Increasing a vauxhall part performance
To many mechanics it is well known that Vauxhall's smaller ‘Economical’ car engines often are restricted and don’t fulfill their best performance. To the average Joe this means nothing but to everyone else it matters and so this article is on the modifying the car engine and several car parts to improve performance.So what can you do, well firstly you can buy another car engine, both expensive and takes time. Secondly you could not buy an ‘ECOTEC’ car engine and hopefully you will get the full horsepower you deserve, or thirdly you can modify it by adding some other car parts and modifying current ones.We like the latter and so which vauxhall part can be used. Well it’s not a vauxhall part but a Dbilas inlet manifold to enable binning of the restrictive inlet pipe work, but if vauxhall made one then we would buy it. As well as being cost effective you can also do it in an afternoon as long as you know about a car engine and have some good tools and are not afraid to dismantle you car engine.The kit costs over £800 (including software) but if you’re going to use the car for a while it’s a good investment. My suggestion is to do on older cars with many miles on the clock because it will see the best benefit and could also use the new car parts which you are going to add.Right so how can you fit the kit onto you car engine, well firstly several vauxhall parts must come off the engine to gain access to the original manifold before replacing the manifold, putting some extra vauxhall parts in (such as a MAP sensor and a new vauxhall alternator) and securing the vauxhall parts back up again before installing software on your ECU. Also some original car parts must be shortened or modified to accommodate the inlet manifold such as fuel tank breather.In-depth steps of how to do this are in the February (2007) issue 67 of TOTAL VAUXHALL magazine with detailed instructions and pictures (and is where the inspiration for this article came from). Once the inlet is installed and the vauxhall parts secured you need to install the software on the ECU, which can be done in 2 ways.Firstly after the ECU has been fitted and all the vauxhall parts secured you can drive the car down to Regal for the software to be installed. Secondly you could send your ECU to them and they will install the software for you (you do this before fixing the car parts back into place). Note this is included in the original price and no extra cost is needed, just time.Once the conversion is complete you should feel an increased performance such as more responsive car and an increase of rpm (around 2000) and an extra 28bhp (according to TOTAL VAUXHALL magazine, issue 67) and other factors such as fuel efficiency and braking times should be unaffected. Basically your gaining free horsepower which was their in the first place you just did not know it and all by adding and modifying vauxhall parts and an afternoon of free time.
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