Phillc's Mk1 Cupra...

[Phillc]

I have finished my new version of the centre gauge holder and added the new gauges, i am really happy with them.

This is just a pic of my interior, i have a 225 steering wheel to go in but its at the restorers being re coloured, i have also removed the "R" badge from the bottom, it has no place in the car as its not a "R" so i modded it.

After washing it i went out and took some more pics i have made a few changes.

Gone for black wing mirror wasn't sure to begin with but its grown on me now.

Added the wind deflectors, i really like them , think they set the car off nicely

Last one showing the Piper tail pipe and the subtle tinting on the lights

 

[UncleFester]

Seeing that makes me miss mine, looks really really smart Phil - love the centre gauges too

 

[Ronin225]

Looks far too low phill you need a 4x4 leon
Looking clean though, will have to meet soon now suspension has settled in

 

[Willie]

Cars looking great, finally pictures of the elusive interior.

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

Looking smart Phil, wind deflectors really set it off

 

[Phillc]

Thanks for the nice comments guys.

 

[Phillc]

Well i had a busy Ban Holiday Sunday, i finished my latest bit of engine bay fettling, by fitting the SS shield and new swirl pot and catch tank, the filter is fed cold air from beneath via a feed from the front fog light hole. I also fitted my oil cooler with the help from Tim (Ronin 225)which went quite well, its behind the centre "S" grill on the bumper, and is connected to a Mocal thermostat controlled sandwich plate, i needed to trim a bit of metal away from the slam panel, and a bit of plastic from the bumper, but it was quite straight forward and works very well. Unfortunately we forgot to take any pic's but the next time the bumpers of i will take some. The only thing i need to do to the bay now is get the cam cover powder coated, i have bought a spare one so will do a bit of smoothing on that and get it done, still trying to decide whether to do it black or red???

 

[Ronin225]

powdercoating, i would never have thought of it
I knew i should have taken that pic when you were getting blasted with grit/dust in the face

 

[LEE69]

Nice, just make sure the don't powder coat the inside a t all.

 

[Phillc]

powdercoating, i would never have thought of it
I knew i should have taken that pic when you were getting blasted with grit/dust in the face

Powder coating....whats that??

Nice, just make sure the don't powder coat the inside a t all.

What , but I'v just had the rods and pistons done in yellow.

 

[LEE69]

I have head of them doing it before

 

[Phillc]

Well i have taken a couple of pic's of the oil cooler so you get a general idea.

 

[Phillc]

Been doing a bit more fiddling, decided i didn't like the look of all the intercooler pipes through the grills so i decided to blank them of from the back, i put some duct tape across the back then fibre glassed over the top for regidety, i had tried it with just the tape but the air pushed the tape back.

i was then going to remove the tape and secure the fibre glass in place but i liked the look of the tape when i painted it so i left it, now the air flow goes into the fog light hole and into my cold feed pipe straight to the filter.

I really like it, its difficult to see in the photo's as its all in shadow.

 

[Willie]

Whats your plans for getting more air flow to the oil cooler?

Wide mouth bumper mod

 

[Phillc]

I dont think i need to get any more its getting it all from the gap and from the "S" badge so i would say 90% is in direct air flow. Driving around today in this heat and having some fun in the lanes around here the oil temp didn't reach the normal running temp i got before i fitted the cooler.

 

[Willie]

The thermostatic sandwich plate, can you adjust the temperature that is starts sending the oil through the cooler?
Sounds good, 90% is way more than I had thought, sorry for this misunderstanding.
It looked like in the pictures it was about 5% from the 'S' badge and 2% from the snout

 

[Phillc]

No the temp is set although the thermostat unscrews so maybe be able to get different one's. Its hard to see from the photo's but most of it is in the air flow.

 

[Willie]

Thanks Phill

 

[Damoegan]

What gauges are they, Phill? Defi?

 

[Murdered LCR]

Hack that number plate recess off to get loads of air to the intercooler and oil cooler