Omega Elite

Don't know the details but there used to be a couple of Used VX spares places in Warrington. Might be worth a Google.

May or may not be of any use, but try Carquip UK. They're based in Downham Market in Norfolk (which I guess would qualify as the arse end of nowhere), but have a very well organised stock and advertise in all of the regional Yellow Pages. I've used them for the odd Vauxhall bit and piece a couple of times, but they were particularly useful when injector pipe no. 1 on my 2.3D Carlton decided to split. Any local breakers that did have one of those engines (also found in the Bedford CF van) only wanted to sell the whole engine, but a quick call to carquip, and a minute or two on hold to confirm they definitely had a no.1 injector pipe in stock, sorted it out easily and cheaply - around £8 incl. postage, there the next day, and 2 minutes to fit.

Now obviously carriage isn't going to be as cheap on a cylinder head, but from my experience of how organised they are I'd hazard a guess that if they've got one, they'll know exactly the age + mileage of the car it came off, and probably be fairly reasonably priced too.

Shit. That's a scrapper then.

Probably lots. All with dead engines as a result of the above failure mode.

Bad luck mate.

JB

try

or vauxsport,

believe someone selling a cheap 3l v6 cally for spares :)

Calibra's were 2.5's....

Only the ones that Vauxhall made...

Very true. I didn't think anyone would have bothered their arse to fit a

3.0, seeing as the 2.5's tend to be the weapon[1] of choice. [1] Not that a Vauxhall V6 anything tends to be a weapon, that is.

In fairness, the links /were/ Vauxhall tuning/modifying sites...

Which is the perfect reason to fit a V6 - an instant extra 40bhp with no real weight gain...

Haha :) Did it do it proper, like?

Pierced the skin in several places, naturally I moved away with cat still attached.

Aww bless. I bet 10 minutes later you were doting over him/her/it again :))