Web hosting and mods to car
Been a few weeks since I updated the progress thread with pictures. Having some disputes at the moment with my new web hosting company, they are being difficult so I am forced to write letters to their line managers and directors...Signed up to photobucket for the moment and its pretty good
I wanted to get the engine bay a little more sexy so the car is more ready for some shows. Took my smoothed airbox, battery cover and centre console to a body
shop near where I live. Here are the results and they both came out exactly how I wanted them, piano black. Going to wax them up and get them in tomorrow. The centre console didnt come out as good, so the body
shop said they would keep it and try to perfect it.
Here is my new cold air intake. The ducting is 4" or 102mm wide. Had to remove certain plastic bits in the engine bay to get a route down to the front bumper.
Problem is with the cupra umper is there isnt as much room so it goes straight down too just in front of the wheels arch. Performance improvements really REALLY took me by surprise. Pulls much stronger and most important off all its made the car so smooth now. There is hardly any delay in the turbo spooling up and down now...power is just there when you need it.
Ducting just goes straight down.
Finally got my forge 10mm hubcentric spacers on the rear. I cannot say how much it has improved the handling! The car is so much more stable now when going round corners, the wider track really has helped turn the rear follow you round a corner
Special thanks to KarlosR for making me do this!
Nice fat rear end now, wheels fill the arches nicely.