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One of these threads seems to pop up every few months.. now that winter is on the way and people stop going to shows and start tinkering with their cars, i'm interested to see what jobs are planned and what needs sorting over the coming months. Might as well kick it off with my laundry list of stuff...

 

* Respray driver side front wing, attend to rust appearing on drivers door, remove scratch and clean up on drivers side rear quarter.

 

* Charger rebuild and few tweaks maybe - most likely down to the G-Unit for that!

 

* Regasket the front parts (and replace any cracked / broken parts) of my exhaust system to cure leaks and rattles! And get the classic G60 rattly downpipe heatshield silenced!! :)

 

Not a particularly cheap looking list. Anyone else got work outstanding?

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mine just needs a bit of tidying up and a weld here and there and she will be mint again... :lol:

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*replace the drive belt tensioner bearing and drive belt

 

*buy and fit a vibratech front engine mount

 

*keep an eye out for a full set of black leather seats and door cards :(

 

*have a play with the coil overs height and damper settings

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Here's my list :-

 

Fit - 270 degree fast road cam, cam followers, valve seals, exhaust front pipe, big-end shells, red top injectors, front mount cooler.

Polish & port - cylinder head, inlet manifold, throttle body, exhaust manifold.

Supercharger re-con, SNS 5.5 chip

Fit - custom front grille, RS front bumper, sideskirts.

 

8)

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Here's my list

 

get the 1.9 x flow engine in, with new bearing shells,pistons, lightened/ balanced flywheel, clutch, red top injectors, front mount cooler, charger rebuild, re mapped chip

 

polish a few bits up here and there

fit the mesh in the bumper

get it back into the bodyshop just to finish off all the niggly problems with the bodywork

sort the wiring out so that everything works again as it should do ( sparky will come in there as I hate wiring LOL)

fit the 3 jl audio subs and amps into a custom leather enclosure

get the roof lining/ sun visors retrimmed

tint the rear screen and drivers door glass again

 

 

hmmm thats all I can think of for the moment but that will keep me more than occupied for the next few months :D

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I need:-

Cambelt, Tensioner and new pulley bolts

Rear Discs and Pads

Respray the Bonnet and Tailgate

New wider rims for the BBS'

New Sub and rear speakers

 

And a Rascal Van to run around in while I do it all :lol:

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I need to..

 

Get my tracking sorted (at the back! :( )

Fit the new fuel pump (both of these should be done on Weds...gawd knows how much it's gonna cost in labour tho :( )

 

I would like to...

Fit my Infinity components and stop the door rattles

Get her lowered on a decent setup

Replace most of the front chassis

Clean up the engine bay

Fix the bastid rattles in the sunroof and get it re-sprayed

Get an alarm fitted (got an immobiliser already!)

Probably get a Basslink after I fit the Infinities and realise they've not got enough grunt :roll:

 

Oh and take out a huge loan to pay for it all :(

 

In my almost 4 months of ownership I've spend £3.5k on her so far, (including the insurance excess from the tree incident, but not including buying the car itself). The spending needs to at least slow down, if not stop for a while so my credit card can recover....

 

Edit: Oh and nice one Darren :lol:

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After gettin most of the mechnical/interia/ice sorted out this year, The winter months involve:

 

Gettin the bodywork sorted (been quoted £570)

Oill Cooler (wrong time of the year i know)

New Foglight

Some New Tyres

Locatein an fixing a certain steering colume rattle

 

I feel like i done so much this year though, i may just get nothing unless somethin goes wrong. :)

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Get dash re trimmed in alcantera

 

Find some £££

 

Find some cream Leather Recaro's

 

Find and Fit some mad Pimpin wide rims

 

Find some $$$

 

Koni Coilovers

 

Arches Rolled

 

Find some £££

 

Maybe some more ICE and PC

 

More more more and more Tuning

 

and full bare metal re spray with tons of smoothing here and there and FAT arches

 

and a shrek beenie hat with ears FOR MEEEE :lol:

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Find some £££

 

Find some cream Leather Recaro's

 

Find some $$$

:

 

 

thats my wishlist too :wink:

 

its not gonna happen at all is it :cry: got more chance finding lots of money than Recaros in cream leather

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its not gonna happen at all is it :cry: got more chance finding lots of money than Recaros in cream leather

 

ain't that the truth :roll: :(

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The winter months for me, will mostly involve finding some kind of H.G Wells/ timelord bloke, who'll take me back a few weeks and let me warn myself to not blindly trust my freindly neighbourhood North West VW specialist, who, after "fixing" a minor gear linkage problem would end up returning my car with the exhaust rattling. Super stiff gear change. And the need to call out the AA once more after being (physically) unable to de-select reverse gear one day in a car park!

