@@trueaccountsfastsnotfictio2848 I love that memory's. My older brother had a Kadett GT and maked it look like a GTI with the black panel on the trunk.
Yeh knee the middle of the door to pop the lock up snap the steering lock with no effort and pull the hazzards out turn em upside down and pop them back in you get reds 🤣🤣 ready to bump start every young lads dream car as thay was easy to steal
Haven't even had time to watch the video but please.. please.. please.... Have more cars from this era!!!! I do love modern cars but nothing compares to the 90s style Escort, Orion, Sierra, 106, 205, 306gti, Novas, Astras, Cavaliers, mantas, E30s, E36s , Even the Fiat Uno 4x4 was an important piece of history back then, All your content is 10/10 but these types of throwback videos bring me and my father that little bit closer everytime ot gives us something to reminisce about so thank you for that alone
I don't think they will ever produce the cars of the 90s again as every company were at it and those were definitely the days of the cheap monster cars best era ever I can honestly say I think I drove them all and that's no bull as don't want to explain why this happened to me with out letting the cat of of the bag but I am ashamed at the shame time
There was two variations of the Astra in South Africa the baby boss with the 8v engine and the super or big boss with the 16v setup, the super boss was a beast till today if you see one at the robot idling erratically just be scared lol
C20let have a 1st gear indent switch, (also from a cavalier 4x4 turbo) limits boost to stop it destroying the gearbox and transfer box (as it would have had from factory). Bridge the plug which plugs into the switch in the gearbox and it will go all out. Those that run the f20 box have no choice but to bridge the plug because the f20 box never came with the switch from factory as it was only ever tended for the c20xe. But had this lad had the knowledge on these he would have known that. Not hating he’s just not from this era. When his gearbox goes wrong he will find out why these are hens teeth. Drums on the back and half moon rev counter this will have an 8v c20ne/seh from factory. Beautiful car though.
Where the gear boxes are concerned boys they are all f and then a two digit code. The smaller the two digit code the closer the ratios and the f 25 and f28 are the longer ratio boxes and were the only two 6 speed boxes. I believe. Somebody please correct me if I am wrong but to my knowledge this is true.
The f28 was the gearbox used in the cavalier 4x4 and the calibra 4x4 most have the conversion kit to make fwd only as the transfer case where soft as shit lol
Maaaaaate, just look at that iconic styling! All cars these days look and sound the same, I was definitely born in the wrong era! Sick feature! Try find more older cars
I literally commented on your last video saying you needed to get some old skool Vauxhall's on here and low and behold you've got my all time favourite car on here 👍 legend!!!
A guy that goes by the Username Spankee built that car. It was featured in Total Vauxhall magazine a good few years back. It was not a 300bhp car when he built it. All of his builds have been to the highest quality though and he's had a knack for clean MK2s. His mate, Laney's, aren't bad either......
Love the wide ride of cars on the channel Jamie, nice to see an old skool bag of shite being enjoyed to this day and the owner seems like a super chilled person
This should be running 21 over boost holding 18 psi boost for 300 bhp 👍 if this is a Eds phase 3 ECU should have power wheel coming off ecu to change boost level settings
Naaaa! As if you've got an old astra on here 😂. Just when I thought the last video couldn't be topped. Hadn't even seen the video before I started sharing it. Top work 👍 credit to the owner
Loved these cars as a kid used to see loads of them when i was growing up. My auntie had one but it was a blue convertible with the 8v engine in with digi dash in. Big props to the owner that is one serious bit of kit.
Owner needs to check his boost pipes, I reckon he got a boost leak somewhere?????. Boost doesnt seem to come on strong and a 300bhp FWD car weighing just under a tonne, it should be all over the road, but this car seems to put the power down even in lower gears, the car isnt producing much boost, hence why I think its leaking somewhere.
welloilbeefhooked I was thinking the same, my old corsa with 240bp was a right handful with no diff. Pulled you all over the rd, I remember chasing an m3 on the motorway, pulled out from inside lane in 3rd at 60 and it spun up like fuck.
@@laurencepickering5252 lol, fwd cars are bloody nightmare, i owned a mk1 focus rs many years ago that was running 280bhp, and was sitting at a set of traffic lights when a 1.2 corsa pulled next to me, it was raining so traction was going to be an issue, light went green and the corsa accelerates from the lights and try to beat me as it goes into 1 lane, i launch it and sit there spinning my wheels and struggle for traction as the 1.2 corsa flys off into the distance. lol you couldn't drive that car in anything but dry weather.
