What have you done to your car lately?

[Sammich]

sadly they have 3 listings on their fleabay account, for an audi, a z20let and a vxr corsa all intake hoses.

will check them out on facey when i get home but if i can get factory replacements that would be a start as no one lists the part numbers and all the hoses for the 1.4 xc and the 1.8l astra look different.

to assist your code have you got an obd2 hand tool at all?? if so you can monitor the o2 voltage/% to rule it out,

in saying that when my car was throwing that same code it turned out to be the damned egr valve which i ended up blanking off and suddenly my car felt normal again and the shuddering and stalling completly stopped with a $14 piece of metal

then again its no secret the z18xe is one of the worst designed engines ever -.-

Timing belt that runs the waterpump and breaks after 60,000ks, 92 degree thermostat, useless EGR valve that does nothing except blacken the throttle body and make your car run like shite,

from an engine that has so much potential, its stupidly restricted from the factory :P

Yeh i pulled out the scanner and cleared the code, didn't have it with me when I was out. was weird though it came on when car pulled up to a set of lights, was reading a article on a car regal tuned and they fixed it with a remap. but i am already running a EDS 3.5 325/480 map with inlet cam, but they have a different map with -20 fuel trim so may try that.

[SilentShout]

yes cheers for that!!! and they do it in the red too.

Now to fork out $260+ AUD for the coolant + breather + ancillary hoses? or just get the coolant hoses... hmmm decisions.

I wonder how to get it without VAT and what shipping will be like :S

[Sammich]

yes cheers for that!!! and they do it in the red too.

Now to fork out $260+ AUD for the coolant + breather + ancillary hoses? or just get the coolant hoses... hmmm decisions.

I wonder how to get it without VAT and what shipping will be like :S

Shipping is 30 pounds and you put your address in and they remove the vat automatically

[SilentShout]

$263.11 aud,

Pretty sure im ordering these on wednesday when i get paid

cheers @Sammich for the link.

[chris_r]

sadly they have 3 listings on their fleabay account, for an audi, a z20let and a vxr corsa all intake hoses.

will check them out on facey when i get home but if i can get factory replacements that would be a start as no one lists the part numbers and all the hoses for the 1.4 xc and the 1.8l astra look different.

to assist your code have you got an obd2 hand tool at all?? if so you can monitor the o2 voltage/% to rule it out,

in saying that when my car was throwing that same code it turned out to be the damned egr valve which i ended up blanking off and suddenly my car felt normal again and the shuddering and stalling completly stopped with a $14 piece of metal

then again its no secret the z18xe is one of the worst designed engines ever -.-

Timing belt that runs the waterpump and breaks after 60,000ks, 92 degree thermostat, useless EGR valve that does nothing except blacken the throttle body and make your car run like shite,

from an engine that has so much potential, its stupidly restricted from the factory

I would not say that the engine itself is poorly designed. As an engine, it's actually very well designed, but with most Opel engines, it's biggest weakness is in the electrics.

With regards to belt and water pump, the interval set at 60,000km was put in place by Holden due to failing belts in our climate. As for the water pump, when they brought out the Z18XER, they changed the pump to auxiliary belt drive, but still kept the timing belt interval at 60,000km.

For those that have had problems with the water pump removal, you'll find that's usually a result of poor maintenance regimes and/or the wrong coolant.

[dutchy]

Haven't heard from @dutchy for a solid 5hrs. Hope he's keeping himself hydrated!

yeah, fappin all the way to the box of tissues.

[SilentShout]

For those that have had problems with the water pump removal, you'll find that's usually a result of poor maintenance regimes and/or the wrong coolant.

Interesting points, Hopefully the fact that im using a proper 50/50 red coolant mix will be helpful. During the next service ill be draining the coolant even though it has only done 5k to make sure all the crap from the previous owner is out.

while at it ill change the hoses, thermostat (if i can find one) put more coolant still at 50/50 mix to make it run like a dream.

[hazrd]

"paint mod" ?! what's that ?

ah yeah thats right, weight reduction.

what those two potatoes cant seem to grasp is that red is a POWER MOD and adds at least 200hp thus rendering the "weight reduction" null and void

[dutchy]

what those two potatoes cant seem to grasp is that red is a POWER MOD and adds at least 200hp thus rendering the "weight reduction" null and void

well well well, red adds at least 200hp so any other colour ST got the same power as a 2CV

[chris_r]

well well well, red adds at least 200hp so any other colour ST got the same power as a 2CV

Haha, maybe that had something to do with why there was originally a 2CV on the forum's main Tapatalk page.