So, what is this project and why did i restart it? I kind of lost some motivation on the the first project thread and sort of gave up, the old topic was kind of messy, unrelated posts etc. and because I started the original project back in 2014 (nearly 2 years ago!) I know if I looked back through it, a lot of photos would be deleted or no longer visible, I'm going to lay out this topic in a similar way to the topic on Mighty Car Mods.

 

When the topic first started out, I had no big plans for the car, how much the car has transformed over the years has been down to 2 main factors, Briskoda.net and Updown789, who I met through Briskoda just over a year ago, his help with the car has been huge and without him, the car wouldn't be what it is today. We've had our moments at times and disagreements, but we have always looked back and laughed about them. (I also mustn't forget Stormchaser, who has also lent a hand or 2 every once and a while and provided a few parts for the car as well as anyone else who has helped me and I haven't named.)

 

Let's get into things.. to keep things short and sweet, I'll post all the major changes that have been made (so I won't bother posting about the Heko wind deflectors etc.).. i'll be honest too, during my time of ownership I have done some mighty **** looking modifications and made mistakes for choosing modifications that haven't exactly looked great.. it's all about learning from your mistakes though.. right..?

This is going to be a mighty long first post.

 

14th January 2013, the day I bought the car, a standard Citigo SE model in Tornado Red with the winter pack (heated seats, electric heated mirrors) and 14" Apus wheels.

 

 

12th June 2014 -

 

I crashed. (Not my fault, doing the speed limit and a deer came out and I had nowhere to go.) The parts damaged were:

 

- Bonnet

- Headlight

- Headlight bracket

- Bumper to side panel clip

- Inner wheel arch

- Side panel

- Front bumper

 

 

18th July 2014 -

 

Debadged the rear after being motivated to do it by Stormchaser. (Apologies I haven't got a great picture. Also this was done whilst the car was still being repaired.)

 

 

24th July 2014 -

 

Finally the car was repaired, having 0 knowledge of cars and how parts worked, I fitted and sourced all the parts myself from eBay & Skoda, the wing I bought did need respraying and due to my lack of knowledge on cars, the person who resprayed the wing, didn't use the cars paint code so, it's not the right shade of red.

 

The wheels were also resprayed black, by again the same person, this was also done on the cheap as I later found obvious runs in the paint and it was done with the tyre still on the wheel.

 

 

23rd March 2015 -

 

It begins.. having purchased a incorrectly described headlight switch, which was chrome, I wanted chrome to match the chrome heater controls, turns out it was from an Up! so illuminated red and not green, however this prompted me to wanting to change all the lights in the car to red, as I liked the look and colour, so I got some Volkswagen Up! heater controls & buttons to match.

 

 

14th April 2015 -

First of many big changes, H&R lowering springs. (35mm.)

 

 

19th April 2015 (An educated guess..) -

 

Changed front grille over to a Monte Carlo one from the OEM Chrome one. (Again IIRC, this was originally Stormchaser's.)

 

 

21st May 2015 -

 

After noticing my front numberplates were tired and worn I changed them out for some funky 3D effect number plates.

 

 

11th June 2015 -

 

Without a doubt in my mind the worst modification I have ever done, I got completely fobbed off by an eBay seller and bought what I thought were genuine leather seats, which it turned out, was just leather sprayed onto the original cloth seats (if you think they look rubbish in the photos, just imagine what they looked like in person! :D) 

 

 

20th June 2015 -

 

Upgraded the speakers to FLI ones. (No pictures due to limitations on how many pictures can be posted to one single post on Briskoda.)

 

11th July 2015 -

 

FLI Rear speakers added. (Had none in the rear from factory.) (No pictures due to limitations on how many pictures can be posted to one single post on Briskoda.)

 

17th July 2015 -

 

Volkswagen Up! radio finally fitted to match the heater controls, also, this is gloss black opposed to the standard plastic look the Skoda Citigo radio has.

 

 

22nd August 2015 -

 

Functioning autolights with coming and leaving home function enabled via VCDS.

 

 

28th September 2015 -

 

Another addition to the red theme, W8 Interior Light.

 

 

2nd October 2015 -

 

Actual leather seats! Okay, not 100% leather, rather a mix of both pleather and leather done by Seat Surgeons in West Yorkshire.

 

 

4th October 2015 -

 

Following on with more leather bits, a Volkswagen Up! leather handbrake and Gearknob.

