Im looking at buying another mk1 fabia vrs as i really do miss my old ones (ive had 3) been off the site for quite a while now so its likely not many will remember my old se these days. i was wondering how far on the tuning of the pd motor has come i have slowly been collecting chassis mods and misc parts for my next fabia project and last week collected what was probably in my opinion the best mod i ever did to the se a atb peloquin diff. so what is considered big power from a fabia these days? And how does one go about achieving it?

the wanderer returns :wonder:

it's a case of same old story for tuning them up, nothing revolutionary ever gets done to them really.. You will find a few stories of folks on here with hybrid turbos and fancy intercoolers but it's all old hat now.. It's all about mpg nowadays.

Im looking at buying another mk1 fabia vrs as i really do miss my old ones (ive had 3) been off the site for quite a while now so its likely not many will remember my old se these days. i was wondering how far on the tuning of the pd motor has come i have slowly been collecting chassis mods and misc parts for my next fabia project and last week collected what was probably in my opinion the best mod i ever did to the se a atb peloquin diff. so what is considered big power from a fabia these days? And how does one go about achieving it?

Welcome back. It's the same old story really - You haven't missed much.

You going to come and impress us again? Show these boys how it's really done?

GTB2260VK turbo plus some +80% injectors should see you pushing 270 bhp

It's a lot of money though!

Nice to see not everyone has left

im not sure i really showed them how it was done last time lol but ill give it another good go i suppose

270bhp hmmm guess tom is right nothing much has changed really , well at least i should know my way round a fabia by now some good cheap ones in for sale at the minute

Im looking at buying another mk1 fabia vrs

spaz

headwork, cam nozzles and 2260 (or hybrid 2260?) is about 300bhp

well at least i should know my way round a fabia by now some good cheap ones in for sale at the minute

Plenty more dogs around now though! Was your old one the SE?

I remember taking the gearbox out and fitting it into Andys car all in one day.

What I'd really like to see is somebody do something out of the ordinary to a fabia. Like a v6 tdi transplant... there will be brigade of 'mines been chipped to like 250 brake mate' folks who drive them but thats not really tuning to be honest but i would call that more like paying some spotty schmuck with a laptop to do it for you! the sad reality nowadays is that most of these cars have been thrashed and ruined by ch@vs and idiots.. what you really need if you want it to go fast is bin the diesel and stick a turbocharged petrol engine in there.. Oh and you will need to address the issue of the wayward handling too.

any who before anybody says it, yes that is a very narrow minded few from me.... It all boils down to how much money you have at the end of the day, and there will always been somebody else faster than you no matter what you do.. I'll hang my head in shame now for uttering such blasphemous remarks on here.. :wonder:

:clap: Hi Gary!

I remember taking the gearbox out and fitting it into Andys car all in one day.

you loved it

Hi Gary, Welcome back!

Yours was one of the best handling fabia's around if my memory serves me correctly? You must be a glutton for punishment!

What mods did he have to make it one of the best handling Fabias then bar the the KW variant threes?

you loved it

I ached after it lol

Welcome back Gary.

So when we playing with scoobies in the wet then?

Darkside performance now do an kit for GTB's. That's about it so nothing's really changed.

Thought i was stilled banned from the scoobynet trackdays..... lol

getting the box changed over was a fun day tho special western boys bbq thrown in and everything

erm spec.... i completly forgot if im honest kws and a diff are all i remember oh and busheall manor of braces which did absolutly nothing lol

I remember it Gary, didn't you say it handled like crap?

Mk2's were so much better right?

the wanderer returns :wonder:

it's a case of same old story for tuning them up, nothing revolutionary ever gets done to them really.. You will find a few stories of folks on here with hybrid turbos and fancy intercoolers but it's all old hat now.. It's all about mpg nowadays.

Too right, why do you think I bought a diesel!

It never quite handled like i wanted it too admitedly but no one could ever say it handled badly just no where near my mk2 gti on coilovers lol not even when the fabia was shod in slicks and the mk2 with budget road rubber lol

what spec was your car?

Hi, I remember your old car.

I'm myself just getting back on the site after a few years.

Now, to read the thread.