Viva 1800 HC engine and box for sale

[hbpeter]

Whats the reg number of the GLS?

Peter

[andylake2003]

Looked at the pictures, car looks great in Yellow. Mine's a Bronze 4 door Gls with a Beige vinyl roof to make it look like an old fogey car.
You certainly did a lot of work. I've shortened the water pump already so that should help. I was going to see if the TR7 axle that i have would fit at a later stage, that way i can fit a TR8 crown wheel and lsd. I will need to upgrade the front brakes as you have, but i'm not really wanting to race the thing, it's just meant to be a cruiser.
I had been told about using a Scimitar axle but that would involve mounting a Panhard rod, so for the time being i'll just stick with the original axle. I've got an Imp to restore after this, plus fit a new engine and box to my Cherokee and see if i can get the twin throttle body manifold i made to fit and work. And finally there'll be another Rover v8 to fit onto a turbo diesel box then into a Cherokee. By which time i'll probably be ready to retire if i'm not dead already. LOL.
Pretty sure i've lost the plot.

[andylake2003]

Reg is CWY56T, why? Is it your old Viva?

[droopsnoot]

No, HBPeter runs the club registers. You never get away with posting about a car on here without him asking for the reg number.

[andylake2003]

Oh ok. One day i might get the time to put some pictures of the car up here as well, so you can all see the mess i got myself into. LOL

[andylake2003]

Does anybody know who's got the Coupe with the v8 and auto box that Fred mentioned? Wouldn't mind taking a look at that one, reckon i'm getting cold feet about chopping my car about so much.
Andy

[chrismc]

Don't blame you Andy. I wouldn't do it again.

These days I would be looking at a modern 4 pot motor and no chopping of the body work. Look at pbottomleys lotus engined conversion. Makes sense to me

[andylake2003]

Thanks for the advice, that sounds interesting if i could find a good motor. Did wonder about an Omega v6 but i haven't looked to see the size of the engine and i can't remember much about my Cavalier v6.
It's amazing how old and tired all this desire has made me feel. Think i'll just become monk and go hide somewhere. LOL