looks like I stuffed up replacing my timing belt a few months ago. I didnt’ know there was supposed to be a spacer behind the main spring-loaded ‘tensioner pulley’. this seems to have caused the tensioner to tighten right up and tighten the belt up so that it grazed against a bolt sticking out and wrecked the belt. there was still a section of the belt that remained in tact and therefore it didn’t break completely and therefore, hopefully the timing was still ok and hasn’t damaged the valves (the engine still starts) -but I turned it off as quickly as possible when I heard there was a problem.

I no longer have my old parts when I replaced my timing belt the first time and I don’t know how wide the missing Spacer would have been. I’m waiting on getting a new timing belt- I’m hoping that maybe someone on this forum knows about the mistake I’ve made here- and maybe knows how I can find out the exact width of the spacer so that when I replace the new belt it’s a perfect fit with the new belt.

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well it seems like you are sh.t out of luck here. it looks like a washer or spacer can be seen in the kit photo. so i’d suggest buying another kit not just a belt. short of that, call up vauxhall car parts or autovaux and see if they can find a kit and give you the dimensions of the spacer.

falling even shorter of that, get on the calibra website here or the UK and hope that someone doing a v6 belt change can help you out. there is currently one australian rebuilding their v6 on the UK Forums but that is a fast moving project.

I am in the process of re-building a 1994 Opel Calibra, 4 wheel drive with turbo and I am desperately seraching for a complete set of engine hoses. Can anyone please tell me where I can get hold of a complete set of hoses?

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Have a look on UK and German eBay.

Roose Motorsport in the UKL is another that might be able to help you. They do hose kits for Opel/Vauxhall cars.

The Cali’s came out with 2 different 2.0L yeah? Which one is the better of the 2?

Reason i’m asking is that I can no longer get the Cam i want, and am considering just saving up for a 2.0L conversion.

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for the c20xe there were the non-ecotechs from 91-94, they had the L shape rocker cover, they produced 110kw, the 95-97 ecotechs produced 100kws..

the 94 model had the L shape cover, but said ecotech on it.. it’s a fake ecotech..

then theres the c20let turbo, i think they were same all the way thru.. not sure tho.. got about 155kw methinks. then there was the 8v single 2l, that came only in the auto’s, had something like 80kw or something

found out about 1 month ago that i had a head gasket leak. The reason why i came to that conclusion is that i keep on getting a bit oil on my coolant. I decided to take it to my mates and get a compression test on each of the cylinders.
DRY TEST cyl 1: 120 cyl 2: 115 cyl 3: 120 cyl 4: 125

WET TEST cyl 1: 145 cyl 2: 140 cyl 3 : 145 cyl 4: 145
(bit of oil in
in each cylinder)

With this figures improving with the wet test it tells me that the piston rings are worn, to fix this for better compression a engine reconditioned will be required.
Ive got the head gasket kit for the car on the shelf, I purchased another calibra for parts the motor has done 160k compared to my 230k.
i was thinking on swaping engines but using the head of my calibra since the calibra with 160k has bad tappet noise and the head on mine has been shaved.

Any ideas on what i should really do?

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depends if u do it urself or get some1 to do it.

oil pump bout 200-500
bearings, mains and big ends, bout 160
rings bout 180
pistons if needs to be bored oversize – not sure upto 1K, hopefully bout 300-500.

Iwill soon be doing a engine rebuild on my calibra. The reason im doing this is because the car was running only on about 60% compression and my head gasket recently cracked leaking heaps of oil ( 1L in 50km) and have oil in water, the engine is done 230000 and also the tappets ate staring to make the noise also my main seal is leaking so i was looking at about 2k repairs to go back to a tired engine.

I thought that i would keep the car for many more years because it is such a rare car to see in the streets and the shape of it is amazing even today ( they are mayor head turners)

I was wondering if i should get any upgrades inside the engine while im at it?
is it a good idea? i was reading about vernier cams but they say the pistons have to have bigget pockets.

I also realised that since they will be fitting new pistons and cornrods, i checked out the price of the pistons and for 200 bucks more i could get the low compression turbo pistons put in, that wouldnt run very well on the new engine until the car has the turbo in would it?

Anyone got any feedback on throttle bodies? Are they really worth the money, i saw some on some uk sites and the upgrade from 150bh to 195ish is about 3k.

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Get a haynes manual, and do as much as possible yourself, and get your parts from autovaux. i recently rebuilt my xe, and you can do it all for under 1k