Model - 1990 coupe s

Engine - 1.4 16v afh on cbr600 carbs with 145 jets

Suspension - front bilstien shocks and jamex springs with just under 2 coils cut off.

rear polo 6n coilovers modded to fit

Brakes - standard vw1's.. (were new in 2010 though so stop ok)

Wheels & Tyres - 13x7 starmags with 175/50/13 continental contisport 2's.

Exterior Styling - derby front, sprayed red oxide, plastic arches, crystal rear lights with bottom half tinted, sunstrip.

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Interior Styling - cobra front bucket seats, omp dished steering wheel, 8 ball gear knob.

Ice/Security - none really

Comments - got the car due to my best friend passing away, so his parents gave me it, pretty happy where its going now, at first i made a bit of a mess of it looking back on it! looking rude now.

pictures :

when i got the car:

painted badges red and back to black the bumpers:

bought some smoked indicators and got bored and taped the lights up:

also put my sidelights in my indicators:

didnt like the look of silver wheels so sprayed the steelies black with help from a friend:

found the set of arches that were on the car before my friend removed them:

after that, i thought it was about time it was lowered. so i bought a set of 70mm springs to whack on for now and this is how it turned out:

whilst it was up on the ramps, had a chance to ckeck the car over and suprisingly for a car of its age it was in very good condition! no rust either

anyway this is how it looked just after lowering:

looked much better in my opinion..

so after that i thought id make my engine look a little nicer as it was looking rather tatty!

sorted the rocker cover out from this:

http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g361/e...5_6513154_o.jpg

to this:

and then to this:

then cleaned and painted a couple extra bits and now my engine looks like this:

so that was the engine done for now, now to give the interior a good clean. it looked pretty damn horrible when i got it, and had stains literally EVERYWHERE, but after a lot of bleach and elbow grease with a friend it ended up looking like this:

also note the alpine flip out head unit/tv mounted in the dash, that was for the ps2! 30 quid well spent haha:

also, to fill the hole where the sterio used to be i quickly made a temporary tray out of wood :

then i passed my driving test in january wich was great! such a fun car to drive! apart from the 22mpg iv been getting lol...

since iv bin driving it I've done a couple things too, starting with a maniflow backbox from a mini :

was a right bitch to get it to stay on because it has no mounts and it needed a shim to fit the old pipe! looks great though on the car

also had a melted rear light cluster so bought a new set of lights and got the ones with the small reverse light wich i prefer for a grand total of £10 on ebay :

you can also see the exhaust in the pic^

since then, the only thing thats been bugging me is the paint. it was a nice colour and all, but the front wing had been repaired, aswell as all of the arches, and so they were a slightly different colour which looked horrible in the light...

i finally got annoyed to the point where i bought some black spray paint and thought fuck it! so i sprayed the car black haha! the pictures are from before i used rubbing compound to get rid of the cloudyness so it looks better now! also got a quad grill!

and a picture with the proper coupe s my friend family still have:

since then all iv done is apply rubbing compound to make the paint look better, and iv bought a new suspension set up wich I'm currently waiting for!

going to have some engine bits done in the future, but thats when i have the money.

will keep updating when i do more bits/take more pictures.

cheers for looking!

Edited 7 May, 201214 yr by erixtar1992

its looks good, i hope you can make it a car your mate could be proud of.

its looks good, i hope you can make it a car your mate could be proud of.

cheers man, yeah its such a shame, hed only just bought a minter of a coupe s aswell! i was so jealous! but yeah just trying to make it something different that hed love :)

Making a decent start here , not too sure on how the black looks though , and the tyres remind me of the robo cop police cars love it haha ! will be interesting to see what comes of it

Making a decent start here , not too sure on how the black looks though , and the tyres remind me of the robo cop police cars love it haha ! will be interesting to see what comes of it

cheers yeah the black isnt great, but its alot better than before, at least its all one colour! haha

got my new suspension today courtesey of a guy on here called colin. very happy with them! the springs are eilbach, with koni rear shocks and bilstein front shocks. will get pictures up soon!

mk1 scirrocco wheels! gonna refurb them because the spray job is really poor. still look nice though!

boom!

