If you had a bog standard Coupe 20VT, and a £1000 in your back pocket.... What would be your 1st mods?

remember £1000 limit

LE skirts and lips. A good bodyshop polish, strut brace and maybe a better dump valve such as a forge. Then some good disks and pads all round and maybe change the shocks for bilsteins.

Job done

pretty much what he said,forge dumper, le all round,3g discs with red dot fast pads, hid lighting kit,strut brace

Build a sandcastle...oh wait.

Buy a tank of petrol, go for a nice long drive, maybe stop and take a few photos of the car, and then when I got home I'd have forgotten all about it and put the rest in the bank for when it breaks down

I'm with TbirdX on that

if you were to leave the body alone, how much power gain could you get for £1000 from standard?

with a gtec1 chip ,gtir ,cat back and decat with 1.1 bar boost about 280esh after a good rr day iirc

.......drink

Stainless cat-back exhaust like a scorpion, Peco etc, always cropping up on the forum for about £150.

Pace SMIC £150 (usually)

whatever intake took my fancy on that day £70

G-Tech 1 £30

3G discs £140

Decent pads for about £80

Wishbones £80

Decent boost gauge with Nomad pod - £100

PRV - £20

Fresh Sachs dampers for the front and rear - £100ish?

Second hand Eibach springs - £80

Takes you to a bag 'o' sand.

If the brakes on the coop were good tho, and the suspension was quite fresh, I'd spend that money on a set of LE/Zender lips and colour code the bumpers.

pinin, when you say intake, do you mean air intake scoop for the bonnet, or do you mean induction kit?
toast

Cwees! you can't come on here, I call somebody else Cwees on this forum, you'll cause confusion! so I'll start again..


Toast! I mean induction, but you know that you silly boy. In fact no, you're right, I mean a mk1 impreza turbo scoop, but I wouldn't get the bumper cut, I'd just colour the inside of the scoop black with permanent marker. That'll show 'em.

yeah, let em think it's a real scoop, when all it really does is fudge up the sweet sweet aerodynamic curves of the sensual coopster.

Anyhoo! who else do you call Cwees on here?

I AM the original CWEEES and don't you forget it

(getting silly now, *chris_2OVT gets slapped on the wrist and is told to stop it* sorry)

It's my fault cwees, I should never have called anybody else cwees I'll stand in the corner!

Whoops off topic I hope MattB doesn't spank me

right then, back on topic...

if you had a well tuned coop, what styling mods would you do with a grand?

None .

Oh, and for a grand, get the brakes and suspension sorted out before you start worrying about engine tuning, as these will make a far bigger difference to your enjoyment of the car than a few extra horses under the bonnet. Suggest:

3G discs - say £200
Pagid/Textar pads - £150
Bilsteins - £400
Strut Brace - £75-100
Polybushes - £150

OK, you might have to fit most of it yourself, but you won't be disapointed !

Phil

Agree with this one.

For normal driving I wouldn't go for the Bilsteins, get the brakes done, def get the strut brace and do the bushes. The car will feel a hundred times better then.

Then get a bloody good service, boost gauge, chip and prv.

The car will be transformed IMO

Oh - I'd suggest getting a Perm done for £30. This is more a styling mod than a performance one tho.

Illustrative purposes only.

Is that you PP under there

A quick search of "Jim Perm" reveals... It's Oakley!

Err thats off topic

Anyway, a perm is not right for the coop, the ceiling is way too low, unless you are a midget, in which case perm away

i'd buy a set of 15" alloys from motorworld for £300
put an e-tech alloy spoiler on the back £120
get some blue LED washer jets £free from max power
lots of fake "manufacturer" stickers down the side of the doors £20
led skull gear knob £10
big carbon effect sun strip £free from redline
electric supercharger (computer fan jammed in the air duct) £50
Dump valve effect speaker under the bonnet £30
fast and furious Green neons under the car £200

should be a mint looking coop

to put chris_20vt's words in pic's

it shoul looklike a mix between this this and this

HA, the first one.."gets mistaken for a ferarri" maybe if it was standard, but to me it looks like a hot wheels toy!

I will spank you. Who is this other you are calling Cwees

Anyway Someone has already given the correct answer 50 quid tank of juice, 30 quid or so for some nice polishing products and gliptone, go for a drive, go on holiday or something with the other 900.00

Hmmmm, well i suppose i didn't stipulate that you had to spend the whole grand on the coop.

as for the "other" Cwees, it must be you because I am THE CWEES.