sand-eel
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Originally posted by ChrisBoom
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^^^ what happened?
Not too sure, he got the car from new, remapped, was putting out 280bhp apparently. Was running it on normal unleaded, took a chunk out the valve.
Thats the explination vauxhall gave anyways, new engine with no map and its been fine.
did vauxhall replace it? or did they not because it wasn't standard.
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ChrisBoom
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Originally posted by sand-eel
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Originally posted by ChrisBoom
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Originally posted by sand-eel
^^^ what happened?
Not too sure, he got the car from new, remapped, was putting out 280bhp apparently. Was running it on normal unleaded, took a chunk out the valve.
Thats the explination vauxhall gave anyways, new engine with no map and its been fine.
did vauxhall replace it? or did they not because it wasn't standard.
Aye, as he got it from vauxhall mapped, canna mind how it worked, but the engine was replaced on warranty.
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sand-eel
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oh right vauxhall mapped it, strange.
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ChrisBoom
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Originally posted by sand-eel
oh right vauxhall mapped it, strange.
Well, it wasnt vauxhall that did it, went to the vxr performance centre to get done.
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Jambo
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vaux dont make the turbos, its a kkk. I never had a single issue with mine?! Have you found the cause of the failure i.e something else is causing acelerated wear on the turbo? Oil feed etc?
Evo is a different ball game to the vxrs, 4k service intervals, expensive parts and an older car to begin with.
Ive never driven a corsa vxr, but the astra was very nice to drive!
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P1CK4D
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Registered: 19th Jun 06
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Was you concidering going from an Astra GSi to an Astra VXR? 
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ShEp
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I'm a qualified Vaux tech anyway
The only conclusion I and the rest of the Astra fraternity can come up with is KKK are pish turbo's
A vxr will get a garrett with an alcon manifold
Not worth doing it to my gsi anymore.
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P1CK4D
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Originally posted by ShEp
I'm a qualified Vaux tech anyway
The only conclusion I and the rest of the Astra fraternity can come up with is KKK are pish turbo's
A vxr will get a garrett with an alcon manifold
Not worth doing it to my gsi anymore.
Why would it not be worth doing it to the GSi?  My kkk was 2nd hand when I got it and hasnt missed a beat in the 2 years of abuse its had. I think ive been lucky then 
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ShEp
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On the c20let?
The kkk16 (iirc) are decent turbo's but the kkk ko4 on the gsi and vxr aren't
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P1CK4D
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Originally posted by ShEp
On the c20let?
The kkk16 (iirc) are decent turbo's but the kkk ko4 on the gsi and vxr aren't
Yeah, on my c20let. Oh ok, diff turbo's then. Keep the GSi and put a decent Turbo and Manifold on that.  
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c20let
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Registered: 25th Jun 05
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personally i'd go for a 6, aslong as it was a decent example.
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