03 Black VTR

[josh11490]

So then, I had an Icelandic grey VTR as my first car, loved it too bits, but it failed the mot on the axle, which I had already replaced, rust which I had already had done, it had cracked strut tops, and a load of other things, so I decided to save for a 106 gti/saxo vts, but then I was laid off.

So I found this 03 VTR on eBay, but has an overheating problem and idle problem, phoned the guy arranged a very decent price and went to collect it, 300 mile round trip.

Got there, few small problems, scratched bootlid/rear bumper and a dent on the rear arch, couple of other small bits but nothing much to sort.

Drove the car 2 miles down road it overheated, let it cool down, went to get it on motorway where we thought that would've kept it cool, kept steady but no it overheated within 500 yards, phoned AA didn't give symptoms of headgasket, but ended up on the back of an AA van and it got towed home.

Changed thermostat, checked radiator bled system all was good, drove fine, still idled at 2500rpm, drove it up and down the street a few times, let it run for an hour, turned it off, no overheating checked oil cap and mayo everywhere... Headgasket had gone, no surprise.

So fixed it, swapped some bits over from my old car like inlet manifold and a few sensors, got head skimmed and new gasket set and it started first turn no problems at all.

Just got to tax it now as that run out when it was off road, here's a few pics.

This is when I got it home, needing a clean.















Dent on back arch






So then my plans are:-
Fit supersprint 4-2-1 manifold
Fit custom manifold back
Fit 50mm springs
Fit upper and lower omp strut braces
Respray and fresh tyres on my vts alloys
Get the dent sorted
New bootlid
New rear bumper
New drivers door and maybe passenger
Refit the VT kit as some clips broke
Might swap to a standard colour coded front grill
Redo smoked headlights
Fit omp Corsica steering wheel
Fit omen rev limiter and launch control

Then once over sorted a job I plan on getting a pair of omp bucket seats, and harnesses, bilstein b8s front and rear.

Then that's it I think, might 16v it but shall see how it goes.

Cheers for looking!