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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hey, new young guy

« on: 19 February 2014, 17:44:07 »

Quote from: JunboJames on 19 February 2014, 13:06:45

Quote from: dawidski on 19 February 2014, 01:58:18
Hey, welcome to the 19 club I gots a 2.2dti

How!? Insurance must be insane, unless you've got your parents on you policly and have been driving for a year or 2!?

I'm 2500 For now and only got my licence in May last year, but I have 2 years no claims, from my provisional, but my insurance company wouldn't take them because I bought my omega when I still had my Fiat

I checked insurance for a 3.0 elite and ( with 2 years no claims ) and it came up 900

some 1.1s come up more expensive than that

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: Hey, new young guy

« on: 19 February 2014, 01:58:18 »

Hey, welcome to the 19 club

I gots a 2.2dti

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Omega Gallery / Re: My MV6

« on: 14 February 2014, 00:44:00 »

Very nice, I bought an Lsd for my diesel, but never got round to fitting it.

Does it improve acceleration as well? Or is it just good for getting sideways?

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 14 February 2014, 00:28:43 »

I broke mine

, Intercooler pipe came off at like 60, I tried using tape to fix it, it was all fine until just before my town it started smoking bad turned off and wouldn't start again. I had to push it at least 4 miles

Mechanic at my dads work is looking at it, we will see what he has to say...
And anyway I wanted to swap for a v6 manual, so yeah if you happen to want to swap for my 2.2 dti, (when its fixed of course) feel free to pm me, hopefully somewhere in Scotland

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General Car Chat / Re: bmw 530

« on: 04 October 2013, 16:52:15 »

Did you not think to brake the car for parts when you started to think something was up with it? Would suck if I found out my omega was cloned

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General Car Chat / Re: Just a project idea for the future

« on: 04 October 2013, 15:54:55 »

Tbh if I was doing a swap I would buy a whole car so I could get all the bits needed

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General Car Chat / Re: Just a project idea for the future

« on: 04 October 2013, 13:05:50 »

Quote from: tunnie on 04 October 2013, 12:21:56

Quote from: Emd on 04 October 2013, 11:28:34
Has anyone ever put a straight 6 in an omega ? Cant recall seeing one $:-\$

As above, every 2.5 TD is a straight 6

Also seen a Lotus 3.6 S6 in an Omega, which went in ok.

Think a 328i engine would be pointless, as would 3.0 straight 6, not much gain?

The Lotus 3.6 is hard to find and would be expensive to run also its turbo so I'm guessing they are not cheap to replace.
M3 3.2 (e36 version) 320hp or (e46) 340hp I think is a good enough option. The 3.0 (in the e46) has about 245hp and I think with a little tune would run about 260, me thinks anyway

So it does seem worth it. I know the omega v6 can get some serious power, but I'm not sure about reliability.

Unless you guys can tell me if you can swap in like a 3 liter diesel from the 5 series ?

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 04 October 2013, 03:46:29 »

I replaced the air filter with the K&N one

Sort of fixed my wipers; one works now $:-\$ And on my way from work I stopped in a parking lot and did a nice opposite lock doughnut

Well it was raining like crazy so I had to...

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General Car Chat / Just a project idea for the future

« on: 04 October 2013, 03:37:53 »

Is the bmw straight 6 lump 2.5td (the one fitted to omegas) similar in build as the petrol version if so would it be possible to fit an m3 or 328i engine in the omega using the diesel engine mounts?

This issue gives me sleepless nights. I would love to fit a 320hp motor in my omega.

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