Tom_H's Mk4 Ibiza 1.8 20VT (Picture heavy)

[Tom_H]

Hi all!

Fairly new to the forum and haven't posted much but made a bit of progress with my beeza

My 1st car was a 1.2 Corsa C which I thought looked pretty smart when I finished with it

How I bought it:


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How it looked when I sold it:



After owning that for 2 years I moved onto my current Ibiza. When I bought the car it had suffered at the hands of an elderly woman so had some pretty serious damage to the rear quarters, but this was reflected in the price I picked it up for

Its a 1.8 20VT FR in Zenith grey, has 47,000 on the clock currently after 6 months of ownership.

From the beginning:



Completely standard as you can see but with the addition of some dents in the rear quarters.

First things first was to sort the damage so a week later and it came back fresh, and then de-badged the boot, keeping the FR.



Pioneer CD player keeping with the factory dash colours


Next was to give the engine bay some bling so set about polishing the inlet manifold



Bushes were a bit squeaky so got the front end fully polybushed


Made an instant difference to the drivability of the car, handled so much smoother.

Compulsory LED's all round




Next on the cards was to de-wiper. Had to get creative as it was well stuck on there...



Had this on for a while but then got bored of it so took it back off


Picked this up for £10!!! still haven't fitted it yet though


Next up was some wheels... Picked these up silly cheap, Ibiza Mk5 SC alloys in need if a refurb


Set about re-furbing them myself as I did with my Corsa alloys, came out nice


Started heading in the direction of performance next with these bad boys:

Audi 312mm set up with Federo DS2500 pads, HEL braided hoses and Gulf Racing 5.1 fluid.

20mm spacers


And now to reveal my colour scheme...



Wheels wrapped in Toyo proxies and on with the brakes and rear spacers



De-restricted pd160 intake was next


Nice little interior touch that comes in handy, centre sun visor


UK legal pressed plates


N112, N249 and SAI removal...


Black mirrors and grille surround


Coilovers were next, only cheap JOM's for now whilst I save for better ones lol



Can also see I painted the front 'S' black too in the 1st pic

More purple!!!



and finally picked this up rather cheap Milltek sports-cat, brand new cat-back section on order as we speak


List of what's been done so far in my 6 months of ownership:

Engine:
PD160 intake
SAI / N249 / N112 Removal
Milltek Exhaust with High Flow Sports-cat

Brakes:
Audi 312mm Callipers / Disks
Federo DS2500 Pads
HEL Braided Hoses
Gulf Racing 5.1 Fluid

Suspension:
JOM Coilovers with Ford Puma Drop Links
Front-end fully Polybushed

Exterior:
Ibiza MK5 SC Alloy Wheels
Purple Callipers
Purple Rocker Cover with Polished Inlet Manifold
Gloss Black Grille Surround and ‘S’
Gloss Black Mirrors
Boot De-Badged
De-wipered
Tinted Reflectors
UK Legal Pressed Plates

Plans:

Engine:
Everything else for stage 2+
Forge FMIC
Forge 008p
Creative Motorsport TIP

Suspension:
Whiteline RARB
SeatSport upper strut brace

Exterior:
Gloss black roof
Gloss black numberplate backings
Cupra R splitter

Think that's about it, probably things I've missed though. I'll try and keep this updated as often as possible

Thanks for reading (If you did )

Tom

 

[Tom_H]

Milltek has arrived!

Also did a bit of vinyl wrapping, done behind the front plate and the lower lip of the bumper

 

[Scott-s]

Looks nice, good work so far

 

[Tom_H]

Cheers man, won't be doing an awful lot more to the exterior, custom LCR splitter and a black roof will be the main things then want to focus on power/handling.

 

[BeezaDave]

Lowered to a perfect height there and the mk5 alloys look lovely under it. Keep up the progress!

 

[Tom_H]

Thanks Dave I wasn't sure on the wheels at first but they have grown on me since its been lowered.

 

[Seal_LCR]

Looks nice. Quite like the purple route but you should do the alloys!

Also those plates aren't legal there's no postcode on them

 

[cupra-barn]

Cars looking pretty smart mate keep up the good work

 

[Tom_H]

Looks nice. Quite like the purple route but you should do the alloys!

Also those plates aren't legal there's no postcode on them

Cheers mate think the wheels might be a bit much, I'm not that brave

They do have postcodes but the plate holders cover them up :\

Cars looking pretty smart mate keep up the good work

Thank you very much

 

[Tom_H]

LCR splitter ordered

Plan is to gloss black wrap the centre section to match the lower lip, and the colour code the edge bits

 

[Chris-cupra R]

Nice work so far pal looking good

 

[Tom_H]

Cheers dude

 

[Scott-s]

Was it much work to polish your inlet manifold?

 

[Tom_H]

Erm it took a long time but was quite easy.

I started with a little electric mouse sander and a very corse paper, then worked all the way down to a fine emery cloth then polished it up with Meguiars metal polysh Would be a lot easier if you took it off and got it on a polishing wheel but then you have to re-align the throttle body.

 

[Scott-s]

Erm it took a long time but was quite easy.

I started with a little electric mouse sander and a very corse paper, then worked all the way down to a fine emery cloth then polished it up with Meguiars metal polysh Would be a lot easier if you took it off and got it on a polishing wheel but then you have to re-align the throttle body.

Can't decided wether to polish mine or paint it black and get my engine cover painted red. Mine is a mk3 cupra

 

[Tom_H]

Can't remember what the layout is like on the mk3's, is it similar to the mi4's? I like the polished looks tbh, gives the engine bay some shine lol

 

[Seal_LCR]

Cheers mate think the wheels might be a bit much, I'm not that brave

They do have postcodes but the plate holders cover them up :\

As long as they are there that's ok

 

[Tom_H]

Cuprar splitter added in standard guise for the time being, will paint when I can be bothered

And the Milltek is on!!! Makes such a difference in both grin factor and performance

 

[Tom_H]

Progress!!

Main thing being that my little beezer has a stage 1 map on it now Wasn't going to bother with this at first as it'll be stage 2 soon (with any luck) but I've acquired a mate who does mapping now

It's nothing too special map wise, no rolling road or anything, but the SAI n249 and n112 have been mapped out, and the ecu now requests 1.2 bar peak dropping to 0.9 at the redline so its pretty nippy He also put a neat feature on it where on the over-run it dumps a tiny bit of fuel so it pops and bangs nicely even with the sports cat in!

Got a 710N from the Leon Cupra R to make sure it holds boost nicely (Cheap option as I'm skint, will be replaced with a 008p or APR R1 for stage 2)



I also finished the rocker cover off at last! since this its had a final coat and the throttle body has gone Vauxhall pearl metallic black along with all of the rocker cover nuts, but I havent got an up to date pic yet



Random cool pics...




Some more purple has also made it out of the engine bay!!!


No decent pics from afar yet I'm afraid but its quite subtle as you can imagine

Also now has wind deflectors and a fresh air-con re-gas for this week of summer we are having!!!

 

[Tom_H]

Oh... also got a SFS Turbo Intake Pipe on the way so just need a front mount (saving as we speak) then it'll be stage 2 ready technically although I may add some other bits before I get it mapped like a badger 5 inlet gasket and 2L TSI coilpacks.