Freaktowns Gearbox.... All over Pacific Highway.

[freaktown]

Thats right folks, spotted lots of little Opel Metal Bits and Opel Gearbox Fluid.

Waved Goodbye to it as i rolled past to a dead stop but received no reply?

Anyone on here? :roll:





*Goes off to center his Chi' and play 41 pickup on the road........

[InsaneAsylum]

what they hell were you doing to cause that much damage? did you shift from 5th to 1st and then dump the clutch?

i think i'm going to go and get my gearbox rebuilt now, even though there's nothing wrong with it.

[freaktown]

I hate to burst your bubble but no, just driving normally.

Im not saying i baby the car but i consider myself a good driver.

I do usually rev the car out to 4000rpm most time, i dont spend to much time in one gear, so i dont ride 1st 2nd or 3rd i change up to let the car run slower.

Always change my gearbox oil 5000kms.

Who knows what the people before me did.



im over exagerating a bit. it wasnt a complete destrution, but on of the gears i think 3rd could be 2nd just spat the dummy, went right through to the bitmen taking all the fluid with it.


Will know for sure tomorrow when they take it apart!

[InsaneAsylum]

that sucks... you sure you weren't dragging an STI while eating a kebab :lol: :lol:

i hear the opel gearboxes are prone to breakage, in fact i've been babying my gear changes over the last year because of this. i also put that nulon gearbox additive which helped smooth the changes a bit, but i think it's time for an oil change.

[Anonymous]

worth putting in the ufo thread? :roll:

[auzvectra]

urs would be the aus built veccy right?
my old veccy was an '02 V6, apparently indestructible.
doesnt matter how far u rev it out, but they dont like quick changes.
mine never used to go into gear if i quick shifted. now wit the new car, i slow change always ( well sorta neway ).
as for me old pulsar N13 ( wit the opel 18LE motor, same as calibra C20LET just single cam non turbo, actually the same as 1 of the calibras, but had a diff name, think 18LF ) blew heapsa gboxes, n i mean SHATTERED :twisted: .
it wasnt exactly standard but, was pullin low 15's - high 14's. never got it down the 1/4, always blew the gb b4 i could.

[SSS_Hoon]

mmm sounds nice, iw as told that the n14 gearboxes are rthe same once u start moding the car, i babyied for a while but not anymore heavy duty clutch and pressure plate and away i went :lol:


in my car i cannot go from 5th to 1st or reverse for taht matter


SSS_Hoon

[freaktown]

worth putting in the ufo thread? :roll:

Obviously, otherwise i wouldnt have done it.



that sucks... you sure you weren't dragging an STI while eating a kebab :lol: :lol:

No more like wondering why i was being beaten by an old man in an electric wheelchair on the side of the road while eating a kebab


Mabey i should change the thread to:

"There i was dragging this Top fueler down the pacific highway. I drive a manual but i put it in sports mode anyway and we took of together but i kept reving it out to at least 3500RPM every gear.

Chirping "Drive" i knew sportsmode auto was too much for my Manual Gearbox, but i wanted to win.

I could tell he was trying to because he was reving to like atleast 4000RPM and he kept looking at me wondering why i was so fast.

Then as i reached into my KFC big bucket of chicken for another peice of hot and spicy my Sports Mode auto whent crazy and my clutch felt a bit funny. But instead of ditching the Chicking and pulling over i continued.

At this point i was only half to 20 car places behind him, but i knew that as soon as i hit overdrive id have him.

Then Bang my Gearbox spat the dummy. Pity i would have had him too. So i grabed another drumstick and it was then i decided sports mode auto was to much for me to handle."

[InsaneAsylum]

last time I tried drag racing, my computer said "DANGER TO MANIFOLD", my floorpan fell out and i blew the welds on the intake.

[freaktown]

Yea dont you hate it when your computer wont shutup and your floorpan falls out.

They should put a warning on the sportsmode!

[thirteen]

hey dude, darren told me about the bad news today.

sucks.

i feel for ya :(

[Namus]

shite does ur veccy only rev out to 4000?

