For all who don't know me my name is Isaac and I've decided to build a base model DC5.
I purchased this car from Wollongong early last year for a song after I sold my daily driven 4age powered VW kombi van.
I've owned and modified close to 20 cars in the last 10 years. It's been a fairly even mixture of Honda, aircooled volkswagens and 4wd's.
I'm not the kind of guy to buy and flog cars, I just get bored really really quickly!!!
So without hesitation lets talk about my little red...well sometimes pink looking car.
I'll post a lot more photos when I have more time.
When I purchased the car it had 110,000k's and was completely stock as a rock!!! The clutch slipped but overall it had been maintained well and was driven by an elderly gentleman.
Within a week or so I replaced the head unit and added some nice JVC speakers. In the same week I decided to get my local shop to supply and fit a new clutch.... 'There are no heavy duty clutches available for this car so we will modify a standard pressure plate to suit'. What a $1800 load of crap!!!
I have always been a DIY kind of guy, but running a small business and having a young family has given me very little free time to work on my own cars.
So for the next couple of months I put up with the shitty clutch and general state of the car and enjoyed the fuel economy.
It was about this time I discovered ClubITR and the boys at BYP racing.
I started collecting bits and pieces from people on here to improve the little fuel miser's drive ability.
I fitted:
- typeS header and Cat
- typeR cat back
- typeS Struts and camber arms
- typeR wing
- typeR brakes
- k&n panel filter
- and a buddy club short shifter
- changed all fluids for nulon synthetic
This did improve the car!! It clearly gained torque across the board and was a lot more rev happy! Led me to believe this little car may be worth spending some currency on.
More to follow...
I purchased this car from Wollongong early last year for a song after I sold my daily driven 4age powered VW kombi van.
I've owned and modified close to 20 cars in the last 10 years. It's been a fairly even mixture of Honda, aircooled volkswagens and 4wd's.
I'm not the kind of guy to buy and flog cars, I just get bored really really quickly!!!
So without hesitation lets talk about my little red...well sometimes pink looking car.
I'll post a lot more photos when I have more time.
When I purchased the car it had 110,000k's and was completely stock as a rock!!! The clutch slipped but overall it had been maintained well and was driven by an elderly gentleman.
Within a week or so I replaced the head unit and added some nice JVC speakers. In the same week I decided to get my local shop to supply and fit a new clutch.... 'There are no heavy duty clutches available for this car so we will modify a standard pressure plate to suit'. What a $1800 load of crap!!!
I have always been a DIY kind of guy, but running a small business and having a young family has given me very little free time to work on my own cars.
So for the next couple of months I put up with the shitty clutch and general state of the car and enjoyed the fuel economy.
It was about this time I discovered ClubITR and the boys at BYP racing.
I started collecting bits and pieces from people on here to improve the little fuel miser's drive ability.
I fitted:
- typeS header and Cat
- typeR cat back
- typeS Struts and camber arms
- typeR wing
- typeR brakes
- k&n panel filter
- and a buddy club short shifter
- changed all fluids for nulon synthetic
This did improve the car!! It clearly gained torque across the board and was a lot more rev happy! Led me to believe this little car may be worth spending some currency on.
More to follow...
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