 

 

17th October 2015 -

 

Said goodbye to the H&R springs and upgraded to KW Variant 1 Coilovers (secondhand) to lower the car that ever so slightly more. An up to date picture just after the coilovers.

 

 

17th - 18th November 2015 -

 

Had the car professionally detailed and paintwork also corrected, 20 hours labour.

 

 

3rd December 2015 -

 

Dewipered. (The plastic bung was soon replaced with a flush glass one.)

 

 

9th January 2016 -

 

Continuing with the leather theme, MK3 Skoda Octavia leather MF steering wheel.

 

 

13th February 2016 -

 

MY16 Skoda CItigo Monte Carlo cherry red centre console fitted.

 

 

23rd March 2016 -

 

No photos.. however the car was remapped by EcoTuning with a map from Celtic Tuning.. what this started was a complete change in terms of what route I was taking the car down.

 

13th April 2016 -

 

Chopped off the resonance chamber from the OEM intake pipe. Now with a remap, I was on the hunt for more power from the 1.0 engine, this one mod is what started a long road to find the best intake pipe I could make/find.

 

 

17th April 2016 -

 

More attempts to gain power, with Updown789's help, we de-restricted the filter box. (This was of course smoothed.)

 

 

5th May 2016 -

 

Redid the intake pipe with a Silicone bend. And also picked up some freshly refurbished Volkswagen Avus wheels found on the old Volkswagen Cabriolets, these wheels were originally in Updown789's possession however I purchased them from him and had them diamond cut and resprayed by Motura in Ferndown.

 

 

 

13th May 2016 -

 

It turned out the silicone pipe was rubbing on the bonnet, so this was scrapped and using some intake ducting I bought of eBay a year or so back, I came up with a design and found a way I can have a pipe coming from behind the grille direct to the filter box. This will soon again change as this "design" so to speak was revised 3 or 4 times before being final.

 

 

17th May 2016 -

 

Again, changed the intake pipe, got rid of the Silicone bend as it really wasn't needed.

 

 

24th May 2016 -

 

Took the car again to Motura to have the OEM Skoda Citigo Sport splitter and diffuser fitted as well as a gloss black OEM Volkswagen Up! spoiler.

 

 

Present (9th June 2016) -

 

 

Exterior -

 

2017 Monte Carlo Taillights (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=4818255)

Lamin-X Yellow Fog Lights

Volkswagen golf MK4 Amber side indicators

Summer wheels - Atec F1 16" Bronze Alloys (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=4927424)

Winter wheels - OEM Apus 14" Black Alloys

Track wheels - Atec Ultralite 16" Bronze Alloys (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=4761617)

Rear wiper delete

Front and rear mudflaps (OEM)

Heko wind deflectors

Debadged on the rear

Rear diffuser from the Sport model

Front splitter from the Sport model

Volkswagen Up! gloss black spoiler

 

Interior -

 

2016 Skoda Citigo Monte Carlo centre console (cherry red)

MK3 Skoda Octavia / Superb / MK1 Kodiaq MFSW (Alcantara) (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=4884232)

Volkswagen Up! radio

Volkswagen Up! heater module

Volkswagen Golf MK4 Auto Headlight Switch with functioning autolights

Front speakers changed

Duel cigarette lighter socket (1x cigarette socket 1x duel USB ports)

Audi TT Pedals

Volkswagen Up! Gear knob

Volkswagen Up! Leather hand brake

Rear seats and belts removed

Corbeau Club Sport bucket seats

Carpet and headliner removed

Interior trims removed with exception to front door cards and upper centre console

Lower centre console removed

 

Engine -

 

Celtic Tuning Stage 1 Remap

Custom intake setup (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=4856024)

Oil Temp Sensor (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=4728108)

 

Brakes & Suspension/Handling -

 

KW Coilovers Rear

Bilstein B6 Shocks & H&R Springs Front (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=4914123)

MTEC grooved discs

EBC Yellowstuff pads (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=4937872)

ATE Typ200 brake fluid (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=4937872)

Wiechers Sport Rear Strut Brace (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=4703931)

Wiechers Sport Front Strut Brace (Upper) (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=4845123)

Wiechers Sport Front Strut Brace (Lower) (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=4943302)

Powerflex polyurethane front top mounts (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=4836785)

Whiteline rear anti roll bar (https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/402104-davids-citigo-20/?do=findComment&comment=5040708) 

 

VCDS -

 

Tear wipe

Autolock after 5MPH

Coming home/leaving home lights (30 Seconds)

 

The car has certainly come a long way in the last year. I had originally planned to have it show spec and pristine. I've had a theme of "Black and Red". Then moved onto having an "old style" theme with the old classic wheels and amber side repeaters along with chrome grille.

