Cupra Overhaul!!

[Craig!]

Well after two days of reasonable weather I’ve managed to get some more pictures of the car, here they are;

Aquamist pump installed on the drivers side chassis leg.

Float switch and water line fitted into the washer bottle.

Pressure switch mounted where the charge pipe used to be.

Intercooler charge pipe running round the engine.

Pro-Alloy 50mm Core.

Face on view of the intercooler.

More pictures of the core.

General engine bay shot.

And that’s it for the time being, just finished skimming the inside of the bumper by 20mm along every intake mould and re-fitted some black alloy mesh. Should have some more pictures by the end of the week!

 

[David_smith_909]

looking quality mate

 

[beattie17]

Thats is one seriously nice intercooler. Your car will be a right weapon when done

 

[Olly20VT]

The cooler looks spot on, did you have to lose anything to get it to fit?
all looks very nice.

 

[cupra_matt]

WOW. Very nice.

Iam not jelous at all

 

[cuprabaz]

That IC looks sweet. Decent size aswell! Is it a kit or a craig special that will be sold in kit form soon??

Remember to pm that list of all the part numbers for the bushes required. cheers mate.

 

[Olly20VT]

I think its jabba's new cooler and it is a kit for £800 but i think you have to lose your fog lights but i maybe wrong.

 

[cuprabaz]

hmmm that's expensive. Looks very good though, it's looks like a middle version of something AM might have done same layout, similar end tanks

Craig you must be pleased everything is falling into place for summer?

 

[Craig!]

Ta for the comments, the cooler is the Jabba/Pro-Alloy 50mm core which is about as large as the A&M large one. At the moment it just uses the silicone pipes, however I do plan to have some different pipework made when I have the time.

I had the core mountings moved forward 10mm in the hope to keep the foglights and the aircon, unfortunatly aircon is off for the moment whilst I make a few new brackets, but the fog lights are still there.

 

[jaycupra]

Car looks great, hope mine looks as good at that when its done. What have you done to the engine to make 350bhp?

 

[Deejay]

Just wanted to say thanks to craig for posting this thread and the pics etc, came in very helpfull over the last day or two fitting:

Top Mounts & Bearings
ARB bushes
Powerflex Wishbone Bushes
Powerflex Engine Bed Bushes
Powerflex Steering Rack Bush
Vibratechnic engine mounts

ta

DJ

 

[cuprabaz]

Craig, post 56 carbon canister??

 

[Craig!]

Deejay; You're welcome, least it's been of some use to people aswell!

Baz; Yup its gone, along with the secondary air pump, N249, N112 and a few other bits and bobs.

Here's a long over due update, quiet a few substantial bits have been done over the last few weeks and a few things have also been going wrong. Got the engine work done, I'm quiet surprised no one spotted the green top injectors in the last post!

Also got all the bumper trimmed up correctly, and started to clean all the mucky bits, then of course cover the car in copper grease again to protect it!

Bumper recesses have all been trimed flat and equal.

Mesh has been applied to protect the cooler, and for any doubters with my Forge on the previous mesh had 3 huge dents / holes but the cooler had nothing!

Cooler fitted to the car.

Oops bit too much sunlight.

Frontal view.

Ohhhh new toy's are finally on and in action.

Random downpipe shot.

Once most the engine work was done cleaning started, heres the front arch.

Rear arch, slow progress but it's getting there.

Finally, nice clean(ish) inside wheels.

Car's back in bits again, both the Powerflex rear wishbone bushes have decided to self destruct in 398 miles and I have a minor drive shaft oil seal leak. So today's activites children is to fit some new Vibra-Technic wishbone bushes and replace the drivers side drive shaft oil seal.

More pictures to come soon...!

 

[PhilW]

Lookin awesome craig, whats the turbo setup now? IHI, Garret?

And btw, did you see what i done with the N80/carbon canister?

 

[Craig!]

Yeh, problem with just leaving the solanoid plugged un is you could hear it ticking away... well that's what I found lol. At this very moment in time I have everything left un-plugged to see every available code it can throw up.

Then I'll re-resistor it all and see if anything comes back for anything.

 

[Deejay]

Deejay; You're welcome, least it's been of some use to people aswell!

I did cheat a little though......got a new set of pre welded and powerflexed wishbones from ebay, took bloomin ages to turn up mind

 

[beattie17]

THought'd you'd gone down jabb route when you post in another thread saying that jabba only seem to get about 320-330bhp no matter which intercooler.

 

[Craig!]

It's a VF34.20 turbo, normally Jabba use the .18 housing but most IHI car's up here run the .18 so I thought I'd give the .20 a go. It's laggier than the .18 housing however seems to have more top end pull, not too happy with the power figures for the moment but it stayed with a brand new M5 till we had to slow down so it holds its own.

At the moment its 323bhp and 330ft/lbs however it makes and holds 323bhp from 5000rpm right through to 7800rpm, those figures were without Aquamist. I also think it could have been mapped a little harder like I had requested but once i've done a decent mileage on it I will take it back down for some adjustments.

After all, the few IHI cars I know of have been to Jabba several times and its took a few times before they make their absolute most.

 

[Black TDI Turbo]

Looking good craig your still going to have to take me out in it when its running ok tho would be good to see how much faster it was compared to the first time you took us out in it. (hint hint)

 

[KP]

Looking Awesome **, top job!!! v jealous