Purchased my car November 2006, with 6,000 miles on the clock showroom condition from Frosts seat, down in Worthing. One Month Latter the modding commenced. I am looking to create an OEM + look with that bit more Power.
1st Mod
Becker head unit to match the OEM look.
Purchased this from Pixmania for £250.
A great upgrade with the built in handsfree kit, well worth every penny.
With a few spare Penny’s I fitted a Green panel replacement filter.
My Opinion was only worth doing if you need a new filter, The main advantage is that is clean able.
Remap
Next was a trip to Jappasprt for a Full custom remap £425 all in.
Initial rolling road made 157bhp
After the remap made 197bhp and 314 ft/lb Torque
,
As you can imagine the drive home was very pleasing.
Thank you all a Jabba for an Excellent service.
Set of new tyre needed, 4x Michilen pilot sports fitted, What a tyre, In a different league to the bridgestones.
New Clutch ARB'S Polly Bushes and Dogbone Mount
3 Months latter and not such a happy face, My clutch had started to slip, so it was booked back into Jabba for a full sacsh kit, for around £750 fitted, As well as the clutch because of the distance I have to travel from Kent I had a set of front and rear ebaich anti roll bars, poly bush kit and an up rated dog bone mount.
My impressions of the above modifications.
Clutch: You could defiantly feel the difference over OEM, and after a while I have become so custom to it I like it!!
Arbs: Best handling improvement I have ever done. Really makes the car handel well.
Polly bushes: A cheap mod and stiffens up the front nicely.
Dogbone mount: Stopped wheel hop, an easy upgrade and worth the money.
Brakes:
Now that I had the power and the handling I needed to be able to stop.
I initially upgraded my front 288mm discs to 312mm. There was a noticeable improvement but not enough. After a few months I decided to upgrade my brakes again, I purchased a set of Brembo calipers with 323mm Discs in black, As these fitted behind the FR+ Wheels just.
I then upgraded the rear, LCR calipers with anniversary carriers again painted black, As I don’t want my car looking like an LCR, it’s a diesel and I want people to know it’s a diesel.
Oh and another set of tyres just the fronts this time.
With the brembos bedded in nicely. They are a great improvement over the 312 single pots.
Bmc cda and SFS silicon pipe upgrade.
Brought the CDA of a fellow member, A worth while upgrade made the car rev more freely.
With the SFS system, this was brought due to a boost leak on the intercooler pipe connector (pipe 4) It solved the problem with the leak, and definitely looks the part.
However initially you could feel the pipes expanding on, and now there are roomers of a reinforced version coming out. Basically I have mixed feelings. Its stopped the leaks but I think the kit needs to be reinforced. Its easy to fit but there are a lot of wear point that you have give a lot of attention to.
Have been running this setup for a 6 months or so, when I made the decision that I was going to keep the car for a total of 5 years rather than the possibility of 3 when my finace had finished,
So I booked it in for a Full Miltek non Resonated system from AMD,
What a **** up!! .Took nearly a whole day to fit.
But I have a 2.5’’ ARL150 down pipe and a 2.75’’ LCR resonated system, Not what I wanted, but they agreed to change it for a no resonated system.
The fitting took so long due to my car being a FR+ so the down pipe had to be altered. Full praise to AMD though for there efforts, most would of told me they dont sell an exhaust for my car.
So that was then this is Now !!!! All work going to be carried out by myself!!
I have decided to go down the hybrid root. I am changing the turbo as we speak.
First purchase,
New bike to get to work on lol
I have decided to go down the TD route, They quoted me 595+ Vat to hybrid my own turbo.
Set taking out the turbo early one Saturday morning. 2hrs latter the turbo was out.
I took the turbo out from the top, by taking the inlet manifold off first.
Things noted on removal, Both manifolds were leaking on a single port. And a boost leak from the other side of the intercooler.
Some pictures of the turbo out of the car,
In future from what I know I am going to have o spend with SFS with silicon and clamps I would of got a Eurojet intercooler or forge upgrade.
Turbo was sent off Monday Morning.
Have since ordered A devils own WMI Kit, from badger 5 £289 + Delivery
A race pipe from formally allards of of ebay.
Car is booked in for a remap on the 17th June at RS Tuning Leeds.
In the mean time am removing my EGR cooler and cleaning my inlet manifold and waiting for the turbo to return.
Picture of egr cooler.
To remove this 2x coolant hoses have to be joined together and a t connector replaced with a straight join. Then you can remove and put an EGR blanking plate directly on the manifold so you can then add a thermocouple.
