paul, you say it's not the best sound, it's a damn sight better than standard, I wouldn't mind it on my car.

 

"not the best" meaning i've heard better sounding 1.8T's, but i love it nonetheless, and definitely an improvement over stock. :clap:

 

And here are a couple of pictures with the custom front grill on the car:

 

Edited 12 July, 201411 yr by PaulMIG

Adding to my maintenance and preventative mods I replaced the sai pump rivets with m4 40 machine bolts washers and nyloc nuts and also done the pikey arch mod with a b&q plastic vent riveted and sprayed black.

"not the best" meaning i've heard better sounding 1.8T's, but i love it nonetheless, and definitely an improvement over stock. :clap:

 

And here are a couple of pictures with the custom front grill on the car:

 

Paul the grill looks brilliant, the car is starting to look 'mean' keep going mate you've got good taste. Ian

Replaced the CTS again, 2 OEM,lasted a little longer than the 2 copies, but if you ask me they all garbage

fitted some new wheels and tidied up the engine bay a bit recently.  Looks like I may have to lower it a bit now lol

 

I've been finishing up fitting my fmic setup with bam boost pipework and intake manifold, needs a bit of fettling (or tidying up) but is running well... ready for a remap! :p

 

 

hey did you use a forge map sensor or std TT map pipe and sensor? I heard the battery tray needs cutting to gets pipes in?

 

asking as prepping mine soon 

"not the best" meaning i've heard better sounding 1.8T's, but i love it nonetheless, and definitely an improvement over stock. :clap:

 

And here are a couple of pictures with the custom front grill on the car:

 

 

look very similar to my car........

 

 

Not done a lot to mine lately but a couple of things.

 

I had real carbon dash but is was looking crud as the fibre matting keeps pulling away and i have never been able to use ash tray without is catching the gear surround so got hold of a spare set and also a std Octy ash tray with the cigy pic on it to be different.

 

So here's how it was (looked good if not to close up)

 

 

now with carbon effect wrap on top and gear surround(left ashtray blank as like it strangely that way)

 

 

 

 

now matches the other parts in the car i already covered with wrap 

 

 

 

 

lastly been messing with BAM inlet to start getting ready for custom FMIC

 

start by cleaning the mani

 

outside

 

 

and inside

 

 

then the polishing starts 

 

 

 

 

then the masking off and painting with matt black heat proof paint

 

 

finished job

 

 

 

 

And finally a re touch up of paint on my custom boost gauge pillar mod ( as i ran out of paint last time and it was bugging me, not that anyone else could see it lol)

 

 

that's it for now

Top notch as always Bowders. Are you going to fit one of those powergasket thingies? Not looked into them much, but apparently they keep the incoming air a lot cooler(?)

Top notch as always Bowders. Are you going to fit one of those powergasket thingies? Not looked into them much, but apparently they keep the incoming air a lot cooler(?)

I already have one of those fitted buddy[emoji12]

Oh and you might like this little fella.

Mini punisher dude.....[emoji4]

bolted up my sai today, no more hoovering in the morning haha

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look very similar to my car........

 

 

 

Well, to tell you the truth, your car has been a great inspiration 

Well, to tell you the truth, your car has been a great inspiration

Cheers buddy. Nice to know a car is used as a base for someone else modding. [emoji4]

Fitted new pads and discs upfront on saturday, then this morning had drivers side apart to cure a squeal. Cleaned the pads and disc as there was some grease under the pad, added some copper grease and squeal is gone and breaks are good

Getting angry with my vrs as the front hub decided to fall apart and smash the abs sensor all been on the car about three months

Getting angry with my vrs as the front hub decided to fall apart and smash the abs sensor all been on the car about three months

 

I have a spare one floating about if needed PM me.

colour-coded injector cups ?

Verdict motorsport version

Edited 28 July, 201411 yr by snow_muncher

I have those They're very nice.

Cheers for the offer bowders but as it's only three months old it's being sorted on warranty from euros so should be changing both items

colour-coded injector cups ?

Verdict motorsport version

 

Why did you have to show me those........

 

The wallet coming out again....

I why did you have to show me those........

 

The wallet coming out again....

 

'cos I've justy painted my intake  mani black too, went on a hunt to try to find the oem black injector cup, but found those instead

 

still not found oem black injector cups ...

Edited 28 July, 201411 yr by snow_muncher

'cos I've justy painted my intake  mani black too, went on a hunt to try to find the oem black injector cup, but found those instead

 

still not found oem black injector cups ...

 

flipping dear though....

Finally got round to fitting my FMIC this weekend. Its only a Toyosports one but seems to do the trick. Kept it looking stealth with the original grills in place for now. All the nice shiney pipework has inspired me to start looking at some other under the bonnet goodies so watch this space.

 

Edited 28 July, 201411 yr by Decender

Been prepping my new inlet manifold for painting too, pics to follow.

Will fit to my newly built large port head, flowed and using Newmans fast road cams.

Which will fit to my newly built bottom end with uprated crank, rods, pistons, acl bearings, girdled block....

Which mates up to.... tell ya later

Been prepping my new inlet manifold for painting too, pics to follow.

Will fit to my newly built large port head, flowed and using Newmans fast road cams.

Which will fit to my newly built bottom end with uprated crank, rods, pistons, acl bearings, girdled block....

Which mates up to.... tell ya later

Hmm sounds interesting....