Tom.'s Darkside Developments big turbo'd Ibiza TDI

[Tom.]

Cheers for the comments. Yeh its a lot easier to clean and just looks a lot tidier.

Im from a village in East yorkshre called snaith. Its in between Selby and Goole.

 

[Tom.]

Right, Few little updates.

Had the car on the rolling road at RS tuning a month or two ago.

It ran 166 bhp and 285ft/lb with some sort of boost problem at high revs/ Fairly happy with the power. Just got to find out whats wrong with it now.

Second thing, i got very bored one evening so decided to get some paint and have a little play with the engine cover.

Just waiting until august now to change my insurance which will allow me to drop it
Cant wait.

 

[Tom.]

Recently (for the last 6 months) ive been having trouble with my car going into limp mode.
First thought was turbo. Not something i wanted to go. When i had it RR'd it wasnt running right. The power was going down each time unless it was turned off then started again.
Having spoken to a fellow member he mentioned one of his friends had a similair problem which had been solved with a FMIC. This being the case i thought i would buy one and give it a try.
So i bought the forge cooler from a certain smokey car driver known as T.Spark and then fitted it last night.
Results have impressed me big time. The car feels a lot more responsive on throttle and just feels to have a lot more about it, the best thing being that it no longer goes into limp.

 

[Sisson]

Nice.!

My old FMIC,

Gets around abit!

 

[Tom.]

Think it is mate yeh. Well pleased with it. Only problem is getting it to fir behind the bumper.
Dont suppose you have any pics of what you had to cut / how you made it fit with your bumper do you?

 

[T. Spark]

Nice.!

My old FMIC,

Gets around abit!

Its gone to a good home

 

[Tom.]

I'll look after it well Feed it plenty of cold and spooled air.

 

[mrcoyote]

Think it is mate yeh. Well pleased with it. Only problem is getting it to fir behind the bumper.
Dont suppose you have any pics of what you had to cut / how you made it fit with your bumper do you?

From memory, there's a small mounting bracket on the back of the bumper which needs to be modified slightly, but then again I didn't fit mine as it was done by Forge. However, the full instructions should be on their site somewhere...

Okay, maybe you don't?

Full instructions are here anyway.

 

[Tom.]

Had a look on there site and to be fair there fitting guide seemed a bit useless. would have been better with some diagrams showing where things were supposed to go.
And as for trimming the bumper it didnt say anything about that on there. Just that youmay need a hacksaw/stanley knife.

 

[mrcoyote]

Like I said, they put it on my car (at the time) for me, but I do remember them saying that something had to be shaved...

 

[Tom.]

Fair enough. Thanks for your help anyway. Appreciated

 

[T. Spark]

I dont think I ever bothered personally, however if you are going for that OEM look then im sure its a cable tie for the pipe to lift it up to fit the fog light, and just cut a section off the inside of the front bumper where ever it gets close to the pipe work so it sits flush.

Glad to hear its stopped the limp mode at 130mph+ anyway matey

 

[Tom.]

Glad to hear its stopped the limp mode at 130mph+ anyway matey

On private roads of course

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

Nice one Tom. Bumper fit ok on the drivers side?

 

[T. Spark]

On private roads of course

Where else

 

[Rocky Rocastle]

glad to hear it solved the problem & gave you better performance too.

cant be bad

 

[Tom.]

Nice one Tom. Bumper fit ok on the drivers side?

Nah not at the moment. Havnt got any fogs in and its pushing the grill out but ive realised from looking at pictures the answer is to mount the intercooler slightly towards the passenger side. Gonna give it a try when i get chance.

glad to hear it solved the problem & gave you better performance too.

cant be bad

Cheers mate. Cant lose really so its all thumbs up.

 

[Tom.]

Well its update time again. Up until now the mods have been slow due to insurance issues however im now insured with brentacre who will allow me to do any modification at no extra cost with a limit of 180bhp.
So insurance being sorted i decided it was time to sort out the terrible ride height.

Bought myself a set of FK Sport Edition+ coilovers.
I decided rather than pay for a garage to fit them id do it myself, so took on this task yesterday afternoon.
The fronts were a bit of a nightmare but once i had it sussed was pretty easy. I decided the easieast way was to remove the drveshafts from the hubs as these restricted the amount of movement on the shocks. Once these were out it was plain sailing.
The rears were a doddle and were on in half an hour.
Anyway the important part.......

On the ramps...

All done...

I have changed the ride height on the front ever so slightly sicne the photos were taken and will be updating with more pictures later after its been washed.

 

[T. Spark]

Looking good mate, nice and slammed I aint been out for awhile in mine, but will have to come out as soon as the pipe arrives

Oh, you need to update your siggy, you no longer need the coilovers

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

What damping settings have you got yours set at? Think you're the second person on here to fit these!