Where do I start I've been a member for some time when I was going to replace my 172 cup with a 197 but that never happened!
I've owned a few various cars over the years highlights being a 312bhp Astra coupe with vxr running gear and very rare dbilas parts fitted was a animal but sold this in 2014 when my wife got a brand new fiesta st which we kept for 3 years this is one of the best cars I've ever owned as much as many on hear will hate them I've never owned a car that is so capable out of the box. I ran person stage 2 on it and done a couple of track days and really regret getting rid of it
In the mean time I got myself a Octavia vrs estate for daily dutys and to be honest its brilliant! About 16 months ago I bought a megane rs250 cup in a proper spec of no options other than cloth recaros, rs monitor and drls. It was in a not so good state when I bought it and over 12 months I spent a fortune on it to get it into a decent state I won't bore you with all the work I done but the mods included a full 3" CGR exhaust system which was a true work of art and if anybody ever moves onto a megane I highly recommend that it's the only exhaust to buy for them, I fitted a pace intercooler, h&r springs, rays motorsport g07wt wheels with ad08's and thats about it never managed to get it mapped before I sold it.
So this brings me to now I sold the megane about 6 weeks ago due to buying a new house that needs a fair chunk of money throwing at it so decided to sell up to release some funds and buy the wife a cheaper car as she does about 3k a year tops. We ended up with a e46 330d which once she drove once absolutely hated it so she stole my skoda! I do a good chunk of miles in work and the 330 is rather thirsty so I decided to have another look for a car for the wife and it didn't take me long to start looking for a 197.
With a limited budget of around 2k I started looking finding 100k+ nails to be fair and whenever a decent sounding one came for sale it was sold before I could get to it. So I decided to up the budget and finally managed to find a lovely albi blue example local, only options are xenons and sunroof which I didn't really want but heyho. Cars done 80k and lots of history with it only issues are 3rd gear synchro and boot pair lifting under the glass.
Current plans are to de chav it, remove the wind deflectors and mud flaps, sort the gearbox out and a new clutch, from there it will be sort the paint on the boot and some new tyres all round prob Michelin PS4 or cup2 if I can stretch to them then it's some suspension decent brakes and some oz ultraleggeras. Long term I think a meg conversion but this will be a good while away until I have my house sorted and for this reason mods will likely be slow!
I've owned a few various cars over the years highlights being a 312bhp Astra coupe with vxr running gear and very rare dbilas parts fitted was a animal but sold this in 2014 when my wife got a brand new fiesta st which we kept for 3 years this is one of the best cars I've ever owned as much as many on hear will hate them I've never owned a car that is so capable out of the box. I ran person stage 2 on it and done a couple of track days and really regret getting rid of it
In the mean time I got myself a Octavia vrs estate for daily dutys and to be honest its brilliant! About 16 months ago I bought a megane rs250 cup in a proper spec of no options other than cloth recaros, rs monitor and drls. It was in a not so good state when I bought it and over 12 months I spent a fortune on it to get it into a decent state I won't bore you with all the work I done but the mods included a full 3" CGR exhaust system which was a true work of art and if anybody ever moves onto a megane I highly recommend that it's the only exhaust to buy for them, I fitted a pace intercooler, h&r springs, rays motorsport g07wt wheels with ad08's and thats about it never managed to get it mapped before I sold it.
So this brings me to now I sold the megane about 6 weeks ago due to buying a new house that needs a fair chunk of money throwing at it so decided to sell up to release some funds and buy the wife a cheaper car as she does about 3k a year tops. We ended up with a e46 330d which once she drove once absolutely hated it so she stole my skoda! I do a good chunk of miles in work and the 330 is rather thirsty so I decided to have another look for a car for the wife and it didn't take me long to start looking for a 197.
With a limited budget of around 2k I started looking finding 100k+ nails to be fair and whenever a decent sounding one came for sale it was sold before I could get to it. So I decided to up the budget and finally managed to find a lovely albi blue example local, only options are xenons and sunroof which I didn't really want but heyho. Cars done 80k and lots of history with it only issues are 3rd gear synchro and boot pair lifting under the glass.
Current plans are to de chav it, remove the wind deflectors and mud flaps, sort the gearbox out and a new clutch, from there it will be sort the paint on the boot and some new tyres all round prob Michelin PS4 or cup2 if I can stretch to them then it's some suspension decent brakes and some oz ultraleggeras. Long term I think a meg conversion but this will be a good while away until I have my house sorted and for this reason mods will likely be slow!
