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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #60 on: June 20, 2014, 06:41:17 pm »
Copy cat....  :P
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #61 on: June 21, 2014, 09:27:39 am »
Quote from: SurreyED30 on June 20, 2014, 06:12:32 pm
About time dave  :grin: looks good mate be good to see it at the weekend  :party:

Thanks jake  :happy2: took a while as Alex is a very busy guy these days

I've pm'd you about a time for today mate :wink:
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #62 on: June 23, 2014, 01:33:12 am »
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #63 on: June 23, 2014, 08:15:09 am »
Done any launches this weekend at all mate???
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #64 on: June 23, 2014, 01:30:27 pm »
Quote from: Little_Dave on June 23, 2014, 01:33:12 am
Quote from: richwig83 on June 20, 2014, 06:41:17 pm
Copy cat....  :P

 :signLOL: who copied who?

Whos was fitted first.....  :popcornsoda:

Only kidding mate. black tips FTW either way!  :notworthy:
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #65 on: June 24, 2014, 07:19:59 pm »
Quote from: SurreyED30 on June 23, 2014, 08:15:09 am
Done any launches this weekend at all mate???

Ashamed to say I haven't yet  :sad1:

Been driving in built up areas and the old work run so not really been the time and place to try it out full on  :driver:
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #66 on: June 24, 2014, 07:21:07 pm »
Quote from: richwig83 on June 23, 2014, 01:30:27 pm
Quote from: Little_Dave on June 23, 2014, 01:33:12 am
Quote from: richwig83 on June 20, 2014, 06:41:17 pm
Copy cat....  :P

 :signLOL: who copied who?

Whos was fitted first.....  :popcornsoda:

Only kidding mate. black tips FTW either way!  :notworthy:

Too true rich  :drinking:
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #67 on: June 24, 2014, 10:21:48 pm »
Quote from: Little_Dave on April 22, 2014, 09:38:55 pm
Ok so as some of you may know unfortunately my GTI was written off in an accident in January, which I was absolutely gutted about, but I had already had plans in a year or so to move on to another car and this just made my decision a bit sooner than anticipated

For me I wanted to stay in the VAG stable and initially thought about just going out and getting another GTI straight away  :party: but after sitting down and thinking about it any GTI I got would have to be an edition30 for the extra tuning potential and limited edition garnish

However I was not enjoying the wheel spin and traction issues I was having with my stage2+ GTI in damp and wet conditions and so adding more power for me personally would not be a good idea unless I wanted to invest a lot of money into the car

I narrowed my search down to two choices, a mk6 golf R and a facelift audi S3

Looking around it became obvious that a golf R was out of my price range and so began the hunt for a 3dr dsg S3

After some searching I found a very nice silver 3dr dsg S3 and it was love at first sight  :love:

This is how it looked when going for a test drive



Totally standard apart from a black edition front grill surround

Even in standard form it felt quicker than my GTI and the traction and grip was immense  :driver:

First off I wanted to get my wheels and brakes swapped over from the GTI and address the reverse rake the standard suspension has so gave Alex a call at AKS and started the ball rolling with the following mods -

Bilstein B14 coilovers
Superpro ALK
H&R front and rear arbs
Db9 astons fitted
TT top mounts
Alignment
Revo stage 1

Ended up being an all day marathon but at the end of it the car looked and handled spot on





Now that was all I had planned for quite a while but I've got two friends on here that are bad influences plus Alex was tempting me with all sorts of goodies  :signLOL:

So a deal was made and a kind of mini group buy set up for this little lot to be fitted



So my engine bay went from this



To this  :pomppomp:



That's how it stands at the moment but I've ordered a BCS full exhaust in the group buy and already have the loba hpfp in place to go stage2+ when that's fitted in a week or so

Here's a few pics after a good clean a few weeks back before early edition







Looking forward to trying out the new chemical guys stuff I've just got when the weather starts behaving itself  :fighting:

That's about it for now thanks for reading

Dave  :drinking:

Loving this, keep up the good work!
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #68 on: June 25, 2014, 10:07:29 pm »
Cheers mate  :happy2:
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #69 on: June 25, 2014, 10:43:36 pm »
What about black mirrors Dave?  :party:

If mine wasn't Phantom black, I'd have done them in gloss Phantom black  :evilgrin:
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #70 on: June 26, 2014, 11:36:00 pm »
Very nice s3 mate
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #71 on: June 30, 2014, 11:05:37 am »
Quote from: rdfcpete on June 25, 2014, 10:43:36 pm
What about black mirrors Dave?  :party:

If mine wasn't Phantom black, I'd have done them in gloss Phantom black  :evilgrin:

Doubt I'll change the mirrors as it's a feature of the S3 having silver ones

Still thinking about getting the rear diffuser and middle of the front spoiler either painted or wrapped black

Not sure whether to get gloss or Matt black now though cos of the exhaust tips  :laugh:
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #72 on: June 30, 2014, 11:52:28 am »
Quote from: Little_Dave on June 30, 2014, 11:05:37 am
Quote from: rdfcpete on June 25, 2014, 10:43:36 pm
What about black mirrors Dave?  :party:

If mine wasn't Phantom black, I'd have done them in gloss Phantom black  :evilgrin:

Doubt I'll change the mirrors as it's a feature of the S3 having silver ones

Still thinking about getting the rear diffuser and middle of the front spoiler either painted or wrapped black

Not sure whether to get gloss or Matt black now though cos of the exhaust tips  :laugh:

Fair enough, that's true. I just love the contrast of the black on silver and the mirrors would be a silvery' colour anyway on a silver S3  :P That's all I was thinking  :signLOL:

A gloss black painted diffuser would look superb IMO. There's a couple on audi-sport running that I think.

Car looks superb though :happy2:
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #73 on: July 01, 2014, 04:06:53 pm »
Quote from: rdfcpete on June 30, 2014, 11:52:28 am
Quote from: Little_Dave on June 30, 2014, 11:05:37 am
Quote from: rdfcpete on June 25, 2014, 10:43:36 pm
What about black mirrors Dave?  :party:

If mine wasn't Phantom black, I'd have done them in gloss Phantom black  :evilgrin:

Doubt I'll change the mirrors as it's a feature of the S3 having silver ones

Still thinking about getting the rear diffuser and middle of the front spoiler either painted or wrapped black

Not sure whether to get gloss or Matt black now though cos of the exhaust tips  :laugh:

Fair enough, that's true. I just love the contrast of the black on silver and the mirrors would be a silvery' colour anyway on a silver S3  :P That's all I was thinking  :signLOL:

A gloss black painted diffuser would look superb IMO. There's a couple on audi-sport running that I think.

Car looks superb though :happy2:

Yeah very true they'd be silver which ever model it was  :signLOL:

Seen a few on audi-sport net too that look great  :drool:

The slippery slope seems to be a lot steeper with this car than my last  :signLOL:
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Re: Little_Dave's S3
« Reply #74 on: July 02, 2014, 03:23:08 pm »
Looks nice
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