Trevorb33’s Fantasygreen Fabia 1.8t build take 2

[TrevorB33]

1 hour ago, Paul thornton said:

Hope you don't mind me asking but what's the score with removing the n249 valve?

 

I've just bought a beetle 1.8t and it's suffering with turbo chatter. Fault scanner says that the dump valve isn't working but I'm thinking of bypassing the n249 valve anyway so it's probably a good place to start.

 

Thanks.

Common mod mate lots of info about about it, but general consensus is it makes part throttle smoother, one less valve to go wrong and a big length of vac pipe to remove as well= less possible leaks. I’ve always removed it and never had any problems 

[SNH]

Noticed a difference in driveability straight away when i did it on my old vrs along with all the other deletes 

[Paul thornton]

What do you do with the 2 solenoids / valves? Leave them plugged in or replace with resisters?

 

Many thanks.

[TrevorB33]

3 hours ago, Paul thornton said:

What do you do with the 2 solenoids / valves? Leave them plugged in or replace with resisters?

 

Many thanks.

 

Either resistor them or get them coded out, I’ve removed the connections completely and dead ended the wires. I’m Going to get them coded out next time I get it mapped. You just get a constant amber eml otherwise

[TrevorB33]

Sorted out some more redundant connectors on the left hand side of the bay, and fitted the loom correctly under the strut brace. God knows why it was fitted over it

[Wardy]

Nice work so far Trev. Very pleased to see the wheels it came with swapped out!

[TrevorB33]

7 hours ago, Wardy said:

Nice work so far Trev. Very pleased to see the wheels it came with swapped out!

Cheers, yes they were horrendous. 

 

Should have a big update at the weekend as the new car has been sourced for the Ibiza bits to go into

[TrevorB33]

New Cars here  

[Paul thornton]

RIP Ibiza!

 

Look forward to the updates

[Lofty]

Awesome Trevor!! Glad to see the lure for a FGF got you going again!!

[TrevorB33]

29 minutes ago, Lofty said:

Awesome Trevor!! Glad to see the lure for a FGF got you going again!!

 

Indeed biggest regret I had getting rid, can’t wait to get cracking. Brakes and suspension is first call

[Tech1e]

5 minutes ago, TrevorB33 said:

 

Indeed biggest regret I had getting rid, can’t wait to get cracking. Brakes and suspension is first call

 

Got to get my arse in gear and get mine back on the road to be honest. Almost thought about selling it a few times and talked myself out of it. I know if I did I would regret it afterwards.

[TrevorB33]

13 minutes ago, Tech1e said:

 

Got to get my arse in gear and get mine back on the road to be honest. Almost thought about selling it a few times and talked myself out of it. I know if I did I would regret it afterwards.

 

I can’t believe how much I regretted it. And I’ve have some decent cars since. Just nothing compares to knowing you have built your own car. I learnt a lot from doing the first one and must admit I went a little too far with no heating and caged. I’d like to keep this as a useable 5 seater. That will take the occasional track day 

[TrevorB33]

Some more pics in daylight

 

She’s a y reg comfort spec 1.4 16v 100bhp done 90k exactly the same as my old one lol

drives surprisingly well did 80miles back from picking it up. Bodywork is in great nick, slight ding on n/s wing but not major. For the price I paid it’s unbelievable

 

Good things are it’s discs all round so one less job to change rear beam and abs unit matches up to the Ibiza so less faffing required there too :).

 

the Ibiza’s rear calipers are less then a year old so I’ll get them swapped over to the Fabia with some new discs/pads maybe next week, then I’ll keep a look out for some 312mm fronts to go on the Ibiza hubs, then I’ll either swap the st shocks/springs into the Fabia or get some coilovers

Edited 19 November, 2018 by TrevorB33

[SNH]

Looking forward to this one again

[TrevorB33]

34 minutes ago, SNH said:

Looking forward to this one again

Cheers Si, me too haha

[Wardy]

Brilliant 

[pip_vrs]

[TrevorB33]

14 minutes ago, pip_vrs said:

 

Still sad you went Grandad Beige? 

[pip_vrs]

No, sad this colour was ever made 

[TrevorB33]

15 minutes ago, pip_vrs said:

No, sad this colour was ever made 

 

[TrevorB33]

Had a spare hour tonight so been looking at the wiring on elsawin. Now I’ll be able to strip the Ibiza wiring under the dash remove the required relay/wiring to power the ecu, and pre install it in the Fabia so when the engine goes in it’ll be plug and play :). 

 

Getting some bits and bobs for next week and a trip to the scrappy to get some interior bits, hopefully be looking good by end of next week 

[TrevorB33]

Looked into the central locking fault on the Fabia, drivers door lock would only lock and not unlock. Checked out the wiring on the Ibiza and it’s the same to the lock so they are interchangeable so went about swapping the lock over.

 

Ibiza front door stripped to take the hertz component speakers off too to swap over, and when stripping the Fabia found the door lock connector was broken and just pushed in, couple of pins were snapped inside. Unfortunately both Ibiza connector lock tabs are both broken too so I’ll have to get a connector from scrappy, I might even get a door loom as the led for alarm has been chopped off too, Fabia speakers have seen better days lol.

 

Got some sound deadening coming to do the doors when I fit the speakers. Probably stopped play until tues now. 

[TrevorB33]

The silent coat sound deadening arrived so made a start on the n/s door and did the boot. Unfortunately the components out of the Ibiza don’t fit as they are too deep :( so I’ll look out for some more.

Also fitted the 16” spare and tool kit out of the Ibiza as it was missing on the fab. I’ll see if I can get another boot carpet as the reinforcement is missing too

Edited 25 November, 2018 by TrevorB33

[TrevorB33]

Long list of bits to get from the scrappy tomorrow 

 

mirrors, I’ll probably go manual 

d/s window reg (runner held with cable tie lol)

d/s door wiring

all 4 door trims, 

electric window switches

N/s footwell trim (broken)

boot carpet.

key blank for n/s door so I can swap barrels over as the drivers door currently has a different key to ignition

 

also picked up some last second bits for the brakes/suspension swap, new rear pad/discs and front top mounts

 

Going to swap the nearly new rear calipers from Ibiza over to the Fabia along with the ST suspension hopefully Wednesday if the weather holds out. Also got some pioneer components to fit to the front doors coming weds too 

 

 

Edited 27 November, 2018 by TrevorB33