So im pretty new around here, had the car around 6 months so shall copy across my thread from another forum
So thought i best pop a thread up of the Megane seeing as i will still be at FCS with you guys
Having owned the 207 for 5 years now i started looking about for a bit of a change, when i came across this megane. Before this i had already looked at a couple of 225’s but just the normal non cup package, non lux megane and they didn’t really take my fancy.
This came up on pistonheads and was a 3 hour trip away so we went to look at it. Took it for a drive and it drove 100% better than nay others i had looked at. Nice hard boosting engine, the cup pack gives you the brembo’s and a lower firmer suspension setup which tranforms the car, It really surprised me how quick it actually is.
Lookign around the car it was pretty spotless, the only damage being a cracked case on the wing mirror. So a bit of haggling, some road tax thrown in we signed the paper work. After a two week wait i finally went to pick it up:
(Slightly squashed pcitures aha)
Anyway got it home.. and gave it a good clean. The previous owner had obviously had kids in it and a smoker. 3 hours of carpet scrubbing and roof scrubbing later it was spotless inside. So gave the outside a good go’ing over:
The car already has an induction kit, full miltek exhaust (with sports cat), carbon wrapped interior, Xenon headlights .
The future plans are:
Replace the already large intercooler with an airtec one
Bigger 630 Injectors
R26 R rear spoiler
New front splitter
Red and black engine cover
Maybe some carbon badges and door bullets
Sort out a sticking door handle
Stage 2/3 remap to hopefully see around the 290bhp mark (Car already had a dyno of 234bhp in its unmapped state)
So i may of neglected this thread a little bit. Had the car around 6 months now and now starting to enjoy it. Had a few issues in the first month or so of ownership:
*As above we discovered a snapped spring - this was replaced along with steering rack ends, track rod ends
It developed the lovely sound of Injector cough - new standard injectors were purchased and installed
The steering has started to not self centre - bought a spare set of hubs cheap to rebuild.
*Snapped the handbrake cable - Oops!
Other than that i have started tidying up the bits it really didn’t like about the car:
I started with the engine bay, really hated how the cover looked:
Pretty happy with how it all looks in the bay for now
Next up was to change the fogs back to standard one’s, i decided to also use cree bulbs in the fogs to match the HID’s already fitted:
All fitted along with some interior bits in the same colour also (at this point my keyless had stopped working so replaced both sensors at the same time):
Last big thing i did on my week off of work was to get the DA out to correct the state the paint was in. It still not perfect but a million times better:
And that’s about where i am with the car at the moment. Over the next couple of months i will be refurbing the wheels and the brembo’s. After which will be time for either cooksports or H&R’s to be fitted along with my refurbed hubs
Hope you weren’t too bored by this update! haha
Cheers guys. Its slowly getting there.. wasn’t quite as clean as i thought when i bought it but guess i was blinded by a shiny car sat infront of me! haha
Springs will be bought in the new year aswell as doing the swivel bearings the same time so if cooksports are still in stock i will be going for them. If not i will settle for a set of h&r’s if needs be
Then after alot of cutting, some swearing and alot of blood i managed to get my xmas present in and fitted. Will be adding a reverse camera and Google Chromecast fairly soon