Wow i had 3 of them. The amount of welding I did was mental! I replaced sills ,rear quarter panels and floor pans! The arches always went. The drive shafts leaked and the sump gaskets. 😂
No popin or banging 🙏 can actually hear the car... Such a 90s vibe.. In my family there was always rivalry with these uncles vs dad caviler, serria, volvo 760 turbo 😂 good old days 👍
Man, i used to have an F reg GTE 16Valve back in the 90s! I @*!#in loved that motor! Great memories even the same colour as mine. I debadged it so it looks pretty similar, especially at the back. Great engine, especially the early one with a bit higher power, no cat etc. I always wanted to fit ITBs, on a bog standard lump that upped power to 200bhp NA! Its no wonder that so many kit cars and racers used that lump. I'm a 46 year old family man now but i've even had dreams of driving my GTE thats how much it stayed with me haha! Although they got stick over handling, once you got used to it (i had a 1.8 GTE prior) you could make it dance round mini roundabouts!
No way 300, this was a dream figure for me in early 2000's in my cavalier 4x4 turbo. I made 267 at regal autosport with xe inlet cam, top hat inlet, z20let 475cc injectors, verniers, fmic. Strong engine, f28 is long ratio and does pull 160mph. Sold project in the end as was becoming a money pit. Was going to lock my weak transfer box with a Norwegian based company. Can't beat the old skool fun though👌👍. More like this Jamie!
Stock Calibra Turbo with 200bhp is booked to pull 60mph in 6.2 seconds. Sometimes less is more Al Dente. That gearbox is the standard Calibra Turbo box rated for 280ft/lb torque which is higher than on some of the later VXR models and sought after.
GTE 16v was one of my favourite cars ever. MK 1 was underrated too! The digi clocks were a love/hate relationship! Astra 16v was meant to have 166bhp and the Cavalier and Calibra were meant to be 150bhp. Duno why! Lol.
Martijn Jansen already said it, but i just have to point it out once more. In Germany and the rest of Europe, the car was called Opel Kadett. Funny that Vauxhall named it Astra back then, because the Astra is what was its successor in Germany. The Astra line startet with Astra F, the Kadett line ended with this particular model, which was the Kadett E. Nonetheless, the motor from the Cali Turbo, which was the C20LET, is a beast and has been used in a lot of Opel/Vauxhall swaps, from Corsas over Kadetts to Astras. This here is quite a nice build. Big ups to the owner i.e. previous owner and builder 👍👍👍
I agree with the comments saying this isn’t 300bhp. Seems under 250 based on what I can tell from the video. Not saying I’m right, just what it seems like to me. These cars were around a ton not 1100. I had a 1.8 GLX version and it was 975kgs in full trim.
My 180bhp Clio 1.8 16v was quicker than this through every gear. I was spinning up going in to 3rd sometimes. I really don’t think this is 300bhp, if it is then he needs to check his map. Seems to be limited.
After he said he dosent know what a f28 gearbox is no ideea of injection.....HOWW?!.....thats not a car guy.... thats just bought and knew anything about it....next time buy a factory car a gti mate thats a car for you.so you can read a specsheet
He's right about the dash. If you told people you had one of these back in the day, they'd always ask, 'did it have the digital dash?' I wanted to fit one in my Nova GTE, as apparently it was possible. Never did, I fitted white dial faces instead 🤣 Great times!!
The 16v had rear discs as standard. The f28 box was for a 4x4 but could be converted to front drive. If I remember correctly it was the first production car 6 speed in the UK. The 306 gti6 had the first mass produced front wheel drive 6 speed available here.
I love a mk2 Astra I had a few back in the day including a 16v gte. The first one I had was a 1.4 L and that used to stick my mates Saxo VTR when they first came out. The old 1.3 and 1.4 engines were brilliant when they had carbs on then they put injection on them in the mk3 then they were gutless 😂
Needs to get rid of that overboost protection in the lower gears, I'd still be surprised if it was 300hp did seem to go fairly well in 4th upwards tho hard to tell from the video, but needs to get rid of that overboost protection I. Owned a gte 16v myself loved it back in the day my Almera gti used to do a 7 sec 0-60 on the drag strip and weighed something like 996kg (after I stripped it out) and that only had about 160hp and done something like a 14.6 quarter mile on road tyrea
My grandad had a Fiat Tipo in about 1994 and that had digi clocks, was awesome. Now my shitty Xsara Picasso Im driving now has digi clocks but that car aint cool! This GTE is awesome, one of my dream cars as a lad next to the fiat Uno Turbo. Only trouble I find with vauhalls is they never seem to age well looks wise, they are nice when they are fairly new but I seem to desire them less as they get older. I had a Mk5 SXI and that car was lovely at the time but I dont think the MK5s look very nice now
I had a corsa gsi with this engine and f28 6 speed box fitted, running around 18psi boost. It was my daily run around for 5 years. Man I wish I still had it so I could bring it on this channel. Find a corsa b c20let with a garret gt30 turbo and I can guarantee you will be amazed.
