Goals / Objectives:

Hi, ive started my winter project for about two months from now. I want to share my thoughts and ideas that might be useful for other people. The goal is to get the car in shape for beach 2014 both in looks and performance. I bought some parts throughout the past year, and planned out how most of the things should be done. Estimates approx. 250hp to run it "safe ". Then probably next winter the engine will have an makeover with larger bore, rods, cam etc. To increase the output. I hope you like my project! Don´t be afraid of giving me critics!


Engine / Transmission:

GTB2260VK Turbo
Firad 80% Injector nozzles
Vibratechnics enginemounts
CG Motorsport SMF 5 paddle clutch kit
Darkside Developments Seat Sport FMIC
Darkside Developments Hard Pipework kit
Custom Volvo D24 Intake
Ceramic coating on the intercooler, intake, boostpipes
Pipercross Venom VM7000 performance airfilter
AEM Water / methanol injectionkit 30-3000
AEM Second injector 30-3012
AEM Failsafe Water / methanol flow meter 30-3020M
AEM Analog Boost gauge 30-5132M
AEM Analog EGT gauge 30-5131M
Custom 3" Stainless Downpipe with de-cat pipe
Custom 2.5" Stainless Exhaust
Shortshift from Dieselgeeks

Verdictmotorsports shift bracket bushings

Golf mk4 v6 4-motion propshaft

 

Chassis:

FK Ak Street coilovers

FK shortened droplinks at front
Adjustable strutbearings from Silver Project
Powerflex bushes
17x7 " Octavia vRS1 "Spideralloys"
312mm Octavia vRS1 front brakes
256mm Octavia vRS1 rear brakes
Goodridge black stainless steel braided brake hoses
Front and rear suspension sandblasted, powder coated original black
New galvanized bolts, nuts, etc. for the undercarriage, chassi
ECS Polyurethane spring isolators

Golf mk4 v6 4-motion Rear suspension

Gruven controler arm kit 4pcs

Gruven rear sway bar linkage

Other:

Headlights with smoked inserts

FlyEyesKit on headlights, taillights
Removed rear seat
Removed climasystem

Removed rear wiper
Painted door handles
De-badged boot
De-badged front grill
Chromed turnsignal lights
Fabia 07 - Facelift Taillights - 6Y9 945 112 D
Black coolant lid - 3C0 121321
Black washer fluid cap - 1K0 955 455
Seat Cupra front lip - 1ML 805 903
New plates and cleaner holders
Modified to " Widemouth " front

30l fuelcell


Project Images:


A couple months after it was bought. 17" Spideralloys was the first mod. Looks like an SUV. Aprox 9800mil = 60900miles?





CG motorsport "single mass flywheel" instead of original dualmass. Should hold 570nm.




New bolts and nuts for the undercarriage, chassi before the galvanization.




GTB2260VK compressorhousing re-angled and welded to fit with the boost pipe.




Ceramic coating that keeps the alloy-material up to 25% colder than without coating.




Sandblasted / painted. I don´t like shiny things. Pure power, discretion is nice!




FK AK street coiloverkit, shortened droplinks. Will probably buy better ones later. Also the powerflex bushes seen on the pic.




AEM water/meth injectionkit with failsafe gauge, Pipercross filterbox and the Vibratechnics enginemounts. My original mounts are crap..

 

 

Removed the chassi and this picture is taken just before blasting / powder coating. #Notice the ibiza front crashbar. Alot lighter and thinner than the original.



After:



Started to mount some bushes. Turns out real nice!



Im checking the undercarriage for rust. Cleaning it and put on epoxy primer. Will be painted black on top of this when the primer is done.

Then wax protection all over.

 

Guess what flag on the left? My father owns a MG B 1963 thats why

Cutting out to get some more free space for the right driveshaft. This makes aprox. 45mm more space. Will be usefull when running low

 

256mm rear brake kit from octavia vRS

 

Starting to do "Widemouth"

After the galvanization. Will be as an extra protection.



Stainless V-band kits for my exhaust. I have all the materials needed for the exhaust. Will post a picture on that later.



This is the connectors of the ac pipes. Will be tig welded to prevent dirt getting in the evaporator.



3mm pipe welded in to place.




That was all for now! We had an awsome new years eve celebration in the garage so the tools and the car is not back in place yet. But I will fit that soon.

