Have owned my car for just over a year now so thought i would start a project thread showing her progress!
Joined this forum (luckily, has been a life saver) whilst looking for a 172. Shortly afterwards i had a PM regarding a car for sale on here which was higher mileage than i had been looking at, however it had a good history and a few choice mods so shortly afterwards i was on the train with 7 hours to waste as this car was over 250 miles away!
The day i picked her up
Came with recaro's from an evo, brembos and H&R's so i was a very happy chappy and well worth the journey!
Unfortunately a few months into ownership the gearbox started to develop a horrible whine which through searching and posting on here, i was told my gearbox bearing was on its way out. Damn!
However, me being the idiot that i am, i decided to leave the gearbox for a while and instead planned a 1,000+ mile road trip around europe, ending up at the Nurburgring!
Rain when we arrived, great!
Luckily my car stood strong and was faultless throughout the journey, with the only problem being my windscreen wiper flying off randomly on the motorway!
Honestly never had so much fun ever before, the ring was the first time i had ever taken my car onto a track so the first lap was quite scary but the few afterwards just got more enjoyable. Hope to return this year again with a bit more track experience under my belt! and a bloody crash helmet!
How we communicated
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Once i was back home i could ignore my poorly gearbox no longer, and again this forum came to my rescue again! Mike off here saved me loads of money by offering to remove and refit the gearbox, and helped send it off to agency for a refurb. Local stealership had quoted me just shy of £2000 to do it, i paid about £550 incl a new clutch....Not bad!
Mike really did me a huge favour so if your reading this mate, thanks a million!
So that was how i left it for a while, just enjoying my car! Had to change the exhaust at the prospeed system was effed, took it back to charlie at prospeed and had a new system fabricated.
Nothing changed until recently when the modding bug reared its ugly head and decided that i had far too much money and it needed spending.... cue a couple (or possibly more) PM's to Matt@TDF.
Matt had my car for just over a week, he worked tirelessly to get my car in perfect working order! There was "questionable" wiring though out the loom and matt took it upon himself to get my car in as best condition as possible. He also noticed the brembos hadn't been fitted correctly and were wearing the inside of the discs more than the outer by quite a margin so he ordered the parts needed to sort it out FOC. What a guy! The service there was faultless and recommend anyone to go there, i won't go anywhere else now and its 140 miles away from my house!
Thats how she is looking at the moment, however have a few more plans regarding the aesthetics but no concrete plans yet.
Have just booked my first uk track day at brands on the 3rd of april and am looking forward to doing a lot more in the near future!
I have probably missed a lot but thats all i can think of off the top of my head!
Joined this forum (luckily, has been a life saver) whilst looking for a 172. Shortly afterwards i had a PM regarding a car for sale on here which was higher mileage than i had been looking at, however it had a good history and a few choice mods so shortly afterwards i was on the train with 7 hours to waste as this car was over 250 miles away!
The day i picked her up
Came with recaro's from an evo, brembos and H&R's so i was a very happy chappy and well worth the journey!
Unfortunately a few months into ownership the gearbox started to develop a horrible whine which through searching and posting on here, i was told my gearbox bearing was on its way out. Damn!
However, me being the idiot that i am, i decided to leave the gearbox for a while and instead planned a 1,000+ mile road trip around europe, ending up at the Nurburgring!
Rain when we arrived, great!
Luckily my car stood strong and was faultless throughout the journey, with the only problem being my windscreen wiper flying off randomly on the motorway!
Honestly never had so much fun ever before, the ring was the first time i had ever taken my car onto a track so the first lap was quite scary but the few afterwards just got more enjoyable. Hope to return this year again with a bit more track experience under my belt! and a bloody crash helmet!
How we communicated
Obligatory sticker
Once i was back home i could ignore my poorly gearbox no longer, and again this forum came to my rescue again! Mike off here saved me loads of money by offering to remove and refit the gearbox, and helped send it off to agency for a refurb. Local stealership had quoted me just shy of £2000 to do it, i paid about £550 incl a new clutch....Not bad!
Mike really did me a huge favour so if your reading this mate, thanks a million!
So that was how i left it for a while, just enjoying my car! Had to change the exhaust at the prospeed system was effed, took it back to charlie at prospeed and had a new system fabricated.
Nothing changed until recently when the modding bug reared its ugly head and decided that i had far too much money and it needed spending.... cue a couple (or possibly more) PM's to Matt@TDF.
Matt had my car for just over a week, he worked tirelessly to get my car in perfect working order! There was "questionable" wiring though out the loom and matt took it upon himself to get my car in as best condition as possible. He also noticed the brembos hadn't been fitted correctly and were wearing the inside of the discs more than the outer by quite a margin so he ordered the parts needed to sort it out FOC. What a guy! The service there was faultless and recommend anyone to go there, i won't go anywhere else now and its 140 miles away from my house!
Thats how she is looking at the moment, however have a few more plans regarding the aesthetics but no concrete plans yet.
Have just booked my first uk track day at brands on the 3rd of april and am looking forward to doing a lot more in the near future!
I have probably missed a lot but thats all i can think of off the top of my head!
