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Hey guys,
Thought it was about time I made a progress thread for my car. I originally bought the car about 12 months ago, completely standard with 58k. I was very pleased with the car at first but within the first two weeks I started to get the horrible diesel sound from the engine, so back to the dealers with the car. They was very helpful and fixed the car quickly to a good standard (so it seemed...explain later) I started with a few light mods exhaust, decat, filter, powder coated wheels, carbgon dash strips, ect....nothing major.
I kept the car how it was for a good few months untill I decided to get a rstuning remap. The car made good power standard at 169bhp and even better after the map 177bhp and as everybody knows made the drive alot better. I was really happy with the car for another 6 months or so and didnt make any changes what so ever. I then started to get the bug really bad, I had been saving for a while and decided it was time to spend some serious time and money on the car, after talking to a few companies I decided to go with the AT power throttle bodies with a gen90 ecu.
Dropped the car off with rstuning and one week later picked the car back up and left with a much lighter wallet and 193bhp
I was very pleased with the car and how it drives. There was a few niggly bits I wanted sorting but im in the process now, after not liking how close the bodies sit to the slam panel ect I decided to fit bonnet pins and remove a large part of the slam panel.
Im currently waiting for my air-con to be removed and a smaller radiator fitted. The next thing I wanted was the suspension sorting as I thought the rear shocks were squeaking bad, im not a avid track go'er plus the group buy on the ktec coilovers and good reviews I gave them a shot and bought a pair. Last week I headed down to btm for the coilovers fitted. Before I start can I just say Fred is a top guy and im over the moon with his service...anyways when I arrived there after two minutes of looking over the engine bay we spotted an oil leak gearbox ect was covered, im thinking when the belts were done by my dealer they poped the cap out the side of the block bending it and allowing oil to leak out, fred replaced this for me and the old one is going on the wall of shame haha next the car went up on the ramp and straight away saw that where the manifold meets the cat the bolts was pretty much rusted through, im quite suprised the exhaust didnt fall off by the look of it, again fred gave me a quick fix untill I got a replacement set.
Now it was time to fit thew coilovers all was going well untill the drivers side camber bolt decided to strip its thread whilst been tightened up (wasnt going well for my car that day haha) once again fred came to the rescue and modified the original bolt untill ktec replaced the bolt for me, in the end i was very happy with the kit and the car was sitting very nicely but does need to come back up a little because of scrubbing. Basically that is where I am standing at the minute but there is alot more to come! Hope it wasnt too long winded but time for some piccys now. Thanks for reading!
Thought it was about time I made a progress thread for my car. I originally bought the car about 12 months ago, completely standard with 58k. I was very pleased with the car at first but within the first two weeks I started to get the horrible diesel sound from the engine, so back to the dealers with the car. They was very helpful and fixed the car quickly to a good standard (so it seemed...explain later) I started with a few light mods exhaust, decat, filter, powder coated wheels, carbgon dash strips, ect....nothing major.
I kept the car how it was for a good few months untill I decided to get a rstuning remap. The car made good power standard at 169bhp and even better after the map 177bhp and as everybody knows made the drive alot better. I was really happy with the car for another 6 months or so and didnt make any changes what so ever. I then started to get the bug really bad, I had been saving for a while and decided it was time to spend some serious time and money on the car, after talking to a few companies I decided to go with the AT power throttle bodies with a gen90 ecu.
Dropped the car off with rstuning and one week later picked the car back up and left with a much lighter wallet and 193bhp
I was very pleased with the car and how it drives. There was a few niggly bits I wanted sorting but im in the process now, after not liking how close the bodies sit to the slam panel ect I decided to fit bonnet pins and remove a large part of the slam panel. Im currently waiting for my air-con to be removed and a smaller radiator fitted. The next thing I wanted was the suspension sorting as I thought the rear shocks were squeaking bad, im not a avid track go'er plus the group buy on the ktec coilovers and good reviews I gave them a shot and bought a pair. Last week I headed down to btm for the coilovers fitted. Before I start can I just say Fred is a top guy and im over the moon with his service...anyways when I arrived there after two minutes of looking over the engine bay we spotted an oil leak
gearbox ect was covered, im thinking when the belts were done by my dealer they poped the cap out the side of the block bending it and allowing oil to leak out, fred replaced this for me and the old one is going on the wall of shame haha next the car went up on the ramp and straight away saw that where the manifold meets the cat the bolts was pretty much rusted through, im quite suprised the exhaust didnt fall off by the look of it, again fred gave me a quick fix untill I got a replacement set. Now it was time to fit thew coilovers all was going well untill the drivers side camber bolt decided to strip its thread whilst been tightened up (wasnt going well for my car that day haha) once again fred came to the rescue and modified the original bolt untill ktec replaced the bolt for me, in the end i was very happy with the kit and the car was sitting very nicely but does need to come back up a little because of scrubbing. Basically that is where I am standing at the minute but there is alot more to come! Hope it wasnt too long winded but time for some piccys now. Thanks for reading!
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