Vauxhall Cavalier GSi Classic Touring Car goes to Silverstone Circuit! - Part 1
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An absolutely amazing opportunity that we are so excited to share with you guys! It all started with Jim wanting to change his original gearbox in his Vauxhall Cavalier Touring Car to a F28 Gearbox that the Twin Engine Corsa runs, as it easily replaceable. When we went down, due to our knowledge of the C20XE, Jim invited us to pit-crew for him and the team for when they do the British Championship this year, how could we say no! So today, we are rebuilding the gearbox ready for the Silverstone Circuit and also showing you around this old monster of a car! We are so thankful to Jim for this opportunity and hope we can help him continue racing for as long as possible!
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Great memories of the best btcc years off all time imho
What a beautiful thing, lucky fella. Enjoy it brother. ✌
I absolutely love this Cavalier, when I see it, I freeze with intense euphoria just looking at it! And that Swindon XE is a beast! I have a 91 Astra GSi Mk3 with the early XE…..boy, what I’d do to have a reverse head swindon engine in it! I’ve always had a passion for the XE engine! I’d also love to have a Cavalier, they’re so smart and cool looking!!
Last of the decent vauxhalls
Brilliant 👏 👏 👏
Loved going to see the Cavaliers race back in the day...Brands Hatch, sunny day, b.b.q. and racing 😘
100% Dreamcar!
I'd have to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming... back from the days when Vaux knew how to make a monster...
@TwinEngineCorsa
2 жыл бұрын
A monster indeed!
@stemartin6671
2 жыл бұрын
@@TwinEngineCorsa they really were bud
Whoaa! It s very interresting to see details about this legend of btcc! Can t wait for part 2 🤤🥰!
@TwinEngineCorsa
2 жыл бұрын
Not long left to go😉
The content on this channel is great and keeps getting even better! Thank you
@TwinEngineCorsa
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you're enjoying pal
Heartbreaking when you think how many Astra, Calibri's were binned just to take the engine for some racecar/tuning set up.
Absolutely fantastic, and from my point of view, I remember watching the best touring car series ever. One of the reasons I bought a cavalier gsi. Such a good looking car and that 20xe.
I had a cavalier GSI when these were racing round the track back in the day. Lovely to see. Great video pal 👍👍
@Metal05
2 жыл бұрын
Me to. I used to go and watch BTCC in my white GSI. I put a 3.0 V6 in in as the 4 pot was to slow and got 285hp from it. Then sold it to buy a house with my ex. 🤣🤣
@Jase73
2 жыл бұрын
@@Metal05 don’t.!!!! I had to sell my fiesta rs turbo in 94 to buy a house with my ex too 😢😢
@TwinEngineCorsa
2 жыл бұрын
Appreciate that mate👍
Amazing opportunity man, even to be in the presence of that legend would be enough let alone work on it 😁👏
What a beauty!! Love classic touring car series
Great video....
@TwinEngineCorsa
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you😊
Great video and thank you for give us a look round a classic BTCC car. Roll on Friday video.
@TwinEngineCorsa
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed the walk around pal👍
Around 18 years ago a guy at the local energas depot I use to go to had the rolling shell of the civic type r fn2 touring car the cagework inside was a work of art they moved the driving position to the middle rear for better weight distribution alot of engineering goes into them now how simple they was 25 30 years ago mental
Fair play mate
Nice video mate. Keep it up. Thanks
Great video mt! There’s a lot of changes done to the touring cars compared to standard shells when you really look into them ! All the best on looking after it in the pits ! Good luck
@TwinEngineCorsa
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you appreciate that!
Brilliant
What a cool opportunity. Would have liked you to mention the rocker cover and breather set up and the old school tiny ecu.
@TwinEngineCorsa
2 жыл бұрын
If you watch the racing video part 2 it shows more of the engine but I have also done an in-depth into the Swindon engine which is coming, don’t worry. I wasn’t going to be that close to 4 of them an not have a good poke around 🤣
Vauxhalls solution to the front arches was much more elegant than some of their competitors. Peugeot just cut theirs
Great video!!!!! it's great to see all the details of this race car. are the BBS rims 17´ or 18´?
Initially rear wheel drive? I didn't know that!
@jonathanvince7374
2 жыл бұрын
They did but the description in the video isn't 100% correct. Chris Hodgetts ran it in rwd and tested it in 4x4! form in 1990 before it was converted to fwd and became Clelands car in 91 after Allam stacked his car mid season. I seem to remember Cleland saying on a podcast most of the rwd version's transmission was out of a bmw m3.
What’s the bhp of the car?
I thought the btcc cars had there engines reverse mounted with the inlet at the front?
@gazukroberts4690
2 жыл бұрын
I clearly commented to soon 😂 Cleland builds I was thinking of
@TwinEngineCorsa
2 жыл бұрын
Later engines where. That’s coming 😉
What's the bhp out of that engine mate ?
@TwinEngineCorsa
2 жыл бұрын
230/240
Where is the fuel tank?
@TwinEngineCorsa
Жыл бұрын
Under the car, if you look for the latest video on the cavalier you can see us working on it at Thruxton
@km6832
Жыл бұрын
@@TwinEngineCorsa does really give a good shot of it. Is it in one of the pockets? Because the spare wheel well is still there or is it in tge original location?
How many ponies has it got pal?
Is it even an XE if the tappers don’t rattle? 😂
@TwinEngineCorsa
2 жыл бұрын
😂
It's still a cavy and that's it had loads don't no why there shit now
@asifnoaman8978
2 жыл бұрын
90% of viewers would disagree with you. They were brilliant cars
@vx.calibre2901
2 жыл бұрын
Who took the jam out your donut...
Great