Well have had it a few weeks and I still have it
, although it's fast becoming a money pit and time eater like every other scoob I have had. But its slowly being transformed.
Biggest transformation has been to take out the 3 puk clutch and replace with a new scoobyclinic uprated orgnaic clutch which has OEM feel but holds the power.
Next up was to dampen down the exhaust and replaced with a full 3" Miltek with centre CAT. Nice level of sound now, although I may replace centre pipe with Decat yet, and keep centre CAT pipe for MOT time.
Next up was to cap off a couple of intakes on the inlet manifold which was sucking in air exagerating the cruise and idle enrichment, along with a fettle to the TPS which had been sticking.
Next was to replace the disgustingly dirty induction kit with a new one which has helped again with idle and cruise leaning out. And has made a big differece to the power and bum dyno reckons another 40 horses from this.
New PFFR7's plugs fitted, ISCV cleaned, and now pulling cleanly and like a train through all the gears.
Couldn't resist a pair of MINT STI V5 seats that came along, and got a knocklink to fit in the dash suround. De striped the car so more stealthy now.
Recent smell of fuel transpired to be a leaking Fuel filter so replaced that which was a job worth doing anyway.
Knocklink in dash surround ready to be fitted soon.
KYB shock and Eibachs fitted weekend gone and very pleased with the end result and really compliments the Whiteline Antilift, rollbar, strut brace, and polybushes now.
Treating it to some nice Millers CFS 10w50 and filter very shortly.
Stereo fitted
, but need to work out whats going on with speaker wiring at the front. But was nice to see it has some nice 6x9's at the rear and component set up in the front. So may need to think about a 4 channel amp to get the best of the system.
Apart from cold start for about 1 min in the mornings, car is now running nice and is very, very quick pulling in all the grears quickly. A 6 speed although nice for less noise would be crazy. It's previously dynoed at 440bhp at a tad over 1.5bar, the car is pulling a steady 1.7bar to the redline and feels like its pushing anything between 440 and 500 now.
In the persuit to make a daily driver, I don't like the cold start so next project is to replace the MAF with a sykline maf which is very strong, plumb back in the maf and narrow band lambda, hook up the Apexi in favour of the GEMS and see what it can do. Main aim is to make it a better daily driver with good cold start, and more torque. But might just push the boundaries of boost levels as well.
Once sorted I'll then tidy a couple of cosmetic issues that bother me, but plenty of things still to do and still loving it - Pointless amount of power but priceless grin factor