olethalb's white R-line bora - schmidts + air ride fitted.

well done Olly

Awesome buddy great to have another booted dub in mags will have to go get it tomorrow

congrats on thre feature,i really love this bora,always wanted mines white,well done sir

Bought it today

Well done on getting the feature, well deserved after all your hard graft.

Lovely Bora just love em .PETER

woah - i come back, the forums changed and i've got lots of comments!

thank you all for your kind words and support here's some pics from the photoshoot thanks to Si Gray

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Olly

haha! thanks bud!

Olly

Looks superb well done i do love a good Bora i really do, this ones top dolla. I have a funny feeling you might have a few more tricks up your sleaves yet might be wrong just call it a hunch.........

thanks dirtydubber, if i keep it then there's a couple more bits to do to the body then a few more engine mods.

Olly

Love it!

right no updates for quite a while as it was uncertain if i was selling up - i've decided to keep it now though.

mini update - not really progress but i've binned the camo and gone for some faux leather.

first thing i had to do was make the boost guage pod not look stuck on and test how the leatherette bonded with the pillars and stretched around the curves. i stripped the original material as an earlier test run showed the alfabond adhesive lifted the original fabric and i came away with the new stuff.

just to refresh this is the urban camo i had

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i didn't plan on updating it as progress so didn't do any step by step pics, i extended the boost pod 'slope' with a section of mk2 golf heater vent plastic ducting and pop riveted it along with the pod to the original pillar then fillered it in so it looked smooth. when this was done i trimmed it in the grey faux leather.

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i thought it turned out ok, i trial fitted it and it fitted snugly

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so i did the passenger one too

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then i had to trim the boost gauge face to match

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i was quite happy with them so moved on to unchartered territory - the middle pillars - same method of stripping the original material off and glueing both pillar trim and faux leather then sticking them together

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they went ok so i fitted them up too

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luckily i had just enough faux leather to do the rear pillars too, here's what it looked like when removed

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then trimmed

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and fitted

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Olly

i'm saving for new wheels and for the past two weeks i've been waiting for the 'buyer' to collect my merc rims - assured me it was today and now having sold the adaptors it's fallen through!

so for the past couple of weeks it's been sat looking like this

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well wednesday i was off work sick and got bored sleeping and trying to be entertained without loud noises so pulled the bora on the drive and began to pull the front end off - last pics of it complete for a while

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pulled off the grills

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pics of the cut outs for the fmic pipe work

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then popped the bumper off

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then the front end was removed

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next i started to remove the bits that are going - firstly the oil catch can, was never permanent and had been leaking (worse than i thought)

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on top of the box

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and under the battery tray

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i removed a few other bits too as i'll be pulling the engine out sooner or later

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and started to attend to the loom, i've always been unhappy with the mess that is the stock loom - it just seems to be everywhere, i'm not going to hide it or anything just reroute it to a more logical set up.

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because some / alot of it will need to be either lengthened or shortened, i need to leave the engine in until i've got it all set up and soldered to the desired route and length

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i need to buy some shrink wrap before i start soldering it all together so routed it roughly where i want it to go, here's my donor loom i'll be hacking up to use wires from to get the right colours / thickness and lengths.

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i also made up a little resistor plate yesterday i'm going to mount in the scuttle for all my sai/ n249 etc etc deletes

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after a while i was getting cold and feeling sick so i headed back into the warmth.

while i was mooching around i decided now (while it's off the road) would be the ideal time to put some fogs back in my headlights + i could do it indoors in the warm.

after my original headlights with fogs got ruined by a bodyshop i had to fit the non fog items as a quick fix, the old ones have been in the shed for about a year so i dug them out and set about fitting them in.

current light without fog

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removed from casing

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with a hole saw i carefully cut out the blank in the light

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i salvaged all the bits from the old unit

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and fitted it in

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comparison

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then repeated it with the other side

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and reffited them all back together

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i have spent a long time doing this loom for not much reward []

as i said earlier in the thread the aim was to re-route the loom in a more logical and neater fasion, not to hide it - just tidy it.

following the other pics i routed the majority of it where i wanted it to go, the majority of the rest of the time was spent either lengthening or shortening loom.

i cut the injector plugs off the donor loom as they were better condition (2007 loom)

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and then paired up the wires with shrink wrap

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then heated it and shaped the wires to go where i needed

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once they were all done i extended the looms and joined it to the original loom

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next i decided to route the temp sensor wires and vvt wires with the loom for the coilpacks so again extended the wires and wrapped in heat shrink

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now i'd done that the n75 wires seemed to have to go over the top of everything, so i decided i'd trace the wires back and route them out of the port for the MAF loom.

