There old ones, i will have to take some more with the polished turbo pipe (for want of a better name) and all the neuspees bits
LOL get up nice and earleyJ@mes said:scotty... my brace would look phat on ur car!
anyways really must go bed now!
lots to do 2mo, a vern/scotty!
vern said:Aint @rse licking but songman's LCR has been done right, brakes/wheels/suspension/IHI.... etc etc proper job, congrats man, even same colour for you to see scotty
Thanks Vern - I am not a man to do things by half, as you probably realise!! - The point is that the bottom line for me is that the car has to be a `serious prospect`. not a `Saturday night special` - It is my daily driver, only becuse i love drivin` it! - I can do 25000 miles a year easy in all weathers so it has got to hang together in the mundane world of everyday motoring as well as when i`m blastin` down the Autobahn holding 7500 on the tail of some Porsche - thinkin` `well maybe i should have changed those rods after all
Mike actually drew the car back a bit with a view to reliability and general drivability - and when you get to this power level those concepts are all the more important - even at the power I have the car is mighty quick and has the ability to sharply focus your mind!!!
I did the mods only after a great deal of `heart searching` - I could have gone to Harry`s down the road and bought a year old M3 - fab stuff - performance and reliabiity - but well I just love my LCR
It will have a pretty good workout from me, and rest assured I`ll keep everyone informed `warts and all` - on general runing costs
I have written a lot about it only because i`m hoping to encourage folks to take the plunge get some LCR company - it`s lonely out here with all these Beezas, Golfs and Audis!!
I know it is a large outlay no matter what complexion you put on it, but I still recon that the way LCR secondhand prices are going, you could do 90% of what I have done for £20000 all in including the car - surely that must be one of the best performance bargins going
Sorry I missed the Awesome meet - looking forward to meeting you at the next one
Scotty_b said:
Scotty! - yer a true`blingmeister` - car looks great!!
Hurry up and start spendin` - the LCR IHI club needs new members!!
LOL songman, i know how much you have spent, i added up pretty much the same spec for my Platinium LCR, inc sportec's lol, i bottled it, and bought the 330d,(mrs had a part to play too) , i dont blame you, it's your money and i think it's a great car/mod, some people will think your crazy to spend all that, "you could have had an M3" type response, well you got what you wanted, i'll read the running costs /reliablity comments with interest, Tbh i wish i had kept mine as a toy now, need to see what company car i can get in march
, i dont blame you, it's your money and i think it's a great car/mod, some people will think your crazy to spend all that, "you could have had an M3" type response, well you got what you wanted, i'll read the running costs /reliablity comments with interest, Tbh i wish i had kept mine as a toy now, need to see what company car i can get in march
J@mes said:song man... fantastic car!
nice to see someone else with a modded s3 strut brace!
yours...
mine...
Thanks James - a fabulous creation - truthfully, your strutbrace did inspire me! - and there`s not many men that I can say that about - dahling !
Id love to get this done to my LCR but funds are dam low at the moment. After buying the car and now looking for a flat im looking to do these mods when the car is about three years old I think as that way all the parts will have had time to wear in a bit as its only just over a year old! but it will be done as the LCR is going to stay with me until one of us dies!
So am I right in thinking all the mods cost in the region of 10-15k? If I win the loto I will book it in the same day!
Brace looks great, only thing that puts me off is fitting!
So am I right in thinking all the mods cost in the region of 10-15k? If I win the loto I will book it in the same day!
Brace looks great, only thing that puts me off is fitting!
I would recommend getting vag com and doing logs of boost req vs actual, n75 dc, maf g/s etc. Use them as a bench mark for fault finding in the future.
Scotty_b said:
Aye Scotty! - the good things in life unfortunately never seem to come cheap, no matter what yardstick you use to measure their cost.
We are probably at different places on `the yellow brick road` - a time for all things! and for me, well, this is something I always wanted to do - you`ll get there, to be sure!
