Forgotten Mk3 Astra CDX project returns! 1.6 auto to 2.0 16v Ecotec X20XEV manual conversion 

Superb video. Brilliant progress and it nicely ties together all the wee social media updates. This car will be a beast. Looking forward to seeing the base model Astra recommission too. Love a base model.mk3

900 miles? Bloody hell, medal for that commitment before we even get 5 mins into this

I love Opel👍🏻 I am happy that I found your channel. Opels are in general very underrated. They are mostly labeled as "boring“. Especially those from the 90s and early 2000s when Opel was still owned by GM.

Dougie the effort you put into the Aero was commendable, what you are doing to the Astra CDX is straight legendary. Best channel on YT

I hope you enjoyed your time in HMP and it’s great to see you back out. I’ve been missing your content

These Mk 3 Astra's are a more rare sight on the road than the last of the Cav's these days.

Great video Scottie, nice to see you back on RU-vid.

Great update Dougie! Looking forward to more!

Brilliant video can't wait to see the astra all done keep up the good work Dougie

Brilliant video dougie

Love the progress so far Dougie can't wait to see her out on her maiden voyage.

Top video dougie. Look forward to the next one on this.

Great video douggie

Can't wait for this

Another great video has always Dougie 👍

Great video 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Quality Vauxhall contents as always 👍👍👍👍

Great video

Cracking vid dougie, looking forward to seeing this on the road 🙂👍

Great project, very satisfying to see it stripped down, the automatic gear lever out, and the 2.0 litre Cavalier engine in. 👌

We bought my Nan's 1996 Holden (Opel) Astra City 1.6lt manual with the only option Pop ticked was aircon; for our eldest to learn to drive in. Not long repaired a dodgey timing belt change, NOS radiator, and lots of other small repairs & cleaning. Almost no rust bar battery tray area, working on getting the aircon repaired, and may look at doing a bit of a hotter rebuild on the motor- 100hp (when new) just isnt enough for this FG2 Ford Falcon XR6T owner!

My brother owned a 1975 1.6 hatch back from 1 years old after a few weeks the head gasket blew it was fixed under warranty 20y later and 200.2400 miles it blew again my nephew Mechanic trying to fixing but things were badly Warped and Corroded so the car was scrapped we put down to my brother only traveling 2 miles a day back and to work and the weekly shopping trip the was no rust in the body of the car apart from the Untreated stone chips on some panels which never spread much over the years he now owns a 2005 Astra 1.4 after his last car was written off after who had Priority over a bridge my car is a 2015 Astra j 1.6 diesel which I like a lot Especially mpg it Returns

I have a selection of MK3 Astras all parts available. 2.0 Sport estate. Late (S reg) CDX Estate interior complete, Remains of a TD Diamond interior etc., P reg TDS estate (Isuzu) and other bits.

Epic !! How good was Vauxhall that you can swap so many parts !! Imagine trying to do all that with modern crap ! Nice one Dougie looking forward to hearing what it sounds like

This will be brill once finished

Im from Brighton and have just got back from Perth last week and can confirm its a hell of a drive! Luckily we only had to do one way at a time

The fan unit you kicked across the floor is for the secondary air injection, it runs the fan blowing air into the exhaust manifold, this is to help light the catalytic converter up quicker, I don’t know the specifics unfortunately. Hope this helps. Great video as always. Steve.

Great video love old Vauxhalls we should save them all, you should use some rust converter and some zinc primer for protection on the chassis rust to preserve it a bit 👌

as per the ecotec bit i had both astra gsi phase 2 c18xel red ecotec and astra sport c18xe and loved both was as nippy as acavalier redtop swap as well

I had an 1.6 carb astra estate back in 1986... over like three months had three phillips stereos knicked and three door locks replaced.. bad luck comes in threes for sure.. N x

That Astra seller is exactly the kind of gobshite you don't want to find at the end of a 450 mile journey 😂

I have shares this video out on my Facebook

Great video....can see a lot of graft has gone into it....... Im still reeling from that seller of the CDX only dropping the bomb over the no heaters no radio situation once you d gone down there.......450 mile! He could have mentioned that before! Meanwhile Kenso had heat n choons in the cosy Vectra.......

Good update on old astra looking forward to part 2 Whatever happened to the vauxhall vectra c estate elite Love bob and denny at end of videos

Gotta soft spot for the Mk 3 I had several including a 1.4 auto merit which was saved from the breaker; all it needd was a new fuel pump & all the brakes sorting . it got passed to my sister after her corsa was flooded out in the storms a couple of years back

All the same reasons I didn’t totally love my MK3 1.6.16v GLS, crashy ride, bouncy handling, heavy steering, engine Erving at 3000rmp at 70months in fifth and road noise. Other than that …😆…. Should have got the senator.

Another great video mate, looking at engine possibilities for the Corsa b. Don't know how difficult it would be to put the 2.0 ecotec in.

All that stuff has now gone from my work dougie we managed to sell it all but I managed to save the three electric Ariels for the cavaliers if u would like them

Good informative video as per usual Don’t suppose you’ve any downpipes for a c20ne knocking around in that treasure trove?

I mind hiring a Mk 3 from Melvies and it was shocking, looked like it had been banger racing and I complained as was going a tour around the Highlands, they took it back and gave me a Micra with 14 miles on the clock, when I returned the Micra I had stuck 1400 miles on it and lets say it needed a wash, what a bunch of crooks Melvies were, they were done for clocking cars a few times. Can't be many Belmonts going around.

Where did you get the condenser for 6 quid ? Seems like black magic 😀

"A bit pish" 😂😂

Great video mate where did you get the John Ashley manifold from ?

Nice one Dougie

How the saab

She never did replace the Omega as a more economical estate, the saab took that crown. Where is the Yellow Total Vauxhall Astra Coupe gone??

What happened to FAB?

Hi mate I've asked you this a couple of times on ur previous content and hope that you don't mind me asking again but I've got a 2000 x reg vectra sri 140 in silver completely original and standard with a guenuine 86k from new me being the 2nd owner I'm wanting to sell it but only to someone who's got a passion for these old school vauxhalls like urself if there is some way that you would like to speak with me on a more private level let me no and we will sort something out

Just done this to my b so much easier......

The 2.0 ecotech is a shit engine, seriously. Would have been better with a 8v SEH.

dont think much of these advert style vids

Cheese bag