I owned a e reg 2.0 16v ( red top) for a few weeks, was faster than anything my mates had but my god it was a handful in the corners. Under steer was pretty dangerous but it did have good lift off over steer! Swapped it for a 106 rallye.
Nice car same old vauxhall tho things look out of place wrong shaped rear arches exhaust backbox just looks like an after thought as the original 16v items were nice car tho can’t see 300 Bhp tho it looks about 240-250 max
Yeeeessss..absolutely love the old skooooll bwoiii!!! Now you out there type of cars next to a top end merc ect and you can have the merc...ok take the brute savage and feel the true raw engine power and the car making you work..not sitting in a merc or bmw and just out your foot down,,anyone can drive fast in a straight line..these things seperate cruise control car fans to real drivers
Just because it has a hybrid doesn't suddenly mean it's 300bhp. Would say standard map as it still has the boost limited in earlier gears which they done to keep the 4x4 healthy. Still awesome to see and probably a giggle to drive
Remember when I was about 12 and my dad had a white one with gold alloys on its was ok first cat I eva done 140mph in loved it I Neva owned one yet av owned a gsi mk3 and a gsi turbo mk 4 and a Sri mk5 and my dad had couple ov mk1gte but I wanna own my own mk2 gte
Need more cars like this I miss them so bad wish I could buy more but gone up in price a hell of a lot I remember wen friend s would offer them for 50$ with no mot or tax back in the day lol if I could only go back in time hahahaha
lovely machine & fair play to the guy for being honest about the work that was done, plenty of folk would have gladly skated round and collected the flowers for the work done even though it was previous owners that did it.
I dare to say that this gte started out with a 2ltr 8 valve engine because of the drum brakes at the rear, the 16 valve redtop gte came with disc brakes at the rear! Very tidy, clean car anyways!
When I was 15 in 1991 a guy had a brand new one of these near where we lived . Me and my mates would watch him wash his car every week . Great memories 👍
Jamie keep bringing the old skool cars on here there a huge fan base for them and they are true power cars...and the owners are true car fanatics not flash fanatics 😉👍🌞
The digital dash in these cars really was a thing of the future,wen I was young everyone wanted one,it’s sad that most of them got stolen and burned out
In the Netherlands it's called an Opel Kadett.
Same here in Serbia.
Kadett*
Same in Norway
My dad had a Opel kadett cannery yellow mk1 gte
@@trueaccountsfastsnotfictio2848 I love that memory's. My older brother had a Kadett GT and maked it look like a GTI with the black panel on the trunk.
OMG! My dream car as a teenager (sorry but the digital clocks blew my mind) I'm waiting patiently for this Premiere!!!!
The gte was most young lads dream car and the Nova gte 👌
@oxygen thief you and me both 👍
Mate the Nova.... Legendary car
Yeh knee the middle of the door to pop the lock up snap the steering lock with no effort and pull the hazzards out turn em upside down and pop them back in you get reds 🤣🤣 ready to bump start every young lads dream car as thay was easy to steal
@@geobee8646 I have actaully tired that with a car that was in a scrap yard and it did work lol
I had a S2 RS Turbo back in ‘94.. but the 16V GTEs used to hand me my arse..
Haven't even had time to watch the video but please.. please.. please.... Have more cars from this era!!!!
I do love modern cars but nothing compares to the 90s style Escort, Orion, Sierra, 106, 205, 306gti, Novas, Astras, Cavaliers, mantas, E30s, E36s , Even the Fiat Uno 4x4 was an important piece of history back then, All your content is 10/10 but these types of throwback videos bring me and my father that little bit closer everytime ot gives us something to reminisce about so thank you for that alone
Agreed!
