Originally Posted by
Crowder
yeh for sure cage suspension and brakes are next, I'm Reading up atm on what's good and what's not in the suspension stakes with arb to go for etc and freshen up all the bushes!
Bit of an update it went to regal for a map and they wouldn't map it die to a long list of apparent faults
-turbo water hose perished
-coilpack ends perished
-no manifold heat shield wtf?
-no external second metal gasket between the manifold and nuts... Although it didn't leak..
-boost leaks from intercooler map sensor
-low compressionon engine.. Showing 140 across 4
so charging me an hours labour for this I decided to take it away as they wanted 4 hours plus parts + remap cost + setup fee + rollers fee
got it home sorted water hose and map housing decided to put a stage one on it and it didn't run well due to the coilpack dying strange that after they had fiddled with it?!?
Fitted the afr and a new coilpack and she's starti g to run nice albeit a bit rich top end on boost showing 11.5-12 on wot in 4th. Remap is only running stage 1power aprox 14psi holding, until I get it raised to 18-20!
Had a nice play with a new green focus rs
lovely car and the 888 sat wth it lol.
Well I've done some stuff to my vxr and I've used it for a few trackdays. You can get the front anti roll bar from a astra twintop which is 24mm. You can buy polybushes for the bottom arms from courtneysport (including whiteline castor adjusting ones), they also sell a whiteline rear anti rollbar.
Brakes-wise I think the 343mm ap racing vxr kit fits. But alcon sell a 365mm 6 pot brake kit which I have fitted and with pagid rs29's it's very good!
Will keep an eye on this thread.
Also if your looking for some cheap dampers the OEM astra vxr shocks fit your car.