[freaktown]

Thanks guys.

Im over it now. Ill get a call today telling me how bad the damage is.

And i was joking about the 4000rpm thing. :)



Yea, i think it was darren granny shifting, not double clutching like he should on our way to Stockies.....

[Namus]

And i was joking about the 4000rpm thing. :)

thank f*** for that...

[dazza015]

last time I tried drag racing, my computer said "DANGER TO MANIFOLD", my floorpan fell out and i blew the welds on the intake.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

HAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHA 10 Points for that one :D

[Namus]

lol :lol: :lol: :lol:

[freaktown]

the title just dosnt have the same meaning without the :Spotted: before it.... :(


still waiting for my call......


damn Sti's.. :evil:

[Wattie]

i want what freaktown is on... i'd pay good money to be a fly on the wall with you for a day... you must never get bored... hahaha awesome.

[InsaneAsylum]

damn Sti's.. :evil:


you have STi's too?? I thought I was the only one... doctor did warn me though. :lol:

[freaktown]

Yea thats what we get for messing around with random cars we know nothing about!

[Anonymous]

haha goes to show ditching the POS opel engine and dropping in a mivec v6 or sr20det (front cut) is more promising hey man.... 8)

[Vectracious]

damn Sti's.. :evil:


you have STi's too?? I thought I was the only one... doctor did warn me though. :lol:


ROFLMAO - Adrian has the funnies today :D

And you know that there is stuff you can get for those STi's mate.... :roll:

[freaktown]

News just in.

Diff gears were messed up too.

Looks like replacment Diff and Gearbox!













:(

[InsaneAsylum]

haha goes to show ditching the POS opel engine and dropping in a mivec v6 or sr20det (front cut) is more promising hey man.... 8)

personally I wouldn't bother with the MIVEC, FWD sr20's from the U12's and U13's are going cheap at jap wreckers and it's not such a bad idea. but you obviously have to factor in the time and money spent on the conversion

and..... you have to find someone who is game enough to take on the job. the words "lazy sh1t" come to mind.

[auzvectra]

sorry if this sounds rude but...........
WHY THE HELL WOULD U STICK A JAP MOTOR IN A EURO CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
a euro car wit a jap spec just doesnt sound right to me, hope u's were jokin!

[InsaneAsylum]

the only reason you'd stick a jap motor in a euro car is because it's a lot easier and cheaper to get much more power from an sr20det than it is to modify a euro n/a engine of the same displacement.

for some reason they charge big $$$ for euro parts and idiots are willing to pay that money.

[Anonymous]

sorry if this sounds rude but...........
WHY THE HELL WOULD U STICK A JAP MOTOR IN A EURO CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
a euro car wit a jap spec just doesnt sound right to me, hope u's were jokin!

because working on an n/a opel engine is a good way to burn your money.

I would go for the sr20det from a pulsar gtir front cut. Your only problem would be engine mounts.

[InsaneAsylum]

the pulsar gti-r version has individual throttle bodies and is a bit more expensive than the bluebird version... but the base power is something like 170kw compared to 130kw

(very rough top of the head power figures quoted)

[Anonymous]

exactly, why would you waste your money on an inferior motor, and then whinge about the lack of power in the long run? :P

[InsaneAsylum]

cost basically would be the deciding factory. you buy what you can afford.

[zoidberg]

Sorry to hear about that freaktown, same thing happened to a friend of a friend, he traded his city after that for an astra T.

Where abouts on pacific hwy did it happen and what dealer is taking care of it for ya?

BTW, what kind of astra do u drive?

