fourtwofive ibiza daily project

current spec
Got this little car for 700 pounds with a busted gearbox and plan on getting up to a nice daily picture at the end of thread. Car is stage one usaul revo forge cooler ect pretty standard.


first off i owned a stage 2 ibiza cupra. k03s but then decided i wanted to start again with a new cupra sold this to james judd and hes gone mad on it!



i fancyed a fresh project so i got this



then after a few weaks of owning it i fitted a uni front mount. but hated it but was fun to fit

after owning the car for 2 months i decided to go for a k03s but shortly after fitting it i came into some smoking problems.
so it found out that my head gasket had gone or so it seemed so it was head off for my poor car.



after checking the head gasket. we checked out the bottom end and found some nasty scrapes down the bore and one loose piston which was a shock.



the head gasket had gone and was chucking coolent onto pistons and down the turbo and mani. not great.
so it was engine out job.

so after all this i decided to go all out and get je forged pistons, uprated rods, bored out to 82.5.
port and flowed head new gearbox. pretty much getting ready for bt/hybrid in the summer, money depending.
but as you can see i havent had the best of luck with my new car. i should have kept the sweet running blue cupra, but you live and learn.

currently engine is out heads compleat ported flowed. new seated valves. just waiting on boring out and fitting new pistons and getting engine back in and up and running.


my room has been taken over

Yer its going to look like new in the engine bay. I Was going to ask if you where interested in helping me spray up my bumper and bonnet. I don't think I can aford to take it to a spray shop right now.

I have a Top coating gun at work havent a clue how to use it tho. thanks for the help mate once I'm back on the road we can sort my body work out

Yer heads built bottom end has been bored out I'm just waiting on rebuild and dropping it back in was aiming for the weekend but the weather is pretty bad.
Why is yours off the road what's your plans??

sweet man good idea i was thinking of buying a cheap run around car to get to work in. ill keep posting. hope i get my engine in on the weekend i miss my car so much.
im thinking of going k04 hybrid....

progress as the engine is now in and car currently up and running new engine in happy days minus a few teathing problems.

running it in is not so bad even at 1/4 throttle and at 4k its pretty scary already once its mapped and properly run in its going to be nuts.

Yer it is a little but you can really feel the difference it's pretty much a brand new engine. The power is really sharp and instant even at the low speeds I'm at now. Im only 130 miles in got to do a oil and filter change at 400 miles and start to open her up can't wait

I'll pm you the cost mate I think it was a steal myself.