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3.9 litre 10cyl corsa.....
clairetoo - 27/9/08 at 08:37 PM

I just drove 135 miles in my 3.9 litre 10 cylinder Corsa - and I have to say the handling was ... um...interesting
That may because 2.5 litre's and 6 of the cylinder's were in the boot ! I have my new engine , and I'm amazed to say , at the price I payed for it , it is more than complete - and very clean !
I just hope the sun shine's tomorrow so I can get it into the shed , otherwise I will be driving my Fury untill I get time to empty the boot

big_wasa - 27/9/08 at 08:45 PM

hmm I did about 80 miles down the A1 with a 1.8 pug engine in the back of 1.3 escort.. infact Ive had a few zetecs in it aswell

hillbillyracer - 27/9/08 at 09:23 PM

When collecting a fresh engine for an old Maestro diesel van I had I used my car, which was a Riley Elf! I went fairly slowly

Alfa145 - 27/9/08 at 09:23 PM

Nice, looks like it should be good weather tomorrow, so can we expect it to be fitted by Monday? :p

I'm only jealous cos mines now on SORN from the end of the month

[Edited on 27/9/08 by Alfa145]

BenB - 27/9/08 at 09:49 PM

Hell I did an emergency stop in my 1.1L micra with a ST bike engine in the back of it un-secured. Lets just say it made a pretty good attempt to get into the passenger seat....

owelly - 27/9/08 at 10:33 PM

I collected my Mini short motor on my RG500. A couple of bungy straps and it sat happily on the pillion seat. It was a bit tricky keeping the bike pointing the right way!

clairetoo - 27/9/08 at 10:37 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Alfa145
Nice, looks like it should be good weather tomorrow, so can we expect it to be fitted by Monday? :p

I'm only jealous cos mines now on SORN from the end of the month

[Edited on 27/9/08 by Alfa145]

I was considering it............but then , I still need to modify the replacement gearbox so it might be tuesday

stevebubs - 28/9/08 at 12:00 AM

quote:
Originally posted by clairetoo
quote:
Originally posted by Alfa145
Nice, looks like it should be good weather tomorrow, so can we expect it to be fitted by Monday? :p

I'm only jealous cos mines now on SORN from the end of the month

[Edited on 27/9/08 by Alfa145]

I was considering it............but then , I still need to modify the replacement gearbox so it might be tuesday


So what you doing on here then?

I fully expect pictures and an "oh poo it's quick" by 5.30 monday....

Paul TigerB6 - 28/9/08 at 12:12 AM

quote:
Originally posted by clairetoo
I just drove 135 miles in my 3.9 litre 10 cylinder Corsa - and I have to say the handling was ... um...interesting
That may because 2.5 litre's and 6 of the cylinder's were in the boot ! I have my new engine , and I'm amazed to say , at the price I payed for it , it is more than complete - and very clean !
I just hope the sun shine's tomorrow so I can get it into the shed , otherwise I will be driving my Fury untill I get time to empty the boot


So basically you are saying that car engines are fecking heavy and ruin the handling of a car??............. Thought so......... i'll stick with putting a bike engine in mine........

clairetoo - 28/9/08 at 07:48 AM

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Originally posted by Paul TigerB6

So basically you are saying that car engines are fecking heavy and ruin the handling of a car??............. Thought so......... i'll stick with putting a bike engine in mine........

If you put them in the wrong end , yeah