Don't strip in my opinion. No need to ruin a minter of a white VTS....

And they're noisy as hell with no interior, hear every annoying rattle/squeek but extra loud! Cams & remap and leave well alone I think personally.

My old car, Brembo 4pots, cams, stripped = very twitchy rear. So much so when I outbraked a CTR, rear bounced out and ended up going round a corner on a 90 degree angle. Looked good, but boy did I shit meself! Safe to say the next day I had an interior again... Lol

The rear doesn't go too light if it's on a setup like mine or yours Stevo, 70-80mm maybe, but I have nothing behind my front seats and it handles like a dream- and I could tell the performance change with the weight loss.
Did I see you still had the spare tyre in? Get rid! If you can save 50kg on a car that weighs 935kg it's like gaining 8bhp assuming your hp is around 135bhp- well worth it IMO if you don't use the rear seats etc...

leave the interior alone imo, i have thought lots about ripping it out but it turns the car into niether one thing or another.

seats out, sure thing it wieghs abit less but tbh how much do saxo rear seats weigh? not alot. any you said replace with a cage which min is 19kg from an omp one. so defeats the object of that.

the only way to do it is properly go the whole hog with it but then you are in essence destroying a very nice car and to strip one properly and go lightweight cost money.

it will be a very quick car with the cams ect in see how you like it with them in first, if you still want it to be quicker change the 'box then strip it.

oh yeah thanks for letting me know about c/w

dont strip it. i have started stripping mine however replacing parts with carbon and now getting a inside spray job however its not fun sounds shit... you car is to nice to strip

Nice one cheers dude

Think Ive gone of the idea now mate

Ye I defo think your right mate after thinking about it cheers for the advice

Might just strip it out for track days mate but not all of the time.

Ye you have some really good points there mate cheers. I need to book in with CW's soon.

Cheers mate not going to strip now yours is looking good Ive been keeping an eye on it :y:

Cams are now fitted!!! :p Hears some pics and that.

Left my camera at work so the valeters thought they would take the piss lolz







Hears some pics of the old cams in



Then they are out



Then the Newmans are in





Then the timing belt fitted, apparentley it had the timing belt replaced already which is suprising as I bought it with 42000 miles on.




So its all up and running now and it feels so quick throught the revs and it just needs remapping.

Also bought a nissans radiater to try and improve cooling

this thread just gets better each time i look, whats the tipp-ex for?

Thanks mate the tipp-ex was just to help get the timming for the cams spot on, they still might need some adjustment yet though.

Nice work mate. Where are you going for the remap - Chipwizards?

Cheers, ye chipwizards mate they seem to have a really good rep and they are near to me as well

Cams will be awesome! Bet it has a really bouncy idle unmapped.
Id keep the interior if I were you, sooo much road noise and lots of other little noises when it's bare metal especially if you use it everyday.

Idle is not as bad as I though but it does need a remap and the timing spot on. We should get some pics of mine and yours togethere at uni black Vs white lolz


Hears some pics of the car after a big clean before Bolton Abbey :p









And a couple of pics of it at Bolton Abbey

Your car looked lush today :A:

Cheers mate it was just a shame about the weather

Ok so the car is now booked in for the remap on Wednesday at Chipwizards so today I started getting the car ready. Cooling is the main thing so I fitted an extra fan and my nissens rad.


Hears the new radiater compared to the old lol



twin fans which I got sprayed white









Then I thought I might as well give it a full service so it was new spark plugs



Then I changed the oil and filter



and replaced the fuel filter

You have done everything i would have done to that car if i purchased it. Looks spot on, you got track time at FCS mate?

Thanks mate Im really getting into it now once the remap is done Im going to focus on getting the outside spot on. Haven't booked any track time mate as I dont know If Ill be working away but If im not away I will be booking a couple of setions, How about you mate are you getting some track time in?

yeah, it will depend on if i keep the car or not aswell! if i enjoy it i will just go mad on it lots of carbon and that if its not something i enjoy with be getting Cupra R or something. Just want my bucket and that fitted and the weather to brighten up so i can whore it.

You will love it mate you cant beat a good spin around a track it takes all of your aggretion out for road driving, might see you there then pal

Always loved a white VT.. the mark1 looks better imo but not the less you're is looking very nice ::