Seat Leon Cupra FR - Work in progress!

Decided to start a little thread about my car as i have been doing quite a bit of work on it lately.

It started of like this:



A standard Leon FR, 1.8T (excuse the dirt)

The wheels looked a bit tatty and the tyre profile to big, so i decided to look around for some larger wheels. Looking round, without spending stupid amounts of money, there were only the RS4/6/8 R32 replicas, none of which i thought would suit the leon.
However, i came across some R8 replicas and decided to go for them.







I then decided to buy an Jetex exhaust system and rear Eibach anti-roll bar of a friend who had them on his Golf GTI but removed them before selling it. These were then fitted.


(the exhaust looks on the p1ss but i assure you it isnt!)



Next i decided to sort the rear badges, initially i debaged them, but thought it made the rear look a little plain. So i decided to put them back on, Cupra-R style, along with an additional Nurburgring emblem.





The car stayed as it was for a few more weeks, until i got bored with it looking so jacked up. I decided to opt for coilovers, this would allow me to personalize the stance of the car and improve the marshmellow like handling.
A good days work and the results spoke for themselves:



Near Future plans:
Fitting of S3 strut brace (need to decide on colour first, suggestions welcome)
Obtain and fit Fabia rear wiper
Re-fit O/S side skirt and remaining Caps
Battery cover

Future:
Remap
Dump valve
LCR splitter
Smoked windows
Porsche brake conversion

Thanks for your comments. the reason the 'R' badges were initially put on because i intended to create a replica, hence me getting red mirrors, wheels similar to the LCR and looking at a porsche up grade. But i'll see how things go, if i decide not to change the bumpers/interior i'll probably just leave it as a LEON with no additional badges.

I always thought it was a cupra FR, being the same as a normal cupra spec wise with just minor differences. My bad.

T. Spark said:

Werent having ago mate, and its your car at the end of the day, it does look stunning (plus red is faster )

However to me, I dont see the lust for making something into something it isnt, mine is a pre-facelift 05 Ibiza FR, it will never see even facelift bumpers, not as they arent nice, as they are.. but my mind is just set on speed as such now, not so much style.

As for th Cupra FR, same thing really mate, horses for courses.

The wheels on the car look very very nice, I dont think ive seen them on a Seat before and it suits the styling of the Leon MK1 very well, show off the brakes etc so get some big uns next!!

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No i understand, i made a replica clio sport about 3 years ago and got a mixed response.
I know by posting it on here i have to take into account other people like differnt things, would be boring otherwise!

Thanks for the comments. i have been round the nurburgring, i was about 8 - 9 years old and a passenger!

Where about in north wales are you from if you dont mind me asking. Don't see many leons round here!

Oh right, i live in chester so the other side really!

I think i have seen one in the 3 months i have had mine in chester.

mikey_b said:

Nice car dude realy luks good erm... the anti roll bar is off a golf gti so it should fit my leon fine??

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Yes, the Golf Mk4 has the same rear beam as the leon, they are based on the same floor pan.