Well been here long enough so i think its about time i put together a readers ride thread.
It all started 2 years ago with the purchase of a fully standard Mk4 Seat Ibiza Fr 1.8t. This lasted for about 6 months and long came a remap from chipboost.
The day after the remap i started to notice that the car was running in limp mode until i restarted the engine and it went away ( A lot of the scottish members will remember me moaning about this for ages). During the process of trying to sort out the low boost and limp mode problem upgraded a few things:
Forge Turbo Intake Pipe
Forge Intercooler to Intake Pipe
Forge 007p DV
KnN open cone filter (Hopefully be changing soon)
Seat Sport front strutbrace (nothing to do with problem but i wanted one)
It was unfortunate that none of these upgrades eliminated the problem so off went the ECU in the post to my re-mapper, hes based in North Yorkshire and me in Glasgow. The following day i got a call telling me he found the problem - Intake temp was not being picked up correctly as there was a bad value in the map. One day later i got the ECU back with a few tweaks to suit my upgrades.
After a week driving with the extra power and a few scary moments on the very orn out brakes it was time to replace them. I opted for EBC Dimpled and grooved discs with EBC Green stuff pads. I am very happy with this set up with both good stopping power and little fade.
This is how the car remained until January of this year when i treated the car to a new pair of shoes all round. Toyo T1R's where the tyre's i went for after hearing lots of good reviews and my brother swearing by them in his track Saxo vts. Got a set of Supersport Springs from a member on here with a drop of 55mm at the front and 50mm at the back. It wont be long before i get the dampers to go with this set up as i know mine will now go soon enough.
Thats all the main things i have done up until now, other small mods include:
Debadge rear
Powder Coated Standard wheels to silver with a metal flake
Replaced water pump and timing belt.
Things i am looking to do this year are:
Upgrade dampers
Get rear strutbrace
20mm Spacers for rear
10mm Spacers for front
Milltek turbo back exhaust
Custom FMIC
Get Snowboard roof rack
Well thats it for now. All comments welcome and i promise to try get some better pics soon.
He is for rent folks - drop me a PM for his details. He knows his stuff
It all started 2 years ago with the purchase of a fully standard Mk4 Seat Ibiza Fr 1.8t. This lasted for about 6 months and long came a remap from chipboost.
The day after the remap i started to notice that the car was running in limp mode until i restarted the engine and it went away ( A lot of the scottish members will remember me moaning about this for ages). During the process of trying to sort out the low boost and limp mode problem upgraded a few things:
Forge Turbo Intake Pipe
Forge Intercooler to Intake Pipe
Forge 007p DV
KnN open cone filter (Hopefully be changing soon)
Seat Sport front strutbrace (nothing to do with problem but i wanted one)
It was unfortunate that none of these upgrades eliminated the problem so off went the ECU in the post to my re-mapper, hes based in North Yorkshire and me in Glasgow. The following day i got a call telling me he found the problem - Intake temp was not being picked up correctly as there was a bad value in the map. One day later i got the ECU back with a few tweaks to suit my upgrades.
After a week driving with the extra power and a few scary moments on the very orn out brakes it was time to replace them. I opted for EBC Dimpled and grooved discs with EBC Green stuff pads. I am very happy with this set up with both good stopping power and little fade.
This is how the car remained until January of this year when i treated the car to a new pair of shoes all round. Toyo T1R's where the tyre's i went for after hearing lots of good reviews and my brother swearing by them in his track Saxo vts. Got a set of Supersport Springs from a member on here with a drop of 55mm at the front and 50mm at the back. It wont be long before i get the dampers to go with this set up as i know mine will now go soon enough.
Thats all the main things i have done up until now, other small mods include:
Debadge rear
Powder Coated Standard wheels to silver with a metal flake
Replaced water pump and timing belt.
Things i am looking to do this year are:
Upgrade dampers
Get rear strutbrace
20mm Spacers for rear
10mm Spacers for front
Milltek turbo back exhaust
Custom FMIC
Get Snowboard roof rack
Well thats it for now. All comments welcome and i promise to try get some better pics soon.
He is for rent folks - drop me a PM for his details. He knows his stuff
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