1975 vauxhall firenza droopsnoot turbo

[turbohpf]

hi my name's mike and I own a 1975 vauxhall firenza hpf or droopsnoot
I bought 2 off e-bay 6-7 years ago, a reshelled 6 headlight car,in silver
and this,ex sprint car,which turned out to be a bit of a rust bucket and prob would have ended up in the bin if not for the encouragement of my mate ron. Most of the rust work is now done. it has also had some bling alloys, a 2ltr let from a calibar turbo, omega 5 speed and ford lsd rear axle and 5 link watts set up It has been sat in the garage for a bit now while we derust my bud jasons magnum and v8 that then we will finish mine off

looks like ill have to add pic's later as I need to find out how to upload them opps

[Mike]

Welcome to the forum Mike!

Try signing up for Photobucket (it's free) and upload your photos on there. When that's done you'll get an IMG code under the photo which you can cut and paste into your replies on here, and your photos will appear! Looking forward to seeing the car, it sounds like a cool project.

[turbohpf]

[leigh]

Oh yes!!! I'm loving that!!! Welcome along with that my good man, that's two Firenzas added in one day! I'm sure you have a video or two of this thing running in anger ----- please!

[B-8-D]

excellent stuff turbo firenzas are good....!!

i miss mine..
looks like it will be a bit of fun..

loving all these new vivas on the site..
si

[turbohpf]

thanks guys and sorry leigh it hasn't progressed much passed this for a year as I wanted to change the top wishbones and front brakes, and needed some machine work doing which my bud jason dose so In return for helping him with the rust and v8 on his he'd help me with mine a year on and we are still cutting rust out of his

[XL391]

Magnificent vehicle!! Looking forward to reading about your progress!

[matty2300]

YUM! saw a kadett with a c20let in it once - fierce
always thought it would be the perfect conversion for a firenza glad to see someones done it!!

[luckygti]

That is a hard as nails looking motor. Loving that look, please don't paint it, just leave it as is Wheels are nice too, what are they? And of course, welcome

[turbohpf]

jason,s even rustier bucket

[turbohpf]

i had a bit of money stashed away and couldn't find the wheels i wanted so these are 3 piece image wheels made to my order even got a picture on there web site

[leigh]

May 19, 2010 20:19:47 GMT turbohpf said:

thanks guys and sorry leigh it hasn't progressed much passed this for a year as I wanted to change the top wishbones and front brakes, and needed some machine work doing which my bud jason dose so In return for helping him with the rust and v8 on his he'd help me with mine a year on and we are still cutting rust out of his

You're preaching to the choir Mike, my Magnum has been in the garage for 10years now.................sweet jeebus

Seriously cool looking Firenza this though, looks hard as nails in black on those wheels. If you ever want rid of it......

[turbohpf]

thanks leigh
matty c2let, you gota love, but if was back at square 1 i wouldn't use this engine
id go for the nissan 200, 18 or 2ltr turbo
think there is someone on here with that convert already, it just makes more sense it was hard work to make the c2let fit
or a v8 ls1 chevrolet
or i would love to take the engine out of my c43 AMG mercedes as thats one hell of an engine
sadly no manual gearbox and can-bus control engine and box so dam hard to seperate

[leigh]

Was the c20let that awkward to get in? Thing that outs me off them is the price of initial outlay and the other bits - lots of scene tax on them. Wonder what the Nissan engines you suggested would be like money/hassle wise? Some are already RWD which would save some hassle I suppose

[craig]

I like that a lot. The black works well.

[grizz]

Love the look of this car, looks fast standing still.

[carmad]

very nice wil be watching this

a freind off mine built a chevette with a c20let scaryest car i have ever bin in

[turbohpf]

the c20let was yes a complete git, it;s a tall engine so has to sit close to the bulkhead but has that stupid little distributor on the back of the head which you could do away with but would need a manta 1.8 conversion or after market ecu...the sump from an omege/carlton and need cutting, hybrid clutch and of course the cooling system is back to front but might have sussed that with a frontra rad and hoses as omega dosn't fit and cutting the bulkhead and x member

the idear had been to stick it in the hole to see if i wanted a 2ltr turbo as i have a mate who is squeezing 350-400 bhp out of a converted x20xev with a turbo...and that dosn't have a distributor but would cost £2k-3k to get going think that would have made more sense now..or the nissan which is already a rwd turbo and can be made to push 250-300bhp on standed internals ready made gear box and the 1.8 are 10 a penny in scrapies now

[turbohpf]

sadly that paint has water spots all over it so has to be redone
and as i got stick from the purists about the engine (and i like the colour) it's going back to silver
not sure if it will be that renault one with a pearl or the really freaky alfa one yet

hope it's ok to say there are a couple of firenza pages on facebook now

[leigh]

May 20, 2010 6:48:20 GMT turbohpf said:

sadly that paint has water spots all over it so has to be redone
and as I got stick from the purists about the engine (and I like the colour) it's going back to silver

Purists me hoop, it looks great in black. I'm sure they hate the thought of the engine too, I know they snubbed my engine too. Thing about the black is it looks different in a good way. There are plenty of perfectly restored original spec examples out there, it's refreshing to see something different