Xavier's Fabia

[Xavier]

Rhyming title too

As I've never put it up on here, I guess it was about time I did

Black Fabia vrs, one of the early 53 plate ones. So has the longer sixth gear

Engine mods

By previous owner:

Cupra 160 intake

Green panel filter

Milltek exhaust

Turbo Dynamics stage 1 hybrid turbo

By me:

Sachs motorsport organic clutch and pressure plate

Forge Motorsport custom remap

Forge FMIC

Handling / other mods

by previous owner:

Brembo GT 4 pot calipers on 323mm EBC Ultimax discs with Mintex Extreme pads

17" Audi TT alloys

Eibach lowering springs

Koni FSD dampers

Seatsport front upper strut brace

Powerflex bushes

Jabbasport rear ARB

ICE mods

Stereoless atm thanks to some scrote

Pioneer DEH-P77MP head unit

2-way Rainbow Profi-Vanadium CS265 component speakers

Genesis Audiophile 12" sub in specially designed sealed box

Sinfoni 90.2x amplifier for components

Powerperformance Art amplifier for sub

Front doors fully sealed and insulated

I'm now toying with the idea of doing a full CarPC install. This will then regroup all music, video, dvd, carphone handsree, satnav, VAG-COM into one pratical unit, driven by a very OEM-like double DIN touchscreen with slot loading drive. mp3car.com | your source for mobile computing solutions is a great forum for all PC-related ICE.

Photo taken this morning after a quick trip down to my local car hand-wash place. Not a bad job for

[Tech1e]

Nice car

[Xavier]

Nice car

Indeed

Made a little edit as I forgot the clutch bits + thought I ought to give credit to the previous owner

[Basil]

To give credit where it's due - meeting up with Xav here in Bahrain really inspired my modding obsession with my Fabia vRS.

After getting the cr^p scared out of me with his little demo of what he could do with his car (near the leathern Bottle pub) my obsession became far worse.

Lovely car mate

Bas

[WW_VRS]

Hehe - nice car indeed, annoyingly it makes me think about Brembos :P

[Xavier]

Hehe - nice car indeed, annoyingly it makes me think about Brembos :P

Brembos you want Brembos. Mmmmm. Brembos. voice>

TBH, if I were starting from scratch, I wouldn't bother. A 312mm upgrade with decent discs and pads probably gives you 95% of the performance. I had the 312 on my first Fabia, and honestly can't say the Brembos are that much better.

The drawbacks (more limited / expensive choice of pads) and the 17" need with enough offset may outweigh the benefit of an extra 5% in performance

But of course, they look nicer than a 288 or 312 discs / calipers :P

[WW_VRS]

:( doing it again :P - uprated pads are more likely to happen next time round tbh

[Tech1e]

I wouldn't pay for Brembos either.

Oh yeah I didn't