adzer's mk1 leon 4wd conversion & gtx2867r

[adzer]

I'm a store man in a parts store during day and work for myself at nights

 

[Murdered LCR]

Came off of German eBay mate, I'll find link later on

Nice one is it fully adjustable etc or just on and off , car looks awesome wheels look great

 

[adzer]

It has 4 settings

1-off
2-100% diff
3-control diff % by boost
4-1/4 mile setting controlled by speed, so 100% diff upto 10kpm, 90% upto 20kph etc.. U set the speeds yourself to suit ur needs

 

[Murdered LCR]

It has 4 settings

1-off
2-100% diff
3-control diff % by boost
4-1/4 mile setting controlled by speed, so 100% diff upto 10kpm, 90% upto 20kph etc.. U set the speeds yourself to suit ur needs

Sounds like the one I want then I guess its gen 1 stuff so will work with my R32 if you can get a link would be great

 

[Chambers_CUPRA]

I'm a store man in a parts store during day and work for myself at nights

What parts store that then lol

 

[adzer]

http://www.crc-performance.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59:haldexsteuerung-beschreibung&catid=55&Itemid=88

google translate will be needed

 

[rae1001]

Awesome work buddy, loads gone into this. I guess you are from aberdeen?

 

[adzer]

yeah how can you tell?

 

[rae1001]

Recognised the surroundings from you going down the "drive" and going over to wallace. Be good to see you around and maybe see you at a meet once i get my car back on the go

 

[cupra.al]

excellent build thread.
enjoyed reading that and look forward to more updates.

 

[cuprat]

Rear end off the a3 was looking scabby so Jordk offered to bead blast the parts and give them a lick of paint at his work, then two days later my mate tells me his boss is away on holiday and says he can powdercoat all my parts cheap,since I have 2 rear ends I decided I'd just get them both done, so here is a before and after of the parts he has done so far#

Some pics of the goodies for the rear end

Before I could proceed any further with
The chassis I had to make up front to rear brake pipes which I couldn't be assed doing coz 1- the rain didn't fcuk off and didn't wanna lie in the wet and 2- I had no idea how long they had to be at the rear until I get the trailing arms back on so I just flared one end of
The pipe and shaped the pipes to the rear so I could refit the petrol tank. Once The trailing arms are
Fitted I'll cut the pipe shorter and flare them on the car.

I could make straighter b/pipes with my eyes closed lol

Now that the pipes was done I could start rebuilding the car. So cracked on with the petrol tank.

This is pretty much the stage I am at right now, ordered my standalone diff controller last night from Germany £800!!!!!!! Last of the chassis parts will get powdercoated tomorrow hopefully and I've ordered new bushes and clips that I had to strip off the rear subframe to get powder coated which will also be Here tomorrow another £200!!!!!

Once I get all these bushes from seat tomorrow that's me pretty much ready to mount the diff onto the car :-D

All parts now powdercoated and cleaned

Some more parts

Well 2 parts I ordered was wrong and two bushes was on back order so these was holding me up...........but the nice manny from seat came today and delivered them

So all I need to do now Is press the bushes in, fit the disc shields, press the hubs into the bearings on the trailing arms and start building woop woop.

Might be on it's wheels this weekend if I push

So all I need to do now Is press the bushes in, fit the disc shields, press the hubs into the bearings on the trailing arms and start building woop woop.

Might be on it's wheels this weekend if I push

Small update, started bolting the running gear back on today, managed to get the rear Diff and cradle on, then the 4 control arms and rear shocks.

Just need to get the trailing arms on now

Well progress has been slow lately.

Got the trailing arms on ready, then got the rear anti roll bar fitted too

I then started to get the rear brakes back onto the trailing arms and have ran into a snag! The caliper carriers are different from my Leon! Callipers are same as the s3 but carriers on a 4wd are different so again im waiting on parts to arrive!!!

Picked my brakes hoses up from Wallace today, but the ends are slightly bigger so I'll need to bore out the hole in the mounts for them to slide thru.

