Wilz Ibiza Cupra R

[wilz]

Good project! Keep it up..

Why thank you, will do my best

Nice work on bringing the brembos back to their former glory, looking great now. I still have a nice little pile of parts for the hybrid conversion, but your doing it the right way, bit by bit spreading the cost. It will all be worth it when its done, well thats what i keep saying to myself anyway

Keep up the good work mate

PS thats a serious amount of detailing products you got there, get some pics up of the car nice and clean when you can

Yeah i am trying to spread it out so it doesnt look like i have spent that much, i sure do hope its worth it.

Thats not even half i have bodyshop products, a rotary, glass polishes and numerous other detailing products, will do at some point when the weather cleans up

Nice write up will, always happy to help where I can.

Speak to David at Sere Motors about the rest of the timing belt kit too.

You sure do you and Al have been a help with this car. Will do when i get off my arse and find part numbers etc.

Those stoppers will work bra at our track day loon

Not going very far now my clutchpedal failed on me tonight so i had fun pushing it for ages in the snow!!!! Yes you all heard my clutch pedal finally gave way, in the process of removing it but i cant get it up my drive, so in the street in the snow is no fun trust me

I know they will be up to the job but just dont want it on the track just yet, need the go to keep up with they big guns!

one of the best yellow ibiza's on the site.

Well done mate.

Why thankyou that is some statement to make but thanks makes the effort worth while. i am looking to progress further.

Aye she is shaping up nicely....keep up the good work loon far the best R i've seen bar mine of course

Haha thanks for the comment,

But away back out in the snow to remove this clutch pedal! Hopefullly get a friend to weld it back up, trying my luck at this time on a friday night but you never know. Just when things were getting better!

choi

 

[Neale]

Aye its a pain in the hoop when the clutch pedal goes.....mine went in rush hour traffic in town to say i was pi*sed off was an understatement

Am liking you're hoard of cleaning products for the new paint job tho

 

[wilz]

Well got the pedal off and father does what he does best, fix the problem,

Broken pedal, crappy two spot welds from factory broke pretty obvious this would happen,

So this is a case of when it happens not if it will happen. This breaking leaves you with no clutch and pushing my car in the snow and ice in my case.

Some bending the broken plate into place and a solid weld all the way round, some fabricating and a lick of plate the pedal was fixed and looking beter than it ever did.

So thats the pedal fixed and not breaking in a hurry, the spring is good fun to get back in but there is a trick to it.

Neale, you need nice products to keep the paintwork looking swell.

 

[Neale]

Aye started my shopping for stuff already and i'm hooked on it dunno where to stop!!

What do you recommend as when this snow bloody shifts am gonna actually take her out the garage and give her the once over

 

[wilz]

I'm no pro remember but i have asked for advice and i would recommend what i have above,

I also have a snow foam gun and use hyper wash, but going to give snow foam a bash
A decent shampoo - meguiars gold class etc.
Clay bar- not to clued up i went for the beginner kit from meguiars
Last touch meguiars- used for drying (gives a good shine) and a lubricant for claying
A polish of your choice
Dodo juice lime prime
Dodo juice bannana armour
poorboys wgheel sealant for those refurbed wheels

Your car will look sweet,

Another thing been dodgying the fact i have had no ABS or traction control for a while now and knew i needed ABS sensors, Finaly got round to fitting them last night so i now have abs and traction control a boost in this crappy weather.

Just need to get the fault cleared now.

Try this place for the cleaning products - http://www.polishedbliss.co.uk/
This place for the dodo - http://www.dodojuice.com/

PB will explain alot on there site on how to look after your car

 

[wilz]

New shiney dipstick -

Before horrble orange tube

After a light key and a few coats of undercoat and plate.

Dipstick handle removed and new one fitted-

That would also show some orange so -

A few photos of it fitted

i know i should have cleaned the manifold up a bit more but it does for just now.
One shot of how the engine bay stands now, no more orange dipstick, next will be a cover that sits infront of the inlet manifold and a new coolant bottle as that one wouldnt clean up.

Eventually i will be getting the coolant hose kit from forge and that will be all the hoses replaced with new black ones.

 

[Ibiza125]

I never knew the dipstick cover was required for hybrid...

 

[cupramillo]

WOW engine bay is looking seriously nice now mate. Makes me want to put the hybrid on hold and bling up the engine bay abit. Top work as usual!

 

[Bowen]

amazing as always. love it.

 

[wilz]

I never knew the dipstick cover was required for hybrid...

I can do stuff like this for free and it tidys it up a tad,

pluys its not all about hybrid hybrid hybrid the car needs to be looked apon as a whole entity not just lets go fast.

Sure i am getting wiser

WOW engine bay is looking seriously nice now mate. Makes me want to put the hybrid on hold and bling up the engine bay abit. Top work as usual!

Cheers, a few more plans for the engine bay some carbon fibre, want to do something with the coolant bottle and battery but not sure yet,

any suggestions what else i could do? not keen on removing the carbon canister and all the smaller washer bottles i dont like from what i have seen.

amazing as always. love it.

Thanks Bowen, just takes time ond some thinking.

 

[Josh m]

looks smart mate

 

[Martin M]

Engine bay is looking good Wilz!

 

[wilz]

Thanks guys,

Will look even better when that cap i just bought from you is fitted though Martin.

A random xmas present i got from my dad quite a neat gift

Not the best of photos but here goes

Got his friend that does all my stickers etc to make it looks good

 

[cupramillo]

Loving the mug!!

 

[CraigW]

Engine bay is looking great mate. Wish the one in my 1.4 was clean like that.

Love the mug. . Its awesome.

 

[FINCH]

where in aberdeen you from mate? and you ever down the beach i need to see this beast in the flesh (H)

 

[Hansbury]

car looks sweet mate where did you get the highflow manifold from??thanks

 

[cupraajy]

How you doing??

Think i saw u the other night going past my flat not a million miles away from the top boulivard round about?? was outside getting my nictoine fix!!

Car is looking sweet! making me want to get my ass into gear and this mk3 of mine cleaned up and to half the standard of yours!

 

[wilz]

Wooah i forgot about this thread,

I am not too bad, yourself. yeah would have been me the other half has a flat beside pittodrie in aberdeen alot. Haha yeah i did put alot of effort inot cleaning the old girl up and getting it right before i went for power.

When i can upload photos i have a major update i forgot to tell the world about, The car is now hybrid and its immense fun to drive now.