As of current, the future plan is and will be to have the car as powerful as I can make it without damaging the engine and do as many track days as possible. We'll see where it takes me from there.

Edited 10 September, 20186 yr by Hyphons

Yooooooo

Well done David!

It's come along way and you've done very well so far. It's been a pleasure where I've helped you to make your car how you want it.

Keep up the good work!

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Well done David!

It's come along way and you've done very well so far. It's been a pleasure where I've helped you to make your car how you want it.

Keep up the good work!

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To be fair it all started with you when you changed my headlamp bulbs

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Looking great, nice to see it all together like this to show the progress.

As a thought for your grille, could you fit honeycomb mesh?

Looking great, nice to see it all together like this to show the progress.

As a thought for your grille, could you fit honeycomb mesh?

Possibly yeah, but I don't think it could work due to the bottom grille being slatted like the above grille and part of that grille isn't slatted to keep the alternator protected from damage etc.

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Ah fair enough, could do that to match too

Great thread but I was hoping to read of a 2.0 engine being dropped in!! 

Ah fair enough, could do that to match too

Potentially yes, but would definitely need something to protect the alternator

Great thread but I was hoping to read of a 2.0 engine being dropped in!!

Haha! Not yet, one day though, one day

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Looks and goes well

As a thought for your grille, could you fit honeycomb mesh?

That's what I was going to do when I had mine. It would really suit it [emoji106]

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Nice! Though I can't help thinking maybe you should have bought an Up!

Nice! Though I can't help thinking maybe you should have bought an Up!

sacrilege!

Messed around with the intake pipe AGAIN

Turns out it was getting rather toasty under there so, to keep the air as cool as possible for as long as possible I wrapped some exhaust heat wrap around the intake pipe, I didn't use enough so naturally used a jubilee clamp to clamp 2 pieces together and sort of used metal zip ties to hold the 2 ends in place, I might revise this one day but it's practical for now

This'll also stop the plastic intake rubbing on some of the parts of the engine and causing wear and tear, I also had to put a small amount around one of the brake lines just to prevent the jubilee clip rubbing through the pipe. I think it's going to hold up pretty well for now, will monitor it tomorrow when I pop up to Heathrow.

Got to protect that brake line

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I didn't think you would last long without a thread

Glad you've ditched the old one and started a new one. I can keep up now :p

Keep it coming, coming along nicely

I didn't think you would last long without a thread

Glad you've ditched the old one and started a new one. I can keep up now [emoji14]

Keep it coming, coming along nicely

Cheers Jars

Note to self - wear gloves when handling heat wrap

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Oops!

Think I preferred your original wheels, being black they seemed to give it a lower look. Think it must be the silver in the middle playing tricks.

Lots of effort put in there

You say it has had a stage 1 remap have you any figures since to see what gains it has given?

Edited 10 June, 20169 yr by Defenderben

Think I preferred your original wheels, being black they seemed to give it a lower look. Think it must be the silver in the middle playing tricks.

Lots of effort put in there

You say it has had a stage 1 remap have you any figures since to see what gains it has given?

Not as of yet no, I had it on a rolling road last year at JKM in Portsmouth, Lee01 organised it, the car standard was 78bhp, so maybe all the cars leave the factory as a 75ps model and the difference is merely how it's delivered? Either way if I put it on another rolling road this year and if it's less than that I'm going to cry

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Where does the intake actually go? Is the air box on top of the engine?

Where does the intake actually go? Is the air box on top of the engine?

Yep, where you see the MPI lettering is the filter box

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Wahey, you're back!

I was worried at first!

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Cars booked in on the 25th to have an exhaust done, full system, so 200 cpi Catalytic Converter and smaller silencer and 2" (may have been 2 1/2" can't remember though) pipe all the way through

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Not looked into a supercharger conversion yet? They used to do one for the Fiat Cinquichento, turned the car into a weapon

Not looked into a supercharger conversion yet? They used to do one for the Fiat Cinquichento, turned the car into a weapon

Yeah that'll be on the to do list for when the money comea in, I expect to be looking at £3000 for a conversion? Does that sound right? Lol I really haven't a clue!

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