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o this afternoon had the Michelin's fitted, all nice and simple trough Tyres on the drive. Been out the past few Hours scrubbing them in and getting a feel for them, and I am simply amazed by how much the car has been transformed. Mileage at time of fitting was "15805"
Tyres by Michael Smith...
There's Two of these RS3's that live close to me, i'am pretty sure they have the 'Sports Exhaust', sounds like all hell is breaking lose when one or both go for a 'hoon' sounds ace!
After having a nightmare with the Locking/Wheel Nuts, which was sorted thankgod! i can proceed to have some new Tyres as the Conti's on the front are pretty much dead. Decided to change all Four, so gone for 4x Michelin Pilot Super Sports to be put on this Saturday trough Tyres on the drive...
I'am aiming to do an 'Box Oil change eveytime i do an Oil Service or is that abit much? i do understand these M32 'Boxes ain't the best.
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This will be staying pretty much standard like all my cars, keep it as mint as possible and use it like it was designed to be :)
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I've read that some have run closer to 210 BHP when ran on a strict diet of 99 Ron, and even one at 217 but you know what Rolling Roads are like.
100 Ron is recommended LOL.
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This was up for £10750, which i thought was pretty decent for the mileage, condition its in. I did look at 250 Cup's brifely but none that i fancied had Recaro's or in Sport Yellow in low'ish miles.
I'am nicely suprised at how much praise as the speak this has got on this Forum and Pistonheads...
The Colour is called Chilli Orange and its so much better looking in real life, its quite hard to photograph though, they also did Grasshopper Green, White and Black on these Nurburgrings.
From memory it set an 8:34** at the Nurburgring which IMO is impressive considering it had Conti's and...
To answer a few questions, the AFL's on the Corsa are Halogens and the optional AFL's on the Astra 'H' are Xenons. The Steering feel is pretty poor as most modern cars, no better or worse than the Mk7 Fiesta ST i had before this, but the way the car is setup i 'feel' i have more connection to...
Yeah Bilstein B12 setup, although i'am not sure if the one's fitted to the Nurburgring are any different to the ones you can buy online. The RRP was something like 22k-ish and that was before any options got added!
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Had this for nearly Two weeks so i thought i'd stick some pictures up. Yes its a Vauxhall and Yes its Corsa, but the VXR Brand appeals to me quite somewhat and Vauxhall do make some cracking cars with the resources they've got.
VXR by Michael Smith, on Flickr
VXR by Michael Smith, on Flickr...
Gutted for you, i'd ring the Dealers and see what they have to say, failing that, have it re-built or replacement engine.
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It has some Suspension, Steering and Anti Roll Bar revisions from what i've read, although they are on normal ST's for 65' plate onwards IIRC.
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My mate had one of these, had the optional Recaro Seats which was a really rare option i was told, it was a nice car, quicker than the stats sugest, at the time my Astra VXR wasn't that much quicker!
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