 

Cheers

This is great stuff! Keep it up!

Bloody hell mate the attention to detail is unreal. Very impressed with the work so far, keep it up.

The short shifter you mention, have you installed this yet?

WOW! There's a lot of love going into this car  

 

Great work fella, keep it up

Thank you! The shortshift have not arrived yet. Need to change the clutch first and the seal for the shiftfork before mounting anyway

I think I found somebody else a while ago that have used the dieselgeek shortshift on a fabia vrs mk1. So its worth a try!

 

But the undercarriage / chassi is prio one for now. Would be lovely to get the car rolling again!

Great build thread, some good attention to detail here. If you could let me know too about the Diesel geek short shift kit too please.

I did ask on here ages ago about anybody running or using one but didn't get a reply. I had one on my old Seat Ibiza cupra 20VT and it's a great mod, made a massive differance over the fwd Audi TT gearbox shifter I had fitted before to the car.

Keep the updates and pics coming :-)

Wow what an opening post!

Keep it going

Thank you!

 

After some reading on this great forum I ended up ordering:

 

Shift Bracket Bushings that will be great together with the short shift! Nice and tight!  

Going to be an awsome thread this!

I was supposed to go out and drink tonight but instead im home looking for parts

 

After reading in Johnno92 project thread I ordered perforated vinyl from FlyEyesKit. Looks like a great solution for tinting the head/taillights

The pearl is now back on the car lift. Not much done today, simply only the rear beam bushes where mounted. I also found out that the new rear brake heatshields are wrong.. Made for Polo 6R i guess with tiny rearbrakes.. Will order new at work tomorrow.

 

Cheers

Det var som attan! Ännu en Nordbo som kör Fabia! Vad tar du för att total renovera min?

 

Translated  “- Wholy Malony!! Another Nord driving Fabia!..How much do you charge to renovate mine?!”

 

:rofl:

Det var som attan! Ännu en Nordbo som kör Fabia! Vad tar du för att total renovera min?

 

Translated  “- Wholy Malony!! Another Nord driving Fabia!..How much do you charge to renovate mine?!”

 

:rofl:

 

Where do you live in sweden? I can fix your car

  Swede living abroad, but for sure, if we can agree, i would not mind leaving my Fabia Wagon 2.0 // 2003 for a total upgrade. 250.000 km. As i mentioned in my introduction, i became emotional attached and dont want to see this car go away...

 

Its a gem!

This is going to be near on concourse at this rate with a decent spec. Can't wait to see more of it

Thanks for the great replies!

 

PRAGUE - I really can help you, but first I need to get my own car rolling again. I hope you have understanding

 

Some freaking ideas is going on in my head right now! Im not going to reveal them before I have checked some of it first.

But if I can make the ideas work at an reasonable amount of money I will do it. This car maybe soon be one Epic Motherf.

 

Cheers!

You sir are nuts! This is going to be good. 

Flyeyeskit and shift bracket bushings came today

 

 

Burrowed this Golf mk4 v6 4-motion from my friend to do some measurements. Maybe you can guess what plans I have? Fabia mk1 Alldrive, Woop Woop!! It´s been done by people already but it´s still uniqe. The rear suspension, haldex, propshaft etc. is not straight bolt-on. But the way I see, it´s posible to do. Prio one will be to mount the rear suspension, fuelcell and build the exhaust inline with the propshaft. Will not need the 4wd until the internal engine upgrade is done I think! So the other parts will be bought later when needed!

 

 

Already ordered:

 

Golf mk4 v6 4-motion 2001: Propshaft and rear suspension. Aprox. 9500mil = 59k miles. Pictures is taken 2006, seems like these parts are not very needed, until now

 

 

Two sets of Gruven black rear control arms + adjustable sway bar end links. They where not for free...

 

 

I will now also have friend support to make this happen! David known him for years, driving a Ibiza Mk2 converted to vr6 2,9l. I will help him with his car after this. He is thinking about a rotrex! Will be awesome

 

Goodnight!

Interesting! Will keep an eye on this

All I can say is wow this is going to be an amazing fabia and love the attention to detail. I'm keen to see the progress might learn a thing or two

What an amazing project. Another or interested in the shortshifter. I didn't know one existed until now

Great looking thread so far.

You my friend are an absolute legend..! Really looking forward to seeing this come together..! 

How is the project going? Need to see more

Damn!  Followed.