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so again i shortened the wires and covered them with shrink wrap

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while i had the loom apart i ran the p/s pressure sensor wires in the injector loom and put shrink wrap over the wires

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i also extended the throttle body loom and IAT wires so i could run it under the inlet.

re routed and shortened Map sensor wires

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i also wanted to remove the loom for the CC, N112, N249 and SAI and put all the resistors on a plate and mount it in the scuttle, so traced all the wires back and mounted the plate (with rubber foot) in the scuttle.

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i wanted to keep the loom off the bottom of the scuttle to prevent it picking up moisture and transferring it so i ran it over the top.

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with the reduction of loom i managed to relocate the relays in the box that clips to the bulkhead and binned the box

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i fitted the majority of the loom with the corrugated plastic trunking and took a few 'finished' pics - nothing's clipped in place but the engine's coming out so i'll do it when it goes back in.

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not really an update but just got these in the post []

996 rears with Badger5 braided hoses, 312 adaptor brackets and 2 sets of pads 1 x used brembo and one new set of brembo's fitted

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will be a while before they're fitted (not sure they'll even fit behind the steels [:DD] )

Looks grate bud and alot of adration for someone to go in as much as you have on this build. keep it up

thanks bud.

alot more to do yet i'm afraid.

Great build, got me sucked in for sure. Love the neatness of the loom and how good your modifications look top work.

thanks dirtydubber - i just want to tidy the bay a bit.

got a few more goodies in the post today

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325mm grooved discs

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256mm V5 vented rears

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carbonio intake in box

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yesterday i cleaned up my calipers and carriers, here's the first one cleaned up

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comparison

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then i took them down the shed, gave them a lick of paint and left them to dry overnight

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now i'd got the loom where i wanted i started pulling bits off the engine, i got the crank case breather / oil plate off as i want to adapt the outlet breather pipe.

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took most of the bits off the front of the engine

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and took a pic of the cambelt thats done about 6k, it was replaced along with the tensioner and water pump just before i got the engine but unfortunately they fitted a plastic water pump so i'll chuck a new kit on with metal pump.

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stripped off the p/s tank, header tank and washer bottle while i was there too.

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today i was supposed to be doing some work on a mates ibiza but someone crashed into him last night so that was off. instead i thought i'd enjoy the weather and plod away doing some bits to mine instead.

first job of the day was to fit the rear brakes up but while i was cracking on with that this arrived

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i though it rude not to fit it up

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once i'd done that i trimmed the lips off the dirt shields and fininshed fitting the brakes.

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then i was bored so i started pulling more bits off the lump, while i was doing that a mate arrived in his 1.6 mk4 golf and told me he'd been in humphries for and hour and a half while they tried to get his locking wheel nuts off because he'd lost the key and they couldn't do it so i wacked them off for him, then he asked me to fit some wishbone bushes. i agreed but sent him to audi to get the s3 items.

before i could crack on with mine much more another mate popped round with a saxo strut and hub - he wanted me to fit a wheel bearing to it, so i did that just in time for my mate with the mk4 to come back with the new wishbone bushes, so set about fitting them up too.

now i could continue what i was doing, it seemed most of the bay had been stripped iut so i popped off the shafts, gear linkage and DP and dropped the engine out.

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once it was out i just kept stripping bits off; gearbox

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clutch and flywheel

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engine mount

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turbo

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next i want to clean the bay then i'll drop the subframe out too.

christ you have been busy...... I thought you were just tidying the bay!!!! lol.