That looks amazing mate. Can't wait to see what power you can get out of it in January

Quality welds, seen worse on £2000 bikes, never mind a part that will hardly beseen, well impressed Simon

looking good! I admit I've not always been much of a Fabia fan, but Jas showed me the pics of yours in the workshop and it looks awesome! I've only been ribbing him to get my Octavia in for a i/c for about 6months - a year!

Great project :clap:

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Get the rad pictures up Si!

Get the rad pictures up Si!

Told you it was big

Still waiting on the pics

Well impressed with the intercooler :p looks a top job looking forward to seeing the rad and how it all looks on the car :yes:

Told you it was big

Still waiting on the pics

RADical :PPpppPpp!

The more I read about this kit, the more I want it...

Maybe I should try to strike a deal with them for having some product-placement in Sweden .

Here you go these are the pics of the radiator

Stock radiator

Dimensions

28mm thick x 730 wide x 410 high = around 8.4litres

Pace Products radiator

Dimensions

50mm thick x 730 wide 410 high = around 15 litres = 78% increase

As you can see, its a fair bit larger than stock.

Got some more pictures of the intercooler as well

Well i removed the rear bumper and the ballast weights from the car today. Almost gave up as one torx screws was defeating me for about 45 minutes because i couldnt get to it well enough to crack it then unscrew.

So i removed the wheel and arch lining in the end. Job done.

I cant believe they literally just bolted 25kg of metal weight to the rear crash beam. Easy and cheap method of weight loss though

Just driven it, and it is notably improved with the back end being alot more lively. Much less understeer, definitely a bigger difference than i expected to be honest. Probably to do with the fact that they were right out behind the rear wheels that makes it so much more noticable

Good work mate

Do they make the car less stable at all?

God wish I could just find three bits of metal amounting to 25kg to just unbolt from the mongrel

Shiny new parts

Braille B14 115 lightweight battery.

OEM battery is 20kg, Braille B14 115 battery is 5kg.

So between that and the ballast weights on the rear crash beam ive dropped 40kg of weight off of the car now.

Just need to sort out some terminals and then ill be getting her fitted

Don't forget to count the 49 kg's off rearseat / sparewheel / jackhammer you throw out when you're on the drag-strip .

Figure that you can loose alot more if you remove all the plastics in the rear, the door-panels and the passenger-seat (for racing-use only ofc)?

I reckon once ive done the alloys and brakes, ill be able to run the car up the strip and on track at least 110kg under the standard kerb weight

Its the pwer to weight that is really impressive with these cars IMO.

178hp/1.2tonne (stock weight & power) = 148hp/ton

213hp/1.2tonne(stock weight)= 178hp/ton

With weight reduction:

213Hp/1.15tonne(everyday weight) = 185hp/ton

213hp/1.09tonne(trackday weight) = 195hp/ton

Once i get myself back upto shark to have my map turned all the way up to take into account all the new mods im expecting around 220-230hp.

230hp/1.15tonne(everyday weight) = 200hp/ton

230hp/1.09tonne(trackday weight) = 211hp/ton :yes: :yes:

For a performance comparison

Focus RS 2.5T

300Hp/1.468tonne = 204hp/ton

This is again looking really interesting.

Wish I had the money and time to do all these mods!

Keep the updates coming.

Im doing this on a budget.

So far, all mods included, ive spent a total of £220( right place, right time for excellent opportunities). I plan on spending another £1600 at the absolute maximum.

For that 2k I'm after brakes, coilovers, arbs, custom remap and lightweight alloys

How is the cars stability without the weights in place mate?

Spot on and alot more willing to turn in. Still needs further work,but this was a step in the right direction.

Might have to give this a go myself! Was the bumper tough to remove?

Theres a small screw under the arch which was awkward with the wheel on, one i took the wheel off it was much easier.

Theres a small screw under the arch which was awkward with the wheel on, one i took the wheel off it was much easier.

Depends on the tool, a torx on a ratchet and you won't need to remove the wheel even .

Those are the trickiest ones, but it's not complicated at all to remove those weights!

Anyway i was having a look at the battery today in the car, wandering how im going to get the massive formed plastic connector c/w attached relays and fuse boxes from the std OEM battery to the Braille one. Think i can get it to work once i lay the braille on its side otherwise we might hit a little difficulty.

Whilst there i thought id have the forge intake off and give it a good shake out since its been on for 3.5k now. The turbo side was clean and dry as a whistle. The otherside as you would expect was filled with crap, including 3 decapitated wasps amongst other things.

They come with quite alot of oil though, which makes me wonder why people moan about the ITG filter being dodgy because you have to oil it periodically. Looks like the same deal for the forge which is a paper/cotton gauze element.

Nice amount of surface area on it though, thanks to the inverted section, i expected it to be alot smaller for some reason. Intrigued to find out how the size of it compares to the ITG.

filter element

Oil on the incoming air duct side

Definitely doing its job

Regarding the battery (Braille) except the fact that it is smaller and lighter are there any drawbacks?

Its not a good idea if you leave your car parked up untouched for days on end. But if the most you leave it is 4-5 days its fine. Mine will be left for much longer at times but ill either disconnect it or attach a trickle charger

Took the golf cart to Mallory Park today with the Javelin TD event.

Awesome turnout and variety of cars on hand from Porsche 911 turbos, lotus's, Clio RS race cars and fully stripped out/caged track cars, kit cars, TVRs, a ridiculously fast ford RS van, to my little Fabia.

Weather was horrendous. Really cold and raiing all day, track was soaked, causing loads of guys to have 'moments' all over the track.

Somehow though, despite my worries of my rear tyres being worse for wear and potentially causing a lot of oversteer, the fabia was perfect all day, and really performed well through the bends and the straights. Everyone else seemed to be fighting their cars (wasnt a good day to have RWD), yet mine just felt fine with no real traction issues (apart from exiting the hairpin in 2nd).

The only issues I had were a spot of oversteer exiting Gerards when it was raining because the DSG kept over riding the manual and changing to 4th gear when i wanted to hang on to 3rd , but when a drier line appeared, it was better as i was in 4th much earlier, also suffered understeer at the cooper Esses, but even then, it wasn't bad, and if anything lined me up for the corner exit with no issues.

Really really surprised at the levels of grip considering the weather, i was expecting it to be like an ice rink. I somehow managed to get into a tripod at one of the corners . Mostly i'm surprised that a set of Conti sport contact 2 tyres with tread just above the wear markers performed the way they did. They were horrendous at Rockingham both times, yet here, they were fantastic.

Some pictures

That TVR was immense. Me and Mike got a passenger ride in that. He wasnt even taking at past 5k, but was still flying around, and not shy of going sideways either. BUT, im only 5'9" and i had my head at about 45degrees to fit in the car!! small price to pay for the noise though.

As usual though, the kit car drivers were the problem for the whole day refusing to move over for faster cars all day long. With some of them not even having brake lights or anything, which is mega dodgy in the wet, with spray when they arent going that fast

Oh and people dont like moving over for skoda's :giggle:

I did have a few guys ask if i was at Donnington recently though as there was a white Fabia vRS hooning around there which had impressed them all, im presuming thats curly in his car?