I've done a bit of lurking and a few posts so thought it only polite to say hello and show what i'm driving.





It's going through a change at the moment, I did have it for sale with the intention of buying something else to turn into a track car but with the way things are at the mo I decided to track this instead.

Most of the jobs I'd have to do to a track car I've already done on this shell so it would be daft to start again with an unknown shell. At it's last mini-rebuild it had welding to the steering rack bulkhead to repair and strengthen it, the power steering was removed along with the ABS and all the unused wiring was removed from the engine bay. The Leather Recaro Interior was sold and paid for a Safety Devices 6 point cage, Cobra buckets and harnesses with a few quid left over

I'll be updating this over the next few weeks as I go. I've been looking at the diaries on here which has given me a few more ideas as well

 

Very nice mate,

 

Do like these ,we have a couple of very tidy ones around here

 

i used to have a 250 was a lovely car mine only had 170bhp but could still hold its own against scoobys was a shame to see it go.
maca

 

did i see this car in total vaux few years ago? looks very nice.

 

Very nice mate!

Always fancied one of these.

 

you cant strip a Champion model!


Very nice tho matey

 

Nice to see them still on the road

All the ones that kicked around my way are long gone to the scrapheap

 

not this one...there was one a few years ago that was similar

nah...It's only a set of cow covered RST style recaros with some Capri fishnet headrests at the end of the day. I was getting bored with it TBH but after fitting the Cobras and harnesses I love driving it again. Got plans for it, keeping a lot of the Championess just doing it a bit different

 

yeah it may "only" be a set of cow covered recaro's and a bit of fish net but i na few years a tidy champ will fetch stupid money and you will be kicking yourself for track car'ing it!

do really like gte's and even more so the champs as the colour is really nice and suits the shape well!

mte has a stripped out 16v one as a track car that he brought as a rally preped shell and reshelled his old one into it, cant wait to see it used!

 

i remeber seeing one a while ago munch a porsche on the a13 lol

 

there's a champion down your way with a carbon bonnet that's had loads done to it...probably that

 

Very nice, my mate has one of these and it shifts well!

 

i sold my interior for Ł600, it paid for the cage, seats and harnesses. It would take a lot to put it back to standard anyway. I do regret not leaving it standard at times

I got it to this and should have stopped...but I didn't lol




I'm hoping to do 3 or 4 trackdays a year, the rest will be RWYB days and shows. It's old setup was good for 13.4 @ 105...hoping to beat that this year and next year I'm looking into fitting a Saab 2.3 turbo

 

thats a cracker that mate, i do like these myself, my boss has a gun metal grey 16v just lyin in the yard, had it since it was new and wont part with it! cunt.

 

My old Astre GTE LET

 

sweet

 

That looks familiar for some reason?

cheers for the comments

 

I do like these GTE. nice

 

I sold it back in 2004 \ 2005 before I left for the states. Would love to know if it is still around.

 

looks like it's not on the road anymore

 

O well Im sure it lives on in parts. Shame the shell was in awesome condition.

 

did my first trackday last week at Cadwell and car was faultless and never missed a beat...despite the other cars on track. Only thing quick enough to pass me was an MK kitcar that was a bit slower in straight line but in a different leauge in the bends



got some incar videos that I'll be uploading in the next few days including one follow the Focus RS

 

Are you something to do with mk2astra.com?

If so, can you sort out why my mate Trish cant logon, she was moaning at me about it today as she needs to put a wanted ad up for something.

Cool car

 

i'll have a look for her....been a few like that

 

Thanks mate

 

nice engine in that,i had a mk1 astra few years back with full cage never did get it finished tho

 

Im not a vauxhall lover but its a nice car.

 

next jobs are get an LSD fitted and sort the suspension...taking it round Cadwell pointed out it wasn't as good as I thought it was and was hard work getting the power down out of the bends.

The engine will have some more work done later on like ditching the crappy K16 turbo...it's reasonably quick as it is for now, does 13.3@110 quarters and was used as a daily driver till recently so has been very reliable but more power is always good

 

Diff is definately a must have on a 300bhp or so trackday FWD car!

 

It's only ever been up the strip up until now so got away with not really needing one...that's till I went to Cadwell and found "corners" lol

 

Even on the road you will notice a difference coming off roundabouts etc, but the track is definately where you notice it the most.

 

is it a champion? i was told there is 7 left (genuine ones) 2 of which are ont he road, a lad i know has one of them!

Was told that by an astra boff, lol.

 

There are about 15 left that I know of on the Astra mk2 OC...mine is a genuine one. They were built to celebrate wins in the 89 BTCC and Rally championships. Decided it'd be plain rude if at least one of them didn't find it's way back onto the track....that and I wanted a trackcar and there was no way I was looking at loads of cars before I found another as solid as this is. It will have leather again just need to find somewhere decent and fairly local to retrim the Cobra buckets

there's only one way you can tell if they are genuine, it should say 636 on the vin tag for the trim code. 636 just means leather, they were never numbered so that's the only way to 100% ID them

 

cool, rare old girls now then, near as rare as mk2 cav calibers!

 

Ive just bought myself a white 16valve gte as abit of a project i'd always liked them then my mate bought one and i was so jealous i had to get one for myself his turned out to be beyond repair so he broke it but mines been dry stored for the last 9-10 years so it should be in alot better nick.
I should be picking it up this weekend so if i get stuck on anything i shall be in touch lol

mark.

 

very nice :big:

 

hi had a J plate white 16v gte and have got a grey g plate 1 owner from new with 68000 miles in my garage one of the quickest cars in a straight line i have driven

 

feel free mate...they are piss easy to work on anyway

 

My old man uses his Champion for tip runs!!