Project Titanium Refresh

[Balders172]

Hi, All

The project starts here.....

I joined the forum when i was 18 im now 23. Life started off on the forum with a 2004 1.2 blue clio, the car itself was an awesome car never had a fault but crashed it once (not at fault) then the car caught fire a few months after. I then turned to the dark side.... and bought a 2006 3dr Astra. The car again was a lovely car but was ridden with faults. I went through 4 clutch and fly wheels kits and lots of other bits i wasnt happy with. I wrote the car off in feb 2011 when i lost it on a oil patch. I always wanted a sport so a hunted around and found a 2005 Titanium with only 27k only the clock being an ex disability car i nabbed it and agreed with the dealer a full service and all belts changed.

Recently i have'nt spent much time or money on the car and its looking slighty sorry for itself. So the past two weeks ive been like a kid in a toy shop ordering parts non stop.

The list is as follows....

Carbon Bullets
Carbon front badge
Carbon Exhaust surrounds
Carbon gear insert
Carbon dash strips
Carbon steering wheel insert
Carbon Dial Surround
KTR De-cat
Exhaust fitting kit
KTR front grooved disks
Ferodo front pads
OEM rear disks
EBC rear pads
RS tuner
Ali footrest
Tow eye strap
V6 airbox
Trophy wheels
Gulf oil and filter
NGK plugs
Gaskets
Calliper Paint
02 Sensor
Coolant temp sensor
Coolant
CS tax disk holder
CS stickers
Tpi bolts

Parts still to obtain
Trendlines
Sportslines
Carbon Splitter
Carbon rear bumper insert
Painted engine cover
Green samco induction hose
Green samco coolant hoses


All these bits will be fitted tomorrow with a bit of luck me and my mate will attack it at his garage really cant wait to get my hands mucky and tidy the car up. I have gone for a green theme which you will see shortly

Pics to follow....

Enjoy

Ciaran

 

[Balders172]

So its been the weekend and managed to get a lot done to the 182 on Saturday.

Thought i'd show some pics of my old Clio
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Then i got the Astra looking from this
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to this......
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Then i got the 182 :-D what a car it is, so much fun and sticks like s**t to a blanket. this is when i picked her up

 

[Balders172]

at attached thumbnails are not meant to be there not sure how you remove them :S

 

[Balders172]

Right... Now I know how to upload pictures properly I can do a proper right up.

Progress has moved on a hell of a lot from when I last posted, bought some nice bits along the way...

An rs tuner , I couldn't recommend these kits enough. Straight away I noticed an improvement, pulls a lot harder and smoother.

I've always loved carbon so I had a word with carbon central and he sorted me out for a few goodies, some bits I had before waiting to go on.

Exhaust surrounds

Front badge

Gear insert

Bullets

Steering wheel insert

Dash trims

That was enough carbon for now . although I wanted the overall look of the car to my personal taste lots of little thing were annoying me. Poor MPG, brakes needing doing, blows in the cat join. The car needed a really good overhaul really so I bought some maintenance bits to compliment her looks lol.

Some new rear disks and pads, I went for genuine disks and ebc ultimax pads

I had already fitted the front disks and braided lines all round I bought from ktec a few months before hand but I just couldn't get on with the CL pads so I bought a set of ferodo's

thats the stopping power sorted!!

Onto the poor MPG I had read on herein could be a number of things so I ruled everything out!!

Two lambda sensors were on the list

coolant temp sensor

A new exhaust fitting kit

As I was mucking around with the coolant it would of been rude not to change the coolant

i accidentally hit the bottom on a decat to...... Whoops

Some generally maintenance might as well of been done to

Right that was all the bits to get her running sweet again!! Onto more of the looks parts. I was after a set of wheels as mine had been badly badly badly scuffed thanks to my lovely father lol. So he offered he'd get them returned for me. I put some money's together myself to and gave Kay a ring at renparts and asked what she had...... After a couple of weeks these turned up at the girlfriends house

dun dun dun.....

A genuine set of freshly trophy wheels with a decent set of pilots all round one happy man I was!!

I bought a few extra cosmetic bits along the way...

Flashy new tax disk holder

Ali foot rest

Green tow strap

Calliper paint

And some TPI bolts

So the day had come when I had some time and my mates garage was free of space. The night before the little titanium was awaiting its transformation. Little did it know what it was destined to be...

I arrived at my mates garage and unloading a shed load if parts ready for the big day. Oh and I forgot about the v6 air box to lol

up in the air she went...

firstly the brakes, gave them a good rub down to take the glaze off them

Then a couple of coats of green calliper paint and the side bullets fitted

The I between stages I didn't really get pics of. Whilst I was playing about with the engine I gave it a lick of paint, there's plenty more being done here in around a month. watch this space

The completed article!! Awaiting it rs tuner map

A couple of months had past and I was getting fed up with the state of the headlights. So I bought a 3m kit and got to work. Whilst I was doing so my girlfriend had bought me a front carbon splitter so that got fitted to

Before..

during..

after.. A massive improvement I can't recommend this kit enough!

Gave the car a good detail and these are the final pics for now.... Comments welcome good or bad

 

[Rob]

Bloody hell, you don't mess around. Looks great but it's dying for some eibachs or coilovers now. It's just a little too high.

 

[Martin.]

Some lovely touches on that car good work!

