The Dervalier

Been a while since I've had a WIP thread, and I'm bored. lol

Bought this from Dave Fox in April 2011 after much convincing from Mr Spudly, who then kindly babysat it for a couple weeks til I could venture into the wild wild norf with Mr Lee to come collect. In the meantime he gave it a good valet and fixed a couple of small outstanding issues. So it was looking like this:
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And here we are prior to collection:
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As you can see, Lee was ecstatic to be in a Cav
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A quick overnight stop in Hendrixland gave a double cav opportunity:
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..and cav got a little over excited lol
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After a nice economical float back down south we swap the wheels over with the Nover:
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I'm not convinced tbh but it was on the floor with the slabs so the bigger tyres lifted it up a bit lol. Anyways. Second thing to do, install the audio removed from the Novinder:
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and also intalled some additional tube lighting in the boot (I'll get a pic of that later, its ace lol). Boaty tyres didn't really suit it as much as they did the Novargh, so off they came in favour of some 16s from Mr Craig:
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Gatecrashing the PNG stand at VBOA 2011 :)
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Whilst at VBOA, also purchased some new style GB reg plates to tidy up the front and back. Removed the Cavalier GSi 2000 badge and replaced with some chips from Mr Sturge:
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Did a bit of work on the front, removed the bumper to sort out the foglights, replace the leaky rad and expansion tank, replace broken fan switch, replace the cam cover gasket and replace the broken PAS mount. Found a rare optional extra too LOL
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Unfortunately the NS bumper bracket died in the process:
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Mmmm dirty
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Old rad was easy to get out, new rad was a pain to get in... eventually managed to fit it, only to realise I'd forgotten to put the intercooler in as well. Oops! Also fitted some HIDs and LED sidelights - the HIDs didn't really work at all so they quickly got pulleed back out again. Looking quite green here
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Fitted the tow hook cover there too as supplied by Mr Craig. Knowing BMW lamps worked with HIDs in the Nova, I fitted some Morettes and put the HIDs back in
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Fail with the cibie lamps:
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Sourced some BMW laps from Mr MK999, but turned out they wouldn't fit in the housing without much effort so gave up on that idea. As the Morettes gave a shat light output on dipped beam, decided to go back to stanard lamps but have a go at tinting them first. Discovered that the pre-facelift lamps had a metal bulb shield in which the post-facelift lamps didn't have, so used those as I knew that would help make them usable with HIDs again.
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However, the pre-facelift indicators refused to come apart, so I had to use the post-facelift ones and stick the matching glass onto the headlights.
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And here's the light output. Crappy phone cam pic, its hard to get the colour to show up properly as most of the time it looks too green/blue... but this is kinda like it:
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Note beam pattern is actually usable now too LOL Next things on the list is a new exhaust and I'm on the lookout for some new wheels

Very smart Jack, i like these cav gstdi's lol. Not a fan of those morettes looks loads better without. Loving the little touches added so far :thumb:
Surely with this being a dirty derv (which is ftw i may add) isnt the back end of the car always covered in crap? lol

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Surely with this being a dirty derv (which is ftw i may add) isnt the back end of the car always covered in crap? lol

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Note the only pics of the rear are all taken not long after its been washed lol

very nice.
Can it have a better title though like the previous wip did lol
94 Cav td is just too plain lol

a few of the pics i have
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that was the 2nd derv tank i fitted to the cav too bloody thing

when we banger racing it?

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Note the only pics of the rear are all taken not long after its been washed lol

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lol thought that maybe the case, I struggled enough with a petrol white car :roll:
I think you should get a pic up of the diesel dirt at the back lol, remember no spoke no poke

complete lulz at the long lost ratchet!! wtf?!

Those 205/205/15 on the cesaros looks awful on the cav, make them look at 13's

195/60/15 :d

They did look a bit daft on the Cav, thats why I took them off ricky tick. Amusing really as thats a standard cav wheel/tyre combo lol

Beam pattern looks great Jack.

looking good jack :)

be even better with a new backbox lol

Have you sold your 18s yet mr Pie?

got the 18inch kahns left buddy

very nice - makes me miss my white cav saloon!

jack want to swap im fed up off 12-15mpg at the moment lol

your cav needs these!
http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthr...a-B-gsi-wheels

lol, good call john :D jack already has my morretes might aswell have my wheels too :D

Too far away, and would prefer some multispokes really. Was after these, but they went for £97:

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...one had a dint in the rim and tbh £100 for a set of tatty wheels with shot tyres is too expensive lol

are they hocken's ?

Possibly, do look like it.

i just sold momo arrows 17s 4 mint tyres for 150 lol came off a cav to lol

ever thought off speedlines jack?

Maybe some 17" Mistrals perhaps, but would still prefer multispoke I think

Quite liked your Technos when you had them up for sale but not sure black was what I was after.. fussy fussy lol

lol im the same fussy when it comes to wheels lol

my mates gsi on speedlines

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Can I add to the wip of when will my living room start looking like a living room again

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Note I said living room not garage. you would of thought garage seeing as there are 4 tyres keeping tigger elevated

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:roll:lol

Thats not your living room, you don't live in it lol

Had an email from the man with the wheels on ebay I mentioned earlier, apparently the winning bidder didn't have the right fitment so has backed out - so I may still have them yet (not for £97 though lol). There's a few repair shops round here which might be able to tap the rim back to round.

how bad are they jack?

Bang it in the freezer like old bmx wheels lol

Lmfao, like that ever worked, although i remember my mate swore blind that it had worked on his mag wheel, i often wondered how many mums came home to find the contents of the freezer on the floor and a mag wheel wedged in their place lol



My mum wouldve killed me had i done that!!

Oh nice :)

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how bad are they jack?

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Edge of the rim is a bit wonky on this one, exposing the tyre a bit. I did tap one of my Kazeras in a similar fashion a few years back and a local metal man hammered it back to perfectly round for me for a few quid.

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The rest all look round. Not worried so much about kerbing and scuffs as I'd paint them up anyway.

Does looks a pretty tidy motor this.
Standard type headlamps looks best imo

New wheels are here :cool:

Will take them to a local wheel repair shop to check how round they are, then it'll be paint and tyres and on the car.

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Need new tyres lol
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These are 215/40 and look a bit more stretched than I want, so might look at 225 wide tyres to replace them.

the'll suit the cav nicely :)

these or none for me jacky chan mi lad
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^ Love them Omega wheels Wish I could have them on the Nova

^^^ thats my mates turbo lol

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Plus they're 5 stud and I'm 4 :p I CBA with swapping to five just to make finding wheels easier

what colour are the new rims going jack?

White. I'll try to match them to a similar shade to the car though