I will be posting up more photos, when I next get the car out of the container, and the turbo and WMI kit arrives. I’m hoping its here by Tuesday which will give me time to order up all the fitting studs gaskets etc.
1st Mod
Becker head unit to match the OEM look.
Purchased this from Pixmania for £250.
A great upgrade with the built in handsfree kit, well worth every penny.
With a few spare Penny’s I fitted a Green panel replacement filter.
My Opinion was only worth doing if you need a new filter, The main advantage is that is clean able.
Remap
Next was a trip to Jappasprt for a Full custom remap £425 all in.
Initial rolling road made 157bhp
After the remap made 197bhp and 314 ft/lb Torque
, As you can imagine the drive home was very pleasing.
Thank you all a Jabba for an Excellent service.
Set of new tyre needed, 4x Michilen pilot sports fitted, What a tyre, In a different league to the bridgestones.
New Clutch ARB'S Polly Bushes and Dogbone Mount
3 Months latter and not such a happy face, My clutch had started to slip, so it was booked back into Jabba for a full sacsh kit, for around £750 fitted, As well as the clutch because of the distance I have to travel from Kent I had a set of front and rear ebaich anti roll bars, poly bush kit and an up rated dog bone mount.
My impressions of the above modifications.
Clutch: You could defiantly feel the difference over OEM, and after a while I have become so custom to it I like it!!
Arbs: Best handling improvement I have ever done. Really makes the car handel well.
Polly bushes: A cheap mod and stiffens up the front nicely.
Dogbone mount: Stopped wheel hop, an easy upgrade and worth the money.
Brakes:
Now that I had the power and the handling I needed to be able to stop.
I initially upgraded my front 288mm discs to 312mm. There was a noticeable improvement but not enough. After a few months I decided to upgrade my brakes again, I purchased a set of Brembo calipers with 323mm Discs in black, As these fitted behind the FR+ Wheels just.
I then upgraded the rear, LCR calipers with anniversary carriers again painted black, As I don’t want my car looking like an LCR, it’s a diesel and I want people to know it’s a diesel.
Oh and another set of tyres just the fronts this time.
With the brembos bedded in nicely. They are a great improvement over the 312 single pots.
Bmc cda and SFS silicon pipe upgrade.
Brought the CDA of a fellow member, A worth while upgrade made the car rev more freely.
With the SFS system, this was brought due to a boost leak on the intercooler pipe connector (pipe 4) It solved the problem with the leak, and definitely looks the part.
However initially you could feel the pipes expanding on, and now there are roomers of a reinforced version coming out. Basically I have mixed feelings. Its stopped the leaks but I think the kit needs to be reinforced. Its easy to fit but there are a lot of wear point that you have give a lot of attention to.
Have been running this setup for a 6 months or so, when I made the decision that I was going to keep the car for a total of 5 years rather than the possibility of 3 when my finace had finished,
So I booked it in for a Full Miltek non Resonated system from AMD,
What a **** up!! .Took nearly a whole day to fit.
But I have a 2.5’’ ARL150 down pipe and a 2.75’’ LCR resonated system, Not what I wanted, but they agreed to change it for a no resonated system.
The fitting took so long due to my car being a FR+ so the down pipe had to be altered. Full praise to AMD though for there efforts, most would of told me they dont sell an exhaust for my car.
So that was then this is Now !!!! All work going to be carried out by myself!!
I have decided to go down the hybrid root. I am changing the turbo as we speak.
First purchase,
New bike to get to work on lol
I have decided to go down the TD route, They quoted me 595+ Vat to hybrid my own turbo.
Set taking out the turbo early one Saturday morning. 2hrs latter the turbo was out.
I took the turbo out from the top, by taking the inlet manifold off first.
Things noted on removal, Both manifolds were leaking on a single port. And a boost leak from the other side of the intercooler.
Some pictures of the turbo out of the car,
In future from what I know I am going to have o spend with SFS with silicon and clamps I would of got a Eurojet intercooler or forge upgrade.
Turbo was sent off Monday Morning.
Have since ordered A devils own WMI Kit, from badger 5 £289 + Delivery
A race pipe from formally allards of of ebay.
Car is booked in for a remap on the 17th June at RS Tuning Leeds.
In the mean time am removing my EGR cooler and cleaning my inlet manifold and waiting for the turbo to return.
Picture of egr cooler.
To remove this 2x coolant hoses have to be joined together and a t connector replaced with a straight join. Then you can remove and put an EGR blanking plate directly on the manifold so you can then add a thermocouple.
I will be posting up more photos, when I next get the car out of the container, and the turbo and WMI kit arrives. I’m hoping its here by Tuesday which will give me time to order up all the fitting studs gaskets etc.
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