Rotherz Project Vrs

[Rotherz]

Thought id start my own progress thread on here seen as ive decided to spend some money now on the VRS.

So i started the search around september last year for the Vrs and finally found one for sale at a fiat dealer in oldham manchester, being fairly local i had a quick drive down and had a look over the car and instantly noticed that this was no standard Vrs.

After a quick test drive and sorting out the important factors such as the final price, i decided i had to have it.

after getting her home and being able to give the car a proper once over i noticed that the previous owner had fully pollybushed the car and lowered it on (from what i can remember) apex springs.

After searching though plenty of receipts that also came with the car theres been some extensive money spent on a re-map (i presume) and some other bits from awesome gti (im not sure what was bought as they are just card receipts)

After the first clean...

Then the modifying started, soon after the headlights got tinted and the grille sprayed and most importantly the coilovers.

Was happy with the way the car sat at this point, Suitably low for the roads around my area ahaha!

After this i decided the standard head unit wasnt good enough, well mainly cos i broke the ******

So took a vist to the local halfords and purchased this little bluetooth number....

As you can see from the photo i had to do some modifying to the the surround around it properly located (more Updated photo to follow)

A quick shot of the underside of the Vrs when parked everyday...

Then ive had around about a year with no modifying atall and some minor issues

The rear brake caliper seals decided they wanted to move out, and did, meaning a new calliper was required.

I then one very boring night at a friends garage decided to take an angle grinder to the cat, and welded in its place a piece of pipe from another project of ours.

This was all me going in hunt of the 'owl hoot' noise and running with the standard backbox im still searching aha!

Ive been in talks with a local company about getting some intercooler kits together (Pipes, cores, noses) There looking at a cost price for us guys of around £300 which for a complete kit seems a fantastic price compared to the forge kits ive been looking into.

Plans for this weekend are to fit HIDs properly to the car, and plumb in a boost gauge.

[bowen]

Great start, keep it up mate.

[Rotherz]

Great start, keep it up mate.

Thank dude, more photos with the weekends work to follow this evening.

[DanHam]

Looks nice mate! How do you find the head unit? I've got one and only run iPod through it, trying to find a song / artist is a bit of a faff!

[bowen]

Whats this weekends progress been? come on......come on.......

[Rotherz]

Little update from the weekend, HIDS fitted as seen below along with a TRS toe strap i had lying around.

Thanks to ej9 for the photos,

More Mods coming this weekend

[bowen]

Looking good.

What Coilovers are you running? Have you thought of rear spacers.

[Rotherz]

Few bits achieved this week.

Finished my double din surround

Then headed down to my friends work to have a winter clean, don't have any before photos unfortunately.. But here's the results

Passenger seat:

Drivers and passengers

Rear bench

Exterior mid clean:

The iPhone photos really don't do the seats justice but the inside valet bay lighting didn't help either.

Ill throw some more photos up when it stop raining.

Comments as always welcomed

[Dark_Hero]

Making good progress mate. Looks really good at that height