Ph2 D Turbo revamp

[Kieron G]

Hi All

Thought I would share with you what I have been upto with my Ph2 1. D Turbo



Its very much a work in progress as this is a second car. I was hopeing to have made faster progress but my main car drank alot of my spare cash on mot day £510! Please note that my knowledge of working on cars is very limited but I try to do as much research as pos before I dive in and my bro is a mechanic so he helps me when I get stuck.

Anyway I only got the car 2 months ago and it has done 140k so was looking extremely tired! I have mainly been doing the interior, i have stripped it all out it is suprising how much crap has accumalted in it.





I have replaced every bulb on the car for new ones, colour coded the center dash, Fitted white lockwood dials and a boost gauge into the center air vent (I bought the center air vent pod from gareth) The sunroof unit was missing its cover so i had to buy a replacment. The only one available was a different colour so i had to respray the whole unit to match.







I have used silent coat on the rear quaters, Arches and front doors inc outer skin which was a pain in the ass to reach everywhere. I have yet to see how good it is due to the car not being on the road yet. I have also coated the floor, rear quaters & arches with cloud 9 underlay.




I have started to run the cables thought for the stereo. I have put 170mm 300w pionner in the front, Vibe slick 6 in the rear quaters and vibe 6x9's in the shelf. I have fitted the 6x9's under the original grills to try and keep a factory look.
I have 2 sub's in the boot 1 12" & 1 10". I have a pionner head unit but with only 1 pre out i have going to have to put a rca convertor on one of the speaker out put for the amp for the speakers. The subs will just be daisey chained




outside

I have fitted 17" and will be lowering it this weeked 40mm with the help of my bro. I have a eccosse kit for it but It will be later in the year before I get around to it.

Engine

Its bog standard at the mo, I will be looking at squeezing some more power out of it but i need to do some reading before I start on it.

I think thats it for now, Any help or advice that is constructive will be welcome with open ar
ms. I know realise it wont be to everybody's taste but if we all had the same life would be dull

[Matt]

Looking good so far mate. With regards to power, check over the xud section, a lot of guides there for tuning this engine. Also please don't fit the eccose kit. It's so chavy

[Frosty]

Looks like your putting a lot of effort into this which is good to see.

Did the dials come off a petrol 306?

[Kieron G]

Hi

Thanks for the replys

The eccosse kit is just the one with a slighter lower back bumper and front bumper has the 2 spots at the bottom, The spoiler is just the flared one with slim skirts. I wouldn't fit a crazy kit as had a dimma kit on my last ph1 so moved on a little from them. I will have a read up on the xud section.

The dials are lockwood d turbo one's. They were £21 delivered

cheers chaps

[Jenkosowls]

Pics of the dimma!

[Mattcheese31]

Hi

Thanks for the replys

The eccosse kit is just the one with a slighter lower back bumper and front bumper has the 2 spots at the bottom, The spoiler is just the flared one with slim skirts. I wouldn't fit a crazy kit as had a dimma kit on my last ph1 so moved on a little from them. I will have a read up on the xud section.

The dials are lockwood d turbo one's. They were £21 delivered

cheers chaps

wrong dials . . .redline should be at 5k . .

[Kieron G]

I will have a sive through some old pics for my old ph1 with dimma kit but it was 9yr ago. Darn about the dials! its only the rev so I will change them once I get to the end of my list of jobs lol I can live with it for now

[Kieron G]

After readig through some threads I have just ordered new Battery cables to double up existing cables and Also ordered some mist jets. Made sure they are the ones ending in V8 so i hope they are correct

[Kieron G]

Well a small update.

The car has now been lowered and I have fitted extra cables 1 pos from batt to alt 2 2 x earths 1 from batt to chasis and 2 from alt to chasis
I also now have all the interior back in dash all done plus all stereo fitted expt subs and amps but cables are in the boot ready.

I will start reading up now on the engine threads on how to raise boost ect and what is safe. I tested it earlier and it is only boosting at 12 which must be factory standard?









all the best
kieron

[Jimbo]

Wheels wont be to everyones taste but there not too bad.fairplay for being different
Cant help but think it needs some sideskirts though

[WiNgNuTz]

Dare V2's aren't they? Tbh, they dont look TOO bad, needs moar lows though.

And you're right, factory standard is about 12-14psi, you can ramp that up a little though, even on the Lucas pump. Mines still on the Lucas, and is making ~18psi at the moment. Oh, and lose the gas strut thingy thats on the throttle arm, you'll get much better throttle response then. It should just pop off.

[Grant]

I didn't think the colour coded centre would look much cop but it seems to work quite well. Nice progress

[Kieron G]

Thanks for the kind feedback, I realise things won't be to everyone's taste. I am happy how the colour coding turned out. I used yellow blaze on it to try and make it look as factory as possible. If it had been the same colour as the dash I would have left it but it was silver and didn't match anything. I do have a new bumpers, skirts and spoiler to go on but as its a second car it will have to wait till I have more spare cash as no doubt it won't be cheap.
Cheers for the heads up on the throttle mod I will get on it soon so get chance.