AJ's LD Astra

[AJ-VL-23]

Model: LD Astra SL/e

Year: 1989

Engine: 1.8L HEC Family II, Single overhead cam multipoint injected FWD

Exhaust: Stock muffler straight through replaced resonator and extractors

Suspension: Standard super worn coilovers cept front left is monroe GT Gas (but the most worn ) updated front swaybar (thicker)

Wheels: 13" Steelies, painted gloss black with matt black hub caps, Hard compound 'dirt grip' on front, soft compound radials on rear, (looking for N14 SSS 14" rims)

Modifications:

-Engine/bay
Deleted Air box, red silicone vacuum pipes, custom intake piping, pod filter, 8mm steel core champion leads, NGK-R spark plugs, Repco
fuel and oil filter, custom 2L Camira Cam and tune

-Interior
Pulsar GX door trims (the holden SL/e are better, but mine are brown, so i put these in untill i die the holden ones), "Carbon" red on
on black floor mats, custom made red on black dash mat, monza LED volt gauge, red Needles on white gauge clusters, LED white roof light, red led tubes in the boot, painted console and boot plastics black, red shifter surround and red clear white illumination

-Exterior
Chrome exhaust tip, blue LED window srayers, did have Blue uncar LED's but they got ripped off goin bush bashin, have 4 Red LED
sticks to put on, LED parkers, LED side indicators, "Clear white" Headlights high and low beam, red LED backstop, SV1800 side skirts
red window wiper blades, unibar with Hella Comet 500 Spotties, Painted undercar scratch pad/guards black, painted wheel arch's black
painted muffler black, painted bonnet and front and rear bar skirts, pulsar Q series 1 rear wing, "headtorque" sticker (from the head recon)

Stereo Audio / Visual: Panasonic CD/MP3/AUX/TUNER, 2x Pioneer 6" 2-way's in the front, 2x Pioneer 6x9" 3 way's in custom parcel shelf, 222W xplod amp and home stereo dvd player sub (yeah i know ghetto but whatever)

Estimated Power: very rough off the top of me head estimate 88kw/118hp

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how i bought it










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pics now

enjoy

[AJ-VL-23]

yeah recently picked up extractors a custom cam from a camira and a tune to suit, gonna add this all in when I'm back in Perth in a few weeks, future plans include new suspension upgraded sub and amp, upgrade to disc brake rear, cylinder head porting and maybe some nos, if i don't end up needing this as a daily in the future i may strip it and put gti-r running gear in and use it in targa west rallies as i have volunteered there numerous times it looks like a lot of fun

[AJ-VL-23]

Astra threw it's gearbox, then i messed with it and got it to work enough to keep driving it, untill today the passenger cv joint died, right after i put 3/4 of a tank of 98 in it, bummer, it also has new 6x9's re painted the spoiler with glossy black and all the stockies, ordered 13" dress rims and installed the undercar lights i got around the front and sides of the car

[the0rkus]

Astra threw it's gearbox, then i messed with it and got it to work enough to keep driving it, untill today the passenger cv joint died, right after i put 3/4 of a tank of 98 in it, bummer, it also has new 6x9's re painted the spoiler with glossy black and all the stockies, ordered 13" dress rims and installed the undercar lights i got around the front and sides of the car

Hey mate, got any new pictures of your Astra?

Just bought myself an '88, want to figure out what I should start doing to it next.

Hopefully I'll put some pictures up soon!

[undersuspicion]

man, it sounds like you've done a sh!t load to this car mate.

[Tom_1569]

........ Hang on wait.... Do you take this car seriously?

I'm an Astra fan, dont get me wrong they are good cars, but performance and body mods?

[the0rkus]

I'm half serious about what I'm going to do with my Astra.

Mainly just a respray, sound system and dump a new engine in it.

And probably put a cannon on it... :P

[AJ-VL-23]

yeah i took the car seriously, it's broken now after a crash and then a cv shaft snap, but yeah i did take it seriously, it was quite zippy for what it was, and so far i haven't had as much onroad fun in any of my new cars









if your into astra's and have an LB LC or LD model head over to the pulsar group of australia, cause they are the same as a nissan pulsar and many parts are swappable like my spoiler and sideskirts

[the0rkus]

Making an account over at pulsar.com.au to start discussing more about it