Hello guys,
After alot of looking at my housemates and other mate ibiza cupra's, an opportunity arose for me to jump on the band wagon to get some of this turbo fix i'v been longing for. So we have 2 black one's and a yellow one between us lol.
I swapped my mk4 golf 1.9tdi for a nice black mk3 Ibiza Cupra 1.8T 20v. Quite a tidy shell, It has a forge FMIC, ko3s turbo with some aftermarket actuator and a CM TIP (il get to that), 3" exhaust system with sports cat, and a forge dump valve it also has a stage 2 remap (only a receipt, no printouts etc). However it is suspected that the turbo has been changed after this map so not sure if it is running right because of this.
Unfortunately, the bugger never ran right from the moment i got it, seemed ok on test drive, but moment guy left and i set off.....limp mode after boosting for about 5 seconds
It ran really rough on idle, so a scan with the old vagcom uncovered a faulty crankshaft sensor, replaced this and still no joy, scanned again which flagged a camshaft sensor, replaced this and still no joy, after a prod about and looking at some pipes i found a fairly badly split crankcase breather pipe from inlet manifold to pcv, patched it (for the meanwhile) which sorted the rough idle.
However still boost problems, limp mode after a short burst of boost. Anyways time for mot, failed emissions......time to pull her apart.... removed bumper, fmic, all pipes related to this, deleted SAI whilst in there for a bit of extra space. Next came the tip, it was clear that whoever fitted it had made a poor job, all the inlets to it had been cut i assume for extra space or that it was a poor fitting TIP, my friend and i both suspected that this could be a source of boost leak, once i got everything out of the way i gave the tip a good pull and off it popped much to my surprise
So now i have everything i want out of the way the next job is to drop the exhaust and turbo off, to fit a new actuator as one currently in has been "clagged" on to existing bracket and seems very very stiff, and also vagcom has flagged up the maximum charge pressure code which we suspect is an actuator issue coupled with TIP hanging on for dear life. Going to check the sports cat whilst its off as this could also be source of emissions fail im guessing?
I shall post some pics up as i put everything back together if the forum will allow. I guess some questions i have for you guys would be is there anything else worth doing whilst iv got her in bits? Cheap and cheerful, have not got an awful lot of cash to spend, just trying to make do with what i have. Can boost leak be a source of emission failure? Does the Creation Motorsports tip have a rep for being poor fitting and is it best to go with a forge one?
Thanks in advance guys, look forward to hearing from you's!
After alot of looking at my housemates and other mate ibiza cupra's, an opportunity arose for me to jump on the band wagon to get some of this turbo fix i'v been longing for. So we have 2 black one's and a yellow one between us lol.
I swapped my mk4 golf 1.9tdi for a nice black mk3 Ibiza Cupra 1.8T 20v. Quite a tidy shell, It has a forge FMIC, ko3s turbo with some aftermarket actuator and a CM TIP (il get to that), 3" exhaust system with sports cat, and a forge dump valve it also has a stage 2 remap (only a receipt, no printouts etc). However it is suspected that the turbo has been changed after this map so not sure if it is running right because of this.
Unfortunately, the bugger never ran right from the moment i got it, seemed ok on test drive, but moment guy left and i set off.....limp mode after boosting for about 5 seconds
It ran really rough on idle, so a scan with the old vagcom uncovered a faulty crankshaft sensor, replaced this and still no joy, scanned again which flagged a camshaft sensor, replaced this and still no joy, after a prod about and looking at some pipes i found a fairly badly split crankcase breather pipe from inlet manifold to pcv, patched it (for the meanwhile) which sorted the rough idle.
However still boost problems, limp mode after a short burst of boost. Anyways time for mot, failed emissions......time to pull her apart.... removed bumper, fmic, all pipes related to this, deleted SAI whilst in there for a bit of extra space. Next came the tip, it was clear that whoever fitted it had made a poor job, all the inlets to it had been cut i assume for extra space or that it was a poor fitting TIP, my friend and i both suspected that this could be a source of boost leak, once i got everything out of the way i gave the tip a good pull and off it popped much to my surprise
So now i have everything i want out of the way the next job is to drop the exhaust and turbo off, to fit a new actuator as one currently in has been "clagged" on to existing bracket and seems very very stiff, and also vagcom has flagged up the maximum charge pressure code which we suspect is an actuator issue coupled with TIP hanging on for dear life. Going to check the sports cat whilst its off as this could also be source of emissions fail im guessing?
I shall post some pics up as i put everything back together if the forum will allow. I guess some questions i have for you guys would be is there anything else worth doing whilst iv got her in bits? Cheap and cheerful, have not got an awful lot of cash to spend, just trying to make do with what i have. Can boost leak be a source of emission failure? Does the Creation Motorsports tip have a rep for being poor fitting and is it best to go with a forge one?
Thanks in advance guys, look forward to hearing from you's!
