RDS' Leon Cupra R

[RDS]

Cheers for the comments. Theres some awesome LCR bays about these days. Sadly at the moment mines lagging behind. Plenty more to come bay wise soon though. Cant wait to get cracking.

All the parts turned up today for the heatshield, unfortunatley nobody was in so they've gone to the local post office. Got to wait 48 hours before I can collect.

 

[stubee]

great work mate the car looks awesome... bit sad for me reading what you've done tho as im only just starting lol

 

[RDS]

Collected a few things from the post office this week and was able to crack on with my custom Jamspeed heatshield. Whilst changing the TIP I trial fitted the template to get the positing of the MAF hole:

This weekend I marked up the metal sheet and also made a slight change to take the design so it would be level with the strut brace:

I then cut it out and bent it to shape:

This was then trial fitted to ensure it was a good fit:

Once I was happy with it I painted it black and fitted the edging:

Once finished it went back on the car:

 

[RDS]

great work mate the car looks awesome... bit sad for me reading what you've done tho as im only just starting lol

Cheers mate, good luck with yours. It'll all be worth it in the end.

 

[EL]

Brilliant mate, top job

 

[RDS]

cheers mate

 

[LCR 225]

Well done that look mint mate

 

[RDS]

Well done that look mint mate

Thanks mate

 

[aaronipswich]

Superb job mate

 

[sambryant]

rds top job on the heat shield m8. i want one now instead of my neuspeed one lol

 

[RDS]

Superb job mate

rds top job on the heat shield m8. i want one now instead of my neuspeed one lol

Thanks for the comments.

Sam give it a go, not hard at all and you can make it to suit.

 

[JamJay]

It's so easy Sam, the most time consuming part is marking the cardboard prototype.

You've exteneded yours right into the wing where mine stops, I did think about this but the air feed I have ready to sit down that side wouldn't like it . I may have a go at another version with the left over aluminium sheet I have once FMIC & Stage 2 are done.

Well done again dude but I'd like to apologise to Jabba for the dent in their sales. £15 custom shield

By the way, which black paint did you use for spraying? I plan on doing mine at the same time I paint some other bits, may as well get it all done at the same time.

 

[aaronipswich]

Right gona have a go at this an compare it to my Jabbasport one
Where did you get you ally sheet from

 

[JamJay]

Right gona have a go at this an compare it to my Jabbasport one
Where did you get you ally sheet from

This should do you nicely

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250779083045&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

 

[RDS]

It's so easy Sam, the most time consuming part is marking the cardboard prototype.

You've exteneded yours right into the wing where mine stops, I did think about this but the air feed I have ready to sit down that side wouldn't like it . I may have a go at another version with the left over aluminium sheet I have once FMIC & Stage 2 are done.

Well done again dude but I'd like to apologise to Jabba for the dent in their sales. £15 custom shield

By the way, which black paint did you use for spraying? I plan on doing mine at the same time I paint some other bits, may as well get it all done at the same time.

Cheers mate. Its just Halfords high temp paint. I may slightly change it soon as I'm wanting to run another cold air feed to the filter from the fog lights.

I never fancied paying for the Jabba rip off shield and never considered fabricating my own untill seeing yours which is why it carries the Jamspeed name

 

[RDS]

Right gona have a go at this an compare it to my Jabbasport one
Where did you get you ally sheet from

If your going to do this mate i would get a Badger 5 3" TIP first, if you make the shield to fit your current TIP and then get the Badger 5 more then likely the MAF hole will be out of line.

 

[aaronipswich]

Thank you mate can get a sheet of metal for a fiver so just gona knock one up then once I get a badger tip I'll just do another one

 

[RDS]

Thank you mate can get a sheet of metal for a fiver so just gona knock one up then once I get a badger tip I'll just do another one

Fair enough mate, good luck with it. Theres nothing better then a bit of DIY

 

[RDS]

Engine bay update

I've made a start on tarting up my engine bay.

Before:

After:

Also removed the soundproofing from the underside of the bonnet.

Before:

After:

I've also taken all the plastics off and sanded them down ready to be painted.

Cheers for reading.

 

[James23Parkin]

The manifold and mani cover have come out great! What did you use to fill the dimples? With the plastics painted, it'll look like a very tidy engine bay; really like the contrast of red piping against the colour of your car.

James.