car so they didnt damage that. and i dont mind that they cut the outer shafts or rad pipes

[Benn]

Ah was gonna say, still a damn good buy. Is the proper mount, just moved about..
The scappy down the road hurts me with its engines...
Found 4xes in a huge engine pipe :(

[RSTChris]

Bargain mate, RESULT! QUALITY

A few years ago i baught 3 for £75! and £25 delivery home, none garaunteed runners and 1 of the looms were knackered but bargaintastic all the same. Sold one straight away to a mate for £50 and kept to for myself, which ended up on ebay

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff181/RST-Chris/newcam011.jpg

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff181/RST-Chris/newcam012.jpg

[RSTChris]

OH btw, thanks for the link to that website, ive just discovered my LET engine's head is coscast also, RESULT! With it being stamped GM i just thought it was a GM head, DOH!!

[Lee]

Good skills Luke :) I love it when things like that happen!

[Lee H]

Its a old dizzy coscast head then.
Hence why the dispak isn't fitted in the normal way, and is sitting horizontal instead of vertical.

Not a really early one with 13mm guides though as they don't have the GM stamp. It will have the 11mm guides same as what I have on the LET I have just bought.

[Pistol Pete]

Nice find.

[tom_beverley]

Blocks too big :(

[Mazz]

Top find Burgo! Lucky bugger!

[Dod]

I had a similar experience but with a complete SRi Cavalier offered to me by 2 local Chavs for €500 (engines alone are worth €600)

I asked to view it and was taken into a forrestry down a network of roads to see a Cavalier, with 3 different wheels, a broken front window and no exhaust, broken from the manifold. They crossed the wires to start it as I took down the Vin and Number plate details without them knowing.

I said I'd think about it and asked them to call me that night. In the mean time I contacted a "Mate" of mine who filled me in with the details of the car. It was impounded after being reported several times, was stolen (yes) from the Impound Compound behind the Cop Shop and was due to be crushed. There was no problem in me buying and stripping the car providing i issued the Gardai with a Certificate of Distruction from an approved Recycler.

So I got a call later, I told them exactly what was what and told them, i'd give them €200 for it, take it or leave it, and I wanted it delivered to my door. They agrees, and I sold the engine the next day for €600. stripped and scrapped the shell and sold on most of the rest of the parts. The car has made me over €1000 in parts now. lol

[Andy_L]

TBH I'd be selling the Coscat head for a few hundred and buying a GM porus one fixing that and you've got an XE that's actually paid you money!