Something a little Different....

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Well I thought I would share my little project, A few of you may know me thought Robbie C Cupra here : http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=217772&highlight=robbie Which I have been doing since day 1

So onto my car... A few of you might be haters but hey its mine and I love it... Regular at Badger 5 Going to be abit of a long post but I'll give you a quick history upto current...


When I bought him back in May 09

Meet Monty:

Spec:
White
1995 LS 1.4 SPI
Just passed Mot 3 days ago
Tax till Spet 09
98,154miles
2 Prev Lady Owners
FSH - Just had major service

Sellers Pictures:

As soon as he was home it was time to get to work, I fitted a c20xe with an f20 out of an astra GTE inc Spax RSX coilovers, solid top mounts but I wanted to to look standard so i bought some mk2 golf winter steels

Engine made 151hp @ Flywheel + 149lbft

 

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Then time for some better suspension with upgraded lbs springs

Thats how it stayed in 09 and i carried out a few track days

Then early 10 he changed again, first came full re-spray including new wings, bonnet and passenger door

Out came the old xe

During the mock engine build

The engine bay was then seam welded and painted

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Parts back from powder coaters

Then underneath was done

On to the engine

Spec:

Block bored to 86.5mm, decked and under piston oil squirter's
z20let GM oil pump and modified pick up
All new gaskets GM
Glyco Bearings (Mains and big end)
ARP Head stud conversion
Cometic Headgasket
Kent vernier Pullys (letting me run XE inlet Cam)
New Forged Mahle pistons 86.5mm, Machined to lower the compression to 8.5:1
H-Beam Steel conrods
Lightened standard flywheel to 5.5kg
ARP Flywheel bolts
Quaife atb diff for the f28 (6speed)

 

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Building back up

 

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Back on the road and a few shows and trophies

At PV10 I won park n pose

Time for real brakes

Alcon 4-Pot Calipers without dust seals
Alcon 295mm 6 groove discs with bells
Ferodo DS3000 Track Pads
Alcon Fitting kit
Front wheel studs (M14 to go with the bells)
Wheel Nuts

Few Pictures of the kit:

 

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A few inside shots and engine bay

Then I went to billing 10

Won best car of the stand and built not bought

Borrowed my friends racebox and had a play, best i got was

Fitted a rear whiteline anti roll bar

Then it was off to TVL at Combe but still no track action because of my radiator being too small (which was on order for 4 weeks at this point)

 

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Then finally it comes

Time to see what power he makes

Final Figures for now due to "rubbish" map and exhaust being too small, these will be replaced soon

BHP @ Wheels 219.6bhp @ 6,004rpm
BHP @ Flywheel 260.6bhp @ 6,235rpm
Torque 243.1lbft @ 5,041rpm

The Graphs...

New map, changed over to genuine EDS while im still on small kkk16 turbo

Then it was off to combe action day

 

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I managed a whole 2 laps before I got blacked flag for be to noisey which isn't the end of the world I never actually noticed how noisy he was until then whoops!

A few pictures people took, cheers

 

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Then Total Vauxhall came out

Time for some 1/4 action, on Saturday the 2nd Oct, me and a few friends went to a RWYB at shakespeare raceway! First time I have ever done 1/4 mile and I really enjoyed it was a great day.

I ran the car as I would everday, had 3/4 tank of fuel, normal pressures etc etc

My personal best was 12.9 @ 111mph

Which i was more than happy with as that was my first run of the day, but they seemed to get worse ah well i can work from this

Other times were:

13.2 @ 110mph
13.3 @ 110mph
13.1 @ 110mph

I seem to be consistent with the terminal speeds, i just need to get better at the launches

Few of the cars that went:

Astra VXR with stage 2 - Mid 14's

 

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Mk3 Golf with 1.8 20v t - Mid 14's

Evo 9 FQ 400 - 12.6

200sx - 360 - engine failure

First run of the day vs the Evo 9

12.9 @ 111mph and 12.6 @ 107mph for the Evo, Damn 4wd...

