Ellen's Titanium 182FF

[EllenA]

So i have had this old girl for around 2 and a half years now, so thought it was about time that a post a progress thread. She has changed quite alot over the time I have had her, so here is her story! Unfortunately photos arent very good quality, but will do my best to tell the story!

I bought her completely standard in April 2010 after some muppet crashed into me and wrote my pug off
Here she is!
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To begin with I started off doing the usual simple modifications to neaten her up a bit, e.g:

• Silver Visions
• Skoda Splitter
• Painted brake calipers
• Sprayed Renault diamonds black
• Last but not least.. gave her a good old deep clean and polish!

Heres a few of the earlier pics i have:
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Naturally I thought it was time to treat myself to a late birthday present, a Yozza exhaust and decat! :evil:
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So once the Yozza was on the car i thought hmmm... what shall i do next?! Me being me, I dont like to let others do the hard work, so I broke out the sandpaper and spray cans, and this is the result! I also let loose on the bullets to match the wheels.
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Not everyones taste I know, but i hate conformity!
At the same kind of time I ordered her some VMaxx coilovers... Apologies for the rubbish pics, Blackberrys for you!
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After the car was like this for a little while i started to get the 'I want to go faster!' itch.. I attended a rolling road day to get some figures to see how she was running with just the decat and the Yozza on there.. Came out pretty well! 177.8HP, which was certainly better than i was expecting!
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So on the hunt for a few extra horses i thought i would start simple, I took her to who was JMS at the time for a Piper Race induction kit, Ported inlets, and the basic Pop and Bang remap... which a few of you may know me for! So being very happy with the car, a good friend of mine took a few photos and filmed the video which a few of you may have seen before..
[video=vimeo;23120046]http://vimeo.com/23120046[/video]
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Intruiged to see how much of a difference this package from JMS made I took part in another Dyno Day I was pretty happy mine made 188.2HP which was 11hp difference from before!

I was content with the car and how it was and expensive insurance called for a little break, I put her into hibernation for the winter and said hello to the push bike!

6 months later and with 2 very itchy feet... I got my baby back! This called for the standard cambelt change and service... and some 438 CatCams! Of course.. As well as these I got my hands on some Denso Iridium spark plugs and some Magnecor HT Leads. After this she was pushing out 189.9 HP with 168.7Lb/Ft Torque, she pulls well!
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As I had been paying more attention to the engine, I thought i would give the bay a clean up. I sanded down the inlet manifold and polished it up, sprayed the fuel rail guard, fuse box cover and engine cover.
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Having my wheels for a couple of years now, I thought it was time for a change and a bit more of a 'fresh' look, so got searching for some new wheels..Then i stumbled across these beauties for cheap... Prima Racing alloys! Thee was only one slight issue.... they were GOLD :dead: Having a legend of an Uncle, he agreed to spray them up for me in our make shift spray shack.. A gazebo surrounded by tapaulin! This is the result.
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Most recently I have been trying to help the small issue of inlet temperature! I first of all bought myself a Mocal oil cooler, aswell as this i have relocated the battery to the boot. With this i plan on moving the induction kit around to be snug next to the ECU to try and a clean run of cool air.
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So this is how she stands as is! I have a few other plans for her such as a lighter, possibly vented bonnet to again, help with the inlet temperature. I am not completely content with how she is mapped so will take her to see if she can be tweeked slightly. I also may look into getting the front bumper smoothed and resprayed but this are only ideas.

Thankyou very much for reading, i know it has been a long one! Any feedback much appreciated!

Ellen

 

[Coops Mk1]

i <3 yozza'd 182's

lovely work

 

[George182]

Looks great! I have definitely seen that video at some point

 

[jesus]

Nice writeup I had to take pops and bangs off, it's way too loud!

 

[Cub.]

Ellen - About time this got a thread of its own, sounded good after the meet the other night, not too 'poppy and bangy' but enough. Prima alloys look great as well. Didn't realise you'd cammed it like mine. Where are you planning on taking it to get mapped? You know where I think it should go.

What you planning to do to it next, other than the bumper?

 

[Scrooge]

Loved this when I see it!

 

[Hixle]

Loved this when I see it!

Loved your confusion when you saw Ellen getting in it. Lol!

Awesome looking car, LOUD too!

 

[EllenA]

Thankyou guys!

