SAMARAI's 1995 Opel Calibra 16v Ecotec ;)

[Gargi]

Nice,but now you have to buy some bumpers and spoilers

[SAMARAI]

Nice,but now you have to buy some bumpers and spoilers

thanks mate.
If only if only. But if Im honest most kits make the calibras look like over the top. not many kits are classy. the turbo ones aren't bad but hard to find and so expensive to ship to Australia.

[EddeyDancer]

Nice, but now you have to buy some bumpers and spoilers

Exactly, what I was thinking before...

The white certainly looks heaps more modern, but other aspects of the car, don't allow it to look fully complete...

Colour Coding can look heaps better, but only if it's done correctly...

Once you cross that line, it's all or nothing...

[Gargi]

Once you cross that line, it's all or nothing...

exactly

[SAMARAI]

I don't think I'll ever get bumpers or kits. I always thought the calibra had natural beautiful shape and lines.

[SAMARAI]

Photo Update.

As she stands 14/06/14 - Photos by my good friend Kevin Tria of Kevin Tria Photography.







Im still breathless at these photos and edits!

Cheers for reading guys and gals.
Till next time.

To Do List:
- Replace crappy Angel eye projectors with stock projectors.
- Replace stock cream interior trim with black trim aquired from a calibra from u-pull-it.
- 18" Rims shopping

[Philippe]

superbe

[John Owens]

Seen these on Facebook today matey , they're stunning !


Praise the Lowered !

[Phill]

Nice photos mate

[SAMARAI]

Thanks so much lads!
Crazy that about an ankle deep worth of water makes such a crazy effect!

[craigyboy]

They photos are excellent mate.

[SAMARAI]

They photos are excellent mate.

Thanks heaps mate! I appreciate it :p

[SAMARAI]

Photo Update Time!

Here's an update on the latest mods to the cali.

-Reverted to stock headlights with Angel Eye clear lenses.
-Installed Headlight level adjuster motors
-Installed Cup holder
-Replaced semi-broken seatbelt pre-tensioner.

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Firstly here are some shots of the last day she stood with her angel eye headlights before they came off.
(Gotta love white cars, It needed a wash and a polish but somehow in these photos it looks mint)





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So to explain the method behind the madness, the sonar projector housings were s**t house and as a result the projected low beam pattern of light on the road and the beam cut off was so inconsistent and poor that even with HID's I could barely see the road ahead.
I have had these angel eyes about a year now and in that time.. every night drive was soo frustrating because for one I couldn't see where I was going and two I had to have the left beam adjusted way down so that I wouldn't blind cars driving on the side of me.

So enough was enough. With the encouragement of a friend, he helped me open up the Angel eyes to see if we could retrofit the stock calibra projectors into it. Sadly no matter how we tried we couldn't do it.





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So after about 3 hours of fussing around trying to get the much better spread of light enabled stock projectors to fit in, I resorted back to the stock headlights but replaced the lens with the Angel eye clear lens and this is how it turned out! Pretty stoked!

(Excuse the glare, I took a quick few snaps today when the weather cleared up for a bit.)




I also have a few degrees of control over the vertical position of the lights from the original headlight adjuster motors I gott off a calibre from you pull it. So cool to have.

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Now my eyes do need adjusting to the chrome look but so far Its a nice change, somehow freshens up the front end I think.
Now I'll bring your attention to the start of my problems.



As you see here on the right hand side of the headlight is the high beam reflector housing and just before putting the clear lens on I thought I’d use some wax and grease remover to clean up the residual dust that was on the bottom surface, nek minut the chrome came off as I wiped it. I guess it was a very cheap/think/crap layer of coated chrome.

IM NOT TOO FUSSED! To be honest, this is a small trade off!
True I’ve lost the black backing, I’ve lost the front foggies and halos but I don’t care.. the light output, spread and shape of the cut off is 1000 times better!
Plus the stock projectors have a switch per projector that lets you adjust if you want the light to cut off perfectly horizontal or have a Flick up at the left hand side. I DIDN’T KNOW FROM FACTORY WE ALL HAD ACCESS TO THIS SWITCH!! Even with HID’s right now I have total control over the cut off of the light and not fearful of blinding oncoming motorists and people im driving behind or over taking.

I now have some thinking to do, wether I want to source another stock chrome housing and replace the housing that’s turned yellow, or I can paint what I have black, but my problem lies here that the high beams are refelectors so I can’t really paint those black and lose the use of the high beams.

Another possible mod is to go and install the angel eye headlight halos into my current stock ones. Now Ideally I’d like to go CFL rings or something brighter as the ones in my old angel eye set were so dim.. but I guess they were designed that way to act as parkers and ideally be more legal for on road use. Not sure if I want to risk cop attention with putting bright halos, my old halos might be the fix, plus that’s MCM DIY style ftw

I am also planning on retrofitting my angel eye front foggies into the stock headlights im currently using. And hopefully putting HID’s into those aswell. I wouldn’t really use them as low beams but more as DRL’s

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Finally I installed a cup holder. Damn opel for not giving me one in the first place, but its all sorted now!



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And lastly I scored an un molested original calibra seatbelt pre tensioner.
From about the first few months of owning the cali, a cousin leant onto my drivers side one and broke it. I did fix it but it never was the same. Finally now we’re all good!

Here’s one of the old one. Guess the 20 year old Euro plastic has done well in the Aussie heat!



(ps a sneaky self plug in of Adelaide’s Marty and Moog approved, printed, cut and sold .Adelaide extension sticker)

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To Do list:

-Contemplating going back to black door and bumper trim. (Its plasti dipped white currently.. can just peel off)
-Look into mirror upgrade (mine is perfectly fine but loose so a tad bump and I have to re-adjust. Very annoying)
-Sort out something for the head lights. (Either find a stock headlight housing to swap over or paint current ones black)
-Contemplate installing halos
-Fit the Angel Eye front foggies into the blank fog light spot of the stock headlights.
-Replace cream interior with black interior (pillars, parcel shelf etc)
-Buy Air-horn (Loud one)

Thanks for reading guys and gals!

[craigyboy]

Nice one mate,Are you bringing it to Billing?

[SAMARAI]

Nice one mate,Are you bringing it to Billing?

Hahaha I wish!