Astra VXR Track day modding tips?

[Notanotherturbo]

I've been offered a 1/2 share of an Astra VXR - the 1st shape - with a view to use as a shared trackday car. Car is worth about 4k so the deal is I spend @ £2k on mods. I'm not new to trackdays but I am new to Astra VXRs. The car needs to stay road legal so my usual mods are a set of tyres like R888s, braided hoses, better pads and brake fluid, some reversable weight reduction like back seat/spare wheel removal. I was planning to look at a safe remap with some uprated cooling but wondered if there was anybody who had tracked them before and had any tips i.e camber mods, suspension upgrades, engine tweaks that were cheap and easy to do. And anything that might be an issue or marginal. Any help or advice appreciated.

[anonymous-user]

Stronger gearbox.

[Xcore]

Rear arb and lsd

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Notanotherturbo said:

I've been offered a 1/2 share of an Astra VXR - the 1st shape - with a view to use as a shared trackday car. Car is worth about 4k so the deal is I spend @ £2k on mods.

If I was your mate I'd want to check the arithmetic

Sorry, no help I know!

[Notanotherturbo]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Notanotherturbo said:

I've been offered a 1/2 share of an Astra VXR - the 1st shape - with a view to use as a shared trackday car. Car is worth about 4k so the deal is I spend @ £2k on mods.

If I was your mate I'd want to check the arithmetic

Sorry, no help I know!

Shhhush

[Notanotherturbo]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Notanotherturbo said:

I've been offered a 1/2 share of an Astra VXR - the 1st shape - with a view to use as a shared trackday car. Car is worth about 4k so the deal is I spend @ £2k on mods.

If I was your mate I'd want to check the arithmetic

Sorry, no help I know!

[Notanotherturbo]

Xcore said:

Rear arb and lsd

Cheers, I did read the LSD transforms them, not sure if the budget will stretch though. RE ARB - thicken, remove ?

[moxy89]

Personally your better off getting a different car, astra out the box isn't a great handling car and need some serious money spent to make them capable

[shaun_1987]

Brakes are key in these. Handling is nowhere near as bad as people say but a roll bar and diff transform them.

Good fluid, good discs and pads would be my number one!

[adamlstr]

Xcore said:

Rear arb and lsd

This.

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