Outside

YouTube - Corsa Turbo Vs Evo 9.MOV

Inside the Evo

YouTube - Corsa Turbo vs Evo 9 (in Car).mp4

Monty Vs Anglia

YouTube - Corsa Turbo Vs Anglia 13.3.MOV

Inside Monty

YouTube - Corsa turbo Run 13.3.mp4

and my PB slip

and to finish off a couple videos from my noise visit to combe

YouTube - Corsa Turbo at Combe .MOV

YouTube - Corsa Turbo at Combe again.MOV

 

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Got my pictures from total vauxhall today from my feature, so I thought I would share

 

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Little update:

Finally bought new lower ball joints and rose jointed track rod ends so i can invert them as monty suffers with bump steer

My broken ball joint next to the uniball ball joint (which are rebuild able + rose jointed)

After talking to compbrake about what i used the car for and Harry Hockley versions they said i could use there "Rally Version" making it still a fair bit cheaper than HH version

As you can see it has the extra thread + nut

 

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Rose jointed track rod in normal position ( I have to drill the hub knuckle as they are non tapered)

how I plan to mount them

Next I bought some saab red injectors (360cc) as a little upgrade ready for new exhaust then its time to turn the boost up

Sent them off to be cleaned by astra-nige (Top service )

Before cleaning proved they were pritty good already - around 92 (sorry about the blur)

After cleaning - now all 94

Thats all for now

 

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Little update:

Bought him another set of MO's for some sticky rubber Got them refurbished @ Lepsons in swindon - highly advise they always do all my wheels

Finished items

I also fitted my uniball lower ball joints, I couldn't fit the ones with the threads as i have big block cv's!!! Shame but oh well...

A few pictures of them fitted, alittle dirty but....

Clearance and the reason the threaded ones won't fit

Currently having custom exhaust being made as well

 

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Been looking into custom exhaust in 3" with Manderal bends for a while and have been getting quotes from various places! Spoke to a few companies at autosport show in January and one company that spent time explaining my best options was Birchills Automotive Exhaust Products but they only supply parts I asked for a local dealers and they said "longlife oxford" are the best and the fabrication is second to none unlike other longlife dealers So a phone call to Rob at longlife, which he spent alot of time again saying what would work for me Then a nice quote over the phone lmao and Monty was then pre booked in and talk a little more in detail.....

Dropped Monty off 2 weeks ago (I said keep it till the end of the month) and I picked him up today..... All I can say is what great fabrication truly epic Rob kept me upto date every couple of days.

So the end result was a modified downpipe (as the original 3" downpipe was really low) , complete system in 3" with 1 custom centre box and custom backbox = alot quieter system.... roll on track days

Some really crap quality photos from phone, will upload some better ones soon!

New Tail pipe, same size but outward rolled

Back box

Crap picture of center section

Down pipe clearance which I never had before

All in all really happy with the system and service, would recommend them to anyone!!

 

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No rush for PV or anything

Not doing as much as I want at the moment as the VXR took montys BT money

Back home

Bent wing removed

Started to remove engine

Montys nasty oil leak since the ball joint snapping

 

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More leaks Well Hopefully no more soon

All arms off

Engine out

Oil stained downpipe

After a little polish Only the rest to do

 

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Back up in the air and cleaning starts

Engine bay all cleaned

Old clutch and SBS Lightened Pot flywheel

Getting there

Gearbox which needs some paint

 

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Engine on the stand

Cam seals will be done too

New ARP main stud and nut kit

New clutch and flywheel setup Helix 6 Paddle + Billet Flywheel, Great service from vxlgsi

More soon

 

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Well been doing abit to him over the weekend and will continue tomorrow Heres what I got done

First off bag him up

Reason was he was showing a small sign off rust coming back from under the bonnet stay mount on the OSF shocker top mount, which was treated before the respray but as you all know if its under a bracket its hard to get at... So off it came bonnet lifters will be fitted instead!!! Drilled the bracket off and treated rust and etched then primed...

The NSF got same paint at the same time as the loom has been rubbing

Painted