BTCC VAUXHALL CAVALIER ** The Car That Got Me Into Cars **

BTCC VAUXHALL CAVALIER The Car That Got Me Into Cars

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Adam Smith

Күн бұрын

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@Adam151082 5 ай бұрын

What car got you fellas into cars?

@Nando84709 5 ай бұрын

Nissan Pulsar GTIR got me into cars.

@Billy-0161 5 ай бұрын

Mk 1+2 escorts, rs2000

@raydiamond-qi3dv 5 ай бұрын

XR3i xr2 mk 1 golf GTI mg Metro turo sd1 rover 🥰💚😎

@raydiamond-qi3dv 5 ай бұрын

@@Nando84709nice car had mine for 13 years now 💎🤠

@IanScottJohnston 5 ай бұрын

"The Professionals" MkII RS2000......ended up having 2off them myself then a S1 Turbo.

@chrisfisher3145 5 ай бұрын

Adam, this is the 1995 RML (Ray Mallock) championship winning car won by John Cleland. This was up for sale last year along with James Thompson’s cavalier as a package for an undisclosed amount at Vaux valves. Now myself and 3 of my mates help Jim Pocklington look after his DCRS 011 (chassis one) cavalier gsi built Dave Cook Racing, raced in period by John Cleland and Chris Hoggetts. At brands this year for the super touring power 2 event we were in the same garage as Danny Evan’s who owns the spa 24hr cavalier. Having a good look around it it’s a turbo shell that rml used with basically standard bumpers and an aero package externally. The same shells as this 1995 car through to Tony Absoloms last ever 1995 cavalier driven by Richard Kaye in period. The reverse cylinder head was of no power advantage, this was purely to get the engine to sit lower and as far back in the engine bay as they could. Although the spa car is a 1993/4 the reverse head wasn’t used yet but the exhaust manifold is designed a little like a side winder without turbo and goes over the gearbox and down the back of the bulkhead with an air ram over the top of the rocker cover to the throttle bodies. Again to get the engine low and as far back as possible. After this is when the reverse head was designed. When Adam Beard (twin engine corsa) was running with us and who was responsible for getting us in with Jim, he made a detailed comparison video on his channel of the reverse head which was borrowed off of Tony and one of ours, which is a very good watch. The front arches sit the way they do because they were rolled to death to get the 19” dynamag centre lock wheels in and these still can not turn full lock. We have 18” bbs centre locks with the arches rolled to death on chassis one and aren’t able to get full lock. If you watch the top gear video with Tiff Needell doing the comparison test of the btcc cars, ours is the one used to compare with the bmw 318 and Toyota carina, as 011 was used as the spare car in the 1992 season. 011 was the test mule to run rwd using a gsi 4x4 shell and is notably different by the roll cage to its sister cars. Vauxhall were trying to play bmw at their own game. It did 4 test days told to us by JC at brands last month, but they couldn’t make it work and reverted back to fwd making faster lap times. The rear suspension set up was never changed and still houses the rwd set up. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXbJmqqvnrtrntUsi=pNZRmcktWon2drUy kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6DWXqSbn6mnirssi=7KxPAKh4bDJq4Nrx

@calhun1567 5 ай бұрын

Wow!

@iainf 5 ай бұрын

What a fantastic, detailed post. I'll enjoy watching that about the reverse heads later. 👍 As a note I had a friend who used to sleeve the oil gallery in the head that ran across & caused all the problems in the GM head.

@touringcarmagazine 5 ай бұрын

You might be able to answer a question. In 1990 when Hodgetts ran the RWD version of the Cavalier, some people have chassis 011 as the one that was switched to that configuration during the season, do you know if the car Jim races is that car? I was led to believe that it was the Cleland car from 1990 and that the RWD version never raced - from John himself. The strange thing is that last season I was working at the BTCC Knockhill round on the race day, when I asked John, but the day before I was working at Croft for their Super Touring weekend (only four cars from that era, including the Pocklington GSi) and the story there was a different one.

@kenmckenzie219 5 ай бұрын

The golden age of touring cars.

@timbecks81 5 ай бұрын

100000% brother

@ricknick74 5 ай бұрын

These and the Volvo 850 estates racing each other was truly the golden age of btcc for me

@Youchatshitbitch 4 ай бұрын

Loved the Lagunas too!

@DarrenCurtis-i7g 5 ай бұрын

My dad had a car transportation company back in the day (Car to Car) he did lots of work with Vauxhall amongst others and I remember picking up John Clelands Cavalier on a number of occasions from Ray Mallocks. A very cool car and some good memories from my childhood!

