flybikeslee

well some of you may remember me having such cars as





which started out as a turd



then the civic







which again...started out as a bin



Had a bike



which wasn't a bin...but still needing playing with



and more recently an Octy



which was standard and ended up with 280bhp/300lbft





Had several Civics for breaking and a Zafira GSI between times but as you can see i'm one for tinkering. Was getting bored of the Octavia after owning it for nearly 3 years so wanted a change. Did look into a lot of different cars but finally settled for a 2 owner S2000 GT '05. Ticks all the boxes for now. Love the handling of it and the noise reminds me of the old civic. Proper happy with it. Spent yesterday cleaning it up properly, the previous owner was a Grandma so although it had been well looked after it hadn't been loved. Thanks to Mark for helping with all his cleaning goodies!













Full detailing thread here...
http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/foru...82#post3634582


Just waiting for my private plate documents to come back from DVLa and the front plate holder will be binned off. Already painted the calipers from rust to Metallic Grey.

Plans are coilovers, bushes, set of wheels and breathing mods.

Longer terms plans are possible charger/turbo but we'll see!

First things first..the basics



arches cleaned and brakes painted



coilovers ordered in 2 days of ownership. the OEM shocks rode fine but found the car wallowed a bit in corners. plus it didn't sit right!




got them fitted






arches blasted with pressure washer...took most the oem underseal off...



so started doing it with some better stuff

will do the full car when i have time



shafts out and cv cups swapped sides to avoid any vibrations when lowered. Saved me £100 worth of driveshaft spacers

Little play with height and how the car currently stands



plenty more to come...

jonner

Keep up the good work....

Stuttterbuttter

Nice suzuka man looks like its in good hands

viK

Cv cups swapped ? What's this exactly?

flybikeslee

https://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/241...diy-with-pics/



Trackday rubber and wheels



Enkei OEM subaru wheels with the centre bore adjusted to fit. 8J all round with 235 tyres



Need another coat of paint, will fit them at weekend for a few pics hopefully

Driven

I hope I'm misunderstanding the "all around" and that you're going wider than that in the rear.

Suzuka AP2

What was the yellow car? Also Suzuka ftw haha

flybikeslee

They're properly sticky tyres so i'll have a trackday out of them before going for wider ones.

Skoda Octavia, cheers

flybikeslee

trackday wheels.

flybikeslee

have to get some better pictures in the daytime...crappy iphone pic for now