The Astra Nurburgendy
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Thought you might be intrested/laugh at mine and my mates "project", this was written by the owner will and myself and copied from northloop
The year is 2008 and a mate suggests going to Nurburgring and would I like to come? 5 of us wanted to head over and see what all the hype is about so the with 2 of the 5 being a couple, me and two mates decided to take my spare car I had which was mainly used by me to drive to town and abandon when I go for a few drinks. Little did we know it would begin one of the silliest things we've done for a while anyway.
Enter the Vauxhall Astra CDX
In all her glory, 1.8 capacity, 16 whole valves, aircon, traction control, electric everything and a sunroof.
Three of us went to the ring in it, it did the job, it did a scary lap and got us home. For the trip we stuck aload of stickers on cause it seemed right at the time:
She did the lap
it had smashed through northern europe last time, did an unofficial 10.25 lap, and got us home, but this time we wanted a sub 10, the mission was on :!
We started off with some choice mods, eibach springs, whiteline rear anti roll bar and I then took it to James' house to ruin it forever:
This is how she started (note: stickers were removed )
then on Saturday, at precisely 11.17 am, the project began, sponsored by pg tips and some bacon rolls, Me, James, Fad, Warren and James' brother luke did this
now with a plain canvas, the corbeau's from James' corsa were installed, along with some very nice omp 4 points
onto the tyre front, the 195/5 15s wer'nt going to cut it, so we bought these, and some yoko semi slicks from Lee The Legend
we then remeberd the astra was 5 stud, so sold them again, and bought these and mounted them up
and some sexy looking spares (cheers warren)
obviously such delights as the wooden trim and gear knob have stayed for strength reasons (wood lowers the c.o.g)
and the sort of finished article
Days before the trip some more bits got bolted on, not wanting to worry James' that we wouldnt have a car I decided to send him this:
I also managed to put on some braided brake hoses, fluid change, and some cool Astra GSI air ducts that attach to the lower arms and cool down everything.
Our third ring visit was coming up and this was the second time the Astra was returning to Germany, but this time it was prepared for some action. She did over a thousand miles and did 8 laps between Me and James, James managed a 9.45 BTG and was happy with that
After our ring trip we decided we had to go back, we had too many laps that we would waste and who can deny themself another visit? Our last visit was 7 days in duration but the Weekend TF sessions were just too busy and crashy. But we had read about there myth-like quiet TF days that only existed between Monday and Friday, so we planned another visit from Saturday to Thursday.
But before our trip we had to run the WeekendRacer.co.uk stand at Castle Combe's performance action day, so we decided to (Oops I said the F word) about with the Astra some more.
Take one engine bay
Remove aircon
Take some cheap Gaz coilovers (big thanks to Pickford for sorting these out for me!) to sort out the 10 year old dampers and lowering springs.
And fit them like so
Coilovers were fitted on the Friday morning before Combe so I decided to pop down to Mark Fish Motorsport who is just outside of Harlow for him to set the car up and do the tracking for me. After various cups of teas later I went back out to get home and pack my bags for Combe!
The Astra did really well at Combe, felt alot more planted in corners and a little bit faster on the straights which I think was mainly down to the big service it got last week (belt, cam pully sensor, fuel filter, air filter, plugs, oil, oil filter and rebodged the exhaust to fit again)
With the track sessions been and gone I was REALLY excited about Nurburg, the semi slicks were getting to the end of their life, Me and James were planning to get the last out of them!
Nurburg came and went, two amazing sessions of week day TF and we got on the GP track which seemed like whacky races, no sign on, hardly any flags, no helmets needed.
GP
At Karin's apartment
Lining up on Monday
Not found any pics of us on the Ring on our last visit.
Hope you enjoyed reading.
The year is 2008 and a mate suggests going to Nurburgring and would I like to come? 5 of us wanted to head over and see what all the hype is about so the with 2 of the 5 being a couple, me and two mates decided to take my spare car I had which was mainly used by me to drive to town and abandon when I go for a few drinks. Little did we know it would begin one of the silliest things we've done for a while anyway.
Enter the Vauxhall Astra CDX
In all her glory, 1.8 capacity, 16 whole valves, aircon, traction control, electric everything and a sunroof.
Three of us went to the ring in it, it did the job, it did a scary lap and got us home. For the trip we stuck aload of stickers on cause it seemed right at the time:
She did the lap
it had smashed through northern europe last time, did an unofficial 10.25 lap, and got us home, but this time we wanted a sub 10, the mission was on :!
