Hi,
On the Micra I've got, everything is stock, but battered. I'm wanting to "do it up", make it nippier, lighter, and nicer looking etc, and above all, be able to top 100mph, it struggles past 80 at the moment, steering wheel shakes and the engine drones. 80 isn't bad for a 1 litre, but you gotta want more haven't you?!
Anyway, I know what I'm doing around the car, I just can't decide where to start... so far I've bought some alloys, which need tyres putting on em, and whacked a new stock backbox on there, the old one was very rusted/corroded and very loose with a few holes in it.
So now it sounds a lot healthier, no rasps or whatever, but no performance gains.
Once the alloys are on, this will be a good few pounds shaved off the weight, making acceleration a bit easier. Plus, I'll then give it the one over service, cambelt, oil change, filters, etc.
But after that, where to begin, the list of tasks is endless...
Should I first uprate the brakes, or concentrate more on the aesthetics, it needs new bumpers as the old ones are scratched to ####, and it needs new bootlid, and rear passenger door (plus flat wipers and a nice 3d registration plate would look mint)? Or should I whack on an induction kit for sound? Or should I uprate to 1.3 cams? Or get a remap for a few hp gains to begin with?
I'm thinking of starting with aesthetics then brakes (rear disc conversion of course), then exhaust, ecu remap, followed by induction kit, followed by engine internals (cams etc) followed by forced induction, followed by ecu remap...
Oh, and when I say aesthetics, I don't mean bodykit, I want the car to be a sleeper. Biggest change to aesthetics from stock may be a sunstrip or leather seats! Oh, and most importantly, I want the jobs (except for the turbo addition, as I know it'll be off the road for a few weeks when this happens) to be weekend tasks, so I can have the car on the road as much as possible for practicality reasons
What order do you guys do yours in?!
As much detail as possible please!!!
On the Micra I've got, everything is stock, but battered. I'm wanting to "do it up", make it nippier, lighter, and nicer looking etc, and above all, be able to top 100mph, it struggles past 80 at the moment, steering wheel shakes and the engine drones. 80 isn't bad for a 1 litre, but you gotta want more haven't you?!
Anyway, I know what I'm doing around the car, I just can't decide where to start... so far I've bought some alloys, which need tyres putting on em, and whacked a new stock backbox on there, the old one was very rusted/corroded and very loose with a few holes in it.
So now it sounds a lot healthier, no rasps or whatever, but no performance gains.
Once the alloys are on, this will be a good few pounds shaved off the weight, making acceleration a bit easier. Plus, I'll then give it the one over service, cambelt, oil change, filters, etc.
But after that, where to begin, the list of tasks is endless...
Should I first uprate the brakes, or concentrate more on the aesthetics, it needs new bumpers as the old ones are scratched to ####, and it needs new bootlid, and rear passenger door (plus flat wipers and a nice 3d registration plate would look mint)? Or should I whack on an induction kit for sound? Or should I uprate to 1.3 cams? Or get a remap for a few hp gains to begin with?
I'm thinking of starting with aesthetics then brakes (rear disc conversion of course), then exhaust, ecu remap, followed by induction kit, followed by engine internals (cams etc) followed by forced induction, followed by ecu remap...
Oh, and when I say aesthetics, I don't mean bodykit, I want the car to be a sleeper. Biggest change to aesthetics from stock may be a sunstrip or leather seats! Oh, and most importantly, I want the jobs (except for the turbo addition, as I know it'll be off the road for a few weeks when this happens) to be weekend tasks, so I can have the car on the road as much as possible for practicality reasons
What order do you guys do yours in?!
As much detail as possible please!!!
