Right as many of you know on the 13/01/2011 I had my previous motor stolen from outside my house. Ended up on the back of a truck n scrapped for £100 of which some chinese bloke is enjoying his breakfast eating off it now. But anyways had about a month without a car deciding what to do next really. I ideally wanted a mk1 polo as I think there retro cool, but the amount of dollar for what you get with them is not what i needed. After doing some work on Kays car n having a room full of expensive bits for a polo i decided that i hadnt achieved what i wanted from a mk3 yet. So after a few quick txts i managed to grab this, tdh_syorks old motor.
Wank Iphone pic.
Ran it like that for a couple of months not having to do anything to keep the girl running. Other than the driver side window mech breaking nothing went wrong! A problem i bought the car with was a clutch which was about to die a painful death, fortunately got one included with the car. So chucked the clutch n new cable in and that was sorted.
Then the exhaust started getting very loud so had a trip down to exhausts uk , had a hole in the flexi mech. So i got the cat chopped out at the same time and a new flexi chucked on.
On the way home from getting that fixed joe n me enjoyed getting rear ended on shalesmoor rd about on penistone rd! With insurance sorting our whiplash claims within 2 days i brought the car to ADR in chesterfield to get the dent removed. Spot it if you can.
Tashing around in the skoda they lent me was a ball, but getting back into driving the G it felt like a righht hassle!
Big bang was approaching fast so i needed to get rid of the 13" BBS that provided little traction. Managed to pick up the people choice :/ , with a little sand paper and spray paint
Some rear coils i picked up for £20 got blasted on at the same time
Made a massive school boy error n didnt realise which way coilovers adjusted, ended up with the bbs wheels in the boot and the coilies wound down to the last thread!!
The ride was comfy but the back was lowerd 120mm and the from 40! Massssive speed boat. Then i thought about all the shit I needed to carry down to pod and ended up winding em all the way up. Which if im brutally honest made the car feel like a waterbed.
Nobody believed me when I said you will feel physically sick when driving it. Only for my mechanic mate nathan to drive it round the block and bounce the back end of the floor on a bump it was that stiff. More adjustment ment the helper spring was loosened and the ride height was still speedboat, but acceptable untill i can get some front coils. After promts from Lee managed to pick up some front clear indis from ECP for cheaps so them n some clear side ones went on before BB.
A clean the morning that we left meant that it looked like this
Here are a few from pod
Managed to get 30 runs on the friday, which resulted in my best time of 14.97 which i was chuffed about.
Got a few engine problems on the way home , turned out to be the AF gauge disconnecting itself causing the lamda not to work, with that fixed and 4 new tires that cost me £220 fitted its driving good for now, shame the mot ran out on the 4th april lol. MOT is on friday which it should fly through.
Got some good plans for this one
Including using my turbo bits, getting another wishbone frame on PPP this time and more.
