Ludez
Registered User
Hi guys,
Figured I’d get a progress/project thread up as I tend to do with all my cars so I have somewhere to document the build and for anyone likeminded who may be interested.
Picked up my car a couple of days before Christmas after waiting patiently for a car close to my ideal new spec with ultra low mileage. Ended up sacrificing a few things I’d of wanted (Matrix + RS design) but the price was great.
Spec is:
(December 17) Sportback
Mythos Black
Gloss Black styling pack
Privacy glass
Upgraded wheels 8.5J fronts
Red calipers
RS sports exhaust
Supersports seats (red stitching)
Comfort and Sound Pack
Parking pack
Coming from a fairly well sorted MK3 RS Ford Focus and also owning a Litchfield LM20 GT-R this car will also be a project albeit one I see myself keeping a very very long time as it ticks all my boxes for a fast road daily. Got my dragy hooked up last night and did a few runs to get some baseline numbers for my own reference, will attach dragy slips below (don’t read too much into times literally first effort, will chip away and chase times once I’ve got the ball rolling properly don’t worry) was 2c ambient and damp - bone stock with awful PZeros.
0-60 - 3.55s
0-100 - 8.75s
60-100 - 4.93s
60-130 - 11.24s (did have a few invalid sub 11s)
1/4m - 11.85@114.7 (1.96% gradient)
Impressed with the performance of the car out of the box and will fully document and update as the project progresses.
Since taking delivery I’ve sorted out a few little bits i.e gloss black badges, front RS3 delete, carbon wing mirrors, Milltek secondary decat pipes to satisfy my ocd, pinalloy paddle extensions and the car will be paying a visit to royal steering wheels for a retrim in two weeks time while I find a local place to undertake some interior retrim work. The wheels are in need of a refurb (3/4 anyway) previous owner has butchered them so a nice set of OZ’s will be ready for summer with some good rubber and I’ll be looking towards Bilstein for some coilover options at the same time.
Performance wise the end goal will be a big turbo build, I’ve hoarded a Racing line panel filter, Forge Motorsport turbo elbow and hard inlet pipe which will go on along with a Revo stage one map in the next few weeks (for now) as SCC are local to me and I’ve done a lot of work with them over the years which should hold me over for a couple of months while I stock pile parts for stage two+ as I’m planning to use MRC for my mapping along the way.
Hopefully a few of you are interested in this kind of thing, cheers.
Luke
Figured I’d get a progress/project thread up as I tend to do with all my cars so I have somewhere to document the build and for anyone likeminded who may be interested.
Picked up my car a couple of days before Christmas after waiting patiently for a car close to my ideal new spec with ultra low mileage. Ended up sacrificing a few things I’d of wanted (Matrix + RS design) but the price was great.
Spec is:
(December 17) Sportback
Mythos Black
Gloss Black styling pack
Privacy glass
Upgraded wheels 8.5J fronts
Red calipers
RS sports exhaust
Supersports seats (red stitching)
Comfort and Sound Pack
Parking pack
Coming from a fairly well sorted MK3 RS Ford Focus and also owning a Litchfield LM20 GT-R this car will also be a project albeit one I see myself keeping a very very long time as it ticks all my boxes for a fast road daily. Got my dragy hooked up last night and did a few runs to get some baseline numbers for my own reference, will attach dragy slips below (don’t read too much into times literally first effort, will chip away and chase times once I’ve got the ball rolling properly don’t worry) was 2c ambient and damp - bone stock with awful PZeros.
0-60 - 3.55s
0-100 - 8.75s
60-100 - 4.93s
60-130 - 11.24s (did have a few invalid sub 11s)
1/4m - 11.85@114.7 (1.96% gradient)
Impressed with the performance of the car out of the box and will fully document and update as the project progresses.
Since taking delivery I’ve sorted out a few little bits i.e gloss black badges, front RS3 delete, carbon wing mirrors, Milltek secondary decat pipes to satisfy my ocd, pinalloy paddle extensions and the car will be paying a visit to royal steering wheels for a retrim in two weeks time while I find a local place to undertake some interior retrim work. The wheels are in need of a refurb (3/4 anyway) previous owner has butchered them so a nice set of OZ’s will be ready for summer with some good rubber and I’ll be looking towards Bilstein for some coilover options at the same time.
Performance wise the end goal will be a big turbo build, I’ve hoarded a Racing line panel filter, Forge Motorsport turbo elbow and hard inlet pipe which will go on along with a Revo stage one map in the next few weeks (for now) as SCC are local to me and I’ve done a lot of work with them over the years which should hold me over for a couple of months while I stock pile parts for stage two+ as I’m planning to use MRC for my mapping along the way.
Hopefully a few of you are interested in this kind of thing, cheers.
Luke
looking forward to all the progress pics and info... our RS’s were good, but how goods the RS3 right out the bag 
