Olly20vt mk3 cupra track car build thread

[Olly20VT]

Ok i am going to do a build thread on my mk3 which i hope to turn in to a track car / fun second car.
As some of you may know i owned this car from 2004 with no mods apart from the wheels.
Then i did a few mods in the 4 years i had it, even got it in Golf+ mag as the poster in the midle Then in 2008 i sold it to get a estate car and make a mk2 golf race car.
I then had to sell the golf because of work going thin.
A few weeks ago a friend of mine spotted my mk3 on ebay so i went and had a look and managed to buy it back
It has had a hard last 12k miles (in 2.5 years) but for the price i don't mind doing abit of work to get it back to its former glory or better.

Here is a bit more about it HERE

This time it wont be my dayle drive so i can go abit mad with it.
I have a mk2 ibiza gti (which is for sale now) which i was going to turn in to a track toy but it would cost a lot to get it any were near my mk3 and would never have the same power so it make sens to get my mk3 back really + i know the history.

It just needs a blow over as there is some rust on the rear arches and the paint is pealing like they do in places. A new set of wheels because they have been curbed abit.
And maybe a turbo or N75. He said he had problems so took it to a garage who have disconnected the n75 and put in a tap instead to regulate boost. I don't think the owner or the garage know what they were doing. It might just be the n75 needs changing.
Other wise it drives and pulls up to 12psi very well

Abit of tinkering and some TLC and She'll be as good as new
I don't have any new pics yet but here are some old ones from before for people who don't know the car






SEAT IBIZA CUPRA 2001
230 bhp 238 ft/lb

Engine
Open cone filter
Forge silicone pipes/hoses
Forge 007P dump valve
Badger 5 stage 2 remap
Hybrid turbo
Forge tip
Forge front mounted intercooler
S3 injectors
S3 fuel pump
S3 MAF housing
Large bore exhaust mami
Inlet manifold power gasket
Custon made 3” down pipe
Milltek 200cell sport CAT
Jetex 2.5” CAT back exhaust
Polished engine parts
N295 valve removed
Audi TT gear linkage

Chassis
Toora T245 - 17” alloy wheels
Momo strut brace
Toyo T1S tyres 205/40/R17
Nuspeed 28mm rear anti roll bar
Nuspeed front anti roll bar
Vibro-technics all 3 engine mounts
Vibro-technics wish bone bushes
Power flex wishbone front bushs
Eibech 15mm rear wheel spacers
KW variant 1 coilovers
Goodrich braided front brake lines
Brembo grooved front discs
Ferodo DS2500 front brake pads

Sound system
Infinity 6x9 speakers in the parcel shelf
JBL front component speakers replaced standard speakers

Exterior
European driver’s mirror
Aero wipers front and rear

Interior
Nomad A pillar gauge holder
0 – 30psi boost gauge
2 x Fire extinguishers

Will post up as and when the mods and changes happen

Olly

 

[tris]

Good to hear you have it back

 

[Olly20VT]

Ok i have had a good look over the car now and found a few odd things.

Intercooler
The last owner said the intercooler fell off but he had it fixed and also the turbo was boosting funny.
So i had a look at the intercooler and who ever he took it to had just made some hooks to hold it in place. So i took it back to forge to get some new brackets welded on but they noticed it had a hole in the bottom were it had scraped along the road.
I asked them to make me a new cooler which they did at a good price.
I have now sprayed it black as i want a more stealth looking car this time.
Here are some pics







More updates to come very soon

 

[Olly20VT]

As my car is off the road till i sell my mk2 ibiza (see in the for sale section )
I am going to get as many parts up together as i can ready.
So next on my list is aero wipers, now i do have them fitted already from before but they are the wrong ones really so I've found the part numbers and will be ordering them today

Front Wiper Arms (these are drivers side arms, need two rather than one driver and one passenger) x 2 - 6X2 955 410 C - £30.88
Front Wiper Blade x 2 - 6X2 955 426 A - £10.94

Here is a pic of the turbo and the odd pipe work the dodgy garage did to the car when it wasn't running properly





Also if you look in the last pic the down pipe looks a bit small for a 3" with sports car which i sold the car with.
I had noticed this when i viewed the car and to double check i went on to the DVLA web site and looked at the last two MOT's.
The car had failed one of them because of the emissions so I'm guessing they changed the CAT and down pipe back to a std one

So my list now is
1. Fit FMIC
2. Buy and fit proper aero arms and wipers
3. Plum the N75 back in properly then when she is on the road again get some logs done.
4. keep on collecting parts for my hybrid conversion.

