higgysmalls
Registered User
Hi everybody
Been reading alot of peoples build threads so thought i'd share my progress so far!
I purchased my 2001 a3 from my cousin in april this year and tbh since then i've had a few issues but im getting there with it and still enjoying it.
So here it is roughly a year ago:
And here it is at loch lomand last week:
When I bought my car it had a couple of mods (in hindsight i regret would reccommend anyone going to modify any car to start from scratch, only my opinion though) these included a powerflow cat back, remapped (have no idea where from or any proof just that it is apparently 200bhp but i doubt that!) a dump valve re located to the cold side of the intercooler, and f*****d coilovers which had collapsed on the o/s/f lol so... That was first! I bought some JOM coilovers and fitted them straight away to get it driving
After that my oil pressure dropped and had to replace the pump and also had to replace the crack case breather hoses and oil cooler breather, wish i just fitted an oil catch can though and removed the pcv...
since then i fitted a toyosports decat and downpipe reccommended on here:
and now my clutch has slipping so i've bought a vr6 clutch g60 lightened flywheel & forge short shifter to replace the dual mass with
Thats all for now, been fun so far! still waiting on my clutch & flywheel getting delivered was thinking of doing a write up on that in the next couple of weeks! Got some other plans, want to get rid of the dump valve, forge TIP etc just see what happens!
Cheers
Been reading alot of peoples build threads so thought i'd share my progress so far!
I purchased my 2001 a3 from my cousin in april this year and tbh since then i've had a few issues but im getting there with it and still enjoying it.
So here it is roughly a year ago:
And here it is at loch lomand last week:
When I bought my car it had a couple of mods (in hindsight i regret would reccommend anyone going to modify any car to start from scratch, only my opinion though) these included a powerflow cat back, remapped (have no idea where from or any proof just that it is apparently 200bhp but i doubt that!) a dump valve re located to the cold side of the intercooler, and f*****d coilovers which had collapsed on the o/s/f lol so... That was first! I bought some JOM coilovers and fitted them straight away to get it driving
After that my oil pressure dropped and had to replace the pump and also had to replace the crack case breather hoses and oil cooler breather, wish i just fitted an oil catch can though and removed the pcv...
since then i fitted a toyosports decat and downpipe reccommended on here:
and now my clutch has slipping so i've bought a vr6 clutch g60 lightened flywheel & forge short shifter to replace the dual mass with
Thats all for now, been fun so far! still waiting on my clutch & flywheel getting delivered was thinking of doing a write up on that in the next couple of weeks! Got some other plans, want to get rid of the dump valve, forge TIP etc just see what happens!
Cheers