Team GTR - Leon Cupra R

[EL]

I'm not sure how to explain it in written word's but I'll give it a go, the OE design TIP has a more gradual reduction insize from the MAF to the Turbo, so in my mind the airflow would be smoother, the 3" one I can see haveing a bottle neck effect to the airflow, I'm not douting Bill design it's just I'm not convinced yet !!!

I'm out Saturday morning and then I'll be at AmD hopefully by about 1ish

Yeah I know what you mean mate and I thought similar things also don't worry. Personally if my car was at your stage where you have done all the stage 2 mods and fully mapped now I wouldn't have gone for it. Would seem like a very expensive mod however bare in mind my car is not mapped yet so I am going straight to stage 2 so worth the try in my opinion.

I will drop you a message over the weekend mate, be good to have a catch up also

 

[EL]

From the rear and along the side of the car from front to back if you dont mind. Just interested as to how it looks on a car at standard ride height as mine isnt lowered! (yet)

Cheers mate!

Been looking at some pics I had of the car and found these which show the spacers on the rear. These were taken when myself and a few others went to Ultimate Street Car at Santa Pod

Standard LCR Height

Lowered

Ok I have a confession the lowering wasn't down to any suspension mods

 

[D.K]

I will drop you a message over the weekend mate, be good to have a catch up also

Yes mate, give me a shout I'll be about

 

[RDS]

Cheers mate, much appreciated!

One more thing, in your opinion have the spacers improved rear stability/overall handling or are they purely a visual mod?

Good effort on the lowering

 

[EL]

In all honesty, it made a slight difference but nothing drastic. I think it will add to the overall handling once I get the ARB's on and lower it on the stiffer springs. Car does feel rather light at the rear as I have taken the spare wheel out so the spacers have helped keep things in check a bit more

 

[skylion]

Thank you Mr El for letting us use that big booty space in the back of your Leon Cupra R, otherwise we'd all be sleeping in our cars, with no food and no water.

 

[EL]

Thank you Mr El for letting us use that big booty space in the back of your Leon Cupra R, otherwise we'd all be sleeping in our cars, with no food and no water.

No worries mate

Last year was ace with the shows we went to, look forward to this years

 

[RDS]

In all honesty, it made a slight difference but nothing drastic. I think it will add to the overall handling once I get the ARB's on and lower it on the stiffer springs. Car does feel rather light at the rear as I have taken the spare wheel out so the spacers have helped keep things in check a bit more

I'll probably wait to see if I ever lower the car before I get spacers then, cheers for the info and the pics!

 

[Poverty]

Something your mates might be interested in

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,23570.0.html

 

[h7 cya]

Lovely looking lcr mate with a great selection of mods too. I look forward to future updates!

 

[EL]

@Poverty Interesting event, sure they will be up for that nice one mate.

@h7 cya Thanks for the comment fella, getting there, slowly but surely

 

[EL]

Any other upgrades at this point? LCR Handling

I am going to be doing some work on the cars handling soon and wanted to hear your opinions on whether I should get any other bits done at the same time.

Work which is going to be carried out are:

Fitting Weitec 40/40 lowering springs,
Neuspeed Rear ARB,
R32 Front ARB,

Dog bone mount has been changed to a THS one. Do the OEM bushes need changing or recommended to be changed at this point? If so which ones would you say need changing and which ones to go for.

Car is a 05 plate around and done 47,000 miles and not too much of a hard life

Cheers in advance!!

 

[welchy]

Surely polybushes would be a good step in the right direction, help my mk1 golf no ends!

 

[EL]

Looks like my question I posted in the Leon Mk1 section got merged here

Anyway, yeah was thinking polybushes but the full kit for the car is around £200+ so trying to put this in level of priority. Which ones to definitely do now as the suspension work is being done and those I can do easily at a later date

 

[DPJ]

I'd strongly recommend upgrading the wishbone bushes to Powerflex (or similar). Changing the engine mounts will also improve handling.

You wouldn't particularly save money by doing these at the same time as the other suspension work, but you'd need alignment re-doing each time, so you'd save on that doing it all at once.

 

[EL]

I'd strongly recommend upgrading the wishbone bushes to Powerflex (or similar). Changing the engine mounts will also improve handling.

You wouldn't particularly save money by doing these at the same time as the other suspension work, but you'd need alignment re-doing each time, so you'd save on that doing it all at once.

Thanks mate will have a look at getting the wishbone bushes done at this time

 

[D.K]

Get the top mounts changed aswell EL, Maz said something about INA one's, there about £75

 

[EL]

I will check them out, cheers mate.

One thing I do need to keep in mind is that I don't want the ride to become too harsh hence why I have gone for springs for now to see how I get on with these. Daily driven car on coilovers...........hmmm not right now thanks. Need to try and establish how much harder the ride will become with powerflex bushes and these top mounts

 

[DPJ]

When you do your springs, just pop some new standard topmounts on, then. Miminal cost to reduce one sloppy area.

 

[EL]

Ok so the work to the car has been pushed back a little as I need to get a few more bits together and makes sense to do it all together.

Ordered the LCR front Ultimax discs & Motul RBF660 brake fluid from Bill at Badger5. Also ordered some new top mounts from David at Sere Motors. Also got another set of 15mm spacers to put on too. Soon as these are here it's time to get down and dirty and get everything put on the car with some major help from my mechanic buds