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 Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:53 pm |
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Joined: Dec 30, 2020
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Here’s my gti 180, kind of saved it from being broken as I picked it up at a local car auction for £800 with no mot looking a bit sorry for itself. Despite its appearance it drove ok and I was pleasantly surprised at how well it got down the road.
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Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:08 pm |
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First thing was to get rid of the rear Lexus style lights as one of them had a broken lens, I went for stock face lift units. Not sure if they were part of the sp kit as the car has the rest of the kit. Also changed the exhaust for a used scorpion cat back as the car is way too loud with the dragon racing system that was on the car. I gave it a good bath and checked all levels before driving it again before I take it in to work to put on a ramp to properly see what I’ve gotten myself in to.
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Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:23 pm |
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Then I decided to ditch the interior and stick it on the scales, the weight is with 20 litres of fuel.
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Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:33 pm |
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Decided to go for a sparco race seat on side mounts on custom brackets, a schroth 6 point harness and a sparco steering wheel.
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Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:07 pm |
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As I got the car with only a couple of old mots and no real service history the next step was a full service including a cam belt and water pump change as well as deleting the air con and secondary air pump.
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Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2021 10:37 pm |
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Joined: Dec 30, 2020
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Next was to start ordering some upgrade parts the list went as follows
Goodridge braided brake lines
Avo gtx coilovers
Ebc drilled and grooved disks all round
Yellow stuff front pads mintex rear pads
Vibratechnics mounts
Omp front strut brace
An exchange rear axle
New rear swing arms from Peugeot
All powerflex bushes
New wishbones and droplinks
Toyosports decat and catback system (as it’s lighter than the scorpion)
A new radiator
A set of used 16” nimrods
A set of nankang ns2r rubber
An mtec short shift bracket
Oh and a whiteline rear arb
Just have to fit it all now !!!
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:50 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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Location: Suffolk
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Nice to see another track car out there, I would consider dropping wheel size and weight out of the wiring harness too as there is fair few KG in the harness!
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:32 pm |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
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Location: In the garage
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I bet standard headlights would weigh less too...less expensive if you break them too!
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| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 8:49 am |
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Joined: May 27, 2014
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Very nice work so far, good choice of mods. I’m impressed with that weight, hopefully mines around the same. If you do decide to swap the headlights out I would buy the morettes off you.
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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2021 4:59 pm |
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Joined: Apr 25, 2021
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Any update on the build yet?
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