Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap.

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Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - geo7087 - 18-01-2012

Ok here goes.

Approximate 4-5 weeks ago i bought my 9th car. My previous car was a Seat Ibiza 1.8t, lovely car but in all truth it was costing me a little too much on fuel, mind you it was running 245bhp :\

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So the spec for the new car as i bought it.
306 HDi 2.0
129,000 miles
Full service History
MOT Jan 2012 (now has fresh MOT for a year, more on that below)
Tax March 2012
Stage 1 remap by celtic tuning
Otherwise standard with all the usual Phase 3 extras

As the car arrived, a few dings here and there but gives me some things to get done over time!

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A Friend of mine had a GTi-6 breaking at the time when i bought the car, i arranged to go and see him for some parts, i walked away with a really good condition set of GTI-6 half leathers, no bolster wear which i was amazed by! and a GTI-6 front bumper splitter for the costly sum of Â£100 Smile

Old cloth seats removed

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New seats installed

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Next up was to replace the rather disgusting gearknob fitted to the car when i bought it... it was replaced with a gearknob from a breaking Peugeot 307

Offending Item... :\

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307 gearknob installed

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Following this to continue some Interior modifications i fitted a 300mm steering wheel with Momo boss, not entirely sure what i'm doing with the centre as obviously a horn push is pointless! I removed the old wheel for 2 reasons, it was the size of a boat compared to my old 280mm Momo team in the seat, and me being a tall lad my legs were wrapped around the bloody thing!

300mm Wheel fitted

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Onto the exterior,I decided to change the cyclone alloy wheels. They just weren't going to cut the mustard for me, so i bought from a friend a set of 206GTi 180 "Vortex" 17 Inch alloy wheels. They had seen better days.. so i filled the worst of the offending curb marks and set about a home based refurb.

The wheels were painted Ford graphite Grey and Laquered, they were then flatted, compounded with g3, and polished to shine. I then re-applied the Peugeot lions with sticky pads.

Cyclones removed

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During 206 Alloy wheel refurbish

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Final finish

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Lions re-applied

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Wheels fitted, whilst i was doing the change i painted the calipers red, and fitted new plates, the black masks i will get onto in a moment...

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Now from the picture of the wheels fitted you can clearly see the tractor style ride height, lukily i had already ordered a set of TA Technix coilovers, yes they are cheap ones but at the end of the day this isnt a high budget or high performance motor. I had a local garage fit them and adjust the torsion bar to match, the end result was definately worth the garage bill!.

Ride height after fitting coilovers

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Now the eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed the black masks, these were done by myself using my oven to sepeate the lights, being valeo units thy were an absolute pig! Whilst i had the Peugeot black paint at hand i thought i'd paint the Mirror bases, front badge surround and fuel cap trims

Black masks complete and fitted

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Front badge painted and fitted

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Painted mirror bases

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Painted fuel cap trims

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Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - geo7087 - 18-01-2012

Now with the above peugeot black items the spoiler looked out of place, now this i didnt fancy doing in my garage due to the length, lukily a friend of mine is a sprayer and did the job for very little money, depite the budget job it easily matches up to any bodyshop work I've had before

Phase 3 spoiler Peugeot black

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To continue the Gloss black i sourced some vinyl from b and Q of all places! this was fitted to the B Pillars to replace the standard cracked b pillar vinyls. was a bit of a pig of a job but with patience and the right tools the finish was worth it.

Gloss Black B Pillars

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I decided at this point with the black masks the front foglight units looked out of place, i decided to remove them and fit 306 Rallye foglight blanks, this tied in better with the headlights and helped the smooth front end of the car, whilst the front bumper was removed to fit them i fitted the GTI-6 front bumper splitter which i had also painted gloss black.

Rallye Blanks Fittted

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This takes me up to the current point of how the car stands

Beading on roof following Poorboys nattys Blue paste wax

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Engine bay cleaned, not bad for 130k!

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As the car stands today.

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And now onto the final part of this post, the cars future.. well I've always been a bit of a sucker for the stance and euro movements.. as you can see from my ibiza! So i looked into new wheels... again! I eventually found a set of Dare DR-B Alloy wheels. These are basically replicas of Borbet A splits. i bought a brand new set for Â£400 with the specs of 16x8 all round, et 20 all round.

Lukily from fitting the 206 wheels i have already rolled my arches and have full sets of hubsentirc spacers in 10mm, 15mm, and 20mm. so fitment shouldn't be an issue Smile

I'll be running 195/40/16 tyres all round.

Wheels purchased and delivered

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With the wheels now bwing here i didn't want to simply run the standard silver, i decided a refurb to the centres was needed. After photoshopping various ideas i narrowed down to Graphite and Moonstone, after a much more detailed photoshop i decided on Moonstone. As i type this all 4 wheels have had the centres refurbished by myself with moonstone centres, as before they have been flatted, compounded and polished for flat surfaces with shine. Whilst i was painting i colour coded a peugeot lion for the front badge.

Photoshop

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Lion painted

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Wheel painted and complete

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I do plan to fit flat centre caps (these are the same size as genuine borbet caps) I've found flat caps unbranded for Â£80 which i'll purchase at a later date. The wheels will be fitted with tyres at the end of the month then fitted to the car.

