Jedi-knight83. 19" S8 Alloys. VMAX coilovers. FOR SALE

[jedi-knight83]

Quick pic on my way to Cardiff for the week

[JonDogg]

Your seats are nice! What are they like inside? more spacious?

[jedi-knight83]

Your seats are nice! What are they like inside? more spacious?

Thanks

They feel loads nicer than the old caddy 'park bench' seats. You can actually get them lower down and a bit further back too (with the bulk head) giving a much nicer driving position. For £80 i'm very pleased with them

[@lba_$kye]

Those seats are very nice, big improvement by the looks of it.

Something else to add to the to do list me thinks!

[G60MAT]

Nice progress, liking where this is heading!

[jedi-knight83]

Woo look what my mate got me from the corner shop this morning during out post hangover fryup supplies dash to the corner shop.



They had 3 cars and randomly one was a caddy lol

Gonna take the stickers off.... Lower it, prob fit an engine cover ( as it adds 15bhp ).

Love it

[@lba_$kye]

Haha, thats a great find

[jedi-knight83]

Just back from a 500 ish mile round trip to wales then to somerset and back to cambridge.

LOVE the van! The new suspension / wheels / tyres work perfectly together and have completely transformed the ride. Any worries I had about it being too firm were completely needless as its actually miles and MILES more comfortable than the OEM stuff.

The Kuhmo KU39 tyres are quieter at motorway cruise speed and grip tons better than the firestone van tires I previously had fitted. Coming out of roundabouts in 3rd (with a remap and in the wet) and there is now zero wheelspin and thus zero interference from the traction control. After the remap and with the standard tyres its span all over the place in anything up to 3rd even in the wet.

The suspension is firm but not crashy and the van now doesnt rock back and forth with braking like it did on the old 'stilts'. It just feels like a car to drive now.

The wheels look awesome IMO and the wheel / tyre width (8.5 wide and 235 tyres) dont cause any tram lining at all.

The rolling radius of the wheels is actually slightly more than before and this has made it cruise at 85mph ish much nicer than before. The van doesnt seem to be working as hard... although maybe this is physiological with the reduction in noise from the tyres and the fact its remapped so has a bit more grunt now?

The only downside seems to be that my MPG has been shocking ont he last tank. Now on 325 miles and it says its almost 3/4 gone!! Bear in mind i had already done 4 - 5 tanks since remapping but on the standard wheels / suspension and if anything saw a slight increase in MPG so not sure why I'm suddenly getting loads less....although perhaps now I have cruise and the fact I was doing 85-90 a lot of the way (because it felt easier and more comfortable and quieter) has something to do with it?? Although I often did those speeds on the motorway before and still returned 500 to a tank. So a bit puzzled there.

The wheels are a bit heavier and bigger rolling radius and I now have cruise... those are the only things I can think of that would have affected the mpg so much?

The GTI mk5 steering wheel is a nice thing to hold as well now and like I said everything has come together to make it feel much more like a car than a van.

LOVE IT!

[jedi-knight83]

Engine cover now fitted

[jedi-knight83]

Right... time for lights..

This HID kit (got it on my car and its been faultless for over a year now) H7R bulbs have the band around the base to avoid glare and have the canbus chip built in. Going for the 5000k colour as i have 6000k on my car and they are a bit blue. 5000k should give a nice crisp white light

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Also fitting these in the little slots in the front bumper.. might need to file the hole out a fraction but otherwise should fit perfectly. Dead easy to wire up according to the manual as it just connects to the battery and auto senses when the car is running

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[jedi-knight83]

quickly test wired up the DRLs tonight. I have no idea how this little box of tricks works as it just connects to the battery and not to an ignition wire but it auto turns on when the engine is started and then off a few seconds after it stops.

They fit perfectly in the OEM holes on the bumper.

Little video.. one side looks brighter as its filmed from an angle and they do look a tad dimmer from the side but not as much as it shows on the vid.

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[jedi-knight83]

Just been working out a few costs

S8 reps freshly refurbed £430
Kumho KU39 235/35/19 £416
Fitting and ballancing £40
Vmax suspension £290
Remap £215
K&N panel filter £39.53
Engine cover £41
Cruise stalk and wire £63.99
Steering control module £13
Mk5 GTi steering wheel £170
Mk5 GT seats £70
Touran seat consoles £75
Blanking cover for rear wiper motor hole £3.75
Paint £5.75
Ring DRL's £50

Total .. and its a good job I can claim it against tax!! £1923.02

And thats with me getting very good deals on a few bits and fitting it all myself. On top of that were new front brakes and service and new abs sensors as well which bumps it up about £300... eeeek

[jedi-knight83]

DRL and plastic undertray now installed

How to coming soon..

[jedi-knight83]

HID bulbs fitted this afternoon. Modified the twist in OEM bulb holders to take the HID bulb which has the wire fixed through the back.

Video of the lights firing up although hard to see as its dark but they are the same as the LED DRL lights now

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Kit used. 5000k bulbs. Fitted philips sidlight bulbs which are whiter too and new main beam bulbs






This is the kit i used. H7R bulbs that stop glare in reflector style headlamps and with the canbus canceller
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I used the same kit on my other car and its been flawless for 18 months now.

[BIGNICK]

lookin nice!

no a scale of one to "dont bother you'll only do some damage", how hard are the hids to fit?