Binnacle-ZA Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Hello All Doing a Auto to manual conversion on my A Series Manta. Cannot find a flywheel for the original 1.9l engine anywhere. (I'm in South Africa, Mantas are rarer than Hen's teeth here.) Are there any other cars I could get a flywheel off that would bolt up to the engine? I'm going to be using the Getrag 240 if you need to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monzta Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Hello All Doing a Auto to manual conversion on my A Series Manta. Cannot find a flywheel for the original 1.9l engine anywhere. (I'm in South Africa, Mantas are rarer than Hen's teeth here.) Are there any other cars I could get a flywheel off that would bolt up to the engine? I'm going to be using the Getrag 240 if you need to know. You can use flywheels from any CIH type engine (event the 6 cyl ones). I believe that Opel Rekord was called Chevrolet Rekord in South Africa, and the E2 models used the 2,0 L CIH type engine (the old ones used an "iron duke"). That would be your best bet for a donor car (you can even fit the entire engine if you reuse you oilpan, enginemounts and oil pickup). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binnacle-ZA Posted July 10, 2011 Author Share Posted July 10, 2011 You can use flywheels from any CIH type engine (event the 6 cyl ones). I believe that Opel Rekord was called Chevrolet Rekord in South Africa, and the E2 models used the 2,0 L CIH type engine (the old ones used an "iron duke"). That would be your best bet for a donor car (you can even fit the entire engine if you reuse you oilpan, enginemounts and oil pickup). Cool, many thanks. Yeah it was the Chevrolet Rekord originally, rebadged as an Opel some time later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monzta Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 (edited) Cool, many thanks. Yeah it was the Chevrolet Rekord originally, rebadged as an Opel some time later. Right but you need the late models with the Opel engines. Should be easy to recognize as the engine looks exaclty the same as the 1,9 you have in your manta As said the old ones used an iron duke from Chevrolet so this can not be used. Also everything else you need enginewise can be found here (water pumps, oil pump, gaskets etc ) Happy hunting Edited July 10, 2011 by monzta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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