New to this forum so thought i may aswell throw up my little project

Times and dates may not make sense as most of it is copied from another forum but im sure youll get the idea, ive owned the car for about 7 months now

So...

Bought it completely standard about a month or so ago
Full service history
New Injectors
New EGR valve
New fuel pump
And a few other bits and bobs



About 3 weeks later

This happened





Old vs new


Sorry for the rubbish picture, but now looks like this



Has actually made a pretty noticeable difference compared too what i was expecting

So currentley fitted:

HID's
White side lights
White numberplate lights
Blanked off EGR valve
Bigger intercooler
Decat
DMB Badges

This week ill be getting quotes for the rest of the exhaust system too be custom made so hopefully get that done in the next few weeks! then ill be looking too get it mapped

About to order Eibach 40mm springs in a minute, may look into coilovers in the near future but want too get all the grills done in gloss black and the wheels too be refurbed in graphite grey first

 

First off, i took a trip down too infinity exhausts near bristol and had a full stainless system from my decat back made up, extremely happy with how it now sounds



I then did a little wrapping inside, dont usually like carbon wrap but decided too try it out and tbh i really like it! none will be going on the outside though



Then did a little debadging and fitted a new numberplate






Ohh and a rubbish video, but you get the jist
Let my mate drive it as shes insured on it now, she loves it
http://www.facebook....150581083203946

 

Done a few bits today as the car isnt being used untill ive got a new dmf fitted

Alloys were an absolute state, decided to do a tempoary spray job on them untill i get them powdercoated





Cleaned all my inner arches with TFR and gave it all a good scrub and found some calliper paint in my shed from my old car

 

Clutch was fitted last month, booked in for a new gearbox (first motion shaft bearing is going) new aux belt tensioner, belt and new pulleys and a full service

Also
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Wheel spacers for the rear, these are 10mm and ideally i want 20mm for the rear so once i get a chance ill put these on the front

Also i have removed the front upper and lower grill, fog light surrounds and rear trim bits to spray gloss black and will be splitting the headlights to spray black




After:




Ignore the lack or rear trim, in the process of spraying it all

 

From this



To this



Then these arrived Ł639 later

 

I then had the wheels refurbed in a nice anthracite


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That same day i fitted my wheels i gearbox decided it didnt want to play ball anymore and went bang

so the next morning i made a start stripping the gearbox down and getting it off




Have to drop the subframe off on the mondeo to get the gearbox off



Currently fitting my 3rd gearbox and 2nd solid flywheel and clutch after the origional dualmass exploded

this is the damage inside the bell housing

 

as I'm still waiting for my new clutch to arrive I've been just fiddling about doing some little jobs I've wanted to do for an age

Painted my callipers yellow as the red didn't work anymore with my new theme being blue and yellow
Also refurbed my drive shafts, new cv boots too and painted the shafts up





And for the banter



Another video now its all back together
http://i1152.photobu...09F968F73BF.mp4

and how it looks now







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Good news and some frustrating news

firstly, it got mapped today



Annoying bit is that i have some bushes gone on the front end which is causing the car to skip when the power was put down on the dyno so i dont currently have a print out of the current power it would get to 175bhp then the wheels would just start spinning on the rollers

ive been told as soon as i get all the front end bushes replaced he will put it back on the dyno and get me a reading, hes pretty sure that its now over 200bhp though as he has done a fair few now with no mods and got some pretty tasty figures, obviously i cant prove this untill i get it all sorted though

Also the car is now a dream to drive, pulls really hard all the way through the revs and i even managed to get it spinning all the way into 4th gear :s


and then 60 miles later my turbo decided it was going to die




Right so ive ordered a new turbo and that should be here today ''17th october''


That just about brings up up to date today

Please feel free to rate or slate

 

looking good mate, weve just bought a tdci st aswell and i love it, we managed to get one with xenons, recaros, satnav, parking sensors etc.

It needs a new egr which i will get from jaguar soon but at the moment it is blanked off but as ours is a 56reg/euro 4 model it sometimes goes into limp mode with the blanking plate so we will have to keep ours working.

where did you get the single mass flywheel from? has it made any difference to pick up speeds?

if our dual mass goes ill be fitting a single mass aswell.


got any videos of the exhaust sound? i want a stainless for ours but cannot stand daft diesel exhausts

looking good though man

 

Update again, fitted my new turbo today, not bad seing as it only went 3 days ago

U got it off eBay mate. Transit flywheel and heavy duty clutch

There should be a few links above somewhere with some videos of the sound

 

blown another turbo

 

Why's this eating turbos

 

Sounds like your turbo is running over speed. Might be time to look for an uprated turbo.

