Haven't done any updating for a long time. So thought I'd do a little update as I still have the car.
Well at the end of February my car failed its mot on silly little bits. So it was decided I would leave it with Phil miller as he was going to replace my gearbox also. ( kindly lent me one of his cars ). I quickly decided after a couple of weeks of not being able to collect the car through work commitments and Phil having a couple of family commitments we both thought that it would be a good idea to do a k04 conversion and also do the rods. So I went down a week or so ago to help as much as I could to take the engine out and strip it down ready for the new rods. So at the moment the engine is out and stripped down, the head is off also which is good as it had signs off the head gasket going, so the head is being sent off to be skimmed and pressure tested etc.
I need to contact Bill and see if he has any rods in stock so I can order them and the big end bearing also, I'll also be getting the turbo rebuilt also as it has side to side play and in and out also.
I managed to buy a wellycooler off a member off here for a good price, then used the fmic thread to get all the hoses and pipes ( prawns write up ).
I've also bought the s3 cast wishbones with the small nipple on them also and got poly bushes to put into them also.
I had the old blue and dark grey checkered front and rear seats which were looking really tired, I managed to get a really clean facelift leather interior for a really good price which included delivery for £160. The interior is a nice easy swap over deal which only took half hour at most. Phil is going to sort the wiring out for me as they are different plugs to what I have in the pre facelift.
I have also bought brembos off Phil also with his new discs and pads, I have had to buy 20mm spacers for them to fit behind my wheels.
There is prob early a few bits I have miss and forgotten about as the car isn't with me but I will update this more when I'm next down at phils which should be in the next couple of weeks.