Opel GT on MegaSquirt and EDIS4

[KrBishere]

i like the paint job wat is it

[markandsonmetal]

It is House of Kolors Kandy Pagan Gold. The car has 12 coats of paint on it :)

[guily6669]

Fuck, that's a real car...

[tamagotchy5]

I can`t belive Opel made such a beautiful car...

[wccrispy]

Have you thought of a carbon fiber driveshaft for it? PST makes carbon fiber driveshafts. They're out of Florida. They should have some of the best prices around for a quality driveshaft. They quoted me ~$500 for my '94 Mustang.

[markandsonmetal]

Well you're very close it was "The poor man's 'vette" But I could have had a 'vette for what it cost me to make mine like this :) and yes it is a German car. Opel still mfrs cars over there. As a matter of fact, before they stopped making them a Saturn Sky over here was a new Opel GT over there. Just badged differently.

[eclipsegsx765]

Don't they call these the poor mans corvette back in the day? lol I love these cars their made in Germany arn't they?

[preludefan]

very nice, i picked up on the "missing" sound and thought you had the req_fuel way up, but that was untill i read that you did your cams- sounds very healthy- do you have a hp figure yet?

[markandsonmetal]

@preludefan

There is another short video of the car on a chassis dyno, it produced 122 WHP @ 6800 RPM which translates to about 170 HP @ the flywheel.

[DonniW]

How is the motor running with no spark plug wires,THE DISTRIBUTOR IS CLEARLY VISIBLE WITH NO WIRES ON IT !

[markandsonmetal]

The distributor is installed because the oil pump drive gear is on the bottom of the shaft, I have since cut the top of the distributor off so it no longer looks weird. The car, as stated in the title is running off of a Ford EDIS4 ignition system. There are spark plug wires installed, they are just not connected to the distributor, they are connected to the EDIS4 Coils. The engine has a trigger wheel mounted to the damper pulley and the timing comes from it.

[asv4k8]

@markandsonmetal  <---- noob

[shadmonk]

great colour, bad wheels...

[markandsonmetal]

The wheels are from the 70's just like the car, they are painted black with gold flake in them that matches the gold color of the car. The back of the car is the same paint also, it really on shows up when the sun hits it, pictures don't do it justice.

[8sixfeetunder]

im restoring a 69 for my cousin



[markandsonmetal]

Sign up with opelgt.com if you haven't already. It doesn't get any better for a great source of information for your rebuild.

[8sixfeetunder]

@8sixfeetunder ok...tahanks... this is the fist car that im restoring... but i know how to... i am restoring a 1968 ford f100 for my self... but finding parts for that opal is hard being i live in the middle of nowhere in tenneessee

[thewizardofaz]

That is just a sweet piece of work. Back 1970-71 I was in my freshman year at Lock Haven State in Pa. The dorm daddy had a metallic green one and let me drive it. It was just fantastic to me then. I myself had a 68 Opel Kadet, the one that looked kind of like a baby Mustang. Great fun factor, cheap to run.

[gardini100]

oh sexy sexy sexy !!!!

[opelito69]

Very unique work very soon, I do the same work into my opel kadett b congratulations my friend nice job

[2trythisone]

So from what I can tell this video was posted Aug 7, 2008. Have you gotten the car on the road yet? If you got the interior in how does it look? Back in the 1980's I used to work for a place in HE Ohio called Mantapart and I used to work on these cars all the time when I worked there. I have not seen any on the road for many years.

[markandsonmetal]

The car has been on the road since March of 2009, its first long trip was to Carlisle, PA for the 2009 Import and Kit Car Show. The interior was custom made by me and can be seen in a thread entitled "off to the sandblaster" on Opelgt.com. I have had the car tuned on a dyno at WOT and have tuned it in all other running ranges by myself, I think it runs very well. The dyno run yielded 122HP at the wheels @ 6800 RPM, redline is 7000RPM

[paky66]

@markandsonmetal after all these modifications, you only got 122hp? Ever thought about supercharging it?

[markandsonmetal]

@paky66

Keep in mind that the 122 HP is at the WHEELS which is about 170HP at the flywheel.

[MrMrtiki]

Can you explain how it started with no plug wires; Did you use a buzz box on the plugs

[markandsonmetal]

It did have plug wires, they are connected from the EDIS4 coils to the plugs. The timing signal comes from a trigger wheel that is bolted to the crank pulley and it sends its signal to the EDIS4 module which then sends a signal to MegaSquirt.

