Adam's Fabia vRS Mk1 - 2.0 litre GTB powered

[Southy]

Oh and I have new wheel's planned for the next couple of month's just gonna insure the car (dreading it after my crash) and pay off my holiday and sort some out. I'm gonna go with a set of Rotiform NUE's, I originally wanted a set of Fifteen52 Tarmacs but I can't justify the 1k price tag for them as nice as they are.

[Dark_Hero]

Excellent wheel choice. These suit the Fabia nicely

[bowen]

Car is looking so clean.

Keep it up budd

[Jabozuma]

All is the only way to go! Great results on your detailing as well. Car looks absolutely brilliant!

[Southy]

All is the only way to go! Great results on your detailing as well. Car looks absolutely brilliant!

Thanks's for the kind work's really impressed with how it came out, looks great under flood lights at night haha

Car is looking so clean.

Keep it up budd

Cheer's fella, the love for the car is coming back slowly, kinda lost it after my crash after all the hard work into the last one, but decided to pull my finger out and crack on and get it sorted.

Excellent wheel choice. These suit the Fabia nicely

I like both of them but as I say can't justify the 1k for the Tarmac's and the NUE's are rather similar, really does need some silver wheels its too dark IMO being all black

[Southy]

Went to Bolton Abbey over the weekend with a few mate's for a car meet, had a few pic's taken whilst there and enroute

[skodalad]

Really clean mate, I could do with detailing mine really

[Southy]

Thanks very much fella. Mine was desperate for a detail and I eventually found the time to do it, makes a world of difference

[ollievrsDERV]

I work Bolton Abby haha you have a nice blast on the a59??? Love the roads round there

[Southy]

I work Bolton Abby haha you have a nice blast on the a59??? Love the roads round there

A small blast here and there, was raining a bit so didnt really open it up. Do love the A59 though great road

[ollievrsDERV]

Yeah too right police are really keen on it tho you can't have too much fun haha

[Jabozuma]

Your black vRS looks waay better than that Mini next to it.

[Southy]

It's a rather nice car my mates Mini, he got it cheap as he works for MINI when it was traded.in, got the JC works kit on it and an LSD fitted. Will look even better once I've given it a machine polish for him

[Southy]

Lad at work organised a RR day today and was short for numbers so I stepped up to see what the old girl was putting out. It made 158bhp and 248lbs ft, a bit down on my previous car which was pushing 182bhp and 273lbs ft, but it seems to have more get up and go up through the rev range which I think could be due to the decat which gives a slight placebo affect of it being as quick I'm not sure

[ollievrsDERV]

Not a bad output that tho mate

[Southy]

Cheers buddy, it ain't bad but do want more power eventually lol

[ollievrsDERV]

Yeah deffo! I've put a project thread of mine on now have. Ganders I need to tidy it up a bit when I get a bit of time one the pc but there's pics of my car and that!

[Southy]

Long overdue update really, been far too busy working on everyone's but my own car but managed to do a couple of little jobs on it over the weekend.

 

I've started getting my pipework together again to make up my FMIC, I'm reusing the cooler off my crashed car which I've had pressure tested and is fine, its just slightly twisted but won't be an issue once bolted one. I'm machining my own coupling's at work tomorrow morning so will update with pic's of those. I've gone for lime green pipework to match the black/green theme I have on the car already and will be continuing throughout it. Anyway will let the pics do the talking.

 

Fitted the uprated gearbox engine mount

 

Old v's New 

 

 

Decided to drop the gearbox oil as I couldn't manage to do it when I did the service the other month due to being too low :P

The oil having covered 76k was manky

 

 

Also whilst it was up in the air I fitted my Whiteline RARB which I've had powdercoated Kawasaki Green.

 

 

I noticed aswell I'm getting ready for new disc's all round, will grab a decent set of disc's and machine them for 'J' hook's at work and get a decent set of pad's fitted along with the kawasaki green braided hoses I have sat in my room with some 5.1 ready for my track session at Silverstone.

 

I'm planning on having the intercooler fitted this week, and getting it booked in for a remap at Awesome GTi ready for next weekend at USC at Santa Pod

[Dark_Hero]

Coming along nicely. Will be good to see this at USC

[Southy]

Cheers fella, Will have to keep an eye out for yourself, I'm hoping I will have the intercooler fitted for next weekend but it might be a bit hit and miss as I'm still awaiting a few remaining pieces

[DanHam]

See you at USC! Hopefully the weather will be decent.

Looks like a tasty Supra in the back ground

[Southy]

Aye hopefully have a catch up with some of you there.

The Supra is the car I've been working on just had a bare shell rebuild, that will be at USC also.

Ps updates of my work done today this evening

[DanHam]

Will look forward to seeing th supra, I've been in a standard TT auto and that was awesome.

What's the spec of yours?

[Southy]

Its not mine its my mates. TT 6speed manual, tanaby exhaust, decatted, FCD, HKS FMIC, HkS boost controller so upped the boost from .7bar to 1.4bar, should be running around 400whp

[Southy]

As promised an update of the work I carried out this morning in machining my own boost hose couplings. I've decided to make the length of the area that the silicoln hoses sits on 5mm longer than the Forge items due to the area not being wide enough for a Mikalor clamp to sit on the inside edge of the end radius to stop the hose slipping off.
 
I first started off with an offcut billet of 6061 - T6 alloy

 
I then proceeded to use a Mazak centre lathe and wrote the program in Mazatrol

 

 
The 'Part Shape' once the program has been completed

 
Part way through machining to check dimensions

 
The finished item sat alongside a Forge coupling

 

 
Notice the radius on the end sitting inside the Mikalor clamp on the Forge item

 
And the one's I have made