 

Add on to that the cost of a plastic towing eye cap which got snapped off in the process of moving my car from A to B makes for a pretty miserable Lungbubble bloke at the min.

:roll:

 

Ah well..... Could be worse.

 

Could be skint!

 

 

 

 

DOH!!!!!!!!! :wink:

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My current to do list includes getting a new throttle cable, replacing the rear spring packing, shortening the cat to exhaust connector pipe by 1", changing the handbrake dash bulb, determining why the coolant temp guage is undereading, getting a new clip for the rear bumper, finding out why cold starts have recently become really difficult and also trying to work out what this potentially suspension related noise is all about...

 

Probably about due a wheel alignment and my next plan is to upgrade the brakes to G60 fronts and Mk4 Golf rears...

 

...assuming something else more urgent doesn't turn up before then of course :lol:

 

LvP.

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The list seems endless.. :cry:

-Finish replacing heater matrix and reinstall dash

-Coolant change

-Put new starter motor on with new positive and earth leads

-Clean carpets and seats properly! any ideas on cleaning headlining guys?

-Remove door bump strips

-Headlight wiring loom upgrade

 

And so the list goes on and none of these seem to be bits i want to do! :(

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must do list:

 

sort out busted foglight (lasted all of 3 weeks or so from new)

 

will do list:

 

install amp for front speakers (alpine 6.5s)

retrim door pockets

make my custom projector headlights with clear lenses (might take some time)

tidy up some bodywork pieces (colour code rear number plate plastic etc)

airbrush something cool onto my rocker cover

fit eyebrow spoiler

fit new tunnel trim

get DDI style gauges (who do I have to kill to get these????)

remove and paint front splitter

 

wish list:

 

polished TT competition alloys

coilovers

smooth front bumper number plate recess and fit 3/4 size plate

some nice carbon fibre stuff

some subtle sideskirts

 

never gonna happen

 

fit bi-turbo R32 lump and 4wd

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Well reminded pablo_vr6 - as soon as zarman gives us a little more info (like where to send money!) , those DDI dials are RIGHT up on the list! :)

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Well here is my to do list

 

- Fix rattles in dash, sunroof and door

- Change to H&R springs instead of the ones that came with the Koni SSK kit

- Fit Neuspeed Rear ARB

- Re-Chip

- Mocal Oil Cooler

- Retrim front seats

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mine just needs a bit of tidying up and a weld here and there and she will be mint again... :lol:

 

came on here to reply about my car and saw this which has really f****d me off :mad:

 

that was a perfectly good shell and look how its ended up bad enough corrado's are getting writen off and some rotting throught now due to carless owners but ripping apart a perfect shell and then joking about it i just dont see the funny side

 

sorry just my 2p's worth

 

as for my car ull have to wait as its going to go back into the body shop and hopefully my new interior should be turning up soon (fingers crossed) and then only have the ICE to tackle

 

oh i just keep buying wheels so dont know which ones to use :cry:

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Wish List / To do

Fix rattling Heat Shield

Fit Uprated Headlight Loom

New top mounts, bushes and it needs lowering

Little bit of paint work (front bumper, both doors [tesco parking dent removal :mad: ])

New Exhaust manifold

New HT leads

New Headlight Loom

Wheel re-furb

 

Get new daily driver and stop taking the C to Tesco (and loading it with surfboard and mtb)

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-Clean carpets and seats properly! any ideas on cleaning headlining guys?

 

Apparently Autoglym Interior Shampoo is good, but TBH I've got some and I've not been wildly impressed. The easiest way to clean it has to be take it out and do it elsewhere though. It's a bit of a pig to do, but if you have to get in there to fix your sunroof anyway... :roll:

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will do

get dentmaster out to sort out multiple parking dents

get new door re-sprayed/fit new door

fit oil cooler

polish camshaft cover so i can see my face in it (scary thought)

fit new machined/engraved charger bung

fit new stainless exhaust

new windscreen

 

might do

send charger down to the g-unit for some fettling and a smaller pulley

chip it

fit twin jato units :lol:

bigger i/c

lower it a bit

 

have done in the last year

charger re-built, new front shockies, wishbones, bushes, top mounts, bottom ball joints, wheels, cv joint, boost return mod, all 3 engine mounts, clutch, brake disks, headlight loom, lupo wipers, boot build, dash lights, seat bolster, probably more but i cant remember at the moment

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