AndyBrown's Techno Taxi

[AndyBrown]

Now then!

Thought its about time I get my own thread for my Techno Taxi as Ive been on here a while now and not bothered.

Last April/May I went on Deal or No Deal, my show was aired in December and I walked away with £11,500.
That was the highest offer and my box only had 50p in it!

Naturally I spunked the lot on a Candy White Edition 30 as Ive always wanted one.
Im a 25 year old apprentice, Im not on a piss poor wage but theres no chance I would have been able to save enough to get one.

The car is fairly well spec'd, only thing it didnt have was the RNS510.

Xenons
DSG
Lux Pack
Smokers pack
Highline
Sunroof
Convenience pack
Winter pack
Cruiste control
Auto lights/wipers
TPMS
MFSW
Privacy glass

Ive probably missed something off there but its loaded!

Anyway Ill let the pictures do the talking from now on.... (some of the photos weren't taken at the time of work done)



First thing to be done was carbon paddle shifts and seat inserts




Then she was lowered



I then wrapped the badges in carbon, but i ended up ordering a faux carbon rear badge and colour coded the boot mechanism, I was going to do it properly but the boot trim scared me off so I cheated and used sticker inserts. They dont match, probably end up changing the front at a later date.





Next up was an intake, I went for the ram air option because of some positive reviews and half the price of others out there. (Please excuse the dirty engine bay, its on the to-do list.)



The RCD300 was pissing me off so I was on the look out for a new headunit, I decided to ignore the RNS510 because its quite expensive to get everything I wanted and from what Ive read can be a bit of a headache. I found a chinese copy used on gumtree for £100, now for £100 you cant complain really, does everything I wanted. You can probably see a recurring theme here of me being a cheapskate 
At the same time I also got the carbon wrap out again and done the centre dash and the DSG surround. I should do it again really as its a bit messy.



So thats it up to date I think so Ill leave you with a coupe of photos of todays whoring session.







Future plans include Turbo back exhaust, remap and the wheels could do with a refurb aswell.
After that ill probably look at getting r32 brakes and that'll probably be it for power and stopping mods.

[AndyBrown]

Not sure why some of the photos haven't rotated I rotated them on photobucket

[Andy]

Nice ed and in the white,some nice mods to boot

[Bignod00]

Congratulations on the win and also on the purchase! The Eddy is looking lovely.

I'm glad to hear that hateful show got put to good use!

[Andy-GTI]

Looks great! very well spec'd car.

How did you get the DSG surround off? mine could do with a wrap as its scratched

 

[AndyBrown]

There's a guide kicking about somewhere off the top of my head lift up the ash tray and there's 2 screws, pull the leather part up and slide it over the knob.

There's a clip connected to the prnds lights aswell you need to undo.

Double check that tho before you do anything in case I'm wrong or missed something off.

[Adsy]

Well done on deal or no deal that's class! Car looks awesome as well.

[Andy1994]

how does the ram air intake sound? any whistle when you put the boot down? just ordered one for my s3

[AndyBrown]

I like the noise, wouldn't describe it as a whistle.
Can really hear it go tho with a nice pshhh when you lift off.

I'll make a video tomorrow for you if I remember.

[AndyBrown]

Not a major update but changed the cam follower this fine bank holiday monday.
This is the old one after 71k

[howie1987]

Cracking car mate. I have the ramair intake. See the pipe below the intake that is shown with 2 clips on pic, watch the heatsheild doesn't cut in to that pipe mine was starting to but i got some of this.

[AndyBrown]

Cracking car mate. I have the ramair intake. See the pipe below the intake that is shown with 2 clips on pic, watch the heatsheild doesn't cut in to that pipe mine was starting to but i got some of this.

Awesome, thanks for that, Ill get it ordered now.
Ive put a tie wrap round the heat shield on to that pipe just to hold it off as a quick fix but.
The edges arent the friendliest on that heat shield like are they.

[AndyBrown]

Forgot to update this thread as progress is slow with mine, just be enjoying it.

I've now got a 3" turbo decat r32 style from EMS Performance, it's only got one resonator on it and it's loud, like really loud especially on full chat.

It came from a cupra which I'm presuming the back bumper comes out further than the r32 bumper as the tips are hanging out a good few inch.

Need to get the tips cut and re welded to suit the r32 bumper which will need spraying aswell.

I'll upload some photos and a video tommorow when it's not raining. And when my girlfriend goes home coz she only whines about me and the car. Might trade her in for a new model.

[th3_f15t]

If you decide to swap to a BCS exhaust, give me a shout as I have a brand new one that I'm selling for £400 less than the normal price online. It's a sports cat system though.

[AndyBrown]

Heres the fnished article, had the bumper sprayed last week after a 6 week wait.
Gave her a bath tonight so got a photo of the rear.











For some reason the photos still come up the wrong way, theyve been rotated on photobucket though?