I finally pushed myself to make a project thread!
Here she is in her current state (don't mind the paintwork on the wing , its still in red primer , just haven't got round to doing it yet)
She was bought from copart for around £150 as a write off with a slight bit of damage to the sill and wing, with only having 1 lady owner and 51k on the clock. The biggest div in the world then got his hands on it (me) and started pissing around with it...
This is what it looked like the day after bringing it back , front end off to repair damaged fan housing and bent cross member which we later found...
After front end was repaired i then set out about tuning and after very quickly becoming bored of the t2 and lucas set up , i decided to throw myself in the deep end and get a bosch and td04 which i knew nothing about lol.
I then set about sorting out a boost gauge and proper set up before Danny (danny2009) fitted the td04 and bosch on for me , which turned out to be his old set up.
I then set about trying to find a new set of wheels as I wanted to spruce the outside up a little more , I managed to pick up some black powder coated clones and then tinted front fogs in yellow.
It then looked like this for a while but then i took them off and put back on steelies as I just couldnt get on with the cyclones and they needed new tyres and refurbs etc..
Then after a lot of mucking about and umming and arring , i decided to go for a nitrous kit , which was cheap with me working for nos company. luckily. (i do have pics up of nos kit elsewhere but ill try and get them up on here when I can. The clutch was slipping like crazy after having the nitrous on there so i decided to go for a CG motorsport 5 paddle clutch which is more than adequate for the job.
The car was then dyno'd at autotronix just outside rotherham making 196bhp + 290lbft on nitrous which i was well happy about but was hoping to get into the 200's.
Since then , it has now been lowered and is on my original 14'' steelies which are now in white , soon to be lowered again, and on coilies... Most if not all major mods and work carried out by Danny.
Lots more mods coming soon hopefully...
and should hopefully have the car looking decent and ready for fcs next year!
Thanks ,
Lewis
Here she is in her current state (don't mind the paintwork on the wing , its still in red primer , just haven't got round to doing it yet)
She was bought from copart for around £150 as a write off with a slight bit of damage to the sill and wing, with only having 1 lady owner and 51k on the clock. The biggest div in the world then got his hands on it (me) and started pissing around with it...
This is what it looked like the day after bringing it back , front end off to repair damaged fan housing and bent cross member which we later found...
After front end was repaired i then set out about tuning and after very quickly becoming bored of the t2 and lucas set up , i decided to throw myself in the deep end and get a bosch and td04 which i knew nothing about lol.
I then set about sorting out a boost gauge and proper set up before Danny (danny2009) fitted the td04 and bosch on for me , which turned out to be his old set up.
I then set about trying to find a new set of wheels as I wanted to spruce the outside up a little more , I managed to pick up some black powder coated clones and then tinted front fogs in yellow.
It then looked like this for a while but then i took them off and put back on steelies as I just couldnt get on with the cyclones and they needed new tyres and refurbs etc..
Then after a lot of mucking about and umming and arring , i decided to go for a nitrous kit , which was cheap with me working for nos company. luckily. (i do have pics up of nos kit elsewhere but ill try and get them up on here when I can. The clutch was slipping like crazy after having the nitrous on there so i decided to go for a CG motorsport 5 paddle clutch which is more than adequate for the job.
The car was then dyno'd at autotronix just outside rotherham making 196bhp + 290lbft on nitrous which i was well happy about but was hoping to get into the 200's.
Since then , it has now been lowered and is on my original 14'' steelies which are now in white , soon to be lowered again, and on coilies... Most if not all major mods and work carried out by Danny.
Lots more mods coming soon hopefully...
and should hopefully have the car looking decent and ready for fcs next year!
Thanks ,
Lewis