Ok so the wheels arrived.... but they aren't what I ordered, more on that later. The cars on the road again though that's the main thing.
So I guess I should resume were I left off at the previous Nurburgring trip. As I mentioned the brakes were the serious weak point (as we all already know!) So I decided I wanted to upgrade to something substantial, I pestered a few forum members for advice (sorry!) & decided on a setup. I also made the decision to take the car off the road completely in December until it was complete (which was yesterday). The idea being I could do the brakes, service the car & do a few other things without having to worry about time & getting it back on the road etc, this got a little bit more in-depth than I first planned but I had no choice really.
To make sure I don't miss anything this is a list of what has been changed on the car since its been off the road:
Standard parts:
Air filter
Pollen filter
Oil filter
Oil
Sump plug
Spark plugs
All inlet/throttle gaskets
Air filter mounting rubbers
Turbo inlet pipe seal
4x Injector seal kits
2x Front top mounts
2x Front drop-links
Standard Acrylic GB badged number plates
Brake reservoir cap
O/S front Brake pipe
N/S front brake pipe
Upgrades:
TTRS Brembo 4-pots
Genuine Brembo inner & outer seal kit
Genuine bleed nipples & covers
AP Racing/Vagbremtechnic 362mm Bell & Rotors
HEL front Braided Lines
Mintex M1155 Front Pads
TTRS Brake cooling plates
KW V1 Inox coilovers
Motul RBF600 Brake Fluid
Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.2 18x8" ET45
Nankang NS2R 180 Hard compound
Right with that out the way, this is were it started.... £100 of my hard earned cash, a few parts & an MOT saw the total cost of buying this little beauty & making it road worthy at £250... Jackpot! So that meant the S3 was off the road and work could begin.
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So firstly I bought & changed all of the service parts, next I came across the Brembos for sale on here. They were a little paint damaged & no info on mileage etc. So I thought I'd just buy them with the view of changing all seals bleed nipples then painting them. So they went abit like this:
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While I gathered some funds I pulled the original brakes off the car & sold them, this was the start of the problems. The car was always due MOT in March so I went over all of the mot items to find quite a few problems, mainly that I had 2 snapped rear springs, 2 leaking rear shocks, 1 worn front top mount & 1 leaking front shock. I guess that's to be expected at 180,000 miles. It stayed like this for some time while I decided what to do.
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While I was waiting I decided to have a look at the inlet valves, the engine is around the 60k mark now, with it off the road it was ideal timing. I decided to pull the injectors out too so I could have the seals changed & the injectors cleaned. Heres a few images of that whole fiasco:
Before:
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Afters:
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So before that all went back together I decided to remove any vac pipes, air pipes, plastics etc from the engine bay & clean them all. I wont lie I didn't really clean any of them my mate did all the cleaning bits for me!
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So as you can see in the time that that happened I received the discs & coilovers, so I got around to fitting them ASAP, along with most of the other standard parts like top mounts etc:
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My mate also took all the inner arch liners out & cleaned them for me too!!
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So that left me with a running car again, all brakes & suspension fit. I was waiting on wheels from Team Dynamics....
It sat like this for 7 weeks:
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SEE NEXT POST!