I don't think they will ever produce the cars of the 90s again as every company were at it and those were definitely the days of the cheap monster cars best era ever I can honestly say I think I drove them all and that's no bull as don't want to explain why this happened to me with out letting the cat of of the bag but I am ashamed at the shame time
As a yank who knows little to nothing about Vauxhall I gotta say, that things pretty dope in it's own little way.
vauxhall is GM in your world, it carries a diff name in europe, opel
Yeah they did a Pontiac Le Mans In the US. It was based on the same car.
You had the Saturn Astra in 2008, which is the Vauxhall Astra here in the UK, the closest thing you had to a Vauxhall in the U.S.
Vauxhall is the UK name for what was opel in the rest of Europe 👍
Check out by the fiesta rs turbo,,calibre turbo ect
I want to hear that turbo just whistle, music to my ears
Sounds awesome.. Not been ruined with pops and bangs farting out the back
Maybe it's a good idea for the future to drive some cars from subscribers outside of England (:
Got the old skool vibes going on bro need a escort rs turbo or Renault 5 GT turbo 👊🏽
The over boosting was to protect the 4x4 transfer boxes blowing up in lower gears in the original car, map that out.
Just unplug sensor
Were is the sensor location
The cars you keep bringing in Jamie are just awesome loving your vids and these old schoolers are epic 💪👌👍
Officially gassed is better that LLF .. had to be said
Lovely cars.. In south Africa we've got the opel superboss..2.0l 16v 😍 my dad's had a digital dash as well!
My dad got one in the drag racing it's aspirated runs 11 sec dead
The Super Boss! Now THATS a bad ass name lol
There was two variations of the Astra in South Africa the baby boss with the 8v engine and the super or big boss with the 16v setup, the super boss was a beast till today if you see one at the robot idling erratically just be scared lol
Fastest opel superboss in SA did a 8sec owned by Nascar racing, wicked cars
@@jaesialgovender2939 ya It was neesan his my dad's personal friend
So good and refreshing to hear a natural exhaust without all the pops and bangs
Yes Jamie! Wicked to see more of these types of builds
I love these i used to have one many many years ago 1991 mk2 sxi only the 1.8 8 valve though . Great cars joy riders loved them
You need to find someone with a Saab 900 turbo with the spoiler! Old school 911-esque 👌
300hp 1000kg and 7 sec to 60 i wayyyy to slow
225bhp at the most
the standard version was 8 if i remember so it doesnt have 300hp or its lost in the gearbox
@@Luuxs 8.5 I think it was but back then it was a fast car
C20let have a 1st gear indent switch, (also from a cavalier 4x4 turbo) limits boost to stop it destroying the gearbox and transfer box (as it would have had from factory). Bridge the plug which plugs into the switch in the gearbox and it will go all out. Those that run the f20 box have no choice but to bridge the plug because the f20 box never came with the switch from factory as it was only ever tended for the c20xe. But had this lad had the knowledge on these he would have known that. Not hating he’s just not from this era. When his gearbox goes wrong he will find out why these are hens teeth. Drums on the back and half moon rev counter this will have an 8v c20ne/seh from factory. Beautiful car though.
I’m guessing it’s because the car isn’t making 300hp until overboost in 4th gear and also the extra gear change into 3rd probably hurts the time.
Astra GTE's are Deffo badboys I've had 3. White C.Reg, blue H.Reg, red G.Reg all quick motors, wish I had another one.
Where the gear boxes are concerned boys they are all f and then a two digit code. The smaller the two digit code the closer the ratios and the f 25 and f28 are the longer ratio boxes and were the only two 6 speed boxes. I believe. Somebody please correct me if I am wrong but to my knowledge this is true.
The f28 was the gearbox used in the cavalier 4x4 and the calibra 4x4 most have the conversion kit to make fwd only as the transfer case where soft as shit lol
i never get tired of watching the owner of the car, take on the passenger seat - its always like 2 different people. lol
Digital Guages??!! In Giggs’ terms...... “Jheeze!!!!” - sick feature J. Cool as ice owner 👏🏾
Maaaaaate, just look at that iconic styling! All cars these days look and sound the same, I was definitely born in the wrong era!
Sick feature! Try find more older cars
or the new shape corsa
This was an 8 valve, standard gear tunnel, rear drum brakes, so would’ve been 130ish hp.
125hp
Only a German 8v got 130hp , it also got the same shell as a 16v that we didn’t!
