Bloody hell, I haven't updated this in a long ass time!!
lets give it a quick run through..

Got myself a new Cadamuro front bumper which was already painted (abeit in the slightly wrong colour) so with swearing, cut knuckles and quite a bit of help from my fiance and her handy small hands lol.. it was on Decided I wanted something different to the LE front lips and something not so standard looking.
Changed the dump valve to a Forge DV006 recirculating BOV as the piston in the old atmospheric BOV wasn't sealing properly, leaking and causing spikey boost. all good now but alas no more noise
Spool up improved greatly though



A photoshop someone did for me on FCCUK, its what i'm aiming for (I already have the skirts ) but the wheels wont magically be getting bigger like in the photoshop



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Fitted a GTEC chip into the coops ECU myself, been having a few boosting issues.
The standard ECU controller is seeing too much boost, see's that the boost is too high and backs it off.
So Booked into Jabbasport (friend's dad owns the company, legendary VAG tuners) to get it on the rollers to make sure I was getting enough fuel etc before I replace the EBV with a temporary manual boost controller (will get electronic 2 stage one eventually) and try to flatten out the curve and sort the yoyo effect I'm getting between 2500 and 4000 rpm.
Its running slightly rich in places but according to the coupe club its not bad enough to be an issue or worth investigating as its better to run slightly rich than too lean.
Car made 235.3hp, not bad considering the car is nearly 10 years old!
http://skate2create.insworld.co.uk/coupe/cooppc.jpg
http://skate2create.insworld.co.uk/coupe/coopaf.jpg

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Following £562 for a full service, Cambelt, auxillary belts and water pump change, then £300 + £60 parts to get it through its MOT with 1 advisory (hard brake lines slightly corroded) and £102 on tax for six months...

...she is now road legal for a while and I can start spending money on adding my "touches" to it like I did with my old bravobeastie. (when I earn some more ££ of course!)

Pics of my new seats, seeing as some of you wont of seen them yet:



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After visiting my friend John in Daventry who works for Earls (main NOS distributor for the UK) and Alan Docking Racing in Silverstone I came home with an ANSA Ferrari exhaust back section for a very special price

After mucho hacking I got it cut down ready to go onto the coop
Now I had a little money to play with I got myself some mandrel bent pipe from Pipewerx sent over and some connecting pieces from Millfield Autos. Took a bit of faffing around as the standard exhaust exits out at an angle, I wanted it coming straight out the back

Following a big helping hand from my mate Tony, some cutting, welding, swearing, mountain dew :lol: getting a piece of steel in my eye, test fitting the exhaust about 20 times to get it right and 6 hours of time (2 hours of that trying to get the ****ty powerslow box off!) we finally got it on
Some pics of the fun we had







Gay thing






The finished article

Sounds lovely on idle, a bit flat four-esque... on boost it sounds like a jet afterburner Need to tidy up the rear bumper now though lol.

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So thats it for now, gotta get the clutch replaced now as the extra boost has caused it to slip badly (its the standard clutch fitted from new, so its 9 years old with 97k on it...not bad going really!) which is gonna sting me £450 for a standard replacement (thinking of going for a fast road clutch tbh..
Then its skirts on, get a subtle spoiler & rear bumper lip, tints, wheels & brakes and respray time...

God this is gonna be expensive!!! LOL

Dan

coming along nicely dan!!

looks nice mate, hang in there and she mint in no time you still work down the road from me! (im at ideal world, the home shopping channel!) will have to keep an eye out for you, prob over taking me

when those sideskirts are on it will look gaaawjusss :worship::worship::worship:

1.8Stilo said:

looks nice mate, hang in there and she mint in no time you still work down the road from me! (im at ideal world, the home shopping channel!) will have to keep an eye out for you, prob over taking me

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Not anymore fella, I work on the otherside of Peterborough near the prison/lidl as a Trainee Quantity Surveyor

Dan

Vid of the new exhaust:

That sound is sensational

I started my next little project on saturday morning.
I wanted to make myself a custom 2 pod A pillar mount for my AFR gauge and boost gauge, as the direct fit ones are a bit pricey so thought I'd get creative

The pods arrived in the post from ebay at 10am this staurday.


Not quite what I was expecting as the base was very rounded but the A pillar is flat, so I was faced with sending it back or attacking it with some powertools

I obviously chose the latter

Popped out and got some fibreglass mixed paste and got to work, took a lot of bastardising to get them to sit sort of flush to the pillar, in the right place for me to see both clearly and so I could fibreglass them into place, but couple of hours later and not too shabby

Next came the fibreglassing, wasn't sure how it was gonna turn out as I hadn't used fibreglass since I sculpted myself some sideskirts for my old bravo. Then the endless sanding, cheated with a detail sander to speed up the process as I was wanting my tea by this point

Got it sanded down ready for a skim of filler on saturday morning before spraying, the plan being to recover the pillar in black leatherette and paint the pods black

Pics:












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Sunday am:

Few more progress pics, got to the stage of priming and painting now
After a skim of filler, and 1st lot of sanding.



Emily (the long suffering wife ) doing what she does best


Material temporarily tacked (sewn) into position to get a general idea


And so it was ready for paint

So paint it I did, now waiting to be put together tonight and then the new AFR gauge arriving tomorrow

Dan

Liking that lots

Awesome as usual. .

cheers Chris & Matt

Few more progress pics...






and we're done











Just the holes to make for the fittings and slots to drill for the wires and then wait for the AFR gauge and then bang it all in heh.
I'm pretty chuffed, just wish i'd taken a bit longer in the filling. Think my good lady's time, effort and patience made a big difference so mucho thanks to her lol.

Dan

That looks sweet. Can't wait to see it fitted to the car.

Not much to report, had new clutch fitted (Alfa 147 GTA clutch kit) and turned the boost back up to 1.1-ish bar (had to turn it down to save the clutch).
FMIC kit sat in a box at the end of my bed read to be fitted too

Couple of recent pics







Enjoy

Dan

Looks very tasty. :yum: When are you going to be getting the sills colour coded?

Thats a gorgeous car

yeah get the skirts on :slayer:

lovin this car so far, agree with above, needs skirts on pronto. And lower it!! sure these are all on your to do list though