 

[Lawro]

Looks nice, needs some lows now though.

 

[Balders172]

Yh I'm desperate for some lows. Any suggestions? I want coilovers ideally but I don't want the crashyness.

Things to come next month:

paint engine cover in pearl Kawasaki green
carbon battery cover
paint fuel rail guard black
carbon fog surrounds
gear gaiter with green stitching
green samco bend

thanks for the comments and advice guys. I have a few other pics I may post in a bit

ciaran

 

[Martin.]

Post 'em up and show it off

 

[Kat@Renparts]

Wheels look good ciaran! although I would say that :rasp:

 

[Lawro]

Yh I'm desperate for some lows. Any suggestions? I want coilovers ideally but I don't want the crashyness.

Things to come next month:

paint engine cover in pearl Kawasaki green
carbon battery cover
paint fuel rail guard black
carbon fog surrounds
gear gaiter with green stitching
green samco bend

thanks for the comments and advice guys. I have a few other pics I may post in a bit

ciaran

Depends how low you want it really.. Personally I would go for CookSport springs and Cup shocks. Great stance and ride quality!

 

[Balders172]

Only have this one on me at the mo it's a tribute to my best mate who died last year.

i also had some exterior work of my own

thanks again Kat for all your help. Will be getting in contact soon for some more bits with a bit of luck ill grab some more pics when I'm home guys. Again thanks for the kind words

 

[Martin.]

You clearly like that colour green.

 

[debussetti]

Depends how low you want it really.. Personally I would go for CookSport springs and Cup shocks. Great stance and ride quality!

Seconded, I have an Iceberg 172 with Trophy Speedlines and Cooksport springs. Looks and feels great.

This makes me think I need to get to work on my calipers... 92k miles has taken its toll.

 

[roberto.]

Looks good, but deffinetley needs a drop. Also what exhaust have you got on? Looks strange that an old disability car would have had a stainless system put on...

 

[Balders172]

I put that on the day I got it lol out come the angle grinder an hour later. It's a Ktec ultra performance matey. I was looking at the cooksports. Are all coilovers pretty much crashy then?

 

[roberto.]

Ah right, that makes sense. Is it the supersports version (unsilenced)?

 

[Balders172]

Yep un silenced with a de-cat to match mate. Not the quietest of systems but sounds great

 

[Balders172]

Depends how low you want it really.. Personally I would go for CookSport springs and Cup shocks. Great stance and ride quality!

What would the difference be with cup shocks? And would these fit a non cup? Looking for a setup to possibly get very soon

 

[Balders172]

Just a small update

c2 aerial

Before

after

big update coming soon

suspension
cup spoiler
painted engine cover
nee decals

Thanks again

 

[Balders172]

Oh and bonjour !!!!

 

[Balders172]

Update...

Just trying to get the car finished as I'm taking the clio to holland the end of march with a few of my mates. So I'm trying to get as much done as poss which has been a bit hard after having a crash in my gfs car on my birthday


striped part of the rear out to accommodate the cage I just nought from eBay, also got rid of my old amp wiring kit as its not needed anymore

The cage will be getting delivered to the powder coater's this week and is going Kawasaki green

browsing through the parts for sale I noticed adam.w selling a MINT pair of trendlines which I've been after for god know how long... Anyway paid and collected for them a day after he posted lol and all I can say is wow being that they were only 2 years old meant they were mint!! Never seen these in such good condition

i have a busy few weekends ahead and can't wait to finish the car off, just after some suspension now really and possibly some harnesses.

Comments welcome as ever

ciaran

 

[Balders172]

So after stripping the interior....

The cars not going full blown track **** as its my daily running. I still wanted it to look fairly smart so I cracked on with making a false floor.

First off out with the jig saw with some help from the old man.

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All snug and fitting how I wanted. I didn't want the wood rattling about so I fixed some underlay on the bottom of both parts.

this all done I trimmed some carpet to size that I bought off eBay.it took a good few samples later to get a match in with the rest of the interior.

The first section trimmed up.

All done.

Onto the second part.

Help from the mrs

All done

Then fitted to the car I'm over the moon with the overall fit.

I also got ad from n2graphics to make me up a more personal remembrance decal for my mate as the side window ones were just to big and I wanted something a little more subtle.

Had a phone call yesterday that the cage is ready to be collected from the powder coater whoop!

Comments welcome as ever

ciaran

 

[Balders172]

Returned home to this

Mint cup spoiler in titanium

 

[Balders172]

Got round to fitting the cup spoiler today... A lot better

applied the decals to my freshly painted engine cover

fitted it up with my new battery cover still loads to do in the engine bay but its a working project. Watch this space

 

[Balders172]

Update....

so I got the cage back from the powder coating, excellent finish and great service from crown finishers in surbiton. Here's a few pics..

the cage and recaro's will be fitted tomorrow night ready for the road trip to Holland on Friday! Can not wait feels like forever they have been sitting in my room for some free time to fit everything.

 

[Lawro]

Very loud! Looks really nice though, good work!

 

[Chippiegt]

Looking nice, good progress!

 

[Balders172]

Just a sneak pic untill I get some time for a proper update

 

[Corby G]

Them Recaro's are perfect. I want some now!

 

[Martin.]

Lovely and smart!

 

[S_E_A_N]

Silver and greens and nice combo, more pics of cage fitted?