@mshawweldmech 5 ай бұрын

Don't usually comment on youtube, not so botherd about the cav, just happy to see you in the cossie

@rustysphotography 5 ай бұрын

Straight away i spotted the scottish flag and thought of John Cleland . his car usually had the roof painted with the flag . I remember he was always in the action

@Urbexy 5 ай бұрын

Back in the days when BTCC cars were based on road cars. Now they all run the same engines and the panels are just there to make it look like the road-going car. For me the A4 BTCC car from the min 90s is the one that stands out with the bright yellow mirrors 🙂

@chrisbeare9486 3 ай бұрын

Totally agree, loved that A4 too. Cavalier always looked spot on too

@DVerbe 4 ай бұрын

Nothing beats a 90s BTCC car, absolutely nothing.

@b.p.mcshortson2508 5 ай бұрын

I could imagine the front fender panel gaps are to house the big wheels. And the panel gaps above headlights and grille a trick to get more air in the intake and/ or cooling into the engine bay.

@starfox_wr-45e93 5 ай бұрын

Golden Era of BTCC this. Lost so many hours Toca Touring Car Championship on the old PlayStation 1 😂 Some of the lads even brought a copy & console to work to play on the lunch breaks at one point, even when the game was ancient lol

@dirkdingle7926 5 ай бұрын

Smashed about 5 controllers playing that game spinning of and crashing

@redsidebiker 5 ай бұрын

They did it on PC as well. Where I was working in '96-'98 the hell desk guys installed it on a spare machine. They kept coming in last of the lot. It was the Donington National Circuit. I'd been around there on a track day about a month previously. Got 3rd on the demo and got bored!

@amonero1 5 ай бұрын

You could see how excited you were talking about it . Keep up the good work with the channel

@robertlloyd7493 5 ай бұрын

Good to see you back 😊

@ScottyWilliamson-pw7oq 5 ай бұрын

Sierra 3dr cosworth Good to see your out and about in yours 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@alancobbin 5 ай бұрын

A very good friend of mines dad was the mechanic for a Cavalier race car for the UK thunder saloon series in the 90s-00s ,went to many races as pit crew ,what a time to be alive ,happy days 😊

@ironicturtle 5 ай бұрын

"Even for the smell of it" Legend!! Pretty sure this was at super touring power 2. If not ths one then one the very same. So cool

@northernirishviking7283 5 ай бұрын

All the cavs and astras had squeeky clutch pedals

@tomharvey7859 5 ай бұрын

Saw this one at super touring power 2 recently. There was a lot of nice machinery there!

@mark2jzsupra749 5 ай бұрын

love to see the old scool cars, my brother in law had a cavalier sri and liked the calibra turbo. my first car was a hillman avenger then mini clubman 1275gt then had lots of other cars like renault 25 and triumph acclaim hls with honda engine and gearbox, Also had a mk2 astra gte and a fiat 126 water cooled version. also had a mg convertable for 3 weeks. Then got into japanese cars a toyota mk3 turbo 7m gte then a mitusbishi gto twin turbo with hks parts. then in 2001 bought a toyota supra mk4 twin turbo and had blitz exhaust and fmic and decatted with water injection and RLTC and a 4k torque convertor. also bought a boostlogic turbo kit with 74gts turbo and phr fuel kit a nos kit and a TH400 gearbox for long term plans but never got to fit it all. also bought a orange supra shell with full roll cage and never did a thing with it. would never get rid as it is my ultimate car for me. do love seeing classic cars from the past. think now nothing really stands out like 3 door cossie or skylines. do like the k24 series engines and swapped into different cars

@p4cks 5 ай бұрын

these and the listerine bmws were my ultimate faves

@robcossie3108 5 ай бұрын

wow lovely brings back the good old days, John Cleland was a proper racer and character.

@gazparkes7628 5 ай бұрын

I know a guy who has a genuine cavalier touring car,one of john clelends old cavalier,still gets raced today

@andolas100 5 ай бұрын

All my era too loved it John clealand was the top driver for the cavy? All the btcc cars looked cool back then the primera was my fav don't know why.

@alexirving1251 5 ай бұрын

For me it was the Texaco, Sierra touring cars, but the super touring era with Cleland was the best, still watch it now but back then that was unmissable racing.

@stevewarrington5515 4 ай бұрын

Cracking cars in the btcc, john Cleland was king in it , james Thompson I believe was in it for his first works drive, going on to do really well. Best era

@markc6968 5 ай бұрын

Saw 2 Holiday Inn livery Seat Leon touring cars going on EBay a while back, rolling shells only, no engine or gearbox. Think one was Darren Turners and one was Platos. If only I had the space .

