My Coupe

[ciaranthemurph]

The new seats are looking good, however get some black gliptone and colour wash the faded bits in then recondition the leather. They will come up like new.

Thanks for the tip, I'll need to look into that. They came from a v6 coupe that had 176k on it when it was broken, but they are still lovely and comfy, just a little 'patina' to them.

I have never went to any meets. I dont own an S2 but have a coupeE and a typ85 90quattro that im just putting an ABY into. It would be good to meet up some time and get a good look at how parts of your engine are layed out.
I have pretty much all of the parts for the swap apart from an ABY loom now.
Will you be at the Grouse meet in crief?

Any time you want, would be no problem. I work offshore, so I'm home quite a lot. If I'm not working during the Grouse meet, then I'll hopefully be making it there.

Love that colour, car looks very tidy.

Right choice getting rid of the 19s, can't imagine how much they weighed!

How long have you had those alloy topmounts on there? Any feedback on them?

Thanks. They were QS Sport ones that came with the car, they started creaking a little and bought some of the ebay ones, which a garage minced trying to get on, so I'm on the standards now. I could have probably regreased my original ones, or got new bearings for them, but hindsight is a great thing.

Looking to get adjustable ones next, was following lind4hl's thread as this is what he was going to do, but he got rid in the end. Need to find a good fabricator to chop my turrets!

[ciaranthemurph]

So early on last year, David (s2driveruk) and myself decided to go to Grüsch (and Le Mans and The Nurburgring), so I decided that I'd treat the car to a couple of goodies:

From Carsten:





From ericd on here:



Which went straight to The Polisher, who is local and among the best. The attention to detail is amazing, more photos to follow of the completed wheels.

And off we went:

[s2driveruk]

nice thread Ciaran, its a great colour and the mods have evolved it nicely....those current alloys all polished up look sweet and as for the recaro's

one from the campsite at Le Mans



Cheers
David

[ciaranthemurph]

nice thread Ciaran, its a great colour and the mods have evolved it nicely....those current alloys all polished up look sweet and as for the recaro's

one from the campsite at Le Mans

Thanks David, it's getting there slowly!

This is about as good a photo as I have of the wheels just now, I'll get more once I polish them up:



A couple from the European jaunt:













And again, at everyone's favourite Toll Road:



Next up, the continuation of the interior tidy-up...

[s2driveruk]

I was in Chamonix 2 weeks ago not far from that sign with the a6 rather than the '2

[Dan]

This thread makes me need to go back to Germany / The Ring.

[ciaranthemurph]

I was in Chamonix 2 weeks ago not far from that sign with the a6 rather than the '2

I bet you weren't with two rough Jocks, one of who is a bit scared of cable cars that bang about the place!

[s2driveruk]

forgot about that f*ck moment when it banged into the guide rail in the gale - priceless! Happy days...can't believe that was getting on for a year ago already. great photos!

[ciaranthemurph]

So, after a trip round Europe, the car went in for the MOT. Obviously this couldn't go smoothly:



Drivers side rear coilover pishing fluid out of it. Cutting a very long story short it turns out that the garage, Deutschtek that installed these used a set of vice grips or similar to hold the damper rod steady.

I have no idea what their thinking was as they seemed like reasonable guys when I dealt with them in the past.

I was already booked to go back out to Germany the next month for 10 days at the 'Ring, so that ended up being cancelled. The coilover went back to Carsten who overhauled it and sent it back - top service and another owed! Thanks!

I've got my original suspension on the rear of the car just now, so that will be one of the things being re-fitted before she goes back on the road.

Also one of these brand new to fit after experiencing rapidly rising oil temps at aheMPH on the continent:

[Rusty]

Nice little writeup so far mate

[ericd]

ciaran,

good to see the wheels went to a good home, mike the polisher does great work, be nice to see them when they're redone

[NorrS2]

Still spending on the old girl I see Ciaran!

Saw your other motor at Kamal's the other week. Is it through the MOT now?

Hope to catch up at the Grouse meet next month if you make it!!

[Acidburn]

hah, these look so big on the S2. They're the wheels we have on the A6 (the ones I think are great but Sharon referred to as "stock *****").

I think they suit a bigger car personally - they're nice, but disproportionate on the S2, IMHO.

The wheels r lush. I want em!

They didn't look to bad on my s2 (19's same as these)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YbnloVUEE8

nice write up, I nearly ended up with this car when I was looking.

[ciaranthemurph]

Nice little writeup so far mate

Cheers Andy, now sell me that IS!

ciaran,

good to see the wheels went to a good home, mike the polisher does great work, be nice to see them when they're redone

Yeah, Mike and Darren do some amazing work, I was blown away by some of the stuff they had lying about. I'll make sure that they are all polished up for Crieff, with centre caps!

Still spending on the old girl I see Ciaran!

Saw your other motor at Kamal's the other week. Is it through the MOT now?

Hope to catch up at the Grouse meet next month if you make it!!

Hi Norman, yeah, it probably will bankrupt me eventually! Yeah, it only needed a couple of bulbs, not bad for another old motor - 180k now!

Hope to see you at the Famous Grouse, as I've not seen the ur since it's been completed and bolted back together, looking forward to it!

[TimE-J]

coupe looks good, I like the wheels alot!. Variant of KW's are your coilovers and how do you find them on the road?