So a little bit about the car, 1 owner from new with 81000 miles on the clock, nice big service book with every service done on time by either a specialist or dealer, body work was basically mint apart from the odd age releted dent/stonechip.
Now i bought this from a local dealer (stupid idea!! Haha) but wanted the car so tried to look past that, anyway managed to get a nice discount and a years warrenty with the car so was really pleased.
Then i decided to try and track down the original owner as it was obvious that someone had been playing with her (Giggidy) and the dealer hadn't a clue what was modified, i pointed out to them that the intercooler was not standard!! Haha.
Luckily there was a club sticker on the rear 1/4 windows so popped a newbie thread up askin if anyone knew the previous owner, within a couple of hours i had found the guy!! Couldn't believe i found him that quickly!!! but then found out he was 1 of the main people on the forum and after chatting to him and reading through his project thread i was hugly happy with the car, the guy had really looked after her and modified her sensibly.
So onto the mods, I may as well start with the huge intercooler!! Haha this intercooler was actually developed on this car by Forge including all the pipework, cold and hot side,
little link to the intercooler on Forge's website, can see its my car in some of the photos.
http://www.forgemotorsport.co.uk/content...=FMINSSIBP
hope that works!! Haha
Then after this P-Torque did a nice stage 1 high torque map for the car, the previous owner said she was making around 220bhp and 300lbft at the wheels when he had her dynod
Haha after adding a lot more power to her the brakes were now a lil inadequate!! Haha so a set of Audi TT front brakes were added along with a Whiteline Racing Antiroll Bar.
This is when the previous owner needed 4 doors and more space so he traded her in for a Seat Leon Cupra.
Annoyingly before I had the chance to start adding my lil bits to her the front top mounts went and then shortly after the steering rack went!!!! Wasn't happy but thank f*ck i got the warrenty!! Haha Although after the garage fitted the rack i noticed it wasn't fitted correctly so onto a sligtly more trustworthy garage!! Haha got him to sort the rack out and check over the rest of the car, thankfully she came back with nothing wrong with her Haha so onto some parts.
First off this is my first petrol turbo so had to get her making so turbo related noises!! Haha did some forum work and decided on a Forge FMDV008 as normal atmospheric valves trow up warning codes and just sound gash on theses engines haha and to help the sound escape a nice big Jetex open filter, rated to 311bhp, a lil bit over kill but it was recommended by a couple of people so went with it.
Couple of photos
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Got them fitted and swiftly made my mpg drop by 10 miles!! just could not help myself!! Haha
Next i had to sort the wheels out, never had curbed wheels before and they were doin my head in!! Haha didn't want to the same colour so had a flick through the colour cards at work and found what i believe to be the same colour as the grille.
Couple of photos
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The grilles are actually sprayed with a matt lacquer but i was happy with the colour, lil annoying i can't pick up the metal flake in the photos as there is a lot of purple init.
So onto refurbing the wheels, couple of photos.... again
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Now i bought this from a local dealer (stupid idea!! Haha) but wanted the car so tried to look past that, anyway managed to get a nice discount and a years warrenty with the car so was really pleased.
Then i decided to try and track down the original owner as it was obvious that someone had been playing with her (Giggidy) and the dealer hadn't a clue what was modified, i pointed out to them that the intercooler was not standard!! Haha.
Luckily there was a club sticker on the rear 1/4 windows so popped a newbie thread up askin if anyone knew the previous owner, within a couple of hours i had found the guy!! Couldn't believe i found him that quickly!!! but then found out he was 1 of the main people on the forum and after chatting to him and reading through his project thread i was hugly happy with the car, the guy had really looked after her and modified her sensibly.
So onto the mods, I may as well start with the huge intercooler!! Haha this intercooler was actually developed on this car by Forge including all the pipework, cold and hot side,
little link to the intercooler on Forge's website, can see its my car in some of the photos.
http://www.forgemotorsport.co.uk/content...=FMINSSIBP
hope that works!! Haha
Then after this P-Torque did a nice stage 1 high torque map for the car, the previous owner said she was making around 220bhp and 300lbft at the wheels when he had her dynod
Haha after adding a lot more power to her the brakes were now a lil inadequate!! Haha so a set of Audi TT front brakes were added along with a Whiteline Racing Antiroll Bar.This is when the previous owner needed 4 doors and more space so he traded her in for a Seat Leon Cupra.
Annoyingly before I had the chance to start adding my lil bits to her the front top mounts went and then shortly after the steering rack went!!!! Wasn't happy but thank f*ck i got the warrenty!! Haha Although after the garage fitted the rack i noticed it wasn't fitted correctly so onto a sligtly more trustworthy garage!! Haha got him to sort the rack out and check over the rest of the car, thankfully she came back with nothing wrong with her
Haha so onto some parts.First off this is my first petrol turbo so had to get her making so turbo related noises!! Haha did some forum work and decided on a Forge FMDV008 as normal atmospheric valves trow up warning codes and just sound gash on theses engines haha and to help the sound escape a nice big Jetex open filter, rated to 311bhp, a lil bit over kill but it was recommended by a couple of people so went with it.
Couple of photos
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[attachment=15390]
Got them fitted and swiftly made my mpg drop by 10 miles!! just could not help myself!! Haha
Next i had to sort the wheels out, never had curbed wheels before and they were doin my head in!! Haha didn't want to the same colour so had a flick through the colour cards at work and found what i believe to be the same colour as the grille.
Couple of photos
[attachment=15391]
[attachment=15392]
[attachment=15393]
The grilles are actually sprayed with a matt lacquer but i was happy with the colour, lil annoying i can't pick up the metal flake in the photos as there is a lot of purple init.
So onto refurbing the wheels, couple of photos.... again
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[attachment=15395]
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