Sparkly's Mk2 vRS (now sadly returning to stock)

[Sparkly]

Hi Guys,

I've been posting for a little while in the Mk2 section and have decided that there are no longer enough active Mk2 Fabia vRS threads, so I am starting my modest little project.

I have had the car running stock since February and am going to be working backwards a little to catch up on work done so far and then bring things up to date and looking to future plans

I bought the car at a shade over 31k miles from Lookers Skoda Manchester, fell in love with the car after test drive, the engine and gearbox utterly sold it for me. Car was specced in Rallye Green with 17" Black Gigaro's and from the options list only had the full climate control. Sadly the original mats were half inched by the valeter's and I never saw a resolution on this with Lookers. The car had a knock from the osr suspension are and some minor rattles, all resolved nicely under warranty with DM Keith Huddersfield. Had a minor wobble that the car might be going through oil when first joining Briskie but this turned out to be first 1.4tsi owner nerves, touch would to date it has barely used a drop.

I will try to keep updates coming but this has the potential to be a slowish burner, only time will tell. Plenty of catch up to do to bring things up to date anyway. So I shall get posting.

To whet your appetite here are some shots of "Mean Green" when pretty new to me, getting his first bath.

[Sparkly]

Oh yeah that's purple snow foam. For anyone interested it is Autobrite Direct Snowfoam attachment on a Karcher K2 p/w using Autobrite Purple Magifoam, it's the Mutts undercarriage. Shot's taken around ten minutes after application.

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And a little after shot

[Sparkly]

An early shot of Mean Green enjoying the Yorkshire countryside. Poor lighting and taken on camera phone.

[DanHam]

Very nice, I love the colour of these!

[Sparkly]

Very nice, I love the colour of these!

Thanks, by the time I run out of things to post, you'll be sick of Rallye Green

[sharkrider]

I may have to start a thread now

[Wardy]

They do suit green, like it

[Sparkly]

A shot a few weeks later after a big detailing session carried out alongside a mate with a lovely blue MkIV R32

Much waxy love

And then it rains :(. But that does mean..............beading

More beads

[c@n]

Very nice... I like the color combination... green with black alloy... I have the white alloys which I will change it to black... its very hard to keep it clean...

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[GNISS]

Love the last photo, it means the appearance is clean and shiny. 

[Sparkly]

Couple more after shots from the detailing session, LSP was actually Turtle Wax ICE Synthetic Paste Polish, gave great results, super easy to work with and smells fab. Now have a collection including Poorboys Nattys Paste Wax White, Collinite's and others. Should make a return to the ICE though as it was v impressive.

Looking tall on stock suspension there

[Sparkly]

Nice nose shot in the works car park, colleagues 123d Coupe in the background

[Wardy]

Needs the 123d ride height cloning

 

Looking good though 

[Sparkly]

Needs the 123d ride height cloning

 

Looking good though 

All will be revealed shortly Wardy

[Sparkly]

So after much deliberation this was my first performance addition. I was very lucky to pick this up off the Briskie for sale section. I had set myself the task of only buying quality and only buying mods that won't be superseded and need replacing, this will become more relevant later on in the thread. This is a VWRacing example but it is essentially a rebranded ITG Maxogen. It makes a great noise without being excessive and even on a stock car it felt like it freed up some performance, car feels more 'willing'

Big Filter surface area

Donor car

Now on Mean Green

Mini review thread here http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/286241-new-toy-vwr-racing-intake/?hl=%2Bvwracing+%2Bintake#entry3393129

[vRSy]

What you need is a nice little light weight Braille Battery to free up some kg and space in that engine bay......Now who has one of these in his garage going cheap....lol

[Sparkly]

Let's talk turkey

[OzFabia]

Does that flexi-tube simply end behind the headlight there? With no funnel on the end?

[Sparkly]

Does that flexi-tube simply end behind the headlight there? With no funnel on the end?

That is correct, apparently designed that way by ITG because that is an area of high pressure air, the section behind the battery acts like a 'ram', someone with more technical smarts than me can possibly confirm the validity of this

If you dismantle the front slam panel connection for the OEM you can see that it doesn't draw that much air anyway albeit it looks better and less Heath Robinson than the ITG set up.

......however the ITG does give proven gains on mapped cars, important if you plan to go stage 2.

[Sparkly]

Next I ordered up some Team Heko Wind Deflectors from the mighty bay of "E"

[Sparkly]

I also swapped out my front tyres for some Vredestein Ultrac Cento's really nice tyre, good dry grip, amazing in the wet and quiet as a mouse.

Small review here. http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/286216-vredestein-ultrac-cento-mini-review/

Some of these photos are a touch out of sync, those eagle eyed readers will note a distinct reduction in arch gap..........well, keep reading

[BossFox]

Bigger front brakes?

[Sparkly]

Bigger front brakes?

Don't encourage me please, I just posted elsewhere they are an absolute must, I have my eye on a set of R32 golf Mk IV twin pot 334mm fronts.

I'm still catching my thread up to present day but with handling and power upgrades comes great responsibility...............and by that I mean new brakes, hmm with new rubber oooh or just new alloys 8j???

........can someone tell the gremlins in my head and on my iPad screen to be quiet

[Sparkly]

Had a little delivery from AKS Tuning

:rofl: :rofl:

Does any body want a clue? :think:

It was some of these

These look precisely 40mm shorter than my current one, won't that look nice

[Sparkly]

So it goes something like

BEFORE

AFTER