Nice work. Be sure to get some polish on the paint after using the cutting compound. It leaves thenpaint porous and easily stained.

Wheels look nice on it

cheers mate! yeah i still need to get round to laquering it aswell! haha think I'm gonna give it another coat of paint, then rubbing compound/laquer/polish ect! i like the ratty look at the moment though :)

You don't need to laquer it unless it's peeled. Laquering a whole car is a big job!

so, i now have a new engine after mine died, it was completely nackerd!

the new engine was out of my friends breadvan before he took it off the road,

its a 1.3 8v with

gt cam

4 branch

yamaha r6 carbs all rolling roaded and set up

only covered 40,000 miles ish and the engine is completely mint!

made 80bhp on the rollers, may go higher with a good exhaust.

steering wheel

need my alloys back on!

engine

steering wheel

Nice :)

Did the car come with that chrome bit on the clock surround?

I've got a coupe S one in mine, but it only has the red stripe, not the chrome... looks good :)

How are the bike carbs? :-D

cheers, nah i used a paint pen when i was bored one day looool, the red stripe is pinstripe tape so a bit dodgy, gona paint it soon instead.

the carbs are quality awesome acceleration can beat alot of cars off the lights! top end is crap though, 80-90 max atm, think i need air filters!

Edited 1 August, 201115 yr by erixtar1992

What's the switch and LED for? I want to put something there in my car but I don't know what.

What's the switch and LED for? I want to put something there in my car but I don't know what.

hey, switch was for my old flip out sterio because it had a constant live and drained the battery, now changed for different one so i use it to turn the sub on instead :)

led is to tell me my fuel pump is on

new bootlid, (ran outta spray!)

boring interior before

interior atm, on the lookout for new seats soon

also, the lack of carpet is due to mine being all old and stained, plus the sound proofing was mouldy from the battery tray leaking!

black carpets would be nice even though I'm liking it at the moment!

also, the lack of carpet is due to mine being all old and stained, plus the sound proofing was mouldy from the battery tray leaking!

black carpets would be nice even though I'm liking it at the moment!

How hard was it to get the carpet out? Mine could do with coming out for a proper clean.

Edited 1 August, 201115 yr by MattLoaf

also, the lack of carpet is due to mine being all old and stained, plus the sound proofing was mouldy from the battery tray leaking!

black carpets would be nice even though I'm liking it at the moment!

How hard was it to get the carpet out? Mine could do with coming out for a proper clean.

take the two front seats out wich i beleive is 1 10mm bolt? cant remember, centre console out, after that its pretty straight forward just random screws ect, just give it a tug and see what bits caught on what haha! you may have to make a small cut where it fits around the seat belt mount, unless you take that out too.

glad i did it though, my car dont smell of mould, and i found a quid! winnnnn

take the two front seats out wich i beleive is 1 10mm bolt? cant remember, centre console out, after that its pretty straight forward just random screws ect, just give it a tug and see what bits caught on what haha! you may have to make a small cut where it fits around the seat belt mount, unless you take that out too.

glad i did it though, my car dont smell of mould, and i found a quid! winnnnn

Nice, I'll probably just cut the carpet as you say, I tried removing the rear seatbelts before and they weren't for having it.

Only things I found in my car was some random air fresheners, kinda' wish I hadn't thrown them away, they were a bit of character of the car I guess. Also, I like the red stripe on your door cards, I'm totally going to nab that idea.

Edited 1 August, 201115 yr by MattLoaf

yeah, alot easier than taking them out, wont notice it anyway.

haha i found loads of mouldy pens ect, and my soundproofing had turned green/blue. looked like my car floor had blue waffle lmao

Looks cool man

Is the OMP wheel a genuine? If not where'd you acquire it from?

Looks cool man

Is the OMP wheel a genuine? If not where'd you acquire it from?

it isnt, its an ebay special :) £38 you cant go wrong! has a proper horn push ect and feels really well made, glad i got a fake one now tbh!