@danieljordannicol9937 5 ай бұрын

Growing up in Jarra there was a cavalier with reg L666 CAV a white cav turbo. Absolutely loved that thing and genuinely check every week to see if I can find one!

@zogzoogler 5 ай бұрын

Love it. We had the same Cav but with a izuzu diesel. Dad fitted air ride shocks the rear for towing- loved that K - M reg Era of Vauxhall

@sim6699 4 ай бұрын

They seamed so much more refined abd luxurious as normal cars

@SfdSMS23 5 ай бұрын

My grandads mg tf kit car. I was a kid a watched him build it and he used the engine out of my dads old mk2 escort that rotted away in the garden

@josephtaylor3769 3 ай бұрын

Adam, after the cavalier turbo there was the GSI 4X4, same as the turbo minus the leather seats and turbo 👍

@dadpa1 5 ай бұрын

Nice to see you still have the three door

@Nelson.ViewsZ 4 ай бұрын

Panel gap looks to be to fit the wheels up front. Great car!!

@mattjagger4360 5 ай бұрын

Some engineering in those touring cars. Entire engine bay re designed with wheel tubs to take the wheel size and fully re engineered strut tops etc. The mondeo takes the engineering biscuit in that era...engine so low in the chassis the driveshaft went through the V in the V6 engine.

@MrG.Ivan76 5 ай бұрын

Up knockhill was a golden area of racing for sure 🙏🌈💚🦐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@IanScottJohnston 5 ай бұрын

Guessing all those front and side panel gaps are air intakes/vents.

@AndyK.1 5 ай бұрын

Or battle damage.

@stureeves719 5 ай бұрын

Maybe spaced out for clearance

@redsidebiker 5 ай бұрын

If that's Clelands, someone needs a big account to buy it. He used his privateer GSi to batter the factory Vactras. I had a C20XE GSi, it was epic until he head went. Got a '97 V6 Calibra auto now, nice but not epic - but no departure date in sight!

@HutchSco 5 ай бұрын

Clelland stalled it at Knockhill, I saw him in the pits, I shouted clutch control john and he gave me the finger 🤣🤣🤣

@redsidebiker 5 ай бұрын

@@HutchSco You were not alone butt. When BTCC was an honest championship, he was amongst the best. I'd buy him a ber if I ever mett him.

@HutchSco 5 ай бұрын

@@redsidebikerit was absolute top class racing, nae fks given

@chrisfisher3145 5 ай бұрын

@@redsidebikerif I could post the picture of him telling us stories about our/his cavalier DCRS 011 (chassis one) I would. Absolutely sound bloke.

@raceace5793 4 ай бұрын

Best Opel/Vauxhall the kadet ts only available in South Africa what a car and now i have an astra j vxr

@krupauk 5 ай бұрын

It was the Vectra of the Supertourings, Wanted a ST200 but the GSi, SRi the latter Persia saloon V6i could afford at the time had it for 7 years

@skodakatie7341 5 ай бұрын

This looks to be a very collectible and rare car. Great video Adam❤.

@daboy12s 4 ай бұрын

the gap om the front wing is because they pull the arches to get arch clearance

@tomsmith2209 5 ай бұрын

Rally cross and BTCC in the 90's was the best racing for me. Drive it like they stole it.

@garymcgregor7048 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant, hope you're doing OK Adam

@julesmatthews2178 5 ай бұрын

The 95 cav was by far the best looking one 💯

@cheapandbald4828 5 ай бұрын

Quality Adam, love the content!

@AndyK.1 5 ай бұрын

The very early btcc cars had the GSi body kit. No headlight wipers though.

@Troub11 5 ай бұрын

See that car at the Brands Hatch super touring few wknds back….. hate to be a grass but it had a terrible missfire, none the less it’s still a nice piece of automotive history

@neilrichardson3986 5 ай бұрын

Volvo 850 Estate 😮

@Adam151082 5 ай бұрын

Oooooh. Good shout 👌🏼

@oakwoods55 5 ай бұрын

That’s the Cosworth head on that car. Same as the road car with the cossie head. Inlet and outlet swapped about.

@leeboycharming759 5 ай бұрын

Snap mate, SNAP! Watch me buy this when i win the lottery tomorrow 😉 I've owned 3 GSi 2000's but sadly never the Turbo. Mk2 SRi's before that, countless 1.8's then a 130 then Vectras. The Cav GSi's though, always close to my heart.

