Tarconal
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Hello guys, I´ll introduce my new toy!!
Since it is FIA homologated and also street legal, I´ll use it in both Trackdays and Official Endurance events. And, of course, I´ll also enjoy it on some nice and fast travelling through twisty roads!
It´s a 2000 Seat Ibiza Kit Car, brought to Brazil by Seat, raced on the factory team and sold to private racers in 2003... I still couldn´t find out if my car is an A7 that was de-tuned or if it was born as an N2... Hard to find these info! Maybe someone here will be able to help me in this issue!
This Ibiza raced privately in N2 rally in 2004/2005 achieving nice results. Then a friend of mine bought it... I even found an old thread that he opened about this very same car here in the forum! But unfortunately he had a small accident and left the car abandoned on a garage for more than two years... He never really felt in love with the car anyway, but now it finally found a new owner (me!) that will give it the care it needs!
First of all the powerless 1.6 8v SR engine (120bhp!!) was rapidly removed and I´m installing a 2.0 8v (brazilian AP Series, similar to the engines of the oooold Golf GTi) with forged internals, extensively modded heads and a nice turbocharger, with power outputs aimed at anything between 250 and 350whp... The engine itself will be capable to cope with (much more than) that, but the final figures will depend on the rest of the car... It will have as much power as it can handle!
The idea was to use the VAG 1.8T engine, but this 2.0 AP came up in a very intere$ting condition and that is why it was chosen. It will burn 100% bioethanol like all the tuned cars in Brazil for the past 30 years! It´s a fantastic fuel readily available anywhere around here that makes the car not only more powerful (even 20% sometimes) but also safer due to several properties of this fuel.
The car has Proflex Evolution II coil-overs all around, an LSD and some Sparco stuff. I´m just concerned about the gearbox... It´s a 5-speed similar to the one used on the MK3 Golfs and it is famous for beeing fragile and the word on the street is that it simply can´t upshift when the engine is revving more than 7.000rpm. At the moment that is the bit doubt on the car.
I guess that´s kind'a it.
Seat isn't a popular brand in Brazil, you see some on the street but until now I´ve only heard about two modded Ibizas in Brazil. This will make this project even funnier because the EVO and WRX guys won´t quite believe in what will be kicking their asses on the Trackdays hahaha... The car's name, from now on, is COJONES!!!
I´m here to learn what you guys do with these cars in Europe and I believe that here in these Seat-lovers forum I´ll be able to gather a lot of useful information regarding these cars... I´ve been reading some VERY interesting threads in here, I guess this is really the best Seat forum in the world!
Some pics of the car:
Since it is FIA homologated and also street legal, I´ll use it in both Trackdays and Official Endurance events. And, of course, I´ll also enjoy it on some nice and fast travelling through twisty roads!
It´s a 2000 Seat Ibiza Kit Car, brought to Brazil by Seat, raced on the factory team and sold to private racers in 2003... I still couldn´t find out if my car is an A7 that was de-tuned or if it was born as an N2... Hard to find these info! Maybe someone here will be able to help me in this issue!
This Ibiza raced privately in N2 rally in 2004/2005 achieving nice results. Then a friend of mine bought it... I even found an old thread that he opened about this very same car here in the forum! But unfortunately he had a small accident and left the car abandoned on a garage for more than two years... He never really felt in love with the car anyway, but now it finally found a new owner (me!) that will give it the care it needs!
First of all the powerless 1.6 8v SR engine (120bhp!!) was rapidly removed and I´m installing a 2.0 8v (brazilian AP Series, similar to the engines of the oooold Golf GTi) with forged internals, extensively modded heads and a nice turbocharger, with power outputs aimed at anything between 250 and 350whp... The engine itself will be capable to cope with (much more than) that, but the final figures will depend on the rest of the car... It will have as much power as it can handle!
The idea was to use the VAG 1.8T engine, but this 2.0 AP came up in a very intere$ting condition and that is why it was chosen. It will burn 100% bioethanol like all the tuned cars in Brazil for the past 30 years! It´s a fantastic fuel readily available anywhere around here that makes the car not only more powerful (even 20% sometimes) but also safer due to several properties of this fuel.
The car has Proflex Evolution II coil-overs all around, an LSD and some Sparco stuff. I´m just concerned about the gearbox... It´s a 5-speed similar to the one used on the MK3 Golfs and it is famous for beeing fragile and the word on the street is that it simply can´t upshift when the engine is revving more than 7.000rpm. At the moment that is the bit doubt on the car.
I guess that´s kind'a it.
Seat isn't a popular brand in Brazil, you see some on the street but until now I´ve only heard about two modded Ibizas in Brazil. This will make this project even funnier because the EVO and WRX guys won´t quite believe in what will be kicking their asses on the Trackdays hahaha... The car's name, from now on, is COJONES!!!
I´m here to learn what you guys do with these cars in Europe and I believe that here in these Seat-lovers forum I´ll be able to gather a lot of useful information regarding these cars... I´ve been reading some VERY interesting threads in here, I guess this is really the best Seat forum in the world!
Some pics of the car:
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