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Most scooby drivers are ok, even if they should have bought an evo instead But the problem is that when your driving something with that kind of performance you tend to forget that the rest of the genral traffic can't go at a million mph everywhere LOL

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Wasn't me, but there are one or 2 members floating around the ipswich area

I prity sure that the ecotec blocks have extra webbing on them which in theory should make them stronger as well. another option if you can't find a c20xe is to use the c16xe out of a corsa Gsi. I know this is only a 1.6, but it was heavily worked on by coswoth and then heavily restricted by vauxhall using an inlet manifold which is almost a metre long! these engines love to rev, weigh less then a 2.0 and with a set of throttle bodies and cams can easily see 170+ bhp

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If you look back in the history books for when a massive influx of migrant workers flooded into a country and took a large number of jobs from the local people, there was unsuprisingly a lot of hatrid from the locals. This ment that come election time, the party which won, did so because of their promices to rid the country of these migrant workers and return jobs to the population. However the problem being was that the leader of the this party was one A. Hitler. and we all know how that turned out.

An auto tinting mask was the best thing i ever bought, have a look on ebay, they can be had for £30 - £40 and make the job so much easyer. And as said above, practice, it took me a good few weekends of playing about with different settings before i managed go get a nice consistant weld.

PMSL. Leon asked if you could sign his copy next time your down this way

Nice feature, some proper cataloge pose's going on

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Coming from a Vauxhall background, i've owned and driven many Xe's To be honest I wouldn't worry too much about finding one with a coscast head, it's a bit of a myth about the performance gains they have over a GM head, you may find that the finish on the porting is slightly better on a coscast head, but if your going for power, you'd most likely have this done anyway. As for the porus issue, it is true that a coscast head is less likely to crack and go porus, BUT it is normally the case that if a GM head is going to break, it will do within the first 20 - 30k miles so unless you somehow find a crazy low mileage car, I wouldn't worry too much. Most of the problem with heads on older engines is due to people over-tightening the head bolts, where the bolt runs very close to the oil gallery, and then cracks it. The engine you really want if your running std injection. is from an early Astra mk2 GTE, which should have the coscast head and also runs a lighter flywheel and different engine map due to the lack of CAT, these oftern see over 150bhp on std trim. Or if you fancy being different, you could go for the cavalier / calibra turbo lump, virtually identical to the XE, and has 205bhp std and very little turbo lag.

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