First little mods on the Vectra!
 

Took advantage of the nicer weather to do some mods to the new Vectra today!

Started off with the easy ones, so fitted the new aero wiper blades and irmscher tax holder....

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Then had a go at the airbox! Firstly i took it apart to get at the old filter....

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It was full of crap including cigarette butts lol. Then i removed a plastic piece that was restricting the airflow into the box....

With piece in place....

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De-restricted.....

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You really can see that only half the original filter was being used, the other half blocked by the bit of plastic...

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The standard cold air feed pipe on the Vectra SRI is massive and runs from the airbox along the top of the radiator (not the coldest place for it to be lol) so I removed that and replaced it with a shorter CAF from a Vectra VXR....

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Then I fitted my new K&N panel filter and away I went....

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Car should be breathing easier now :D

gotta say i do love the vectras...looking at a corsa vxr next though... going to keep my zed though as dont think i could let it go!

not but but i do not rate K&n panel filters, have found them to be worse than the original part

where did you get the areo wipers from? i have got some of the aero style wipers but they arent 'snap shut' type clips?

whats wrong with K&N? i have not had any problems before with them

got the wipers from ebay, had the same set on my ZS aswell :D

Looking good gimpboy :D Somethings never change lol. I take it you aint going to falkirk either? Im just in from fixing my car, soaking wet

Falkirk isnt until the 7th, you tube!!!

LOL thank feck I was busy, i would have been the only fecker there lol

Try courtenaysport for other mods

hehe, you made me wonder about the FC, im really lookin forward to it, thought i had missed it! think its you that should be called gimpboy! :D

Kev mate, you coming to falkirk? :D:D:D:D

did you get the car sorted craig? hope you make it next week!