[MrMrtiki]

@markandsonmetal Oh I see them now there external on the fender I seen the cap and was thinking what the heck just using it for pump shaft sure nice little car my brother loved these I was a Bricklin or Pantera man really I love ford .Thanks nice car

[paky66]

96mm is the diameter of the 2.4 engine pistons? what country are you from?

[markandsonmetal]

96mm is the diameter of my custom pistons, the difference between the 2.2 and 2.4 engines is the stroke on the crankshaft.

[paky66]

@markandsonmetal I knew that 2.4 pistons are a little bit larger then the 2.2/2.0 ones (which have the same diameter as the 2.0 pistons, 93mm, the only difference between 2.0 and 2.2 engines being the stroke on the crankshaft).

[Johnkels100]

loverly car

i love the colour What is it please

[markandsonmetal]

The color is House of Colors Kandy Pagan Gold - 6 coats over silver base coat.

[SupraCelica98]

hey nice work beautiful car. im doin the same to an 1986 E30. the hole time your talking about starting the car up and there are no wires attached to the distributer it looks...

[markandsonmetal]

@SupraCelica98

The dizzy is now gone, I made a shaft to run the oil pump, which is the only reason the dizzy was there at the time of this video

[Ogi4a]

Cool, thats about the smoothest first start I've seen. Nice one

[halohadel]

get that pos K&N filter outta there just install two parrallel paper filters. Same amount of airflow, just filters more particles unlike K&N

[89239dfkdk]

Don't freak, It's in the video at 1:44. Just a fellow VW nut.

[markandsonmetal]

Man are you sharp...I never realized it was in there and you can only pick up the rear quarter panel at that. It's a '64 Hardtop that was the 1st car I rebuilt from the ground up, totally stock with a 1200cc 40HP engine.

[89239dfkdk]

Good job. What's the story on the Ghia?

[markandsonmetal]

How do you know about my Ghia?

[EshenbaughRacing]

Sounds like its missing

[markandsonmetal]

It was the first time the engine ever ran, it was running very rich. I tuned it on a dyno at a later date at which time it developed 122rwhp @ 6800RPM.

[Opel021]

Hello, I need to buy some pieces for my Opel GT 1969 in Chile, please its aid and contacts.

thanks,

[dralenvan]

nice car

[lukeslandspeeder]

idles rough as hell.

[markandsonmetal]

This was the first time the car was ever started, there was no tuning done at all, it was a thrill that it even started.

[lukeslandspeeder]

o my bad. still ran pretty good without tuning though gj. 8) it is a nice car.

[applesmurfen]

What compression?

[markandsonmetal]

Custom Pistons, Valves & Roller Rockers with final C/R @ 10.5:1

[applesmurfen]

Very nice, these engines are really lively with high compression. I`ve owned several Opel Kadetts with the same engine and they`ve all been lots of fun. Good luck with the car, and have fun :)

[pinksphinx1]

it looks like a mini corvette! =P

[Saless]

I own an OPEL GT '73 as well, but this looks like fun

[jw13303]

@ 1:55 pause the vid and tell me whats up with the "wire-less" distributor!?!

[markandsonmetal]

The distributor shaft also runs the oil pump so it needed to be in place to run the car. I now have a shortened shaft with now dizzy on top so it looks better. The ignition timing is coming from a trigger wheel that was mounted to the crankshaft pulley, which is part of the EDIS system.

[jw13303]

Very NICE, Thanks for the reply.

[Sanyey]

I was wondering how is he planning to start is up with no cables XDDD

[Polker1]

That was awesome!

Polker

[34D2234]

my older brother had one of these, their small inside, you dont sit in it you wear it, i've gotten rides home from school in the area behind the front seats and his girl sat in the other seat, bastard hit every pothole on the way home too!

fun car looks like a mini vette, stock, it did a 10 sec 0-60

[BanditCosworth]

That Opel GT is nothing but gorgeous, full respect to you.

Just wondering why you went for the 2.2 and not the 2.4, or the DOHC 20XE redtop?

Not giving you crap, just unique to see the 2.2 used as a transplant instead of the two motors i've mentioned.

[Gaus212]

5*****

[LordLo]

Looks like a fun car to drive!

[duanedragon2]

Is that a Chrysler 2.2? Looks like top-shelf engineering and fabrication. First crank can be nerve-wracking.

Btw- congrats, you have a beautiful car.

[markandsonmetal]

The engine is a 2.2 Opel from a German 1985 Opel Rekord.

[markandsonmetal]

Nope - it is an Opel 2.2 from a 1985 Opel Rekord.

[Sanyey]

and where did you managed to get an Opel engine in the US? :OO

[MuffinStomper]

Great video jeff, awesome that you have finally gotten it going.