Hallo,

I'm Steffen, 44 years old, from Germany (sorry for my english) and I live in Italy.
I've no Cobalt and no intention to take one.

But I have a similar engine ECOTEC 2.2 turbo 320hp, WHICH IS BROKEN, and I will change it for a B207 Saab (LK9) to have in the future 400hp.

Hope to find many interesting technical topics for my project.

By the way, my car has a weight of 840kg.

 

Post up pictures of your car!

 

Welcome!

 

Welcome

 

 

Woah, is this real life?

 

Awesome and welcome, I'm sure that thing is a blast at the road tracks.

how'd you break the 2.2 turbo?

 

What kind of car is that?

 

vauxhall

 

Yes......and if you are interested here you can see it onboard on track at IMOLA.


On the track last Sunday at 240km/h, the engine runs fine and then gone broken a bearing of the rod, without any signal befor.

 

sweeeet lol ... welcome


you video is not working.



what motor is this ? the same as the 2.2 in the cobalt ?

 

Wont the cranks be different meaning different flywheel and clutch and stuff will also need changing?

Welcome btw!

 

It's an Opel Speedster.

It is produced by Lotus in the same factory like the Lotus Elise/Exige, with different engines and bodywork, but the same frame, suspension, seats and so on.
There was only 7000pc produced.

 

I like that more than a Lotus.

Welcome to the site.

 

Now it works?
There severall vid on my channel.

 

Nice vid

 

OP driving like he stole it lol .... sickkk !!

 

That is a bummer to have the rod bearing go at those speeds, complete destruction of the block I assume. Also I'm extremely jealous, I would love to own an opel speedster

 

The engine stops when I was breaking.
Then the batterie wasn't strong enough to start the engine.

So at home I retstart the engine and it still runs........with a DOING DOING DOING
and without oil pressure, of course when i realized that I stoped it.

 

are you sure youre in the right forum?
jk

sweet its running a ecotech

 

its a vauxhall they are a shared thing with gm i believe? like holden?

anyway. throw an lsj in there

 

I hope the battery hold down mechanism is better on a Vauxhall than on an Elise.

 

sweet ride and welcome!!

 

Nice car!

 

I'm going on to prepare al for mount new engine, exaust, and so on.......

Will post some pics later.


But I have a (for me) important question.

In the EFR manual from Borg Warner is written:


"Inlet oil pressure (gage) is recommended to be at least 1bar (15psi) and not more than
4bar (60psi) under all “fully warmed-up” conditions."

I know that my engine has 7 bar (105psi) oilpressure, so I think yours also.
Here are many guy's with EFR turbo so I hope somebody can telle me how did you solve this problem?