Hey all,
Thought i'd start a thread about my LCR. I sold my mk2 Golf in October last year and started looking straight away for a LCR, within a week I had bought an onvi yellow LCR 210. I bought it with the seller telling me it was completly standard, which i later found out it wasn't!! It felt a lot quicker and more responsive than the others that i had test drove. So i promptly bought a liquid gauge and started collecting some data. It was boosting at 22psi peak, and dropping off to 16/17 psi, so i assumed it had been chipped. After looking under the bonnet i realised it had an old forge 006 DV and a split boost and vac pipe. So within the week i changed the pipes, done a full service and replaced the cambelt.
Winter soon came, along with the rain, 3 out of the 4 foot wells started to fill up with water, so i had to repair the seals on the doors (touch wood, they haven't leaked since), and the boot wasn't locking from the key fob (the metal rod from the boot solenoid wasn't attached to the lock, so an easy fix)!! After finding these niggly things it's been spot on since, and flew through the M.O.T!!
The new year brought on new mods, which are as follows-
Chipped (not sure by who, is there any way of finding out?)
Replaced the forge 006 (which had a blue spring in) DV for a forge 007 with a yellow spring.
Pipercross panel filter.
Forge dog bone mount (the vibration dissapeared after 40 miles!!)
Skoda rear wiper conversion
Forge quickshift
N249 bypass, had to do this after a fault code appeared and wouldn't go away, so bypassed the valve and hasn't come back since.
6000 HIDS
Currently spraying the front and rear Seat badge.
Mods to come-
GRS motorsport FMIC
Jetex cone filter (to replace the panel filter)
Toyosport oil catch can
T.I.P (not sure which one to go for)
Boost, coolant and vac silicone pipes
Uprate the brakes (Proberly get the CRN deal)
Refurb and spray the wheels
Exhaust system (when funds allow it)
According to my liquid gauge, depending how accurate it is, it's currently running at 245bhp.
Thats it for the moment, views and opions welcome. Pictures aren't great but just to show you my pride and joy (Excuse the holes where the badges should be. lol), and a quick one of the old Golf.
Thought i'd start a thread about my LCR. I sold my mk2 Golf in October last year and started looking straight away for a LCR, within a week I had bought an onvi yellow LCR 210. I bought it with the seller telling me it was completly standard, which i later found out it wasn't!! It felt a lot quicker and more responsive than the others that i had test drove. So i promptly bought a liquid gauge and started collecting some data. It was boosting at 22psi peak, and dropping off to 16/17 psi, so i assumed it had been chipped. After looking under the bonnet i realised it had an old forge 006 DV and a split boost and vac pipe. So within the week i changed the pipes, done a full service and replaced the cambelt.
Winter soon came, along with the rain, 3 out of the 4 foot wells started to fill up with water, so i had to repair the seals on the doors (touch wood, they haven't leaked since), and the boot wasn't locking from the key fob (the metal rod from the boot solenoid wasn't attached to the lock, so an easy fix)!! After finding these niggly things it's been spot on since, and flew through the M.O.T!!
The new year brought on new mods, which are as follows-
Chipped (not sure by who, is there any way of finding out?)
Replaced the forge 006 (which had a blue spring in) DV for a forge 007 with a yellow spring.
Pipercross panel filter.
Forge dog bone mount (the vibration dissapeared after 40 miles!!)
Skoda rear wiper conversion
Forge quickshift
N249 bypass, had to do this after a fault code appeared and wouldn't go away, so bypassed the valve and hasn't come back since.
6000 HIDS
Currently spraying the front and rear Seat badge.
Mods to come-
GRS motorsport FMIC
Jetex cone filter (to replace the panel filter)
Toyosport oil catch can
T.I.P (not sure which one to go for)
Boost, coolant and vac silicone pipes
Uprate the brakes (Proberly get the CRN deal)
Refurb and spray the wheels
Exhaust system (when funds allow it)
According to my liquid gauge, depending how accurate it is, it's currently running at 245bhp.
Thats it for the moment, views and opions welcome. Pictures aren't great but just to show you my pride and joy (Excuse the holes where the badges should be. lol), and a quick one of the old Golf.