think ive found my dream sj haha

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[ScottieJ]

That's a kid off difflocks SJ, its quite nice.

[Edweird]

I do like the sound of a 420. I wonder what engine he's used?

I think a Vauxhall X20XEV Ecotech engine would suit the SJ nicely. Not too much power that it'd break things, not to little like the F10A, reasonable economy. That and apparently Carlton gearboxes mate up to an SJ's t-box input shaft nicely. Even better is that a lot of Carltons have the X20XEV in too, as that was the fleet car of choice at the time.

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yeah pretty swish might have to cut mine up like that one day

i think it says in the description he as used this engine 2 litre 8 valve vauxhall

[Edweird]

Derp! GTE 8-Valve, so that'll be a C20NE.

Got to give that to GM. Making all of their engines and gearboxes mate up to each other was a good idea. There's easily a dozen engines that'll mate up to 4 front wheel drive gearboxes and 4 rear wheel drive gearboxes, if not more of each.

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yeah my dad has a mk2 cavalier and that has the 1.8 sri engine in it , and its suprising the look on boy racers faces at the traffic lights

[Edweird]

The Cavaliers were great cars, but the sills rust out which, in a monocoque shell, is pretty terminal.

The reason I'm such a Vauxhall geek is that I grew up with 'em and learned from my dad. He has had, in my lifetime alone, 8 Vauxhall Astras (2 litre 8 valve saloon, 2 litre 16 valve saloon, 1.8 8 valve saloon 1.8 8 valve SRi hatchback and two 1.6 Hatchbacks) of which he still has the two 2 litre saloons and the SRi, a Carlton (2 litre 16 valve) which is long dead and gone, an Omega (2.6 V6) which he still has and a Cavalier (2 litre 16 valve) which got scrappaged for a brand new Corsa 1.7 TD because the sills were going.

I have to say that in my opinion, the 2.0 16-valve Ecotech X20XEV is probably the best engine. The higher power ones require a bit more looking after, and the turbo ones, according to my dad, are "more trouble then they're worth." It gets good MPG, has more low end torque than the C20XE. All that and, like most of my favourite engines, while it may have flaws, it's one of those tough engines that will take abuse when you feel like playing.

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yeah i love the vauxhall cars even the astra vans , my mum use to have vauxhall monterey 3.2 for a few years and that was allright but was sluggish and it only had 5gears , then we sold it and got a rag rover

this is his cavalier if your interested