Exhaust hangers are different and no bend to go around gear linkage!
That was my car my mate built it I sold it 10 years ago have all the pictures
I literally commented on your last video saying you needed to get some old skool Vauxhall's on here and low and behold you've got my all time favourite car on here 👍 legend!!!
I had 2 of these back in the 90s best 2.0 engine in its day
love the old school mate OG ALL DAY EVERYDAY
A guy that goes by the Username Spankee built that car. It was featured in Total Vauxhall magazine a good few years back. It was not a 300bhp car when he built it. All of his builds have been to the highest quality though and he's had a knack for clean MK2s. His mate, Laney's, aren't bad either......
Thanks mate yes when I sold it went back to stardard power ...maybe will be back in a mk2 again one day :)
Love the wide ride of cars on the channel Jamie, nice to see an old skool bag of shite being enjoyed to this day and the owner seems like a super chilled person
This should be running 21 over boost holding 18 psi boost for 300 bhp 👍 if this is a Eds phase 3 ECU should have power wheel coming off ecu to change boost level settings
Its not 300 mayb 240bhp . It needs mapping. Waiting till 4th for proper boost !?!
250 max I bet, sick car though
Naaaa! As if you've got an old astra on here 😂. Just when I thought the last video couldn't be topped. Hadn't even seen the video before I started sharing it. Top work 👍 credit to the owner
That engine bay is fucking gorgeous 👌
I remember these GTE's from back n' day
I like and comment Every time for these old car builds.
Can see this channel becoming one of the best if it keeps this up
Loved these cars as a kid used to see loads of them when i was growing up. My auntie had one but it was a blue convertible with the 8v engine in with digi dash in.
Big props to the owner that is one serious bit of kit.
Top owner, down to earth and mint car. Used to love the GTE 16V as a kid
I've got an Astra gte it's running 547 Bhp does 10s
Let’s get it featured 🤘🏽
You always get the best cars on your channel love your content bro keep it💯👊
Owner needs to check his boost pipes, I reckon he got a boost leak somewhere?????. Boost doesnt seem to come on strong and a 300bhp FWD car weighing just under a tonne, it should be all over the road, but this car seems to put the power down even in lower gears, the car isnt producing much boost, hence why I think its leaking somewhere.
welloilbeefhooked I was thinking the same, my old corsa with 240bp was a right handful with no diff. Pulled you all over the rd, I remember chasing an m3 on the motorway, pulled out from inside lane in 3rd at 60 and it spun up like fuck.
@@laurencepickering5252 lol, fwd cars are bloody nightmare, i owned a mk1 focus rs many years ago that was running 280bhp, and was sitting at a set of traffic lights when a 1.2 corsa pulled next to me, it was raining so traction was going to be an issue, light went green and the corsa accelerates from the lights and try to beat me as it goes into 1 lane, i launch it and sit there spinning my wheels and struggle for traction as the 1.2 corsa flys off into the distance. lol you couldn't drive that car in anything but dry weather.
LOVED those cars as a kid! My uncle had a grey one....epic 80s/90s motor
Wow i had 3 of them. The amount of welding I did was mental! I replaced sills ,rear quarter panels and floor pans! The arches always went. The drive shafts leaked and the sump gaskets. 😂
No MacyD's comments how refreshing 👏👏👏
Lovely car a Demon back in the day.
No popin or banging 🙏 can actually hear the car... Such a 90s vibe.. In my family there was always rivalry with these uncles vs dad caviler, serria, volvo 760 turbo 😂 good old days 👍
Lol the GTe never did 7sec to 60, that was a 90’s marketing hype
Nostalgia for me to bud loved the 90s cheers jamie ✌
Hey Jamie, nice vid as always bro! I wonder, what does the fiesta feel like hoppin into it straight from this?
Love the old skool! (Although I was in my mid 20's before I had anything as new as H reg! Lol)
My dad had a F28 Box on his 3.2 V6 Corsa. I'm not familiar with the hype around the gearbox anyways
Man, i used to have an F reg GTE 16Valve back in the 90s! I @*!#in loved that motor! Great memories even the same colour as mine. I debadged it so it looks pretty similar, especially at the back. Great engine, especially the early one with a bit higher power, no cat etc. I always wanted to fit ITBs, on a bog standard lump that upped power to 200bhp NA! Its no wonder that so many kit cars and racers used that lump. I'm a 46 year old family man now but i've even had dreams of driving my GTE thats how much it stayed with me haha! Although they got stick over handling, once you got used to it (i had a 1.8 GTE prior) you could make it dance round mini roundabouts!