The LCR is without doubt a `must keep`prospect , if you can manage it at all- there will be no more produced now - they are hardly a common experience on the roads as it is - they are strong, they look great, and have now established `street cred` - they have huge development potential and all in all are an ideal basis for modding.
As for costs! well! in truth, I have spent more in total on the car since I have owned it, than the figures you mention!
The reason being that, when you start a project like this, in relatively uncharted territory, you have to try a lot of things before you really know what works for you and what doesn`t ,and thus have to budget accordingly - you can`t stop halfway!!
In hindsight, I think you could get 90% of what i`ve done for less than £10k starting from the standard car.
You could live with the standard wheel an tyre size - keep the standard callipers and uprate the discs and pads
You woud have to do the suspension and the diff
In truth the IHI running even 1.4 bar will be a revelation to any owner who has only experienced a chipped K04 - so you could live with the standard, pistons, head and valves
My car had done 43000 miles before the IHI, so I asked James to cast his experienced eye over it, and check the general integrity of the running gear etc, before doing any modding
As a matter of course we replaced the clutch, the timing belt, the waterpump[metal impeller], and the lambdas, apart from all the other bits and bobs
If you are handy, and can do the donkey work yourself, then there is more money to be saved - my knees are just a bit too stiff there days to want `to get out and get under` - heck, to think of it ! - how does anyone get under a lowered LCR!!
I hope you keep the car and eventually get your mods done, when finances allow - you won`t regret it - when the sky is blue, the roads are dry and the spirits high - you`ll know exactly what I mean!!
Anyone want to buy a kidney! How many years do you get for armed robbery?
On a positive note, this will save loads of people plenty of development time and get all the chinks ironed out of the system.
Did you do all the mods at once, diff etc as I would like to get the best out of the mods bit by bit I think, i.e. every 6 months do a little more say brakes then suspension then diff and so on
How many years do you get for armed robbery?On a positive note, this will save loads of people plenty of development time and get all the chinks ironed out of the system.
Did you do all the mods at once, diff etc as I would like to get the best out of the mods bit by bit I think, i.e. every 6 months do a little more say brakes then suspension then diff and so on
RickC said:
songman your car must be a beast to drive.
sorry to hijack
james is this standard A3 or have you had it chromed
its a moddified s3 strut brace... its been modded to fit and the black paint was all rubbed down and polished up (thanks pete!
) and i painted the ends black and lacquered the whole lot.then its drilling time!
Madmile said:
Good point! - I do have Vag Com, and Iwill do some logging in the next few days if the weather holds
JABBA fitted a Spa - Design Boost/EGT gauge - Today [0deg C] I`m getting 1.75 peaks and 1.35 steady at the top end - EGT max 775deg C
I shall consider myself very lucky if I get no teething problems at all with the car, after all its such a major rework!! - I do carry a spare N75 just in case [as well as coilpacks and coolant temp sensor!] - reading about your probs maybe that`s just as well!!
Hope you got it sorted
Get a spare MAF too mate, also those EGT'S are awesome very low............would have thought you would have seen 900' Deg cSongman said:Good point! - I do have Vag Com, and Iwill do some logging in the next few days if the weather holds
JABBA fitted a Spa - Design Boost/EGT gauge - Today [0deg C] I`m getting 1.75 peaks and 1.35 steady at the top end - EGT max 775deg C
I shall consider myself very lucky if I get no teething problems at all with the car, after all its such a major rework!! - I do carry a spare N75 just in case [as well as coilpacks and coolant temp sensor!] - reading about your probs maybe that`s just as well!!
Hope you got it sorted
APR stage 3+ kit is coming out soon with a moddified GT28RS with similar figures not sure on cost but can't see it being anymore than Jabba's IHI kit! Will still be a good buy! They are developing a RHD kit in Oz as we speak which is aound 60% complete. It's for the 225 TT, S3 so i'm guessing it will fit a LCR!
We need some more BT LCRs well done songman
We need some more BT LCRs well done songman
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