Hawkins Mk4 Ibiza Readers Ride

[thehawk18]

Oh and one little thing that has been done this winter, pressed plates from a seller on ebay. apparently there legal etc got all the correct markings and cost me a whopping £23 delivered.

 

[.Si.]

nice mate..what you need is a nice facelift front bumper to set it off,,lol

 

[thehawk18]

nice mate..what you need is a nice facelift front bumper to set it off,,lol

Hahaha, i bought a cupra bumper a while back and bottled it due to the cost of painting. If i had the spare money it would be perfect think its the right colour and all lol

Plus then id have to buy the rear bumper as you cant have one without the other

 

[thehawk18]

Well finally some good news, i bought a set of 312mm carriers and calipers for a bargain price...... £50!!! So it seemed too cheap to be true, after a trip down to the local VAG specialist ive been informed they will fit fine woooo


Now time to Get them clean and painted...

 

[thehawk18]

Now rollll on June..... As long as the car makes it through mot fine il be able to get some things done at long last


Although knowing my luck il need to spend like £700 on the mot :/

 

[.Si.]

are you sure those will fit..im only saying as i think i read it somewhere the ate brakes are different

i maybe wrong tho

 

[thehawk18]

are you sure those will fit..im only saying as i think i read it somewhere the ate brakes are different

i maybe wrong tho

Apparently so, as they came with two sets of carriers :s one set being 312mm so apparently theyll be fine! luckily for me the chap doing the work was on here years back with a cupra. So he knows what hes doing.

 

[Cupratom21]

Looking forwa to seeing brakes fitted

 

[thehawk18]

Well the cars been and had some TLC and im pretty close too ticking off the mods i wanted to do this year! Will add some photos when i next get the chance. Hoping to go to GTI Inters this year, although not on the club stand as i'm not really sure what too expect from the show!

 

[thehawk18]

Found a photo from the snowy times... Thought id share with the world ha

And one from a weekend away! Casual car park with an r8 in it.

 

[thehawk18]

Well a little update as i hadnt really done one for a little while. I bought a set of 312mm calipers and carriers for a bargain £50 from ebay, spent a fair few hours on cleaning them up and getting them painted. Got a couple of photos of the process!

Before:

During/After:

 

[thehawk18]

I left the car as it was until i could afford to get a few bits done at once!

So i stocked up on parts and bought,

312mm discs and pads (golf4motion)
CreationMotorsport TIP
3metres 4mm ID vacuum hosing in red
Fly eyes kit
2metres of gloss black vinyl wrap
Gloss black spray paint
Forge 008 DV
Forge motorsport Intercooler to Throttle body hose
New outer B pillars
Forge motorsport Strut Brace

And then some general cleaning bits and bobs from the meguiars range!

Thinking about getting a new K&N filter though as my old ones bracket broke :/ so is currently replaced by a cheap wolfrace one!

Il upload some new pics shortly!

 

[thehawk18]

Nice cheap and easy mod to do, a small bit of fly eyes kit (£3) for my side repeaters!

Personally i love it but each to there own i suppose, and considering it took sub 15/20mins its worth it.

Before:

During:

After:

 

[thehawk18]

A few pics of my new shiny bits etc

 

[thehawk18]

Also forgot ive changed my sidelights to LED side lights, look much better but on the downside i lost a lot of my hand attempting to fit it into gaps that clearly weren't designed for hands my size to fit into lol

 

[thehawk18]

Well the time had come to take my car for its mot and so i figured while it was there id get my new shiny bits fitted!

On the downside i failed my mot as i forgot to put old bulbs back in and take the hids out due to being side tracked fitting new bits :/

So a quick before pic of the engine bay:

 

[thehawk18]

Got my car down to VAG autocare in Lincoln and this was in for some work, looks ace.

 

[thehawk18]

First thing first, the TIP.

I went with the CreationMotorsport TIP purely because i couldn't find anything to tell me not to get it! I know that at £80 it was almost half the price of the Forge one and usually its a case of buy cheap buy twice but i figure with the same ply of the forge its got to be worth it!

Took a while to fit but was much easier having someone else fit it lol i only had to hold it in place which makes life sooo much easier.

Trial fitted:

 

[thehawk18]

Next up the vac hosing and throttle body to intercooler hose.

Bought the vac hosing from Awesome Gti, approx £9 for 3metres of red 4mm ID hose. Cheap!
And Forge Motorsport throttle body to intercooler hose in red from a company on ebay for £71 delivered.

Off with the old (pain in the arse)

In with the new!

 

[thehawk18]

As those of you with a keen eye will have noticed the above pictures also have a strut brace and DV added!

I got the Forge 008 Dv for a bargain of £100 from TSR performance ebay shop, a full £20 cheaper than anywhere else i could find. And they sorted next day delivery for £5 so id recommend them for there top notch service.

Also i found ForgeFactorySeconds ebay shop, couple of bargains on there! Picked up a Forge Front upper strut brace for £35, and as far as i can tell apart from one scuff and no forge sticker its perfectly fine yet was half price lol

Final pic of the engine bay: