The Ultimate Saxo - S4XO D

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I do have a thread on here, but its about 140 pages or something, and had not been updated in two years. Put it up for sale, was stripped but today all the interior went back in. Not sure what to do

Quick summary on it, incase anyones interested in it

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Right, here it goes, my own spin at a progress thread





First up I Started out with an 2001 saxo vtr as my first car, loved it done a few bits nothing major, but when starting new job decided I would sell car and then at some point buy another car to have as a toy to use on the odd weekend and track days, before I joined navy I was just looking bout at some cars up for sale with no intention to buy but i came across a two tone saxo vts, limited edition with only 250 made in the s format. Being local I went to have a look and instantly knew car was for me, I took it for a little spin, there was a few little imperfections and few bits I would change, had a chat with owner and next night went over and picked it up, 60k on the clock, part service history, £1900.







There was a few things I wasn’t happy with, well wouldn’t say unhappy but wanted to change it. First few jobs were clean up the bay, I don’t think it had ever been cleaned in its life, also standard discs and pads were up for a change, instead of going for standard pads and discs I went and bought some gti 6 brakes worth while upgrade as the standard vts brakes being shit! Also painted them yellow cos I was cool.

Before



After



Brakes



Then decided that the front end needed a change, I needed to make the car my own, put my own stamp on it, so out came the lights and painted them, and there we have it sports fans, smoked lights





Next job was to tidy the body work, was pretty tidy when I got it but it wasn’t up to my standards. Being colour coded is just wrong for me, only on certain colours does it look right, So it was in for delock, debadge, wide mouth the front bumper and a general tidy up including the bumpers back to black, had used the body shop before and couldn’t complain at all













Now on to the interesting things, decided on suspension set up with the car being lowered 60mm it was awful, I hated it, so wanted some top notch suspension, after around 6 million emails with dampcave i rang up gmc and ordered the group n billies set, although later found out they are sprintline rear units. I also had the gmc 40m springs, but they were sold and some falkners springs were purchased, 180lbs and 250length I think. Next was bushes, settled with powerflex and fitted them all around, also with the lower engine mount and arb mounts. Omp upper and lower braces were also fitted. All suspension parts were put on at same time at the garage, if I had to upgrade again, I would have a crack myself, but at the time I was a noob with messin around with cars. I was away when they were fitted, came back following weekend and picked up car, wasn’t sure what to expect, was a lot higher than I left it, wondered if I had done the right thing, it was only a small drive home, but after going around 5 round abouts, I was very very happy!



Next up was some track wheels, didn’t want to use the s wheels to drive to track, hammer around track and then drive home on, ive seen too many tyres ruined on track days so I decided I needed some track wheels. I settled on some speedline chrono’s which were pretty much same colour as the bottom half of car which rocked.



I didn’t really know what to do next, as I knew I was goin away in a few months for 7 months I didn’t really want to spend loads of money when I could save when I was away. So I decided I would see why people go on so much about stripping the cars, so I purchased some cheap seats that came up, just went with some targa’s recliners I know, but wanted something comfy and couldn’t complain. Also went with some rudi carbon door cards. Loved it, although a little louder, I did like it, and could feel the difference.





I got bored and decided fuck it, why wait til when im back, it was far too long to wait! So I went for a manifold, gmc btb 4-1, and a dampcave btb exhaust. Fitted both and loved the sound




The next change I decided to go for was a mankee cheng xsi diff box, few pics from the man himself. I was having this built whilst I was away with work, spending your tax money on beer and prostitues, thanks for that I had bought a spare vts box for it to be built when I was away so that I didn’t have to faf around with dropping my box out and getting it fitted and waiting for it to come back, I also bought the final drive some Ryan, cheers to ryan and alex for all help with getting all the bits up to Mankee for me.