Hi!
New member of AOC.
Just bought this 1998 Almera N15 GTi.
The price was 460 GBP ( 575 Euro/5500 SEK)
I´m going to use it in a 24h race, and after that, it will go to the eternal rest at a scrapheap.
That might sound as a bad way to use a car that seems to be in a good condition but don´t worry, it isn´t in such a good condition.
There is a lot of rust, a lot of rust has been taken care of (in a lousy way), and there is still plenty of it.
So, the plan is to have a really good time at a racetrack in the end of october.
The car is in a standard/original, shape for the moment, nothing has been done with it, exept from ordinary service etc.
The 24h endurance test is a low budget race, so most modifications will be "DIY" and low budget.
We are driving on a proper race track, tarmac, with street legal tyres.
Any good advice will be recieved gratefully!
Right now
143 hp
1200 kg (weighed with full tank and 80 kg driver in it)
191 500 km (119 000 miles)
205/50-15 on original GTi alloys
Screaming starter (something should probably need to be done about that one)
Tinted rear and rear side windows.
Mould on rear seatbelts
MOT til may 2015
Totally worn out wipers
Future
Add lightness
- Removing interior/rear mouldy belts
- Removing seats
- Replace drivers seat with a lighter and more racey alternative
- Lighter rims with 195/50-15 or 195/45-15
- Removing A/C
- Removing PAS (if possible without installing electric water pump?)
- Removing rear speaker (we need a ordinary stereo/speaker in the car during the 24h endurance test)
- Removing spare, jack, tool
- Exchange final silencer to a lighter silencer
- Remove rear wipers
- Remove headlight wipers
More power to the wheels
- CAI with better filter
- Remove A/C
- 4-2-1 headers if we can find some cheap/used
- Decat if original cat seems to be to bad for a 24h run
- Advanced timing
Exterior
- Vents on bonnet, "hood louvers" to help with cooling the engine.
Aerodynamics
- Lowering
- Gurney-flap at rear spoiler
- Side skirts
- Wheels skirts at rear
- Splitter
- Move reg-plate up and place it in the grill
- Something shold be done with the rear "parachute" called bumper
- Covering fogligts/part of front bumper with lexan or similar
Handling
- Camber adjustment
- Toe adjustment
- Spacers, aprox 25 mm
Breakes
- Service calipers, front/rear
- New pads, front
- Cooling, front
Misc
- Extra headlights
- Extra breake light
- Fun styling
- Service, change oil/filter/spark plugs etc
Anything else that should be done?
New member of AOC.
Just bought this 1998 Almera N15 GTi.
The price was 460 GBP ( 575 Euro/5500 SEK)
I´m going to use it in a 24h race, and after that, it will go to the eternal rest at a scrapheap.
That might sound as a bad way to use a car that seems to be in a good condition but don´t worry, it isn´t in such a good condition.
There is a lot of rust, a lot of rust has been taken care of (in a lousy way), and there is still plenty of it.
So, the plan is to have a really good time at a racetrack in the end of october.
The car is in a standard/original, shape for the moment, nothing has been done with it, exept from ordinary service etc.
The 24h endurance test is a low budget race, so most modifications will be "DIY" and low budget.
We are driving on a proper race track, tarmac, with street legal tyres.
Any good advice will be recieved gratefully!
Right now
143 hp
1200 kg (weighed with full tank and 80 kg driver in it)
191 500 km (119 000 miles)
205/50-15 on original GTi alloys
Screaming starter (something should probably need to be done about that one)
Tinted rear and rear side windows.
Mould on rear seatbelts
MOT til may 2015
Totally worn out wipers
Future
Add lightness
- Removing interior/rear mouldy belts
- Removing seats
- Replace drivers seat with a lighter and more racey alternative
- Lighter rims with 195/50-15 or 195/45-15
- Removing A/C
- Removing PAS (if possible without installing electric water pump?)
- Removing rear speaker (we need a ordinary stereo/speaker in the car during the 24h endurance test)
- Removing spare, jack, tool
- Exchange final silencer to a lighter silencer
- Remove rear wipers
- Remove headlight wipers
More power to the wheels
- CAI with better filter
- Remove A/C
- 4-2-1 headers if we can find some cheap/used
- Decat if original cat seems to be to bad for a 24h run
- Advanced timing
Exterior
- Vents on bonnet, "hood louvers" to help with cooling the engine.
Aerodynamics
- Lowering
- Gurney-flap at rear spoiler
- Side skirts
- Wheels skirts at rear
- Splitter
- Move reg-plate up and place it in the grill
- Something shold be done with the rear "parachute" called bumper
- Covering fogligts/part of front bumper with lexan or similar
Handling
- Camber adjustment
- Toe adjustment
- Spacers, aprox 25 mm
Breakes
- Service calipers, front/rear
- New pads, front
- Cooling, front
Misc
- Extra headlights
- Extra breake light
- Fun styling
- Service, change oil/filter/spark plugs etc
Anything else that should be done?
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