I though it was about time I posted up about my new acquisition, so here goes.

Me and a couple of friends went on a road trip 2 weekends ago to look at a few cars and I ended up coming back home with this Bora:

So the spec of it as I picked it up is:

51 plate
52k miles
17" long beaches
Black heated leather recaros front and back
Factory Sat Nav + Full FIS
Climate Control

List of things I want to do: 

Cruise Control
3 Blink Indicator convenience module (maybe)
Xenon Headlights (may just go for HID's due to price!) - done (just HID's at the mo)
R32 ARB's - done
R32 suspension - done
R32 interior trim and peddles - done
R32 Steering Wheel - done
BMC CDA induction kit - done
Miltek Cat Back system - done

There is other stuff I want to do as well but that all depends on funds:

Polished black centred Porsche split rims - got BBS CH's at the mo
US spec. boot
Votex front bumper (maybe the rear as well if I can find them) - Bora R front bumper now with fogs
Black badgeless grill - got the grill, just need to get it painted now
Black mirrors, roof and B pillar's
Miltek sports cats and R32 manifolds
Supercharger?!?

Let me know what you think and any ideas you have  

Very nice rich you lost xenons but you got factory fitted satnav and full height FIS on the clocks!!!

Im jealous!  

The look I'm going for (thanks to unitzero's photoshop skills):

VR6Rich:

US spec. boot

Good luck trying to find one of these.  I managed to get one after a lot of searching.

Nice spec you've got there too mate.

Gtiphil:

Those wheels are rare as well mate........ I think?!

Yeah rareish, already got 3 people asking to buy them off of me if I sell them!

A9X SJ:

Cracking Spec Lad

Cheers mate

Quick Update 

Well I have the R32 suspension and ARB's here waiting to be fitted and hopefully the Miltek is pretty much sorted, though I'll have to wait for that to turn up till maybe the end of April!

Just having a few things painted on the car which bugged me, a scuff on the rear bumper (Morrisons Car Park I recon ) and the boot as I wanted it debadged (keeping the VW badge) and also the edges of the boot had been buffed down to primer!

Should be picking it up tomorrow night all going well  

VR6Rich:

There is other stuff I want to do as well but that all depends on funds:

Polished black centred Porsche split rims
US spec. boot
Votex front bumper (maybe the rear as well if I can find them)
Black badgeless grill
Black mirrors, roof and B pillar's
Miltek sports cats

Let me know what you think and any ideas you have  

Its gonna look sweeeet  

VR6Rich:

Quick Update 

Well I have the R32 suspension and ARB's here waiting to be fitted and hopefully the Miltek is pretty much sorted, though I'll have to wait for that to turn up till maybe the end of April!

Just having a few things painted on the car which bugged me, a scuff on the rear bumper (Morrisons Car Park I recon ) and the boot as I wanted it debadged (keeping the VW badge) and also the edges of the boot had been buffed down to primer!

Should be picking it up tomorrow night all going well  

Does the R32 suspension just bolt on with out any modifications ? Are the spring rates the same ? Isnt the Bora heavier at the back ?

Nice looking highly specced 4Mo you have there.Not too many highly specced ones around.Keep it subtle

That will look spot on with the votex kit.  I`m trying to find a genuine votex front bumper but it`s almost impossible and don`t really want to go down the replica route.

Looking good 

unitzero:

Does the R32 suspension just bolt on with out any modifications ? Are the spring rates the same ? Isnt the Bora heavier at the back ?

Didn't think about this actually, anybody know if i'll need different rear springs?  As it is I have 2 sets of R32 rear springs now!

Update 

Had the day off today so thought I'd give the Bora a good clean, clay and wax.  Couldn't believe the amount of crap that came off when I clayed the whole car!  Got rid of all the tar spots I had on it too.  Also sorted out a few scratches that were bugging me too so I'm happier about the paint now

Anyway, here's some photos:

A few photo's I took tonight because I was bored  

Let me know what you think guys. 

Didn't realise how grainy those night photos looked  

Car's looking good after the clay and wax, the colour's grown on me since I first saw it, probably because its a bit different. Gotta get onto the detailing section on here and find out the best way to bring my paintwork back to life....after having a bit sprayed at the front it show up the rest of the bodywork!

You had any luck tracking down a votex kit? Couldn't find one myself so got the GLI skirt instead, looking at getting the GLI rear and modifying it to fit the twin pipes on the V6.

BORA_V6_ASH:

You had any luck tracking down a votex kit? Couldn't find one myself so got the GLI skirt instead, looking at getting the GLI rear and modifying it to fit the twin pipes on the V6.

No luck with a genuine Votex bumper yet, just replicas from Poland which don't look too bad and are fairly cheap, though they are made of GRP I think.

I also thought about the GLi rear and modifying it but I want it too look as OEM as possible so kind of decided not too. 

Really like the colour will look great with some black colour coding on it....especially some black centred porsche spilts 

Here's a couple of video clips of it on the rolling road at TSR from Saturday

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And some photos from the same day

What figures did you get back from the rolling road? Yours is still standard like mine engine wise right?

They couldn't get a figure out of it as they said the power kept moving to the back wheels or something, due to the haldex.  Weird as an R32 went on before me and was perfectly fine.  

That does sound a bit weird! Does the R32 not have the same haldex set up being 4 wheel drive? Don't know much about them to be honest. I just assumed the haldex split power 60:40 or 70:30, something like that and it was permanent, not variable? 

 AFAIK the R32 has exactly the same haldex system,  so not sure what went wrong.  IIRC the Haldex works by detecting slip at the front wheels and pushing power to the back when needed, hence running in FWD in most normal conditions.

I might see if TSR can have another go at rolling roading it or get AmD to do it when I pop up for my Miltek if I don't get it delivered instead.

Yeah thought about getting mine on the rollers at AMD after having the Miltek fitted....depends how the funds are at the time!

Or a before and after would be really good.

 loving that! looks seriously Phat!!

Here's a couple of photos I took last night 

looks good rich, get the rh's on it with wider dishes ;) 

I spent the day at AmD yesterday getting my Miltek fitted, along with a cheeky little remap.  Here's some photos:

nice nice nice

Here's my graphs from the rolling road, doesn't show much power though, but it's so smooth now.  Should hopefully be a bit more now its had a chance to adapt to the new map.

Rich i knew NA cars didnt take to remaps well but you only gained 9bhp with an exhaust and remap is that right? i thought figures of 15bhp gains were been mentioned by most companies?

 cars doing good, the look your going for is pretty similar to my bolf