I wonder if anyone else has wanted a visible exhaust tip for their 1.6cdti 5 door? On the 2.0 cdti you can see the exhaust under the rear bumpers valance, does anyone know if its easy to swap over from the 2 litre car? Or could i just buy the bumper insert and a backbox after that? (Im led to believe theres little point in getting anything performance related for a diesel exhaust?)

Thanks in advance!

Hello guys,

If you follow me on instagram @thewhiteastra you will see I put on the full VXR Aero bodykit on my GTC.

The GTC had a single exit exhaust on the passenger side.

The VXR exhaust has 2 built in exhaust tips passenger and drivers side.

I had to cut the tip off my single exhaust to get the bumper on as the VXR sits lower inc diffuser.



So basically the single exhaust pipe doesn't line up to the

Thinking of deleting the back box or middle box?

Will this improve sound?

Hi there,

I've seen on a youtube channel a review for one Astra J OPC from Netherlands which had valve exhaust system installed , the man sad that everything is on 3" , deleted cat, deleted middle silencer, no brand exhaust or similar.

I wonder if someone here installed such a thing and how it was connected, as far as i know that valve needs to cut off one pipe and let another free, but VXR has only one pipe until the backbox

I've asked the guy on instagram he said he would send some pi

Looking for more noise from the 2.0L cdti does it have a middle box? 63 plate s/s engine