 

[p34ch3y]

good to see your back mate,this car used to be my idle back in the day i even still have the pull out of it from golf plus...lol

just been reading the holr thread dos sound like it has had a hard life after you sold it,this is what happen to these cars when bloody chavs get there hands on them ,any way glad to see your gunna bring her back up to spec

i was going to say the very same thing about the dp,when i was looking at the pic i also thought that is not 3" as you said looks like it may have been put back to the std one,dont know what the hell that garage have put that valve on there for try take it off and get another n75 vave plumb it in all back as std and see what happens

 

[Olly20VT]

p34ch3y thank you.
It is so nice to here coments like that, it makes all the hard work worth wile.

 

[AlexGSi2000]

Nice to see you have it again.

I had the chance to buy back my MK5 Zetec-S a few months ago - two years after selling it.
It was in a right state, I cherished it, just couldnt take it back as It would have taken too much to put back to how it was (it had only done 5,000 miles aswell)

Im sure you will have it back upto scratch again - huge bonus is the fact you already know these cars quite well.

 

[chipmunk82]

Did he change the dump valve round or did you? still needs a good clean!

 

[Olly20VT]

I didn't notice that, I'll give it all a proper going over when I get a few bits up together.

 

[Dave_R]

It's back! I remember this at Combe on the SCN track session!

Sad the mk2 as gone but nice to see this back in your hands fella!

 

[Olly20VT]

Cheers Dave, It just seemed daft to spend a load of money on the mk2 when this car has alot of the work done.
I hope to see ya on a track day or two this summer.

 

[CraigW]

Look forward to seeing this progress . Bet it feels good that you have it back after selling it all those years ago.

Im sure there is a picture of your mk2 in this months issue of Golf+ at a Club Gti (?) trackday.

 

[Olly20VT]

Yeah it is, If it was a ibiza mk2 then it was me, i went to bedford with clubGTI and was the only ibiza mk2 there, i will have to go buy the mag now.



I just can't wait to get it all back to normal and take i out for a spin, i have to wait till the mk2 is sold first.

 

[Olly20VT]

Update.
I Sold the mk2 on Saturday to a guy who flew down to Bristol from Glasgow
So as my misses drove me back home I rang and sorted my car insurance out for my mk3 and the second i got home i printed the cover note off and shot in to town to get the tax.

So with it all road legal i set about sorting the N75 out and fitting the aero wipers (pics to follow) With the N75 all i did was take out the MBC they had fitted and plumed the N75 back in to see how it drives. Also as i was pocking around i noticed some of the turbo to charge pipe clips weren't sat properly so redid them and topped up the oil and washer fluid.
With the wipers i ordered the the proper arms and blades and when i fitted them i still had to trim 15mm off the end off the pass side, but all is OK now.

Then with the help of chipmunk we took the car for a drive, it felt really good, all seems to be fine. With vag come i check the maf which only hit 145, i think this might be a bit low for my mods (can some one confirm) but the N75 all seems to be working and it was so good to get it out again and give it some stick, i forgot how much it pulls and then grips on the corners

I'll get some pics and the log up soon

 

[ibizacupra]

145g/s a ittle low for a k03s yes.. you would hope to see 160g/s or more ideally
dyno beckons

 

[Olly20VT]

145g/s a ittle low for a k03s yes.. you would hope to see 160g/s or more ideally
dyno beckons

oooooooo very tempting. I'm down your way today so will pop in.
Because i've only just pluged the N75 back in will the ecu need time to adjust back?

 

[ibizacupra]

hmm, not really..
request vs actual boost is an instant thing
cleared the faultcodes it may have had from previously will reset stuff in adaptions

 

[chipmunk82]

Bill, could the low airflow be to having lower octane petrol in? eg if its mapped for vpower putting standard 95ron petrol in, will it give lower numbers?

 

[ibizacupra]

airflow is airflow, octane is octane..
different things

 

[chipmunk82]

did you put it on the dyno?