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[Ratboy]

Hi guys,
I have my omega caravan (100 aniversery) for lil more then a year. And what a year it was. The first half year i had spend my time fixing the common interior issues( doorcards, heating seats, finding a brandnew old model kenwood radio that had bluetooth parrot, usb AND still keeping full integration for steering wheel and display. Kenwood made only 2 models in 2008 and 2009, before converting to canbus protocoll systems.) and an entire custom made led conversion thruout the car. Complete with revdepended colorchange  dashboard and triple color mid display. Anyway....
The next 6m i have spend fixing camcoverleaks, rear wheel bearings, radiator that had a cracked platic end, followed by indeed the HBV and offcourse the heatercore inside that i replaced as it is normally done.(you can actually drive the omega without a dashboard even gotten a call from the police at a festival this summer telling me someone had broken into the car and stole my airbags, radio ,the entire dashbord was missing. So told him i knew as i was working to fix the heating on it. He asked me how i could safely drive it that wat. Uhm bluetooth odb reader and connected smartphone gave me what i needed to know
Sorry for floating of subject.
Now last week i suddenly saw a big wet patch under the back of the engine(2.5 v6 need i say more)
Just as i was going to set it for sale as 85€/month on roadtax alone is getting the better of me(actually its the misses who was always yappin on about it )
I have a few things i can do.
A leave as is and just scrap it and get 65€ for it
B fix the coolant leak, worst case replacing headgasket( a set of elrings and bolts would cost me about 50€ and a few days work and sell it for arround 1000€
Or
C and why i actually started this post
3Weeks ago after a falling out with the ol lady about the omega i agreed on selling and buying a cheaper to drive car on the condition that i would do it MY way.
So this resulted in me buying a 1964 opel rekord A (here woman NO taxes to pay, 1700cc 4 speed that uses about 7liters on 100km and a 20€/monthly insurance for daily use) she has her way and i have a car styled by the same team that designed the impala and nova from GM and looks lovely. I payed 1500€ delivered to my door and spend another 1000€ replacing the entire four drum brakesystem to the last bolt. Safety first horsepower and look later.
So just now i was thinking to strip the omega and sell it in parts, but keeping the engine, tranny ,wiring, brakesystem and parts of the drivetrain for future use in the rekord.
I see what needs fixing on the engine and add some other parts to get it to arround 200hp. That allong with the 4disk system(without ABS)would make it a little sleeper beast
The wiring should be splittable i think as its pre canbus so i can take whatever wires needed and lose the rest.
For now its mainly a brainbubble because the rekord is driving great, but having a whopping 60hp and (a dstoners lightning topspeed of 135km/h in todays traffic its just not enough umph to get allong nicely in situations.
Does anyone here has had done these things maybe ?
A few years back i did help to do an upgrade similar like this to an old volvo 262 bertone, but then we had help from a volvo dealer team. There we took a low mileage volvo 960 and basicly used every part and retrofitted it to the old body INCL airbags abs and all options that the 960 was fitted with. It was specially made for the ceo of the dealership that retired and had the two cars stored at their old location.
So any thoughts ideas suhgestions are welcome.

[Ever Ready]

Like all conversions there will be a way to do it given enough time, resources and knowledge.

My days of swapping engines etc from one model to another are in the past.

I like the idea of the Omega powering the '64 Rekord and hope you get round to doing it.

The dashboard on the Omega sounds like it resembles a 70's disco

Keep up the good work

[Ratboy]

Like all conversions there will be a way to do it given enough time, resources and knowledge.

My days of swapping engines etc from one model to another are in the past.

I like the idea of the Omega powering the '64 Rekord and hope you get round to doing it.

The dashboard on the Omega sounds like it resembles a 70's disco

Keep up the good work

Well there are quite some similarities even with 40y between them. The steering setup is besides the servo and. Some lenghts identical but the engine bay of the rekord has more then enough room to fit that pump. Same goes for the engine and trannysupport so mainly measuring out an welding new brackets. The rear independent axle wont be used i think cuz the setup on the omega is quite elaborate and do like the old solid axles but will change the leafs for bags and 4-link setup.  I think the axles from like an admiral or similar preferably with the same 5lug would do the job and preferably locking diff and the rear omega disks
Front wheels might need a deeper look at it and might need custom work.
The original swaybar from the rekord will move to the back to help out and the heavier omega will take its place in the front .  the rekord body was never designed to handle 200hp so adding the braces from the convertible might do the trick.  Most stuff i have looked into but will change where needed as we go..
What the omega dash is concerned its not like the entire thing starts to blink it goes. To red as the redlines is reached but for the rest its a grey'ish white lights with only up down buttons in red to go up and blue to go down.
What the display is concerned i just divided it in 4 . so the topline where radio functions are is white and soft blue for the two under it and the light from engine check in the corner has 2red leds that are masked of when that part of the display is blacked out . so when it goes on you get a bright red "check" that will draw your attention right away. Its pretty simple to do and i havent seen anyone do this like i did so no disco on board just warns you when needed. I hate over the top things. But i do have to put my twist on things without looking "tuned"