No way 300, this was a dream figure for me in early 2000's in my cavalier 4x4 turbo. I made 267 at regal autosport with xe inlet cam, top hat inlet, z20let 475cc injectors, verniers, fmic. Strong engine, f28 is long ratio and does pull 160mph. Sold project in the end as was becoming a money pit. Was going to lock my weak transfer box with a Norwegian based company. Can't beat the old skool fun though👌👍. More like this Jamie!
We need more of this sleeper classic cars 🚗🚗🚗
Stock Calibra Turbo with 200bhp is booked to pull 60mph in 6.2 seconds. Sometimes less is more Al Dente.
That gearbox is the standard Calibra Turbo box rated for 280ft/lb torque which is higher than on some of the later VXR models and sought after.
GTE 16v was one of my favourite cars ever. MK 1 was underrated too! The digi clocks were a love/hate relationship!
Astra 16v was meant to have 166bhp and the Cavalier and Calibra were meant to be 150bhp. Duno why! Lol.
Martijn Jansen already said it, but i just have to point it out once more. In Germany and the rest of Europe, the car was called Opel Kadett. Funny that Vauxhall named it Astra back then, because the Astra is what was its successor in Germany. The Astra line startet with Astra F, the Kadett line ended with this particular model, which was the Kadett E.
Nonetheless, the motor from the Cali Turbo, which was the C20LET, is a beast and has been used in a lot of Opel/Vauxhall swaps, from Corsas over Kadetts to Astras.
This here is quite a nice build. Big ups to the owner i.e. previous owner and builder 👍👍👍
I agree with the comments saying this isn’t 300bhp. Seems under 250 based on what I can tell from the video. Not saying I’m right, just what it seems like to me. These cars were around a ton not 1100. I had a 1.8 GLX version and it was 975kgs in full trim.
My 180bhp Clio 1.8 16v was quicker than this through every gear. I was spinning up going in to 3rd sometimes. I really don’t think this is 300bhp, if it is then he needs to check his map. Seems to be limited.
Love this vlog, during the time when these bad boys were being stolen, could only afford and 1.8 SRi model insurance loved my SRi so wanted an GTE. 😒😒
After he said he dosent know what a f28 gearbox is no ideea of injection.....HOWW?!.....thats not a car guy.... thats just bought and knew anything about it....next time buy a factory car a gti mate thats a car for you.so you can read a specsheet
Could we get a counter of how much bro is said in this video
In Scotland it was… stolen, mostly. That and nova. Take hazard warning switch out, turn upside down, put back in. Your Vauxhall then bump started
He's right about the dash. If you told people you had one of these back in the day, they'd always ask, 'did it have the digital dash?'
I wanted to fit one in my Nova GTE, as apparently it was possible. Never did, I fitted white dial faces instead 🤣
Great times!!
The 16v had rear discs as standard. The f28 box was for a 4x4 but could be converted to front drive. If I remember correctly it was the first production car 6 speed in the UK.
The 306 gti6 had the first mass produced front wheel drive 6 speed available here.
I love a mk2 Astra I had a few back in the day including a 16v gte. The first one I had was a 1.4 L and that used to stick my mates Saxo VTR when they first came out. The old 1.3 and 1.4 engines were brilliant when they had carbs on then they put injection on them in the mk3 then they were gutless 😂
Needs to get rid of that overboost protection in the lower gears, I'd still be surprised if it was 300hp did seem to go fairly well in 4th upwards tho hard to tell from the video, but needs to get rid of that overboost protection I. Owned a gte 16v myself loved it back in the day my Almera gti used to do a 7 sec 0-60 on the drag strip and weighed something like 996kg (after I stripped it out) and that only had about 160hp and done something like a 14.6 quarter mile on road tyrea
My grandad had a Fiat Tipo in about 1994 and that had digi clocks, was awesome. Now my shitty Xsara Picasso Im driving now has digi clocks but that car aint cool! This GTE is awesome, one of my dream cars as a lad next to the fiat Uno Turbo. Only trouble I find with vauhalls is they never seem to age well looks wise, they are nice when they are fairly new but I seem to desire them less as they get older. I had a Mk5 SXI and that car was lovely at the time but I dont think the MK5s look very nice now
I had a corsa gsi with this engine and f28 6 speed box fitted, running around 18psi boost. It was my daily run around for 5 years. Man I wish I still had it so I could bring it on this channel. Find a corsa b c20let with a garret gt30 turbo and I can guarantee you will be amazed.
