Trevorb33’s Citigo Vrs 148Bhp (Up gti Conversion)

[TrevorB33]

Picked up my last couple of bits this morning, fitted the rad pack up and ran the wiring to where it needs to go. 
Unfortunately my driveshaft has gone awol with parcelforce so waiting to see what happens hopefully it will arrive next week.

 

anyway pics of the rad 

[TrevorB33]

Got another battery tray as the gti one doesn’t fit due to the gearbox mount being different and the size of the stop start battery I.e being bigger meant it didn’t fit my original one. 
So that’s all on now 

 

Also a powerflex dogbone insert arrived as the gti dogbone mount is a different design to old one, lucky there cheap enough.

 

so just waiting for my driveshaft to turn up now, was told 1-3 days last Friday so hopefully any time now, then gearbox oil in and take her for a spin

[Nazwell]

Awesome job, like always. You make the swap look like child's play 😅

[TrevorB33]

21 minutes ago, Nazwell said:

Awesome job, like always. You make the swap look like child's play 😅

Thanks 

[TrevorB33]

Done

Driveshaft arrived yesterday, 

so got that fitted, gearbox oil filled, lovely traditional fill to spill box in these no set figure like the 5 speeds,

 

Coolant in and run up and took her out for a spin today 

 

 

15 miles so far all good, I’ll get some miles on her this week then give her a good inspection.

Got some back seats going in next week and I need to find a gti washer bottle top as it clips into header tank and original doesn’t fit but no rush.

 

I’ll link in a little YouTube walk round I’ve done hope you all enjoy

 

 

 

Edited 23 March, 2022 by TrevorB33

[TrevorB33]

360 Miles done nearly a full tank :),
Shown up a couple of little things
1: how I wasn’t happy with the forge bov, maybe abit old for that now 😂, so standard pipes back on
2: My inner driveshaft gaitor appears to have a small hole causing grease to be thrown about, lucky I had a spare so swapped that today,
Other then that all seems well
 
Picked up some back seats so full interior in now, 

[AnnoyingPentium]

Just need some leather rear seats now...

[TrevorB33]

1 hour ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Just need some leather rear seats now...

not too bothered there only for the dogs 😂

[TrevorB33]

Noticed my forge heat tape around clutch feed was struggling with the heat, and already started to discolour after only 500 miles. So upgraded to some gold heat sleeving from funk motorsport to hopefully keep the heat in check 

Edited 2 April, 2022 by TrevorB33

[KenONeill]

Most competition cars I've seen IRL use a white woven heat shield, which does discolour, but not enough to bother the drivers.

[TrevorB33]

5 hours ago, KenONeill said:

Most competition cars I've seen IRL use a white woven heat shield, which does discolour, but not enough to bother the drivers.

I didn’t want to risk it being a plastic pipe with brake fluid in it , better safe then sorry

[KenONeill]

On 03/04/2022 at 16:04, TrevorB33 said:

I didn’t want to risk it being a plastic pipe with brake fluid in it , better safe then sorry

Ah, I was thinking mostly of exhaust manifolds, primary downpipes and turbos.

[TrevorB33]

Little pic from an outing to motorist hub at the weekend 

[TrevorB33]

Finally got my last two warning lights out today, due to a crash detected fault in steering column control unit I originally had a red power steering light and power steering wasn’t working. I managed to get steering working by resetting the control unit to factory settings although still had yellow steering light and traction control light on due to basic settings not being carried out. No matter what I tried I couldn’t get basic settings to adapt. 
Booked in with a local independent with access to Odis which is a vw guided way of diagnosing faults and straight access to the factory. Luckily this sorted the light out and managed to reset the steering, and all sorted in less than an hour .

 

 

Edited 22 January, 2023 by TrevorB33

[TrevorB33]

Fitted the rear arch liners off the gti today.

started with a filthy arch

 

Ample spraying with degreaser and a jet wash got them looking like this.

 

then lined up the liner to drill the holes as mine didn’t have them being an early one. Was going to fit the inserts but found the screws hold in really strong on there own. Treated the drilled holes with hammerite and then waxoil over the lot.

 

Only had some small spots where filler neck pipe bolts to body, around the neck was really good. I gave it a good going over with hammerite then some waxoil on that too.

 

Then all fitted back on 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 8 April, 2022 by TrevorB33

[TrevorB33]

I liked the forge gear but got tired of it pretty quick so going back to looking oem under the bonnet

 

Still got some mods planned sports cat/panel filter/turbo elbow and will eventually go stage 2 map and anything north of 150bhp will be very happy with, not for a while yet though, they see around 155-165 normally stage 2

[AnnoyingPentium]

155bhp in a Citigo is honestly the most terrifying thing I've heard but I love it.

[KenONeill]

49 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

155bhp in a Citigo is honestly the most terrifying thing I've heard but I love it.

Look up BossFox's Citigogo then.

[AnnoyingPentium]

4 minutes ago, KenONeill said:

Look up BossFox's Citigogo then.

 

Oh I forgot about that one! I remember coming across that a wee while ago. 

[KenONeill]

2 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

Oh I forgot about that one! I remember coming across that a wee while ago. 

Hard to forget when you read the saga in real time?  

[TrevorB33]

Jbs turbo inlet pipe on today, 

pretty good fit, went on quite easy 

 

Edited 15 April, 2022 by TrevorB33

[TrevorB33]

Picked up some new wheels the other day, got a plan for Saturday to paint rear drums black and going to ceramic coat the alloys and got a little mod to lower the rear a small 7-8mm with some different rear spring mounts, should sit abit more level front back then 

[KenONeill]

1 hour ago, TrevorB33 said:

paint rear drums black

Might I suggest Finnegan's Smoothrite; all the toughness, heat resistance and anti-corrosives of Hammerite, but in a smooth finish.

[mdk1]

1 hour ago, TrevorB33 said:

Picked up some new wheels the other day, got a plan for Saturday to paint rear drums black and going to ceramic coat the alloys and got a little mod to lower the rear a small 7-8mm with some different rear spring mounts, should sit abit more level front back then 

New wheels look very nice. What are you doing with the old Skoda alloys?

[TrevorB33]

10 hours ago, mdk1 said:

New wheels look very nice. What are you doing with the old Skoda alloys?

They sold a few weeks back sorry