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Grande Punto My Red GP T-jet!

Introduction

Hello everyone,

So I've had my car for around 6 months now and have made a few threads about individual parts of my car. So I thought I should start my members motor thread (should of done this earlier!).

I'll just be throwing everything I've done so far into this post and then I'll update accordingly :)

So first off, the purchase:

This was one of the pictures took by the garage, they didn't clean it up as they should of and this pic didn't do it justice, but I saw the potential haha ;)

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And this is one when I got it home

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It then got a proper wash at some point

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My first purchase was an Abarth aerial, not much but it all adds up!

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I then realised that 2 of my alloys were buckled :( So I bought the optional upgrade alloys off someone on here :slayer:

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Along with buying the alloys I also bought Abarth front headlights, worked out a good deal for both alloys and headlights as I bought them together (considering both alloys and headlights could literally of passed as brand knew) (y)

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There was a bit of an issue regarding the fitment of my Abarth headlights, it appears my car was produced in the cut-over between the S1 and the S2. Cosmetically mine looks all S2 but the headlight connectors were S1 and I had bought the S2 version of headlights. So off down to the scrappy I went, look what I came back with...S2 headlights connectors!

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As some of you may of noticed from the previous pictures - BULBS :) Thought I'd buy some osram bulbs all round before I fitted the abarth headlights. Osram Night Breaker Unlimited, Osram Cool Blue Intense and Osram Diadem.

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It was then given a full wash, polish and protection with the Auto Glym products

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And here's a bit of beading after using AG products for a while

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And for my final update of this post, I vinyl wrapped my door pillars yesterday! As I'm sure most of us know the horrible black plastic that was there originally was so badly scuffed and scratched I decided it needed to change. I actually forgot to get a pic of the original vinyl but trust me it was horrible haha.

Here's the pillar with no vinyl

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And here's the carbon fibre effect (can't take all credit, the girlfriend gave me a hand too)

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It's not 100% perfect but I'm pretty happy with it, was thinking of buying some matte black pinstripe or something to mask over the top and bottom of the pillars to give it a clean cut finish.

And that's all for now! Hope you like what I've done with it so far, as for the future I'm thinking of:

  • EBC turbo grooved discs all round with EBC greenstuff all round
  • Remap
  • Rear tints
  • Paint brake calipers
And I'm sure some other things will happen along the way.

Thanks.
So I picked my car up yesterday after it being with Powerflow Newcastle. Finally have my exhaust :D

It is a full turbo back system, Ragazzon decat then 2.5" to a back box. I'm really pleased with the work and the guy well and truly custom made the exhaust, even the back box! It sounds amazing with pops and bangs already (y) Oh and you may notice from the pictures that I went with a risky choice in tip but I think it payed off.

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Quickly become one of my favour GP's.
Has this been lowered yet?

Edit: Ignore that I can see it has above, just didn't look that lower from the angle of the first picture.

Thanks man, appreciate it :)

Yeah it's on Eibachs as you noticed, I agree it's hard to tell on that first picture. On others and in person it sits much nicer on the Eibachs, standard ride height is just ridiculous!
 
Thanks man, appreciate it :)

Yeah it's on Eibachs as you noticed, I agree it's hard to tell on that first picture. On others and in person it sits much nicer on the Eibachs, standard ride height is just ridiculous!

I agree as I have the sportlines to.

Would love to go lower, but don't think I could live with coils, would have to go down the air route. Which would start around £1500 in parts :( which on a car only worth about 2x that on a good day I really couldn't justify it.
 
Intercooler update! After many hours and fighting with the bumper to get it off, I've finally managed to fit my new custom intercooler. I'm pleased with the intercooler and that I was actually able to do it (my biggest mechanical feat; I have to start somewhere I guess). It was a tight fit but I didn't expect any less :) This is the final performance mod to the car, ready for the remap which should come over the next couple of months.

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Alex! Where you getting your map done?
I've had mine done recently at Angel tuning, I can recommend!


New Orleans blue S2 GP T-Jet.
Mods are:
Custom Cat-back with twin tip exit!
Remap soon!
 
Alex! Where you getting your map done?
I've had mine done recently at Angel tuning, I can recommend!


New Orleans blue S2 GP T-Jet.
Mods are:
Custom Cat-back with twin tip exit!
Remap soon!

I'm going to 'The Performance Centre Sunderland' done my research and they know their stuff. The mapper did 'Dlightswitch's car from on here and that made 180bhp; with no issues afterwards. They also do a lot of A500s so are used to the T-jet engine.

How much power did you make from your remap?
 
I'm going to 'The Performance Centre Sunderland' done my research and they know their stuff. The mapper did 'Dlightswitch's car from on here and that made 180bhp; with no issues afterwards. They also do a lot of A500s so are used to the T-jet engine.

How much power did you make from your remap?


154, but I'm using less boost. Need to get a bleed valve and turn it up to 1 bar


New Orleans blue S2 GP T-Jet.
Mods are:
Custom Cat-back with twin tip exit!
Remap soon!
 
So I got my new Kumho KU39s fitted on Saturday, along with 16mm spacers. Really happy with the tyres so far; yet to experience them in the wet but they're A rated wet grip so it should be fine :)

The spacers don't make a huge difference however the wheel sits nicely in the arch now as it's lowered too.

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So I picked up my car after leaving it for the remap. It didn't quite hit the 180bhp that I wanted but to me the graph looks excellent and there's a lot of power across the rev range which will hopefully mean more than the peak 180bhp that I was hoping for. It's 170 bhp (let's just say 170 ;)) but has 230 Ft.lbs of torque, which is amazing AND concerning... I think I need a new/uprated clutch ASAP haha. Anyone have any suggestions on the clutch? I'll get that extra 10bhp from somewhere at some point though!

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All that german logos on the wall though...haha nice ;) on what gas?
 
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