We started off with some choice mods, eibach springs, whiteline rear anti roll bar and I then took it to James' house to ruin it forever:
This is how she started (note: stickers were removed )
then on Saturday, at precisely 11.17 am, the project began, sponsored by pg tips and some bacon rolls, Me, James, Fad, Warren and James' brother luke did this
now with a plain canvas, the corbeau's from James' corsa were installed, along with some very nice omp 4 points
onto the tyre front, the 195/5 15s wer'nt going to cut it, so we bought these, and some yoko semi slicks from Lee The Legend
we then remeberd the astra was 5 stud, so sold them again, and bought these and mounted them up
and some sexy looking spares (cheers warren)
obviously such delights as the wooden trim and gear knob have stayed for strength reasons (wood lowers the c.o.g)
and the sort of finished article
Days before the trip some more bits got bolted on, not wanting to worry James' that we wouldnt have a car I decided to send him this:
I also managed to put on some braided brake hoses, fluid change, and some cool Astra GSI air ducts that attach to the lower arms and cool down everything.
Our third ring visit was coming up and this was the second time the Astra was returning to Germany, but this time it was prepared for some action. She did over a thousand miles and did 8 laps between Me and James, James managed a 9.45 BTG and was happy with that
After our ring trip we decided we had to go back, we had too many laps that we would waste and who can deny themself another visit? Our last visit was 7 days in duration but the Weekend TF sessions were just too busy and crashy. But we had read about there myth-like quiet TF days that only existed between Monday and Friday, so we planned another visit from Saturday to Thursday.
But before our trip we had to run the WeekendRacer.co.uk stand at Castle Combe's performance action day, so we decided to (Oops I said the F word) about with the Astra some more.
Take one engine bay
Remove aircon
Take some cheap Gaz coilovers (big thanks to Pickford for sorting these out for me!) to sort out the 10 year old dampers and lowering springs.
And fit them like so
Coilovers were fitted on the Friday morning before Combe so I decided to pop down to Mark Fish Motorsport who is just outside of Harlow for him to set the car up and do the tracking for me. After various cups of teas later I went back out to get home and pack my bags for Combe!
The Astra did really well at Combe, felt alot more planted in corners and a little bit faster on the straights which I think was mainly down to the big service it got last week (belt, cam pully sensor, fuel filter, air filter, plugs, oil, oil filter and rebodged the exhaust to fit again)
With the track sessions been and gone I was REALLY excited about Nurburg, the semi slicks were getting to the end of their life, Me and James were planning to get the last out of them!
Nurburg came and went, two amazing sessions of week day TF and we got on the GP track which seemed like whacky races, no sign on, hardly any flags, no helmets needed.
GP
At Karin's apartment
Lining up on Monday
Not found any pics of us on the Ring on our last visit.
Hope you enjoyed reading.
Edited by jr@ on Sunday 11th October 17:12
many thanks on the replies
no the car has been ruined for ever now with current spec so no more pub visits
in regards to power, on the last trip i did a 9.27 btg, few mistakes, but the lack of power is really noticable now with grip etc
i want to put a 2.5v6 in it, easy 200bhp, will has a C20LET laying around (he also has a 2.1 C20LET dry sumped corsa C, whilst i have a 2.0 C20XE corsa on throttle bodies beeing built) so between us we'll combine vauxhall bits and do something
no the car has been ruined for ever now with current spec so no more pub visits
in regards to power, on the last trip i did a 9.27 btg, few mistakes, but the lack of power is really noticable now with grip etc
i want to put a 2.5v6 in it, easy 200bhp, will has a C20LET laying around (he also has a 2.1 C20LET dry sumped corsa C, whilst i have a 2.0 C20XE corsa on throttle bodies beeing built) so between us we'll combine vauxhall bits and do something
to the OP, looks great fun.pincher said:
jr@ said:
onto the tyre front, the 195/5 15s wer'nt going to cut it, so we bought these, and some yoko semi slicks from Lee The Legend
http://corsasport.co.uk/carimages/3999/hpim3170.jp...
we then remeberd the astra was 5 stud, so sold them again, and bought these and mounted them up
http://corsasport.co.uk/carimages/3999/astra_012.j...
Have a http://corsasport.co.uk/carimages/3999/hpim3170.jp...
we then remeberd the astra was 5 stud, so sold them again, and bought these and mounted them up
http://corsasport.co.uk/carimages/3999/astra_012.j...
pincher said:
jr@ said:
onto the tyre front, the 195/5 15s wer'nt going to cut it, so we bought these, and some yoko semi slicks from Lee The Legend
we then remeberd the astra was 5 stud, so sold them again, and bought these and mounted them up
Have a we then remeberd the astra was 5 stud, so sold them again, and bought these and mounted them up
as well !J500ANT said:
Mr2Mike said:
What are the 5 spoke steel wheels from?
They're what Vauxhall call "structure wheels" and have an alloy-esque plastic trim normally.
Loving the look of the steels without the trims though. Remind me a little of Porsche Cookie Cutters.
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