So that's my HDi! all comments are welcome and I'll see you all at FCS 2012!

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Hitchos - 18-01-2012

Looking good mate but i do prefer the peugeot alloys but still looks nice

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Ed Doe - 18-01-2012

WOW! Crikey you've been busy! lol

YHPM! ThumbsUp

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - 4WayDiablo - 18-01-2012

Wow! Good effort! Was it a rattle can job with the mirror bases and spoiler? Its a bloody good finish!
Bet your liking the 50-60 mpg now :-)

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Dum-Dum - 18-01-2012

Thats gonna look pretty epic mate, your clearly a well practiced modder. Cant wait to find time to get all my shiny bits on mine.

Where you based out of interest

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Tom - 21-01-2012

You in cornwall mate?
Swear i seen this car parked up in asda last night.. Looked good if it wasnt you yours looks good too Wink

And that ibiza is shit hot!! Big Grin

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - darrenjlobb - 21-01-2012

Hey fella,

And to the above, yes hes from St.Austell Smile

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - cwspellowe - 22-01-2012

What's the quality of the Dare replicas like? Think I know the guy you got them from, am looking at a set of their BBS RS reps for a similar price

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - geo7087 - 23-01-2012

Apologies for the late reply!, Thanks to all who commented and yes im in St Austell in Cornwall Smile

I'm chuffed with the dare's only very minor complaint is the fake bolts aren't able to push out from the rear unlike my old RS reps on the Seat... anywho...

Update

Ok so decided to trial fit the new wheels and remove my coilovers helper springs as i knew with the 16's I'd need to adjust the ride height lower. So with some tools and some blocks of wood i got to work!!

Suspension strut removed (stupidly easy job!)

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Helper spring removed

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Then after re-assembly and fiddling with the ride height i trial fitted the wheels, in the pictures the wheels are fitted with 10mm spacers front and 15mm rear

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I'm really happy with the way they're looking tbh! I've now ordered un-branding flat centre caps for the wheels and a full set of 195/40/16 falken Ziex 912 tyres Smile

Also currently looking at a private plate for the car and debating having the car re-painted as the bodywork has unfortunately seen better days! Not sure I'f im going to have to modify my bumpstomps for lows at the front but I'll see what the result is after fitting my wheels with tyres on the car too.

Opinions welcome as always Smile

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Foxy-jim - 23-01-2012

Its going to look awesome! WIll it pass an mot without helpers in? I need to take mine out!

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Chris - 23-01-2012

You shouldnt need to mod the coilies for the 16's tbh.
See my sig for them on the stops with 205/40/17's

Cant wait to see this done, although I'm not a huge fan of the wheels.

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Curt - 23-01-2012

Wow, nice work, awesome looking car! I really like what you've done with the wheels with the Moonstone, subtle but different.

Will keep an eye on this, will look epic when the wheels are on Cool

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Tom - 23-01-2012

This car is cool as shit.. Glad its local so i will hopefully see it around Big Grin

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - geo7087 - 23-01-2012

Cheers for the responses guys Smile

Chris the reason for removal of helpers is with 8j wide front the inside of the wheel would have fouled on the spring itself, with the helper removed the spring assembly will sit higher allowing the wheel to sit further into the arch than without removing the helpers Smile

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Chris - 23-01-2012

My ones are all the way down with no helpers, you'll have to space the wheels some more to give you clearance or you'll never get it low enough.
I'll be running 8's on the front of mine, with a ET-1, but I'm sure I could fit a higher ET in without it hitting on the strut, but my brakes wont allow me a higher ET.

FYI, my wheels are currently 7.5x17 ET9 and theres still room between them and the strut, so ET5 on the 8's should fit.

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Foxy-jim - 23-01-2012

Mine are going to be et-10!

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - geo7087 - 24-01-2012

I'm not sure what my final front et will be, will see how the wheels sit when tyres are fitted this week Smile

Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Matt - 24-01-2012

Looks good mate, makes me think, my lensos need to go back on lol

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Foxy-jim - 24-01-2012

Get rid of the lenso's and buy some bbs's!!!

Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Matt - 24-01-2012

Can't get them cheap enough lol and I really like them lol

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Foxy-jim - 24-01-2012

Ye that's what stopped me from getting some!

Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Matt - 24-01-2012

I want some borbets now though Smile

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Foxy-jim - 24-01-2012

A's?

Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Matt - 24-01-2012

Oh yeah Wink

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Foxy-jim - 24-01-2012

You seen the guy on .ne who has them on his? Looks amazing!

Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Matt - 24-01-2012

Viscous_burger? There sweet, also like the op's wheels

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Foxy-jim - 24-01-2012

Yep that's the one! He knows his stuff when it comes to wheels haha! I hope my banded steels look decent!

Sorry for the thread jacking btw!

Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Matt - 24-01-2012

Major thread hijack, and yeah he's sound, I was parked behind him at FCS last year, had a chat, sure it was his car which was drawing in the photographers, took a picture of his then saw mine and took a picture of mine lol

Re: Moonstone HDi Phase 3, Coilovers, Replica Splits, Remap. - Foxy-jim - 24-01-2012

Haha it's awesome! I woul like someone to compliment mine, would feel well good! We should try and get a euro feature in performance French car haha.