My Omega/Carltonprojects (Sweden)

[MilleN]

I heard of this forum and thought, hey, those are my kind of guys

The story of my first Carlton is short but it started my interest.

It was a 2,0 and I fitted a GSi-bodykit on it and some other stuff that 18-yearolds like




After I trashed it (as all 18-yearolds do with their first car) I was obsessed, I loved the nice handlingabilities and powersteering so I bought a 3000 / GSi

I fitted that with some worse shit Lotus Carlton-kit! But I didnt want to be a simple replica so I changed lots of stuff, all ideas from my own head (and some inspirations of course).

Larger hole in the front, no rubbershit around the bodykit (whatever its called ) Homemade holes in the hood, "angry-look" in the hood, Rims from Brock, Mirrors from Mattig, Cornersplitters, siderepeaters from Audi and so on...


Undercar Neon was hot at the time, since everyone used blue I went against the stream and chose Green, of course since the cars color is Dark dark green too..



Irmscher-rearlights, dual pipes, completely flat boot


The interior needed an upgrade too, so I chose to install a 7" touchscreen connected to a laptop, the steering-wheel, gearknob and pedals is from Momo


And the boot, JBL GTI 12" bass (hidden) with huge MDS-amplifiers. And of course a 19" screen with a webcam
This picture is from Elmia in 2006 I think, Swedens largest autoshow.


I also fitted a lysholm Spercharger  DAAAMN the sound was wonderful, the engine really didnt cope though so after a while and a lack of oilpressure i kind of started hating the car so eventually I sold it, I got the white GSi and some money inbetween so I could fix that one up a bit too



I sure had some fun with it though







As I said, I traded it for the white one.

It was in good shape when I got it, lowered, Lotus-wing, some other upgrades and most important: completely free of rust. The first thing I bought was 18" wheels, looked niiice





I also kept the rearlights and mirrors from my previous car..


OF course Ive had some other cars over the snowy winters and stuff... Here are some:




I hit a wild boar with this one hahaha



Another 2,0 with 3000-kit






Now Ive changed to a newer Opel though! A Vectra Irmscher -98 that Ive also spent lots of time on..





But thats another story, do you guys know of a Vectra-forum?


I hope you enjoy my stories

[MilleN]

Oh yeah, if you want to see more pics I have a profile on www.garaget.org/MilleN , its in swedish but pictures say more than a thousand words right?

And here are some vids


The bastards on Youtube took the sound away
You can watch it here instead: http://www.garaget.org/video/41koozyhs66j

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ACV9BdAY4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ACV9BdAY4</a>

The green and the white:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT7fbuE-tWg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT7fbuE-tWg</a>

And some pics of my Vectramods..
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceivuGEGeqs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceivuGEGeqs</a>

[Murph]

Damn good to see another Carlton/Omega junkie!

Pop on over to www.vodc.co.uk and you'll find loads of Vectra junkies there, as well as some of us too.

Welcome to the madhouse!

[Johnraka]

Awesome cars, love the green one with all the lights - superb!!!
As for the interior... Would I love something like that??? Would I...

[mapblue]

Good to see you on here mate,have to admit I did steal some of your ideas from your green one for my one.

[chrismec]

Hey dude and welcome to TC, nice selection of carltons youv'e had, as already said pop  over to VODC for Vec nuts, some usefull guys there

[U.D. - Omega DTM Rep]

Loving all your Omega pics and vids MilleN!!

[MilleN]

Thanks

Mapblue: Looking good!! Much cleaner look than a stock Lotus!

[U.D. - Omega DTM Rep]

I posted this link below of your car months ago on Paradyne's/Andreas's/SleveN's welcome posting....

Clicky this You Tube link....

I still enjoy watching that video now!

[Street Sleeper]

did you have a 3.0 in the one you hit the boar with? imagine pulling up at the lights in a beater like that and smoking any unsuspecting fools!

[MilleN]

did you have a 3.0 in the one you hit the boar with? imagine pulling up at the lights in a beater like that and smoking any unsuspecting fools!

hehe no just a 2,0 Yeah would have been a perfect sleeper!

Too bad the "badge" in the back wasnt true "Lotus 3,6TT"   Sorry for the sad pictures but it was a fun car (and cheap haha) I accidentally trashed the rear window too, and after a breakin one of the rear sidewindows was trashed too, a real rat-car



By the way. Here are some build-pics if someone wants to see.

Easy way to fix dual-pipes when you have 2 exhaustpipes


Under construction-picture of the interior: I removed the screen from its cover and attached the cover to the panel. I also removed the buttons (who needs ass-heat? ) and the ashtray and made the whole thing cleaner.


Larger hole in the front


Angry-look and filled up badgehole.. Its welded metal underneath the "spackle"(?!)



before the paintjob



After the paintjob

[DevonGSi]

Where oh where did you get the supercharger from?

[colonelk]

loving the supercharged goodness

[flash911]

love the cars !!!!!!

[MilleN]

Thanks

The Supercharger was a Lysholm-kit from ENEM, www.enem.se

Im trying to find some pics of the tuning but they seem to be lost from when Ive formatted the computer

[g4rth]

http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/archive/736/456787_out34z.jpg

love this...
great intro mate...and some nice pics...

[g4rth]

by the way...the rear lights on this .. http://www1.garaget.org/gallery/archive/736/346430_jqe0be.jpg

can you get hold of them ...a few folk on here would prob' be interested in buying them..

[MilleN]

I actually bought them at the local Opel-dealer back in 2005, but I think theyve stopped selling Irmscher-stuff now.. A bit pricy though, around 200 euros at the time, but worth every penny