Came out a local garage and noticed a nice blue vectra sittin by the pumps,jumped in my (standard) 04 wrx and headed off.Next thing i see is the vectra in my rear view,tight to my bumper.Right i thought "lets see what you got fella" pulled a couple of safe high speed overtakes,but the rep mobile was still with me,as we pushed on up the steep dual lane mountain road the vectra pulled out from behind me and woosh he was gone He pulled in at a laybay on the top of the mountain road,so i decided to pull over a see what he had.Turns out it was a feckin remapped V X R ,the grining driver tells me it was 260 bhp before the remap.I had absolutly no hope of outrunning that thing.This dual with the fast vectra has got me a little hungry for more power,and this is why i am writing this post.My 04 wrx currently only has a 3'' cat back s.s system(on car when i got,so don't know the make) and a bailey d.v fitted,i am considering a remap and the complete turbo back decat system in the newyear,what power would these mods give me,and more importantly would i be fit for a feckin vxr vectra. cheers simon N.Ireland

 

They understeer like a b*stard dont they? He might have been better making it handle properly first.....

 

When i started readint this I thought you were going totell us the VXR hit you! Got me scared.

End of the day mate, its a vauxhall, dont feel ashamed, they are just plastice, get that turbo back decat system, maybe a new panel filter (not induction kit as I dont beleive in them, even though I have one), and then definatly a remap, you should be looking at some nice gains from that, enough to keep with a vxr anyway

 

At the end of the day i would still have a Subaru over a over powered rep mobile.
Still a Vauxhall at the end of the day

 

SUBARU DRIVER IN 'SOMEBODY HAS A QUICKER CAR THAN ME' SHOCKER!!!


oh no!

buttfcuked by a vectra, the shame!

fall on your sword, at once!

 

latest ones are 280bhp standard up from 256

 

 

 

Nice

 

loving the blinkers!!

 

"PSLewis"

ROFL

 

I have my moments.

Need to change a few bits on it.

 

Paul Weller, famous celebrity SUBARU enthusiast & general dude, insisting his 4WD japchavmobile was the fastest thing on the planet-period, yesterday:

 

Love Paul Weller as well.

 

Rose tinted glasses....hmmmm

I was abit slow on the uptake there - sorry

 

The Vectra is very fast in a straight line top speed of 160ish i think. On this occasion I think it is very very safe to say you could have lost him in the twisties as these handle like Morris Marinas.

 

 

I dont see how blipping the throttle up to 60mph proves anything anyway.
You didn't race on the public highway or else you would have genetalia swinging from your forehead, so a quick blip to 60 is nothing...
ps my scooby is the same as yours but without the dv and my brothers standard astra turbo is faster off roundabouts to 70mph... WRX's like ours are poo for rolling acceleration, they just sound nice

 

WRONG!

have you driven one?


Clarkson HATES vectras...

do you not think that when the stig was on the test track in the VXR he was not giving it large with the GO pedal through the bends?

I assume your insightful knowledge of the vectra's handling was sourced from TG, and this sketch in question??

250 BHP in any big front wheel drive car planted through a tight bend is never going to win any medals, is it....

 

I was doing over a ton when the vvxr passed me,on my own private mountain road of course

 

I love how anything thats not a scooby gets a slagging off on this forum.

Bugatti Veyron? we'd beat it it the twisties......................................:lol 1:

he got beat plain and simple and by a car thats ****e

 

evo rate these.

 

i had a vectra and yet it understeered like crazy but i was ok coz i knew when it would start to go.

hey dont slag off morris marinas that was my first car. an £80 special had it for 3 years and it NEVER let me down NEVER. i uprated the rear suspension (4 leaf rear springs instead of the standard 2 leaf) rear wheel drive great fun the only problem was that it took about 2 weeks to get to 60

tell you what i would'nt say no to an astra vxr, i would still wanna keep the scoob though

 

another "expert" enters the fray.


reasons? other than you have read on Quentin's page in the Sun, or discussed in the pub, please

 

Sounds like the VXR is actually not bad at all.

It did well against an STi and a BMW 330i in an Evo test.

Vauxhall are finally learning how to build cars and after testing everything ever made, I settled for an Astra and am still pleased with it.

Unbelievably hassle free and fast enough to upset all sorts of kit.

 

Could somone please give me an estimate of what power to expect from euctek remap& full decat system,for my car please.

Fair play to the vectra driver he did leave me for dead over that mountian but if i remember corectly the vvxr was slower round the top gear track than a 180 bhp clio

 

clio/180....1000 kg?

vectra/250....1500 kg?

weight over power advantage is non-linear, as is the whole package...i.e...small nible FWD car vs Big FWD. It's BOUND to be quicker on a tight track.

why not just accept the car for what it is, rather than call it ****e, or get your knickers in a twist because he owned you in an everyday situation?

 

Can't, it depends on the condition of the engine internals etc, what sort of mapping you'd go for etc. Every car is different, could be 50bhp could 10bhp, just depends on the set-up and whats already there.

 

i think they have building decent cars for a while now m8

seem to do quite well in the BTCC

 

I'ts a feckin standard 04 car with 19k on it,surely the same as the next 04 car,was only after an estimate