DPJ's Silver Leon Cupra GT - no more.

[DPJ]

lovely motor.

a bit too low for everyday use.

Cheers.

Honestly, it's a 400 mile a week daily driver. We have traffic humps in our village 20mph zone and it will just go over the top of them. It just catches on the road camber when I leave/enter our work carpark when the tyres are worn, but not with new tyres. It's never been in a multistorey though.

 

[elDuke]

nice leon



nice race pic

 

[DPJ]

nice race pic

Thank you.
It's been standing lifeless for the last couple of weeks on ramps.

But its GT28RS Eliminator turbo install is progressing.

 

[PhilW]

What map you goin for dave? Revo stage 3?

 

[DPJ]

What map you goin for dave? Revo stage 3?

Yes Phil. I have the packaging ready to send my ecu down to Kev for flashing. I've just delayed things another day because I couldn't remove my scuttle panel tonight to take the ecu out. (It's solid ).

 

[PhilW]

Nightmare. Give it some gentle persuasion, i'm sure it'll come out then. lol.

I spoke to kev on friday, i need to set a date with him to sort my Stage 3 out as no one has done it yet on an ibiza.

Looking forward to seeing the next bit of updates on the silver machine tho, should be one of the best yet!

 

[DPJ]

Bloody rain!

Ten years ago, I demolished my double garage/workshop and built (with my own bare hands) a 50m2 5 room extension to the house. I've rarely regretted it, but **** me, I could do with a garage at the moment. I need to fit my new turbo, and I need to remove my ECU. I really don't want to take my scuttle out in the rain.
Pergola up over the car tonight.

Do you like the wiperless look?

 

[DPJ]

ECU removed and parcelled up to send to Revo for flashing.

Here's the GT28RS Eliminator being trial fitted to my (ground) ATP manifold. Just getting an idea of where it's not going to fit in the car.

If only it was that easy!

 

[DPJ]

So I've trial fitted it without gaskets. Disconnecting the heater hoses makes it easy to get in and out.

**** me it's tight against the 6 speed box!

I managed to get the offside manifold-turbo bolt in, but the nearside one is about 3mm out. I found out why...............

Turbo obvious, Water pipe across the top, block to the back left, gearbox housing foreground - spot the gasket. I reckon the 3mm I need will transpose to about 5mm where the turbo is touching.

Grinder out in the morning, I reckon I can give it 6mm.....

 

[DPJ]

GT28RS Eliminator install continued in this thread.

 

[Wayne88]

lovley looking motor that abosloutly gorgeous infact. top work mate.

 

[DPJ]

lovley looking motor that abosloutly gorgeous infact. top work mate.

Thank you. Not to everybodies' (ie nearly everyones' ) taste.

 

[Wayne88]

it is good to have varyations of the motors if everyones looked the same it would be boring lol.

 

[RobM]

it is good to have varyations of the motors if everyones looked the same it would be boring lol.

AMEN to that!

This car just wouldn't be the same if it didn't look like that. It's part of the SC.net furniture now

 

[DPJ]

it is good to have varyations of the motors if everyones looked the same it would be boring lol.

Exactly! IMO there's room for the whole spectrum from truly awful to sublime. Some get it right, some get it wrong. Some have taste, some have no taste. I don't think you can have one without the other.............

AMEN to that!

This car just wouldn't be the same if it didn't look like that. It's part of the SC.net furniture now

ROFLMFAO.... thank you Rob. That's nice. If it's true, it's only because I'm thick skinned and weathered the initial comments when I joined (some of them downright nasty) - and a few along the way. I think I'm aware quite a few people here now know that my car and I are very different entities.

As time goes on peoples' reaction to the car amuses me more and more, on and off the road. I mentioned extremes of the spectrum a moment ago. It's funny when a sleeper blows away a very serious motor. Picture the faces of some people who try to dust the funny Spanish silver car adorned with plastic attachments and discover the results of 320+ bhp?

 

[Wayne88]

rofl would love to see the look on their faces when you leave them for dead in your so called 'chavved up' leon.

 

[beezasport]

So then I copied in the R07 Audi Style Wheels (were my 1st choice)

Now admittedly they don't look as realistic as my own - but I got a - the style of the blown-up originals being preferred.

Doh - hunt back on....

do you know if you can get the R07 style wheels anywhere

 

[DPJ]

do you know if you can get the R07 style wheels anywhere

Gosh, that's a chop from the past! No idea I'm afraid.

Those were the days - when choosing new wheels was my only problem.

 

[beezasport]

Now you've got the big turbo the wheels are a blast from the past! awesome job with the grinder while fitting the turbo!!

 

[DPJ]

Pre-facelift bumper, modified to give airflow to LCR FMIC, that doesn't fit properly over the FMIC.

And without foglight grilles. (sold)