One of these on the car park at work today and it got me looking through some old photos of the mean machine and i thought i would join Freedom to share them!!!!

this is how i sold her and the mods to buy the vRS

1998 P Reg, Hyundai coupe, 2.0L 16V SE

Antique Rose

137,000 Miles, full leather, air con, electric sunroof, mirror etc

Modifications

F2 Evo engine fitted with only 15k on the engine (other one had 128k)

Spax springs and dampeners - lowered 40mm

Front strut brace

Rear strut brace

Mintex extreme front discs and pads

Ferrodo premium rear discs and pads

Goodridge braided brake hoses front and back

dot 5.1 brake fluid

Apexi air filter with customer CAI

Full Powerflow dual exit exhaust Cat back

Extreme Racing 4-2-1 Manifold including de-cat

Remapped ECU from collins performance

17" Ace 197 alloys Fully refurbed in hyper black

205-40-17 Toyo Proxies front and back

15mm spacers

Full respray (standard colour)

Custom Grill

power boost valve

Fuel pressure regulator

Uprate anti roll bar front

Uprated anti roll bar rear

adjustable cam sprocket

underdrive crank puller

custom made magnecor 9mm race leads

deno iridium spark plugs

valeo street clutch

reinforce hose kit

acceleration puller on throttle body

big bore throttle body

polyurathane bush kit

polyurathane engine mounts

I couldnt sell her when i wanted to and someone had my hand off for £2750 with 12 months tax and M-O-T,

i want her back so badly

Edited 10 September, 200817 yr by bobjim

You sold that and bought a vRS

would have her back in a flash,

so what you guys think???

You sold that and bought a vRS

nooooooooooooooooooooooooo you're meant to say well done,

i needed the economy and i was getting sick of £80 optimax every 4 days

nooooooooooooooooooooooooo you're meant to say well done,

i needed the economy and i was getting sick of £80 optimax every 4 days

Sorry, no can do

i didnt think it was anything special at the time but looking back....

I've had one of them and I still have fond memories of it. Mine was in a purple-ish black.

I've had one of them and I still have fond memories of it. Mine was in a purple-ish black.

Make your mind up Q, purple or black

Make your mind up Q, purple or black

could it be Aubergine???

Nope, it was black when the clouds were over, turning to purple if the sun came out. Definitely not aubergine, although I can't remember what it was called instead.

This is the colour

Just looks dirty to me

How did you find as a drive, I have read good reviews, but never trusted journalist's

I used to build the F2 spec cars at MSD

Just looks dirty to me

How did you find as a drive, I have read good reviews, but never trusted journalist's

was corking to drive,

it was 1650kg thou!!!! so as standard it was a little sluggish,

with the suspension it was on rails!!!

with the new engine with the different cam in it and the goodies it would waste integra's and gti-6's no worries,

emailed the guy i sold it too, asking if i could buy it back!!!!!

he said its not for sale,

i offered 2.8k more than i sold it for!!!!

HELP!!!!