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Posted By: ian3i vauxhall vectra 1600 16v tuning - 7th Mar 2010 8:20am
im wanting to get some extra horsies out of my car, ive blanked the egr valve off, ive gutted the air box and put a k&n pannal filter in there, the engine is the x16xe (100hp) with the egr valve at the back of engine, im putting a de-cat pipe on today but is there any other cheap ways to gain power without turbocharging?? any help would be great, cheers ppl
Posted By: MrPhil Re: vauxhall vectra 1600 16v tuning - 7th Mar 2010 9:15am
fit a bigger engine or sell it and by my bro's W plate Gsi.

Get onto VVOC.com some helpful hints on there.
Posted By: chris_gilly Re: vauxhall vectra 1600 16v tuning - 7th Mar 2010 9:48am
do the cams out of the 1.8 fit these?!
also maybe bigger injectors of the 1.8 maybe worth trying all can be got from a scrappy fer cheap
Posted By: DavidB Re: vauxhall vectra 1600 16v tuning - 7th Mar 2010 10:18am
You can get loads of tuning parts for the 1.6 as it came in the Corsa GSi. You can get cheap V6 engines (200 quid), I wouldn't imagine the 1.6 would be fast in a Vectra, they're quite heavy, I'd really think about putting something like that in it.
Posted By: MrPhil Re: vauxhall vectra 1600 16v tuning - 7th Mar 2010 11:30am
It's the Intake on the 1.6 which hold these engines back, change that and they free up quite a few bhp.

Posted By: ian3i Re: vauxhall vectra 1600 16v tuning - 7th Mar 2010 11:49am
what intake could i put on?
Posted By: MrPhil Re: vauxhall vectra 1600 16v tuning - 7th Mar 2010 11:57am
An after market one, like these.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/astra-corsa-d...Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item3caa7c5ccc

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/corsa-tigra-p...Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item3caace4601

You will also need a chip/remap.

For the outlay of doing it you may aswell sell the 1.6 vectra.

Posted By: DavidB Re: vauxhall vectra 1600 16v tuning - 18th Mar 2010 7:28pm
Not sure what the X16XE is standard (or if it's identical to the Corsa one, which it probably is), but they're quite capable of 150 bhp with the inlet changed. Head was 'Designed by Lotus' and all that.
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