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Thread: Retro Fit Ecotec Manual Into VN Calais

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    Default Retro Fit Ecotec Manual Into VN Calais

    Hello all,

    this has been my baby for the past few years, I hope you like it.
    Very quick car

    Engine
    Retro Fit Ecotec (with the specs 208kw)
    Full rebuild built by Competition Engineering in Croydon ? Tony Edwards, he built the majority of the V6?s in the Tassco series and also the 3.3l in the HQ?s

    Custom re ground cam
    Rebuilt heads with titanium valve guides and valves
    Balanced bottom end
    Federal Mogul pistons
    Re mapped & chipped computer
    V8 radiator with new cooling system

    Gear box
    Rebuilt T5 with hardened parts
    Lightened fly wheel
    Sports clutch
    Balanced tail shaft

    Differential
    Rebuilt LSD with 3.45 gearing

    Brakes
    330mm rotors on the front
    Twin pot calipers
    289mm rotors on the rear
    Single pot calipers

    Suspension
    Race set up all round and new bushes
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    All that messing around & ou went with sequential injection & maf setup an everything..... WHY!
    Quote Originally Posted by garth
    well if it isnt mr i only have temp bans. how long you intending on staying this time hozy.

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    Niceee but with all that muchking around, wouldnt it have been better to slab a v8 buick into it? then work from that base?

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    yeah why go to all the trouble..... i did a hozy conversion and it's so hot,
    but not atm cos it won't start

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    Exactly who's engines did Tony Edwards built I only know of his own and one other

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