[InsaneAsylum]

he drives the man's version of the astra.... the vectra :mrgreen:

[auzvectra]

as i said sorry if was rude!!!
as for more power for cheaper, ah turbo to non turbo :screwy:
take a close look at the power u can get outta d opel 2.0L turbo!!!
the only reason the cars on this site dont have that much, is no1 wants to void their warranty, or split the motor to do internats.
how much would it cost to get 350kw outta a SR20det?
cause i know that is posible outta the opel 2.0L!!!
if u wanna stick a jap motor in, go buy a gtir, but say good bye 2 d gbox!!!
they got 4 t/bodies, bigger cams, n a few other differences in d gtir.
but then again, i gave 1 a hell of a shock in my stock sri-t, we was boosted wit an exhaust so he wouldsa had over 200kw. over a 1/4 it was his tail to my nose.
i have said it 1ce b4, but will say it again. my personal preference is i dont like jap cars, but at least ur talkn nissan.
as for in general, euro bein dearer, it's only cause more people know bout the jap cars, n not many people know bout the euro cars. best off gettn a contact over in d uk, for cheaper parts.
oh yeah, bout $6000-6500 to get approx 350kw, with a engine built for reliability.

[auzvectra]

SH!t, i just saw a dyno readout for a C20LET, running 478KW!!!!!!!!!!!
:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

[auzvectra]

oh yeah wit 740nm torque!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[auzvectra]

damn, just found 1 higher, it got 550kw. it looks like it's been bored out to 86.25mm from 86mm.
dont think u could call that a stock engine. :lol:

[auzvectra]

they do the 1.8L also, 121kw, looks like the figures are at the wheels cause the lowest upgrade says 85kw, wich would b 110kw at the fly, dat about standard.
i think it is saying standard figure, it all in german.

[auzvectra]

make that 132kw for the x20xe.

[InsaneAsylum]

dude, i'm not disputing the fact that you can make big power from a C20LET, it's just the cost. as you said it's a lot cheaper to get power out of a jap motor because the research has been done etc.

I don't have a contact in the U.K. and even if I did, when you go onto www.regal-shop.co.uk look at the prices, convert them into $AUD and start crying.

QSZ wanted to charge me $1600 for cams about 4 years ago, so I rang an aussie company who make cames for <$500... they tell me they don't work on vectra's because they don't know enough about them... c'mon!

[Anonymous]

as i said sorry if was rude!!!
as for more power for cheaper, ah turbo to non turbo :screwy:
take a close look at the power u can get outta d opel 2.0L turbo!!!
the only reason the cars on this site dont have that much, is no1 wants to void their warranty, or split the motor to do internats.
how much would it cost to get 350kw outta a SR20det?
cause i know that is posible outta the opel 2.0L!!!
if u wanna stick a jap motor in, go buy a gtir, but say good bye 2 d gbox!!!
they got 4 t/bodies, bigger cams, n a few other differences in d gtir.
but then again, i gave 1 a hell of a shock in my stock sri-t, we was boosted wit an exhaust so he wouldsa had over 200kw. over a 1/4 it was his tail to my nose.
i have said it 1ce b4, but will say it again. my personal preference is i dont like jap cars, but at least ur talkn nissan.
as for in general, euro bein dearer, it's only cause more people know bout the jap cars, n not many people know bout the euro cars. best off gettn a contact over in d uk, for cheaper parts.
oh yeah, bout $6000-6500 to get approx 350kw, with a engine built for reliability.

think about this... what would be cheaper, buying an astra turbo motor, gearbox, ecu, wiring, loom, etc, etc.... brand new?

OR

buying a whole GTiR front cut?

SIMILARLY, there are a TONNE of workshops that would have a heap of aftermarket products for the GTiR engine...

who here in sydney specialises in astra turbo motors?

It's just more cost effective to go for the GTiR front cut, IMO.

[auzvectra]

got quoted a while ago for gtir motor only $4000.
besides who said u need to use the Z20let, use the C20let it's a lot less!
what i was saying about the jap cars bein cheaper cause more people know bout them, is do a bitta research urself!!!
1 of my freinds has a 180xs wit d sr20, he's spent like $4000+ on it, n only got 270bhp.
i know the c20let will get a lot more for less!!!!

[freaktown]

Yea i drive a Vectra.

Happened near Artarmon.


Its been looked at now by my mechanic in Granville. But as previously said, looks like the Diff Gears are gone.

I should have a Estimate tonight!

Thanks guys! :(