Mo's Mk1 Leon Cupra - THE END....

[Mo Arif]

__CURRENT SPECIFICATION:__________________________________________________________________________________


Engine

Last generation AUQ engine, twin prong under inlet manifold
Jetex / JR Massive filter
3" Cold Air Feed from front fog
Creation Motorosports Turbo Intake Pipe TIP
Forge 007p Black Diverter Valve with Yellow spring
Complete n249 Removal with resistor fitted
Complete PCV Removal
Toyosports FMIC, Replaced blue silicon with upgraded Black silicon, fitted to perfection
Toyosports Oil Catch Can with High Grade oil hoses
Replaced loads of pipes / hoses with upgraded Black silicon
Custom one off DV Relocation
4 Bar Bosch Fuel Pressure Regulator
Front Upper Strut Brace
Rear Strut Brace



ECU Engine Management & Remap

From a Revo Stage 1 to Standard map, from standard to 'Stealth Racing' custom Stage 2 by Vince, done live on roller's mapped to Shell V-Power and 02 sensor & De-Cat error delete. Fuelling & Timing tweaked by Vince for the extra torque which turned out to be a utter sh1te map..... then came Niki the legend @ R---TECH who remapped it to his Stage 2 map with launch control!



Exterior

Replaced pre-facelift front and rear bumpers with facelift bumpers
Cupra R splitter
Fabia rear wiper
De-badged rear
Citroen stubby Ariel
SeatCupra.net stickers each side
Team Heko Wind Deflectors
6000K Slim Ballast HID's
Colour coded outer door side strips
Face-lift Cupra side skirts
Bosch Aero Wipers
Painted front brake callipers gloss black
Painted rear brake callipers gloss back



Interior

Replaced black dials with white facelift dials
Replace standard head-unit with a high spec Sony MP3 player with external USB input
Removed 6 Disc changer, seriously who still buys and listens to audio cd's ?!!
Replace CD Changer with glove box
Swoosh 7 colour 1.5 Bar boost gauge
Re-done door handles gloss black
Door handles done in carbon
Centre console done in carbon
Odd bits of carbon wrapping here and there




Suspension & Wheels

Ibiza Bocanegra limited edition 17" gun metal grey alloy wheels - THE FIRST TO DO THIS !!!!!!!!! now it's on standard Starfish alloys
JOM Coilovers, to the ground on the rear, front about 55mm
20mm Rear Hubcentric Spacers
15mm Front Hubcentric Spacers
Painted front brake calipers gloss black
Painted rear brake calipers gloss black



Exhaust 'Hybrid' Set-Up

3" Turbo Back Down Pipe
2.5" Pure De-Cat
02 Senor Angle Fix
3" Custom 6x4 Oval Back-box by Torqueflow mated to a Milltek non-res centre section



Things I have but have not yet fitted

BIG TURBO
BIGGER INTERCOOLER
STUFF




__PROGRESS FROM START....:___________________________________________________________________________________



Hello everyone!

Think it's time for me to do a project thread, well reader's rides as you guy's put it here. I've already made a introduction thread so I won't go in to much detail about myself, but names Mo, hail from good ol' Brum, This is my Black Mk1 Phase 1 (Pre-facelift) Leon Cupra as I bought it:

UN-molested, for how long?!


very clean example, full Seat dealer service history, 2 owners from new, 2nd one being a motorway police officer (whom I purchased it from), car was standard apart from a K&N panel filter and a remap (Unknown, but seemed pretty aggressive), it had been looked after well and maintained well.

Being my first VAG base car, I knew nothing about them until I discovered this forum so began the bug.....


First thing I changed was the standard Bosch diverter valve to one of these:

A universal recirculating diverter valve / dump valve / bov, what ever you want to call it, it works perfectly


Secondly I installed the all essential boost gauge to monitor what the turbo is doing:

A red smoked boost gauge, near perfect match to original dash instrument cluster lights if I say so myself, does the job well and looks pretty

 

[Mo Arif]

Next up was the air filter, wanted to hear the DV a bit more and to be honest, you can't beat the roar of a nice open cone air filter, so I fitted one of these, a large open cone filter with a smaller breather filter:

Instantly felt a wee more kick from the cupra but I wasn't happy with the over all install the filter was wobbling all over the place, causing the MAF to go crazy, so I purchased 70mm silicone hose and a 70mm hose pipe, and I made a bracket for it, oh also removed the bottom part of the original air box while in the process:

Not super tidy, but hey I didn't say I was a professional, it's still all work in progress


After a short while I noticed a pipe was ripped, namely this one:

Apparently common on these engines so I replaced it with an upgraded one:

Job well done, looks nice too, I think I may upgrade most the essential pipes to silicone ones in the near future

Yeah that's my mug inside

You think?!!

Nice ain't it?

 

[Mo Arif]

My current engine bay:

You can't eat off of it, but it does the job!


A closer look at my DV and where I put the t piece for the boost gauge:

After reading through some threads, I figured this is the best place to put it.


Shortly after I done my Fabia rear wiper conversion:

Wanting a bit more grunt, I invested in a 3" downpipe and 2.5" de-cat:

Top quality item, well made, perfect welds:

De-cat:

Nice eh?

 

[Mo Arif]

To Finnish the system off, a 2.5" mandrel bent cat-back system, originally designed for a mk4 vw golf:

The back-box hanger bracket had to be cut and re welded, the tailpipes had to be cut, extension re-welded and angled:

Other then this, a really good fit:

Sounds beautiful, and looks the balls imo, tailpipes are different but that's a good, never seen em before on any car and suite it well, I'm happy put it this way!:

 

[Mo Arif]

Today I done another wee mod, cupra badge on a none honey comb grill:

Looks good don't it?


Next on the list is:

FMIC

Remap

 

[Murdered LCR]

Keep an eye on that e bay valve Wayne had one the seals fell apart after a few months ,Also you should t off the fpr instead of the dv it gets a better Reading , looks clean tho exhaust looks great

 

[Mo Arif]

Thanks, I intend to change it to a black Forge 007p eventually, It seems to be working good so far though.

 

[wayne lcr]

was just going to say about them valves id take it of asap mate

 

[wayne lcr]

after a month

 

[Mo Arif]

I'm on it, I'm also going to change the air filter too.

 

[wayne lcr]

good man you no it makes sense buy cheap buy twice imo

 

[Mo Arif]

Removed the DV today to investigate claims above:

Seemed perfectly fine to me

The Rings:

All prefect, had it on the car for over 1 month now with no problems at all, changed the spring today to a green one as it had a blue one in there, only came with yellow, blue and red springs.

 

[Mo Arif]

This arrived today (super quick delivery, thanks to 'oldskool'):

Haven't fitted it yet because I want to mount it neatly so gathering everything I need before I do.

 

[Mo Arif]

Removed the DV and fitted a green spring as it had a blue one in there, tidied it up a little using cable ties instead of jubilee clips to hold the hoses to and from the t piece.

Improved the bracket for the current air filter, well it was an excuse to use the Dremel! adjusted cold air feed


Before:

After:

Can you notice the difference?

 

[wayne lcr]

thats the filter i want and which springs did you use forge 1s?

 

[Mo Arif]

not the forge springs, the springs that came with it, came with blue, yellow and red, blue was already in there!?! seemed to run fine with the blue spring, replaced it with the yellow one.

 

[kineticz]

Where did you get that from mate?

 

[G1NG3R]

Where did you get that from mate?

yup where indeed i need 1.!!!
going to bypass the n249 now....

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

They come from volksbits on ebay there £25

 

[G1NG3R]

thanks mate. do you know what its called.?