Ollie- I have kept meaning to get around to writing this up so I'm glad I have! Well it was mapped when the cams were put it but I want to take it to TDF to be ironed out.
Future plans.. Ultimately I would love Throttle bodies or the RS2 Mani but I'm not in the right position at the moment to be spending that money. I have my eye on a fibre glass bonnet that I would but a vent in just above where I plan to move the air box. As well as that she is in desperate need of a stainless exhaust manifold. Apart from that I'm unsure really!

 

[Cub.]

I wouldn't take it to TDF, lets just say they have been letting themselves down of late, have you seen BIGASH's (James) racer thread? I'll not spend long talking about it on here, but when I see you next remind me and I'll discuss it with you then.

ITB's are on my list, but not for a while. What brakes is yours running? Brembo HC's and DS2500s?

 

[Nick172Cup]

I wouldn't take it to TDF, lets just say they have been letting themselves down of late, have you seen BIGASH's (James) racer thread? I'll not spend long talking about it on here, but when I see you next remind me and I'll discuss it with you then.

ITB's are on my list, but not for a while. What brakes is yours running? Brembo HC's and DS2500s?

This.

Car looks great Ellen the other evening, love the wheels! I actually had a set myself for my old Cup but the paint quality was poor so sent them back. I'd go for an RS2 as I really rate them, though they wont work as well with 438's as they do with ITB's. So a bit of food for thought there.

Also, I have a carbon bonnet with aerocatches for sale.

Nick

 

[Ghm]

Nice I love reading stuff like this, I have seen the video of you and the car on youtube before - loving the sound!

 

[Gally]

Looks decent Ellen. Prefer the standard look though wheels wise.

 

[subarufreak]

loving it!

 

[Jamesstone]

Car's still looking well

Forgot about the video you made!

 

[Coops Mk1]

dont understand why you are struggling so much on inlet temps, its not a highly tuned car??? and how do you know its that? is there an inlet temp sensor plumbed up?

my reasoning being that a fibreglass bonnet with a vent in it would need to be done very tastefully to not basically ruin the car, and its a lovely looking motor

 

[Stefan.]

nice car, liked the silver on black cup wheels, cool video and sounds ace! your hot too

 

[EllenA]

I wouldn't take it to TDF, lets just say they have been letting themselves down of late, have you seen BIGASH's (James) racer thread? I'll not spend long talking about it on here, but when I see you next remind me and I'll discuss it with you then.

Yes! We will have a wee chit chat over a yummy burger...(please not a flaming grill)

Coops- Well I thought it was common sense? Its a very squidged in engine.. The few times shes been on the rolling road it has been highlighted that the inlet temperature is alot higher than any other car being ran (not clios). Granted it isnt an issue which is inhibiting power or the health of the engine majorly, but this is what I personally have found, Im sure anyone no matter what car they drive would say it runs better on a cooler day?
The vented fibre glass bonnet serves a few purposes, as well as a freshly sprayed, neat bonnet, it is also a fraction of the weight. My plans are to have my uncle spray the bonnet freshly to match the car and put a small vent on it to get some cooler air to the bay, I am with you in the fact i dont want it to alter the look of the car too much.

 

[Ryanj]

looks fantastic! the cars nice too.

 

[Cw Tuning.]

brilliant start there mate

 

[Coops Mk1]

Fair play Ellen, i was just intrigued about the methods was all, is there no way a scuttle type induction will fit on the mk 2's? tbh i've not really though about it on the one i have but most of the mk1 boys use the scuttle to get clean cold air into the lump and keep the outside looking o/e

 

[Rob]

You know what I think, but anyway, nice thread, shame the pictures are bad quality as it'd be a lovely blog otherwise.

Love the wheels and I actually like how non OEM looking it is, it stands out as being different but doesn't look chavvy (until you give it 7k RPM in first pulling out of the pub )

 

[EllenA]

Cheers Rob! Unfortunately the best camera I had was the one on my phone so I have done my bet with what I have.
7k ey? Pretty sure I didn't even reach 5!

 

[Mosley182]

hey cool video. looks simular to my car i have a full cobra system , decat , and made 175 bhp ive had it mapped by stone automotive aswell & put a k tech long filter to behind the battery. going on the same rollers on sat in plymouth hoping for 185 bhp. maybe more lol. You going to any meets it would be cool to get some pics together.