I owned a e reg 2.0 16v ( red top) for a few weeks, was faster than anything my mates had but my god it was a handful in the corners. Under steer was pretty dangerous but it did have good lift off over steer! Swapped it for a 106 rallye.
Nice car same old vauxhall tho things look out of place wrong shaped rear arches exhaust backbox just looks like an after thought as the original 16v items were nice car tho can’t see 300 Bhp tho it looks about 240-250 max
Cracking car! I reckon its running standard power though. Definitely not 300bhp but regardless its one nice car 😎
Yeeeessss..absolutely love the old skooooll bwoiii!!! Now you out there type of cars next to a top end merc ect and you can have the merc...ok take the brute savage and feel the true raw engine power and the car making you work..not sitting in a merc or bmw and just out your foot down,,anyone can drive fast in a straight line..these things seperate cruise control car fans to real drivers
Just because it has a hybrid doesn't suddenly mean it's 300bhp. Would say standard map as it still has the boost limited in earlier gears which they done to keep the 4x4 healthy. Still awesome to see and probably a giggle to drive
Love unusual cars and builds like this that you don't see on every other channel. Keep up the awesome content dude!
Wow... now that's a blast from the past.. 🙌👊
My old car I built that she still looking good.....great vid nice to see .it still about
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Legend mate
Remember when I was about 12 and my dad had a white one with gold alloys on its was ok first cat I eva done 140mph in loved it I Neva owned one yet av owned a gsi mk3 and a gsi turbo mk 4 and a Sri mk5 and my dad had couple ov mk1gte but I wanna own my own mk2 gte
If only the owner had a clue! And if only he could drive. 300bhp no print out but it feels like 300bhp 😂😂
Cos Tony's got a new motor, Sr nova, driving like a joyrider, speed into the corner, your mother warned you it's a sound system banger.
Need more cars like this I miss them so bad wish I could buy more but gone up in price a hell of a lot I remember wen friend s would offer them for 50$ with no mot or tax back in the day lol if I could only go back in time hahahaha
I’ve always wanted a vw polo 9n3 on here
There is one here in Norway with 500 horses. It is completely useless! The owner has now purchased a Lotus Esprit that the engine will be fitted into.
Now this takes me back!! These were quick in standard form back in the day, nova gte was a problem 😎
lovely machine & fair play to the guy for being honest about the work that was done, plenty of folk would have gladly skated round and collected the flowers for the work done even though it was previous owners that did it.
bunter6 il never take someone else's credit I think it's fairly obvious I just appreciate the car & drive it
I dare to say that this gte started out with a 2ltr 8 valve engine because of the drum brakes at the rear, the 16 valve redtop gte came with disc brakes at the rear! Very tidy, clean car anyways!
Saw an Oldskool Motor, had to click ASAP!!!
Glad to see you back on YT, Jamie 🤙🏽
Brilliant, takes me back a few years. I'd much rather rip that round some country lanes on a sunny day than a modern faster car. Pure fun.
When I was 15 in 1991 a guy had a brand new one of these near where we lived . Me and my mates would watch him wash his car every week . Great memories 👍
900 kilos and 300hp. I thought it would be a little better than 6.8. To be fair that car is pretty old.
Jamie keep bringing the old skool cars on here there a huge fan base for them and they are true power cars...and the owners are true car fanatics not flash fanatics 😉👍🌞
Perfectly done, beautiful car that looks clean and proper, even down to the period correct exhaust :-P
If it had a 5 speed box in it.. It would have done 60 in second gear and a bit quicker 😎 nice car thow
Its a very good example of a good classic but its really sluggish for 300 ponys and stripped out
The digital dash in these cars really was a thing of the future,wen I was young everyone wanted one,it’s sad that most of them got stolen and burned out
My mate had one in 97 I loved it ...did 140 no problem it wasn’t turboed like
Love to see a old nova or a nova salon on here old cars for the win
This is a Kadett not an Astra, i used to have a 1.3 4 speed manual standard version, was powerfull too!
People dont understand about these engines red tops and the turbos the red tol was developed by cosworth aswellthey just didnt put their nsme on it
I worry about the future of us petrol heads with the phasing out of petrol and this cheap fuel they're forcing on us.