 

Took my car back to the place i got it remapped yesterday and got a full refund and the car back to standard map

the car sounded like it was boosting way too high, i need to get hold of another turbo for the time being to get me back off the road then the plan is to get my old one sent off and rebuilt and uprated by turbo technics

 

The dual mass flywheels are a waste of time.Shame you keep nacking turbos.

 

Ive not got a dual mass on there anymore, fitted a transit flywheel and heavy duty clutch

My new turbo should be arriving tuesday so will get that fitted after work tuesday

 

Got my new intercooler today, smaller in terms of height but works out as the same specs as the old one as its thicker/wider
Should hopefully be able to be mounted under the crash bar so it can come further out the bumper as my last one was so tall it had to sit parly behind the crash bar meaning it was quite set back

 

Did some work on the st yesterday

Started off looking like this, smashed intercooler and ruined bumper with piece accross the bottom missing


removed bumper and held up intercooler where i wanted it, bumper on bumper off numerous times to get the intercooler sitting lever and centeral


Measured and made up some nice simple stong mounts



Nice and simple yet works



Bolted straight through the crash bar with rubber bushes so hopefully i have no knocking noises and it wont snap the brackets when i hit big bumps and pot holes



Old bumper absolutley ruined





New bumper





And all done! shall get some proper pictures once its nice and clean, managed to bring the intercooler fordward alot more compared to my last one!

 

Looks smart matey.Did you notice a big difference when you fitted the intercooler.

 

I love these. Was very tempted to get one but costs on failures ruled it out

Proper mint Mondingo there pal

 

Looking at this again, that registration looks very familiar!

 

Hi I've not done a comment before so here goes.
Cars looking good an you've spent some time an money getting there.
Have got the tdci st too but standard.
Had to replace the hydraulic clutch slave cyl on my titanium.
What a pain. Replaced the dual mass f/ wheel too with same product.
Seems ok but gears can be tight in 1st may need bleeding again but was wondering as you have a solid f/wheel an up /clutch do you get a lot of vibration now that the dual mass is supposed to prevent.

Al

 

where from dc?

i like these, its between one of these and a e46 diesel for me

 

I can only assume through the front wheels an feeling vibrations through steering wheel.
Were any mods needed to go from dual mass to a solid f/wheel or did it all fit ok

 

Yeah I fitted a solid flywheel from a transit and a heavy duty clutch on my drive way :L does vibrate more than before but nothing too over the top

How come you recognise the plate daz?

Cheers all, I have plenty more plans for the new year, new wheels, hybrid turbo to name a couple

 

Looking good mate can i ask how did you tint you headlights

 

This is why!! We did a few bits on it while it was owned by Johnsons Publishers!

 

Ohh nice, small world ehh

needs injectors doing badly! on their way out now smoking and running like poo
i have invoices showing they were replaced under 2 years ago

 

Hopefully they wont cost to much to replace.

 

I have an 05 tdci st estate,I'd love to have it looking good like yours but I use it every day and don't have the time to mod it.
If anything ever happened to it I'd be looking for the newest st estate I could find I like it so much.
Keep up the hard work!

 

looks good keep up the good work

 

Looks lovely mate.

Personally, i would stick with the ST wheels, nothing else looks good IMO, what ones you have in mind? And are the originals up for sale if your changing them?

 

nice car but it does sound like a money pit,turbo's ,gearboxes,fly wheels,injectors

 

From memory it had all injectors and the high pressure pump replaced to cure the EML/EDC light being on. That was a while ago though. I seem to remember it was running lumpy and occasionally cutting out.

 

I spoke to soon!
Mine always started on 2 cylinders for a few secs then chucked out smoke when it caught,took it to my electronics whizz kid pal who uploaded the latest software,it runs worse now so the injectors are out and away to be reconditioned.
Took a filter sample and alls well so the pump is ok for now.
Think I'll run it a few months then buy a 2.5 titanium x sport,too much to go wrong with more modern diseasels and I love the 5 cyl soundtrack!

 

hi m8 gota say you are doing a grate job with this
was considering buying one of these the other month .

can i ask what the exact colour is on the wheels i no you said they where anthracite but any chance you no the exact colour or colour code

 

you must have a bad one my brother has had his for the last 2 years and the only thing he has had to do is blank the egr

 

very cool

 

What are you doing to it to need a 2nd set of injectors, several gearbox's and turbos

Mine is near 100k, just changed the DMF and clutch and its only original turbo, gearbox etc

 

cheers all

possibly going bbs ch's but these wheels wont be up for sale

To be fair most of the problems with this car have been my fault, as i drive it hard most of the time, but i enjoy it and am looking at doing a few track days this year!
only thing that hasnt been my fault is the blowing of 2 turbos, that was down to the shit remap i had on it