Hi all,
I have been a member here for years but only as a lurker and not a poster. I've always been into VAG stuff starting out with a MK2 golf as my first car and owned many VW/Audi/Seats over the years.
I'm not new to the MK3 Leon but I am just about to embark on a cool project that has some unknowns (for me anyway) so help and advice from you lot on here would be greatly appreciated!
Thought I'd share my MK3 Leon history with you as that will be relevant going forward, but I have had a mk1 cupra r and a 2003 Toledo in the past.
My first MK3, a 2013 184 FR SC that I lowered on ST coilovers and fifteen52s
I sold that as it was impractical for kids being a 3 door so I bought a Skoda superb sportline instead.
Then a mate of mine had his mint dynamic grey cupra 290 dsg written off (cat b), so I purchased that with the intentions of putting the engine in my MK2 golf GTi that is mid way through restoration. I'm in no position to complete the MK2 as it's a full shell resto and I'm renovating my house so I thought I would buy a MK3 Leon ST and put the cupra engine in that so I can have a nice 400bhp daily and put the engine in the MK2 golf when I'm ready in a few years.
So I went on the hunt for a MK3 Leon ST TSI DSG of some sort and found this.
A 2018 FR 1.8 TSI DSG, cat N with minor front end damage/missing the front end. Looked good until it turned up following Coparts careful loading onto a transporter! I'll start a build thread for this project and put more details on there.
Aim is to have a nice daily with ~400bhp and not terrible on fuel when being gentle. I want it to be a sleeper but I don't know if I have the willpower not to modify it asthetically!
Anyway if you made it this far congratulations, keep an eye out for a thread about a cupra powered purple FR!
I have been a member here for years but only as a lurker and not a poster. I've always been into VAG stuff starting out with a MK2 golf as my first car and owned many VW/Audi/Seats over the years.
I'm not new to the MK3 Leon but I am just about to embark on a cool project that has some unknowns (for me anyway) so help and advice from you lot on here would be greatly appreciated!
Thought I'd share my MK3 Leon history with you as that will be relevant going forward, but I have had a mk1 cupra r and a 2003 Toledo in the past.
My first MK3, a 2013 184 FR SC that I lowered on ST coilovers and fifteen52s
I sold that as it was impractical for kids being a 3 door so I bought a Skoda superb sportline instead.
Then a mate of mine had his mint dynamic grey cupra 290 dsg written off (cat b), so I purchased that with the intentions of putting the engine in my MK2 golf GTi that is mid way through restoration. I'm in no position to complete the MK2 as it's a full shell resto and I'm renovating my house so I thought I would buy a MK3 Leon ST and put the cupra engine in that so I can have a nice 400bhp daily and put the engine in the MK2 golf when I'm ready in a few years.
So I went on the hunt for a MK3 Leon ST TSI DSG of some sort and found this.
A 2018 FR 1.8 TSI DSG, cat N with minor front end damage/missing the front end. Looked good until it turned up following Coparts careful loading onto a transporter! I'll start a build thread for this project and put more details on there.
Aim is to have a nice daily with ~400bhp and not terrible on fuel when being gentle. I want it to be a sleeper but I don't know if I have the willpower not to modify it asthetically!
Anyway if you made it this far congratulations, keep an eye out for a thread about a cupra powered purple FR!
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