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guys its been a long time coming for me this. im not really a thread person and im sure itll raise some eyebrows when i say build on a budget.
the reason its build on a budget is simple. most parts i already had.
a little history. Mid 2000's i bought a 95 s2 coupe. i have been a vag man before and in search of more power following a scirocco and a corrado g60. both went well for what they were with a few mods here and there. the corrado i intended to install a mega 16vt. unfortunately the corrado was written off before the engine was ready.
when the s2 arrived home i already had a set of BBS rs2 wheels waiting for it. a couple of months went by and an eboost 2 was purchased. then with my 16vt collection i got a wagner tubular manifold for my sc6152e to fit on and dropped the car off with quattronics for a week to install and have a 3" system made. all went very well tbh. gt2 6pots wer next and then vems........the list goes on.
soon enough another write off. hit by a stolen car this time. rip s2.
3 years later im in the hunt for a car. bmw was a gonner and i was looking at mazda 6 mps. up pops a 1991 80 16vq saloon in very nice condition, under 100k on the clock and no rust in sight. project on! looked more or less like this when i got it.
i drove it for 7k before an issue stopped it working properly. never solved it. kjet, wiring whatever it was, in back of my mind was fit the lump and move the car on.
what i wanted was clear to me. the benifits of the saloon shell over the pretty poor coupe and the benifits of the s2 coupe running gear and setup i had. win-win in my book. in summary i want as close to an s2/ factory look 80 saloon as possible except for externals. i also wanted the almost 80's look to the b3 saloon.
so there it started nearly 2 years ago. since then ive been diagnosed, treated with chemo and made redundant from work. still the project rolls on. 0 funds lots of parts and help from friends and fellow fanatics.
ill stop rambling on. heres a basic list to start with of the points ill cover, the hardships and pitfalls and the simple bits. some of this may be fact, some opinion whichever way you see it its as it was for me. ill add more as the project becomes a runner.
so heres a brief list of my "doings". ive tried to put them in order.
car stripping
trim - leather from coupe installed into saloon
procon removal, cables and brackets
battery relocation - boot install
wiring loom changes - remove dash and engine
install dash loom
install engine loom
install s2 gauges, clocks mods to not alert on autocheck
s2 subframe swap, full running gear change
brake master, bomb, line change.
steering rack swap including column
mount fitting and brace fitting.
ghetto front bumper cutting, x member swap.wagner ic fitment
throttle body fix.
gauge install and ebc install.
gt2 6 pot change, rear brake upgrades
wheels, narrow arches and offsets. wishbone differences and camber bolts
fuel pump install
exhaust modification
mount weld and brace weld.
engine install, clearance
single mass install.
ghetto throttle cable mk2.
cental locking mods. installing and wiring.
vems setup and testing including firmware changes and megatune versus vemstune.
next installment soon.
the reason its build on a budget is simple. most parts i already had.
a little history. Mid 2000's i bought a 95 s2 coupe. i have been a vag man before and in search of more power following a scirocco and a corrado g60. both went well for what they were with a few mods here and there. the corrado i intended to install a mega 16vt. unfortunately the corrado was written off before the engine was ready.
when the s2 arrived home i already had a set of BBS rs2 wheels waiting for it. a couple of months went by and an eboost 2 was purchased. then with my 16vt collection i got a wagner tubular manifold for my sc6152e to fit on and dropped the car off with quattronics for a week to install and have a 3" system made. all went very well tbh. gt2 6pots wer next and then vems........the list goes on.
soon enough another write off. hit by a stolen car this time. rip s2.
3 years later im in the hunt for a car. bmw was a gonner and i was looking at mazda 6 mps. up pops a 1991 80 16vq saloon in very nice condition, under 100k on the clock and no rust in sight. project on! looked more or less like this when i got it.
i drove it for 7k before an issue stopped it working properly. never solved it. kjet, wiring whatever it was, in back of my mind was fit the lump and move the car on.
what i wanted was clear to me. the benifits of the saloon shell over the pretty poor coupe and the benifits of the s2 coupe running gear and setup i had. win-win in my book. in summary i want as close to an s2/ factory look 80 saloon as possible except for externals. i also wanted the almost 80's look to the b3 saloon.
so there it started nearly 2 years ago. since then ive been diagnosed, treated with chemo and made redundant from work. still the project rolls on. 0 funds lots of parts and help from friends and fellow fanatics.
ill stop rambling on. heres a basic list to start with of the points ill cover, the hardships and pitfalls and the simple bits. some of this may be fact, some opinion whichever way you see it its as it was for me. ill add more as the project becomes a runner.
so heres a brief list of my "doings". ive tried to put them in order.
car stripping
trim - leather from coupe installed into saloon
procon removal, cables and brackets
battery relocation - boot install
wiring loom changes - remove dash and engine
install dash loom
install engine loom
install s2 gauges, clocks mods to not alert on autocheck
s2 subframe swap, full running gear change
brake master, bomb, line change.
steering rack swap including column
mount fitting and brace fitting.
ghetto front bumper cutting, x member swap.wagner ic fitment
throttle body fix.
gauge install and ebc install.
gt2 6 pot change, rear brake upgrades
wheels, narrow arches and offsets. wishbone differences and camber bolts
fuel pump install
exhaust modification
mount weld and brace weld.
engine install, clearance
single mass install.
ghetto throttle cable mk2.
cental locking mods. installing and wiring.
vems setup and testing including firmware changes and megatune versus vemstune.
next installment soon.
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