My now Pre-Facelift Black EK4 project


AlexEKnine

1997 EK9
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Picked this up the other day! It's a 1999 facelift VTi finished in Starlight black.



The VTiS K-swap is not gonna continue instead it will probably be done to this instead in due course! Got other life issues to sort out so this will do for the time being.



For now till Japfest rolls around I've got a few things to do to it, mainly preface lift converting it as I want to use the VTiS lip kit!



first off I'll be giving it a full service and a good check over to make sure its in acceptable condition lol

Went through an MOT last week and is pretty clean underneath! I've got a good selection of parts from the VTiS to put on including a 282/262 brake setup and a dc2 mc/servo, the VTiS speedline chronos and EK9 spoiler

I'm on holiday now so the build starts April 18th!
 
Bought a set of Eibach springs today to give it a bit of an improvement handling and looks wise while I save for coilovers. Looking at 6two1s as they are getting good reviews at a good price too!

Got all my paint gear ordered for next weekend when I get home so I can spray the prefacelift front end for it :)

Also ordered a load of service items from japserviceparts so that it'll be sound mechanically for japfest
 
Forgot to share a pic of the bay:


Not much will be changing here minus the odd refresh of bolts etc. And a wee clean

And my old car in case any of you remember lol
 
Wow not many people switch to preface lift. What wheels do you have on your old car?
 
They look good. Ya I'm waiting for my pre-facelift ek9 to arrive feels like it's taking forever.

Pre- facelift bumpers are easier to clean lol.
 
So few things

Gave it a service, a new thermostat and a pair of ball joints just to freshen it up a bit.

Painted up the EK9 spoiler and the preface front end



Stripped the remaining stuff from the vtis so it's ready for scrap lol



Fitted the front end panels and also fitted my eibach springs and a set of my pals EG fat fives for now while I look for some nice wheels!



Then went to japfest, Had a good day out and A wee hurl round combe







Got home and fitted my fogs too. Quite happy how it is sitting now!

 
Wee update, not much has changed really,

Got my 282mm DC2 brakes on the front, was missold rear calipers so I'll need to find another set.
New Excedy clutch has been fitted, after seeing the state of the old one I'm surprised it still went lol
Also fitted a Buddyclub short shifter along with energy suspension shifter bushes which has solved the issue of the feeling of stirring soup while in gear haha!

More recently, went to SLS finale at Knockhill which was a decent day out to be fair


After which I swapped the grids for 15x7" Slipstreams. Car drives a lot better now, don't think I'll ever run 16s on an EK again lol



Not sure where I'm going with the car but I'll probably be running it very little during the winter
 
Looks really good on the 15" slips! I went from 16" TE37s to 15" Regas and much preferred it too!
 
Not much of an update but washed, polished and waxed the car today ahead of winter coming, hope to get some good stuff done to it before spring time!


 
Never seen that front lip before, seen the rear one once and was for sale for silly money, is it rare over there as well
 
Never seen that front lip before, seen the rear one once and was for sale for silly money, is it rare over there as well

Yea they are quite rare here as they really only came on the VTiS model, which there was only 200 made! Some were specced with them from factory but I'd imagine very few as rarely see them other than on VTiS's lol
 
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