@mk3escort84 4 ай бұрын

Iv just got a cavalier. One owner 60k.wad going to get scrapped as it was a non runner. Paid scrap money for it. Bad connection on crank sensor caused the issue. Unfortunately its not a saloon but it is a 2 litre

@alandonnelly9788 5 ай бұрын

What a motor adam I remember watching the race in touring cars & John cleland love 2 bang his car against other cars it was the best racing

@wullieg5144 5 ай бұрын

Saw an old Cavalier on the motorway this week L reg looked really tidy 🙂a survivor to the dreaded rust😂😂

@Craig-wp3pz 5 ай бұрын

Best keep your eyes peeled for a Red Mondeo......... Matt Neale might still be on his mission! 😮 🚘 🏁

@c111prs 5 ай бұрын

The lad I bought my rd 125 off in 1998 had a dakka yellow cav with white wheels and white roll cage and twin dtm,,looked awesome you could hear it coming from about 2 miles away 😂 it’s the Sri mk2 for me always has been , I liked the astras back then too gte’s

@andrewdonkin3078 5 ай бұрын

Good to meet you today👍

@f1lmm 5 ай бұрын

This was the real touring car era !! As it was showroom stock cars with real suspension chassis and factory-ish look but the engines were all copied from Alfa Romeo 155 with the intake at the front and exhaust at the rear !! That is a bargain at 100.000 pounds, a swindon engine now would be £30k alone gearbox say 10k and history of car he car priceless, and the noise well that is an discussion on its own wow

@oldchiefsmoke820 5 ай бұрын

my mates cavalier had a 2.5 v6 in it factory, it didn't have a name as in gsi, sri etc

@jo_clarke1960 4 ай бұрын

They were the Police spec cars. It was the base V6, Diplomat and CDX towards the end. Got a base V6 myself that someone went a little crazy on with the 'options section' 🙄

@StephenH-ms9og 5 ай бұрын

My Dads Capri 2.0S, followed by anything Ford with an RS badge on the back.

@breadbread5577 5 ай бұрын

Proper car adam mate ya love the cavaliers to ya do .

@Relax-ei8sh 5 ай бұрын

Wow i miss my cav gsi 4x4

@Makeroomformushrooms 5 ай бұрын

My mate had a V6, looked just like a GSI

@doctorlove2022 5 ай бұрын

hi adam . hope your well did you end up keeping the saff and sold the escort ?

@robbieguidi3274 5 ай бұрын

forgot to mention the V6 cav. good video. 👍🏻

@Kingjoffa 5 ай бұрын

Tough choice. Looking at the auction site, you could have a 1991 Quattro 20v for half the price. I get what you’re saying about touring cars but a Quattro is like viagra

@dacco2 5 ай бұрын

Buy a couple of tickets Adam, you never know mate. Good luck

@garethjohnstone9282 5 ай бұрын

I've seen that for sale a few times now.

@marcdalgleish2853 5 ай бұрын

Did they use the 4x4 ones no only the fwd? Love the way they turn the heads around

@deanoscott 4 ай бұрын

Didnt think the SRi came with a valver. Thought it was only an 8 valve 2 litre.

@craigjob6932 5 ай бұрын

Hay Adam you in your cosworth did you not have to sell it in the end so hope you didn’t have to

@dvle30 5 ай бұрын

LCD display is original, BMW used the same.

@paulbyers4149 4 ай бұрын

What about the 2.5 v6 cavalier. U missed that one off .

@markthurston601 5 ай бұрын

I had the mondeo 1996 st24 in racing green and cav sri

@sicosis 5 ай бұрын

Forgot the 2.5 v6 diplomat Rare but quick

@jab-gn3sw 5 ай бұрын

Your young 🤣🤣🤣 hope you got a blast in it m8

@markthurston601 5 ай бұрын

Didnt know u could switch heads round like that

@dazjay5656 5 ай бұрын

So you not sold the 3 door then? Good lad.

@mohammedrucsaal6100 5 ай бұрын

what a car

@YNWA_Matt78 5 ай бұрын

Are you still in the three door Adam??

@gj91471 5 ай бұрын

CAMS......think thats raced in Australia

@robertplues4661 5 ай бұрын

mk 2 escort watching them sideways in the forrest lol

@andyhopkinson2708 5 ай бұрын

85k that'll go for

@jimmyphone6741 5 ай бұрын

It's got a Pi Research (Cosworth) System 2 Dash.. looks correct to me..

@bazzwedgwood3811 5 ай бұрын

We have got 2 john cleland replicas

@vxady123 5 ай бұрын

I've actually got two of the original 18" michelin tyres in my garden from john cleavlands original btcc cavalier. Duno why but I have hahahaha. (Legit)