Ed's Dead Diablo Ph3 GTi6

[Ed Doe]

THe list of modifications I am considering is as follows:

1. Black masks (possibly, still thinking about it)
2. Stut brace (waiting to go on)
3. Induction kit (waiting to go on)
4. Paint calipers (undecided what colour to go yet; cherry red or 106 gti sunburst yellow?)
5. Yoko Parada Spec 2s all round
6. Refurb Cyclones... undecided what colour, but most likely shadow chrome or something similar...
7. decat + decent exhaust (nothing loud when pottering about, I cant be doing with being deaftened on my commute)
8. coilovers & gas shockers
9. debating wether or not to get a couple of annoying dints pulled out and get it resprayed... I doubt this will be anytime soon, especially with the price of 99RON these days!!!
10. debating whether to get cams, or save for low-blow sc... again, doubt it'll happen anytime soon, but RichW promised me a ride his his 460bhp high boost at some point in the next 2 weeks, and i doubt i'll be able to keep my mitts out of my overdraft after that haha


BTW, I don't know if I've posted it up before, but see the 1st post for the 'for sale' spec and link

01/02/2011:

Updatey tiiiime!

Thing has cost me a fortune this month.

I wasn't happy with the previous owner putting halfrauds oil and boggo plugs in the car, and the stock rad was leaky at the bottom elbow, so I organised for Lynx Engineering (who are conveniently a stones-throw from my house to do a full service and change the rad for a shiny new nissens.

I also asked them to look over the car for me and give me the inevitable thesis of problems needing fixing.


In short the 'problems list' is:

1. Brake discs heat cracked a bit

Solution: Needs new discs and pads (THinking aboout EBC Ultimax discs, can anyone comment/reccomend these? Also reccomend me a good set of pads)

2. Bake lines a bit shabby; will need doing this year

Solution: Braided mo-fooooo Thanks mainly to Ghaz, who operates in rev-bands I can only dream of for now, I am pretty sold on Hel lines, which apparently come with appropriate brackets to mount the lines on the calipers...

3. FECKING REAR BEAM ARRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! No nice way about this, It'll most likely cost me a fortune, but nevermind, I'll bite the bullet and do it over summer probably.

4. O/S/F TR1 has a screw in it. Losing 20psi daily :S

Solution: Forced with much fighting to get Parada Spec2s. Ohhhhh un BEARABLE

5. FECKING CAMBELT!!!! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH x2! :S This was bad, i asked Nick at Lynx to investigate a noise near the front of the engine which sounded a little like the exhaust blowing (but at the front of the engine; IMPOSSIBLE I hear you shout...)

After little ado (he was actually spookily quick at doing this) the aux belt and cambelt cover were of and OOHHH SHIIIIIIIIIT. Cambelt was lose and slapping on the cover when running.

They also caught the crankpulley had gone, so didnt bend valves when tightening the existing belt up so I could limp to wok for a week before they did a camblet change.

So in short, a very expensive month Jan has been.

MATCH SUMMARY REPORT:

1. New Nissens Rad with antifreeze
2. Full service with Millers Fully synth 10w 40 oil
3. NGK Iridiumzzzz & OEM Filters all round
4. new Lightened Lynx Crank Pulley & all tensioners
5. New Cambelt
6. very broken bank account/owner


TO-DO list for the next 6months is:

1. Braided Brake lines
2. NEw discs n pads
3. Sort out rear beam
4. Fit induction kit
5. fit strut brace
6. fit de-cat pipe (ebay bargain at £35 posted)
7. 2x more parada spec2s for the fronts, and move fronts to rears

If it didn't look so good when polished, and go so well, I'd have kicked it many many times and sold it. maybe not in that order.

10/02/2011:

Small update... the cat decided to give up the ghost on Monday; the weld between the pipe and the back of the cat cracked 3/4 of the way round. Pops n bangs, OH YES but it did sound a little like how I imagine the end of the world to sound like... so I got it in with Lynx pronto to pop a replacement part on
sounds lovely now, a little more raspy but rather nice all things said

25/03/2011:

Righto, Update time

Firstly in other news, Iâ??ve finally got a flat with my girlfriend of 3years. Its awesome

And massively convenient for me; my commute is still epic, but 30miles round trip instead of 60; aaand I get to use the womans 307 hdi to get to work during the week, meaning the â??6 is the weekend car BOOMtastic

Scroll back slightly, the list of things done since end of January are as follows:

1. New Lambda sensor

2. Diagnostics to check sensor was all working and not throwing any faults

3. Bought Xsara VTS rear beam; Lynx discovered it was as shagged as mine, so its been refurbed with new bearings and seals

4. Braided brake lines all round

5. New handbrake cable after I broke it in a rage because I went through a puddle hiding the BIGGEST pothole known to man. BAD times

6. Fitting Foobyâ??s new s/s sports exhaust system, because he made the rookie error of having it delivered to my house, and hasnâ??t had the stones to fit it to his car yet haha

It is currently at Lynx having points 3-6 done as I type, and whilst they have it, they are looking into a dodgy idle it seems to have developed. Sounds a little like its running on 3 when cold; so coil packs are being changed, and possibly spark plugs to go with that.

The long term todo/wish list is as follows:

1. Sort out wheel wobble (its either cyclones not being balanced correctly, wheel hub shagged, or looseness in the suspension components.

2. Buy & fit lower strut brace

3. Solid rear beam mounts

4. Rose-jointed droplinks (if I can source them, otherwise metal ones from the Citroen ZX)

5. Fit induction kit I have already lying about.

6. Uprate wishbone bushes & do bottom balljoints.

7. New brake discs all round (possibly pads too, but the 1144s are still pretty meaty )

8. Save for clutch to be done (the pedal is ridiculously stiff and has already been replaced once in the last 6months, I have it on fairly good authority it needs doing soon!

9. Long-long-term plans are to fit cams & remap it. I want to keep the engines character, btu get a bit more power over standard. Around 200bhp would do me fine. I MIGHT fit bodies, but thatâ??s just an idea currently; I like the idea of keeping it pretty stock with a bit of fettling, so it just ends up being easier to service/less temperemental etc.

10. I may get the bodywork touched up properly before camming, but still thinking about it. It has a couple of annoying dings in it which I really want to get sorted, and Lynx can do that. Meh, weâ??ll see!

Well that just about does it for now; no pics in this update sadly; the car is still in the air at Lynx having small amounts of awesomeness added to it

I will be going to Castle Coombe on 9th April; hopefully with Club306, as there was nowhere near enough interest on this forum for a stand Pics will no doubt follow; its always an awesome day out

28/03/2011:

Ok I'm having serious second thoughts about the exhaust; its SO loud I arrived at work with a headache for the first time since I had my dt with the exhaust on! And I suspect even that was significantly quieter...

I just wish there was an exhaust with a decent compromise; I want near standard levels of quiet when being sensible, and disgusting quantities of noise when hooting it!