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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Redeye on 31 July 2006, 08:18:05

Title: Omega V8
Post by: Redeye on 31 July 2006, 08:18:05

I wonder if they made many of these:

http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z2920/Opel_Omega%20V8/default.aspx

 :P

Title: Re: Omega V8
Post by: tunnie on 31 July 2006, 10:00:50

Unfortunetly no  :(

GM pulled the plug, apparently there were some cooling issues but i am sure they could have fixed that if they wanted to.

Title: Re: Omega V8
Post by: Big Rod on 31 July 2006, 11:16:02

If only!!

Title: Re: Omega V8
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 31 July 2006, 11:32:33

Its a project that I would love to see done....

Title: Re: Omega V8
Post by: Redeye on 31 July 2006, 11:36:24

The engine compartment looks very neat, I've got the V6 and I've always thought there's plenty of room for another pair of pots.

Title: Re: Omega V8
Post by: Markjay on 31 July 2006, 13:53:44

Well here's another project for the brave ones...

From http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/road_tests/index.htm?id=203 , regarding the new Alfa Romeo 159:

'First out we tried the chain cam 3.2 JTS Q4, the 159 a lot of people have been waiting for. 90% of its 290Nm torque is under your foot from 1,800rpm to 6,250rpm with the limiter cutting in at 7,250rpm. First disappointment was what the engine looked like on lifting the bonnet. No delicious induction tubes, just a rough casting. No beautiful alloy cam covers. Just a plastic fake cam cover with fake Allen screws. We had been told that though the block came from GM, the rest of the engine was pure Alfa.'

(http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/4016/32jtsud3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

Well me thinks that if they are using the GM block then the engine mounting points should be the same... you'll need to find a written-off 159 first (not easy, as they just started selling...), get everything from it including the ECU, looms etc, then worry about rotating the engine and sorting out the induction and cooling... and you'll have to be a bit nuts... all for 260 bhp? Naahhhhh.....

Title: Re: Omega V8
Post by: Tony H on 31 July 2006, 22:03:59

Quote

I wonder if they made many of these:

http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z2920/Opel_Omega%20V8/default.aspx

 :P

Reading that spec I've just done something very childish in my trousers :o

Title: Re: Omega V8
Post by: Jay w on 01 August 2006, 20:35:48

is that a hemi lump there?

Title: Re: Omega V8
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 01 August 2006, 21:47:33

Its a bigger cc verison of the 2.8V6 turbo used in the Vectra and Saab 93......its the GM global engine...

Title: Re: Omega V8
Post by: Markie on 01 August 2006, 23:07:37

one day soon unfortunatly someone will write a holden off

and the following day someone from here - mark? finlay?  will give it a darn good try at shoe horning it into an omega!!

Title: Re: Omega V8
Post by: Auto Addict on 02 August 2006, 06:44:16

I remember reading in an American car mag, many decades ago, about someone who put a V8 into a Beetle, with a complete 'How to', fitted behind the passenger seats, and overcame the cooling problem.

Then he moulded fibreglass into the shape of luggage to cover it so that it looked bog standard, but full of luggage.

Title: Re: Omega V8
Post by: Big Rod on 02 August 2006, 09:27:24

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one day soon unfortunatly someone will write a holden off

There was one on eBlag a few weeks ago, but it wasn't cheap. And there was an LS1 V8 with transmission and all ancilliaries for sale in the wrong category a few weeks before that. It 'sold' for something like £200. (I don't think the sale went through though.)

People have been fitting V8's in everything for years. I've seen a Fiat 500 with a 5.7 litre Chevy, a Mini, (quite recently actually!), with a transversely mounted Rover lump in it. Chevy 5.7's are the most plentiful engines in the world and as such atre dirt cheap to buy and maintain.

The V8 was the Omega that should've been!!  :'(