Monday April 1st sees the start of the 2013 Time Attack Championship at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire. For 2013 Courtenay Sport Racing are backing and sponsoring the DCE Motorsport entry into the Time Attack Series. The car is an Astra H VXR which is driven by existing customer and owner Will Watson and has been […]
Month: March 2013
Fitting Poly Bushes to Vectra C VXR
We recently put together a pictorial fitting guide with Total Vauxhall Magazine showing how to fit Polyurethane Bushes to a Vectra C VXR. It was featured in Issue 144 January 2013. Here is the full article: If you experience an issue viewing the PDF file try the following:
Gearbox Breather Tank – Astra H VXR M32
Gearbox Breather Tank for Astra H VXR/M32 Gearbox, also suitable for 1.9 CDTi Astra H, and equivalent Zafira models. This breather tank kit is designed specifically for track day/race use but can also be fitted to road cars. It allows for the gearbox to breathe when the oil gets hot and also allows an additional […]
Side Gearbox/Engine Mount Fitting – Astra G/H and Zafira A/B
Astra G/H 2.0 Petrol Turbo, Astra H 1.9 CDTi, Zafira A/B 2.0 Petrol Turbo and Zafira B 1.9 CDTi have a gearbox side mount that is rubber and prone to failure. Courtenay Sport approached Powerflex to devise a solution to not only improve the original factory mount, but also give it some additional support and […]
Rear Braided Brake Hose Fitting – Astra G/H and Zafira A/B
The factory/OE rear brake hose on these cars is a single piece with a rubber brake hose at each end and a solid metal joiner pipe which cannot be reused due to the way the rubber hoses are fitted into the metal pipe. Our braided rear brake hose kit comes complete with 4 braided hoses […]
Astra VXR GTx3076R Development…… 559bhp & Video
Further Development of this car has seen us change the turbo to a Garret GTx3076R along with a custom made 100mm diameter inlet pipe. Target BHP was something on the right side of 500 BHP. With 99 octane UK pump fuel we saw 525 BHP but this was on the limit of our UK fuel […]
Gearbox Side Engine Mount Poly Insert – Astra G Zafira A Z20LET 2.0 Turbo
The gearbox side engine mount (left had side mount) on Astra G/Zafira A 2.0 Turbo models is prone to failure caused by splitting, especially given the age of some of the rubber mounts. This polyurethane insert compliments our other uprated engine mounts and polyurethane inserts, and simply sleeves over the exiting factory OE side engine […]