Some more progress made, finally managed to get the rear brake hoses to fit and flared the pipes to suit

I also got the last of the welding done and welded in the mounts for the propshaft and got the rear half of the prop mounted ready for the gearbox to be fitted.

The rear arch liners off the Leon no longer fit so I had to use the ones from the a3 but they was slightly different as the Leon bumper sits wider so I had to chop up the Leon arch liner and do I bit of plastic welding to make 2 liners into one around the rear bumper. Nowt fancy buy it's functional

I also got the skirts back on today but are a bit scuffed up from storage grrrrrr

Well after spending most of today on my arse staring at the rain I Thot I better go out and press on with the Leon regardless

Because I'm stuck waiting for parts for the rear end ive had to start work on the front end, first off I had to hack off my locking wheel nuts coz I Lost The key :-/

Anyway to fit the new gearbox with transfer box I Thot it would be easier if I removed the subframe and polybush everything at The same time.

Anyway subframe off

Well progress Is flying now that I'm onto the mechanical side of the build

Removed the old clutch and flywheel then fitted the lightened flywheel and fast road clutch

Well about an hour later I got the box in place and bolted up

Well as I refused to pay the price seat wanted for rear brake pipe/hose Assy and no companys seem to make them either I decided to ask if Wallace could custom make the hose with a normal female end so I could make up the pipe myself and screw it into the hose, where as the originals are a complete unit where the hose and pipe cannot be separated.

Whilst doing my clutch I noticed the feed pipe also has a rubber hose so I Thot fcuk it and dropped the original off at Wallace this morning and they made the 3 hoses for me.

Just back from picking them up so I'm away to make up the pipe to complete The rear brake lines whilst the suns out

Simple and easy, fitted the clutch hose and made up rear pipes and fitted to the hoses, just need to wait for my new carriers and the rear end is finished woop woop

New rear pipes getting made

Nowt worse than getting rudely awakened on a saturday morning! Unless of course it's the postman with presents

If anyone can make any sense of
These fitting instructions come see me lol

Bit more progress tonight, I thot I'd start installing the diff controller, plan was to wire it all up behind the stereo as thats where all the wire seem to be, plus I need to make a surround to hold the screen and the control switch, seeing as the wires between the module and the screen aint long I've decided to do away with my middle air vent and house everything behind it. Some pics of my progress.........

Finally it comes to life

Been at the car since 5 and looks like I've done next to nothing, finished up wiring the diff controller and tidyed up the loom behind the stereo as whoever installed the reverse camera and roof mounted tv just crammed all the wires behind the headunit and it annoyed me, once all the wiring was sorted I could start putting the interior back together.................all was well until I came to the rear trims and now the differences between the floors come apparent. The a3 floor is minus certain fixing points to screw the interior trim to.

So I've given up for the day as in still in pain after football last night

Ah ha the final piece of the jigsaw to finish up the rear end

Even better........more goodies arrived today

Well got the new carriers painted And went to fit the brakes to the rear, driver side went on no problem

But for some reason the passenger side carrier fouls the disc :-/

I have a feeling that the bearing isn't pressed in 100% which is making the hub/disc sit just out of place

Not a bad conversion there

 

[big eck]

Finally put it up mate. Superb build.

 

[grahams81]

Glad to see a thread up for this at last. Good work mate.

 

[adzer]

Yeah I've posted it everywhere else so thought it be time I post it here too, in for mot and mapping Friday so here's hoping all goes to plan

 

[drka-drka]

Epic min

 

[james.l]

Sick build!!!

 

[t0m]

Epic work!

Looking forward to more with this one..

 

[VT86]

Awsome car and top level conversio. Would like more info about that Haldex controller how it works and how easily it can be installed. And will it work with OEM system and ECU correctly.

But why someone had to quote all the pictures from first page to next page and makes my office computer so slow

 

[adzer]

If you look at the link above I posted and use google translate it'll give u info on it, but once setup vagcom picks it up like it would if factory fitted to diagnose any faults so its a great bit of kit and only uses like 5 wires and a boost pipe to function

Was a long process buying it as they are based in Germany and make the kits to order I think so I waited a while to receive mine

 

[adzer]

Pics from yesterday