Ok so now we are into the new year it’s time to really get going with the Opel. I have the new rad and water pump that arrived back in November so the only real bit that will hold me up are trying to get some silicon water hoses and the exhaust manifold apart from that I think I have most of the bits. I’m going to post a list of all the things that are going to go on the car and some info on how I’m getting on with doing them and also some pic, so watch out…

I use to have loads of cooling problems when i have the Opel running on twin carbs and now im going to be running a full weber alpha throttle bodies when the engine is back together, i have been trying to sort out a better rad. I found this one which is a direct replacement for the stock one. But at £370.13 (inc VAT) its a bit steep, so after a bit of googleing i have found this one at a much better price. At $259.95 its much better, and as the standard one measures 18 in wide by 18…

I always liked the BMW angel eyes and thought they would look very cool in the Opel, so after a bit of searching i found out that a BMW 316 has the same size lights as the Opel!! So after a lot of looking at Googleing i found some BMW E30 projector lights with angel eyes that looked good quality and wern’t a silly price, have a look here. So i ordered them and when they came they were very nice. So next step was to see if they would fit. I removed all ove the until that held the…