what have you done to your car today ?

[Nizza]

Yes I think the sump bolts are 7 x 1mm. I have a set of taps to try and sort the hole out and know how to helicoil! Although great advice and help! The trouble is getting to the. Problem area. I can whip the sump off again but I really think it’s going to be gearbox off to be able to sort the block properly. Hoping this gasket maker holds up. Donnington Park tomorrow will soon tell


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[Leon20vt4]

Yes I think the sump bolts are 7 x 1mm. I have a set of taps to try and sort the hole out and know how to helicoil! Although great advice and help! The trouble is getting to the. Problem area. I can whip the sump off again but I really think it’s going to be gearbox off to be able to sort the block properly. Hoping this gasket maker holds up. Donnington Park tomorrow will soon tell


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It’ll hold up, the worst would be a small seepage leak nothing crazy. Don’t sweat it. But oil leaks on track isn’t a good thing.

Got any more photos of your setup from yesterday? The doors etc?


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[Leon20vt4]

I was trying to think about what the hell is everyone talking about a beam in the rear... then I remember I am 1 of 2 guys on here with 4x4 ... we don’t have a beam... differences below top one is 4x4

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Wondering if you could swap the suspension components to the FWD Leon without the haldex diff, just to utilize the independent rear suspension. And how much custom fab would be necessary. Hmmmm something to think about for those who want independent rear.


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[Manic172]

Need a flat boot floor by the looks of it as it has the 4 mounting points around it
But I am looking at making some thing along the lines of the satchell conversion that are made for the saxos but again need 2 more mounting points or have a beam style side to side with trailing arms like normal but make the rods back to the beam with rose joints. So then it can pivot indipend and then run the coil overs too.

 

[Manic172]

New rear stub axles and wheel bearings.. going to order a new axle as well. Just not sure on rear bushes or to order a bearing type set up from America

 

[Andrewwright]

Need a flat boot floor by the looks of it as it has the 4 mounting points around it
But I am looking at making some thing along the lines of the satchell conversion that are made for the saxos but again need 2 more mounting points or have a beam style side to side with trailing arms like normal but make the rods back to the beam with rose joints. So then it can pivot indipend and then run the coil overs too.

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Haldex conversion for 1.8T


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[Nizza]

So we made donny tonight, sump gasket looks ok thank god!

Just a couple quick pics

Some little issues were turbo intake pipe blew off and got some general oil leaks looks like old hoses and breathers etc so could o with a full clean up and monitor.

The car doesn’t pull well enough. Made 255bhp and 310 Nm on the dyno. Pulls well out of corners just doesn’t seem to hold onto its power and really get going. Not sure if all the oil leaks are indicating compression leak through piston rings...

The chassis was good though and tyres dmack seem pretty good.

On the positive had a good night and the track is awesome!

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[Bedlam]

@Nizza
Is that crashhelmet covering a brown pant stain ?

 

[Nizza]

@Nizza
Is that crashhelmet covering a brown pant stain ?

There was no brown pants last night ha ha.


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[Leon20vt4]

So we made donny tonight, sump gasket looks ok thank god!

Just a couple quick pics

Some little issues were turbo intake pipe blew off and got some general oil leaks looks like old hoses and breathers etc so could o with a full clean up and monitor.

The car doesn’t pull well enough. Made 255bhp and 310 Nm on the dyno. Pulls well out of corners just doesn’t seem to hold onto its power and really get going. Not sure if all the oil leaks are indicating compression leak through piston rings...

The chassis was good though and tyres dmack seem pretty good.

On the positive had a good night and the track is awesome!

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Get a proper tune on her and you’ll be much happier! I think if you were close to 400nm you’d feel the kick in the pants, check your recirculating valve and all your turbo pipes etc. use hairspray if you’re having issues with them popping off... or 3m spray glue.

A healthy stage 2 tune and you’ll be 280-300hp and 400-410nm


Other than that she’s looks rather smart I dig your setup a lot. I appreciate what you’ve done with the car and I will try to make it out to Nurburgring in August even if I have to take a train!


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[Andrewwright]

Didn't think she would last long tbh and now she's showing signs of white smoke. Gonna have a look today and see what's going on but it's not looking good.

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[Nizza]

Didn't think she would last long tbh and now she's showing signs of white smoke. Gonna have a look today and see what's going on but it's not looking good.

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Obviously it’s not a like but there isn’t a dislike button!! Is it headgasket?


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[Andrewwright]

No sign of gasket going or gone, no oil water mix anywhere, no sludge issue, no over heating before or after. I've just had five mins under the bonnet and there is no smoke to talk of ATM but under load maybe a different story leading me to turbo being shot.

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[Zardoz]

Fingers crossed it's a simple and fairly cheap fix mate.

 

[Zardoz]

I'm loosing lots of coolant at the moment, thought a faulty reservoir caps to blame as streaks of dried coolant were on outside of ball tank but noticed a small pool on the road under the radiator area this morning. Hopefully a piece of hose I can swap out rather than the rad itself. Apart from loosing coolant it's not been over heating and has been running really well.

 

[Yellow fr]

Oh I remember that little pool off coolant under the rad two weeks later it was a river as the rad let go the front end off to swap out radiator I feel your pain


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[Zardoz]

Yeah been reading up on what's involved, don't fancy trying it myself if it's the radiator

 

[Andrewwright]

Fingers crossed it's a simple and fairly cheap fix mate.

Thanks mate, thinking about it...it's probably going to be cheaper just to buy another Cupra....or put a bam lump in it...not sure what I'm going to do atm as both will cost about the same.

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[Leon20vt4]

No sign of gasket going or gone, no oil water mix anywhere, no sludge issue, no over heating before or after. I've just had five mins under the bonnet and there is no smoke to talk of ATM but under load maybe a different story leading me to turbo being shot.

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Turbo smoke is oil which is blue


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[Andrewwright]

Turbo smoke is oil which is blue


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It's like a white blue but more of white. I call it transparent white not thick white. Puffs when you Rev.
I've took the intake pipe off and the pipe is pretty clean of oil but the intake after the flap is filled with what looks like oil and petrol. Has the colour of oil but smells of Petrol. So I took the fuel rail off to have a look at the injectors and they look fine but I'm not sure who I can test without killing myself or setting myself on fire

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