Hello there!
Ive just bought a 2002 leon cupra 180 at the weekend and its fantastic, best 1500 quid ive spent in a while. Picked it up from a fella that was selling it on behalf of his son and mentioned that his son worked for a racing team and was reluctant to actually mention what exactly he's done to the car. He firstly didnt mention if its been remapped until i drove it and then he said "it must be but i dunno what its been mapped to".
Anyway his son was selling because he had to get an estate (his loss) so it didnt put me off because it had stacks and stacks of service history and invoices, most of them from jabba sport. The only thing missing being any proof of a remap or the exhaust system.
Now for what i can tell has been done to the car:
s2000 induction kit with a heat shield around it
Unknown Remap (it feels like a stage 2 remap because its waaaaay way too responsive and defo pulls harder than 210 bhp most manufacturers quote. i had a 225 tt prior to this and the tt feels like the most boring car ever compared to this)
Forge 007 DV valve
(this one shocked and pleased me at the same time haha) A complete Forge breather system including new plastic breather pipe, Forge TIP and Forge boost pipes however there is no FMIC present so id assume he put a new side mount in.
Its been lowered on apex red springs
And a Powerflow exhaust system but he said it wasnt decatted so i have no idea if its a standard or sports cat under there havent had the chance to get under it and have a proper look yet but it seems fine no leaks or anything.
One thing i can say is that hes fitted a pro sport boost gauge on the drivers pillar, it seems highly optimistic to me as under boost it spikes to 1.5bar (apparently) and holds at 1.3ish after dropping but i doubt its accurate. Will try to see what the torque scan app says it boosts up to.
I will probably have to take it down to AMD essex at some point as im local to them and see whats what remap wise.
Thank you for any input!
Ive just bought a 2002 leon cupra 180 at the weekend and its fantastic, best 1500 quid ive spent in a while. Picked it up from a fella that was selling it on behalf of his son and mentioned that his son worked for a racing team and was reluctant to actually mention what exactly he's done to the car. He firstly didnt mention if its been remapped until i drove it and then he said "it must be but i dunno what its been mapped to".
Anyway his son was selling because he had to get an estate (his loss) so it didnt put me off because it had stacks and stacks of service history and invoices, most of them from jabba sport. The only thing missing being any proof of a remap or the exhaust system.
Now for what i can tell has been done to the car:
s2000 induction kit with a heat shield around it
Unknown Remap (it feels like a stage 2 remap because its waaaaay way too responsive and defo pulls harder than 210 bhp most manufacturers quote. i had a 225 tt prior to this and the tt feels like the most boring car ever compared to this)
Forge 007 DV valve
(this one shocked and pleased me at the same time haha) A complete Forge breather system including new plastic breather pipe, Forge TIP and Forge boost pipes however there is no FMIC present so id assume he put a new side mount in.
Its been lowered on apex red springs
And a Powerflow exhaust system but he said it wasnt decatted so i have no idea if its a standard or sports cat under there havent had the chance to get under it and have a proper look yet but it seems fine no leaks or anything.
One thing i can say is that hes fitted a pro sport boost gauge on the drivers pillar, it seems highly optimistic to me as under boost it spikes to 1.5bar (apparently) and holds at 1.3ish after dropping but i doubt its accurate. Will try to see what the torque scan app says it boosts up to.
I will probably have to take it down to AMD essex at some point as im local to them and see whats what remap wise.
Thank you for any input!
