fourtwofive ibiza daily project

[fourtwofive]

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

 

[fourtwofive]

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.

 

[fourtwofive]

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

 

[patchb]

Looking good on the rebuild so far man. Given you chance to get everything cleaned up before it goes back in I suppose?

Jim said something about you got a new front bumper that needs spraying as well?

 

[fourtwofive]

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.

 

[patchb]

Yeah I can do if you want, I've got a few spraying tips off my dad so we should manage to get a decent finish on it.

One thing though if you want rattle can paint I would go down to Rainbow paints in Wimborne and get them to colour match to one of your body panels. I have got all the filler etc. you will need already.

 

[fourtwofive]

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

 

[James.Judd.1]

Made any progress mate? Mines coming off the road over the winter

 

[fourtwofive]

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??

 

[James.Judd.1]

Nearly there then! Yeh its awful weather isnt it, yeh got a few things in mind, plus i dont wanna risk spanking a curb in the snow.
I was gunna fit some bucket seats, relocate battery, relocate airfilter into the space, small washer bottle, oil catch tank, WMI after xmas hopefully and a 3" decat DP if i have any money left!
Then sometime next year do the rods and get saving for about a year for a BT.

 

[fourtwofive]

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....

 

[James.Judd.1]

Yeah i was just gunna use the old dears car, im not putting many miles on it now coz im getting the train to work. yeah thats a good move ill have to let you do it all 1st and you can let me know how much it all cost and what too do.

 

[fourtwofive]

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

 

[t33job]

nice!

 

[patchb]

Thats a Massive improvement just in looks. Can't wait to see what it goes like once you've run it in.

Red strut brace needs a colour change though lol.

 

[fourtwofive]

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.

 

[James.Judd.1]

i bet its such a tease running it in haha, how much longer you got too go?

 

[fourtwofive]

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

 

[James.Judd.1]

Yeah i bet i had a look at the pics and they look like sex, im thinking about maybe going 1.9 myself, i used to work at a place that rebuilt old F1 engines so im gunna see if they will let me use there machiens to bore it out and skim the block and head. Only problem is i really dont think i can be bothered to take the engine out, how much did all the machiening cost you?

 

[fourtwofive]

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