DPJ's Silver Leon Cupra GT - no more.

lil3520 said:

lovely motor.

a bit too low for everyday use.

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Cheers.

Honestly, it's a 400 mile a week daily driver. We have traffic humps in our village 20mph zone and it will just go over the top of them. It just catches on the road camber when I leave/enter our work carpark when the tyres are worn, but not with new tyres. It's never been in a multistorey though.

elDuke said:

nice race pic

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Thank you.
It's been standing lifeless for the last couple of weeks on ramps.

But its GT28RS Eliminator turbo install is progressing.

PhilW said:

What map you goin for dave? Revo stage 3?

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Yes Phil. I have the packaging ready to send my ecu down to Kev for flashing. I've just delayed things another day because I couldn't remove my scuttle panel tonight to take the ecu out. (It's solid ).

Bloody rain!

Ten years ago, I demolished my double garage/workshop and built (with my own bare hands) a 50m2 5 room extension to the house. I've rarely regretted it, but **** me, I could do with a garage at the moment. I need to fit my new turbo, and I need to remove my ECU. I really don't want to take my scuttle out in the rain.
Pergola up over the car tonight.


Do you like the wiperless look?

ECU removed and parcelled up to send to Revo for flashing.

Here's the GT28RS Eliminator being trial fitted to my (ground) ATP manifold. Just getting an idea of where it's not going to fit in the car.




If only it was that easy!

So I've trial fitted it without gaskets. Disconnecting the heater hoses makes it easy to get in and out.

**** me it's tight against the 6 speed box!

I managed to get the offside manifold-turbo bolt in, but the nearside one is about 3mm out. I found out why...............

Turbo obvious, Water pipe across the top, block to the back left, gearbox housing foreground - spot the gasket. I reckon the 3mm I need will transpose to about 5mm where the turbo is touching.

Grinder out in the morning, I reckon I can give it 6mm.....

GT28RS Eliminator install continued in this thread.

Wayne88 said:

lovley looking motor that abosloutly gorgeous infact. top work mate.

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Thank you. Not to everybodies' (ie nearly everyones' ) taste.

Wayne88 said:

it is good to have varyations of the motors if everyones looked the same it would be boring lol.

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Exactly! IMO there's room for the whole spectrum from truly awful to sublime. Some get it right, some get it wrong. Some have taste, some have no taste. I don't think you can have one without the other.............

RobM said:

AMEN to that!

This car just wouldn't be the same if it didn't look like that. It's part of the SC.net furniture now

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ROFLMFAO.... thank you Rob. That's nice. If it's true, it's only because I'm thick skinned and weathered the initial comments when I joined (some of them downright nasty) - and a few along the way. I think I'm aware quite a few people here now know that my car and I are very different entities.

As time goes on peoples' reaction to the car amuses me more and more, on and off the road. I mentioned extremes of the spectrum a moment ago. It's funny when a sleeper blows away a very serious motor. Picture the faces of some people who try to dust the funny Spanish silver car adorned with plastic attachments and discover the results of 320+ bhp?

beezasport said:

do you know if you can get the R07 style wheels anywhere

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Gosh, that's a chop from the past! No idea I'm afraid.

Those were the days - when choosing new wheels was my only problem.

Pre-facelift bumper, modified to give airflow to LCR FMIC, that doesn't fit properly over the FMIC.


And without foglight grilles. (sold)