Taylor93's Mk1 VRS

[Taylor93]

After being a member on Briski for almost 3 years Ive never owned a VRS model, Despite the countless Fabias ive owned. Well that today has ended

 

I picked up this baby for £2000 with 100k miles on the clock, So barely run in . Its alot of service history, cambelt change at 75k and is in pretty good shape for a 10 year old car. Also has an Electric Sunroof

 

 

 

 

 

It came with Tints (not the best job either) a bit of a funky smell inside, damp patches on the seats and a worn drivers seat bolster.

 

 

 

 

My To do list:

 

Fit Coilovers

Fit a Jabba RARB

312mm Disc upgrade

Better Tyres (current ones have very little tread)

Clean up the car generally (including headlights and repair fog lights)

Do Headgasket + Full service inc belts and tensioners

Replace worn CV Boot

Replace Console bushes

Fix Oil leaks/Weeps

 

maybe further down the line, remaps and bigger turbo

 

edit: im going to update this post with time to show my plans/achievements

[James I]

Happy new car Taylor.  Looks like a fine example.

 

 Have to ask, what have you done with the Fiesta after all the effort you put into it?

[Dark_Hero]

Hooray welcome to the Vrs owners

I'll have a 312mm upgrade available soon if you're interested

[TERKIN]

will keep an eye out for this then :clap:

[Taylor93]

WEll the Fiesta is a awkward one atm. THe fabia was cheap, but it may need a bit of work (header tank is pressurising heavily) so i will continue to run around the the fez. Unfortunatlely i found a few things wrong with the fiesta:

 

1)The Seat/ driving position was vastly uncomfortable, i have bit of a back problem (at 21 :( ) and it was causing me quite a bit of pain.

2) the 4 tyres were budgets and nearly killed me once, so i was quite shaken by the experience. the cost to replace was greater than the price of the car.

3) the handling/general design of the car is nothing compared to standard cars 10 years newer than the fiesta. So i realised IMO much like riding a motorbike, you can be the best driver in the world but it doesnt stop other people being idiots. all it takes was an idiot to crash into me and id be alot worse off. so instead of taking that risk i thought id return to the fold and get another Skoda Fabia

4) Parts, yes they are cheap, but hell are they crap, ive had to replace more things on that fiesta then most of my other cars (with the exception of my Alfa Romeo, but we wont go there)

5) i wanted a good car for Bedford How Fast. So techincally my ticket for that is £2000 + the ticket fee lol

 

 

If i could id sell the Fiesta to break even but i doubt i can due to how many dents etc on the bodywork so ill put it down to "an experiance" of owning my first and so far my only ford.

[BossFox]

Not sure if you are going to sort the headlight with wet and dry, but I got a replacement headlight on eBay for £20 delivered!

Looks nice though, silver suits the mk1 VRS.

Hope the pressurising isn't anything too serious.

[Toxicvrs]

3m kit did it for me and lovely knew it wouldn't be long before another Skoda

[williamvrs]

Hey ppl sorry its off topic but how do you post pics??

[mdk1]

Looks very nice Taylor,

Should keep you entertained for a while, RARB is a very good call.

[Taylor93]

Head Gasket is definitely gone and needs doing :(

[mdk1]

Should have it done by tomorrow then!

[Taylor93]

Should have it done by tomorrow then!

 

Brothers Stag do tomorrow

 

even then i know nothing about diesel lumps, my experiance is all with twin cam or OHV petrol engines.

 

then again wont be very different. Ill have to give it alot of thought whether i do it or get someone else to do it.

[Dark_Hero]

That's a shame mate. Hope it's easy enough to fix

[BossFox]

If you need anything, shout.

Even have a spare head... and a complete engine.

[Toxicvrs]

Brothers Stag do tomorrow

even then i know nothing about diesel lumps, my experiance is all with twin cam or OHV petrol engines.

then again wont be very different. Ill have to give it alot of thought whether i do it or get someone else to do it.

I'd give it a shot as nowt to lose - you've always got a backup plan!

[Taylor93]

So.... It looks like im starting it next week! lol

 

Anyone aware of any specialist tooling ill need?

[Slotty]

Chuffed for you Taylor... well done...!

[mdk1]

So.... It looks like im starting it next week! lol

 

Anyone aware of any specialist tooling ill need?

Hammer, gaffa tape. That's what I had for my Land Rover, covered most things!

[ric04vrs]

3m kit did it for me and lovely

Another vote for the 3M kit, worked very well on my 10yo xenons on the Fabia

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[Taylor93]

Tonight (me being me) i decided to jack the car up and have a good inspection underneath to find out truely what kind of shape the car was in. Apart from the fact it looked like the previous owner tried to be Pentti Airikkala it wasnt in too bad a shape.

 

 

 

 

 

My main concerns are as follows:

 

Incorrectly fitted Console bush

 

 

Split Outer N/S CV Boot

 

 

A few Oil weeps, One on the under side of the Oil Cooler which had dripped onto the cable running along the front of the sump, then one on the bottom of the SMIC (common i know) then one ontop of a A/C Line which runs underneath the Boost pipe (see shiny bit bellow my finger) and a very dirty EGR Valve.

 

 

 

One final thing, this looks like CV grease stuck in the Exhaust flexi, anyone seen this before? I reckon its CV grease as its inline with the CV boot. 

 

 

 

Apart from that it looks like it has brand spanking new ARB Drop links, pretty much brand new 288 discs with almost no wear at all 

 

[Ad Lav]

Looking good mate - nice to see you in a vrs and I agree with you on the fez.

Not worth spending money on tyres etc when it's potentially a death trap on wheels lol

[Taylor93]

Progress!

 

I have Tomorrow and Friday booked off, so I thought to make it easier tomorrow I would start work a little this evening. Problem was My brothers wedding rehearsal was tonight so i couldnt spend too long on it.

 

But now the parts are taking up the Dining Room floor

 

 

this did worry me a little

 

 

 

While removing the EGR Valve my super duper high tech 1/4" ratchet decided it was too hot and wanted to cool off, so it dived down the back of the engine into the bucket of oil being drained....

 

 

New parts n tools

 

 

 

So tonight i have removed:

 

Oil

Coolant

All Intake/boost pipes to/from the SMIC

EGR Valve (quite dirty)

Air Box and intake pipe

Auxiliary belt

Crankshaft Pulley ( this was a PITA as the 4 6mm Hex screws had already been partially rounded!! grrr one suffered more so i need replacements!)

Hub Nuts

 

I loosened both hub nuts as i have to change the CV boot on one side and replace the wishbone bushes and i hav something else planned too! :P

[BossFox]

Good progress.

I'll pop by tomorrow for a nose.

[Taylor93]

more parts to order tomorrow :S just got to hope they are on the shelf otherwise it maybe bit of a pain to finish the head gasket when i want to.

[Slotty]

Looking Really Good Taylor. Nice work...! I hope you'll be able to find some spare time to fit the brakes to my Fabia next week...