Well, after owning this LCR for over a year I thought i may as well post a short progress thread of what i have had done so far.
After looking for a leon for nearly nine months, this one popped up not too far away on 21,000, 55 reg and only one previous owner so i put a deposit down the next day and snatched her up!
Here she was back then:
Then after about three months, had a little problem with it going into limp mode under boost, and after investigating i found this little problem:
So, Badger5 TIP fitted with a jetex cone filter, heat shield and Forge 008 dump valve:
After that i purchased my favourite mod of all time, 3" turbo back exhaust system from cobra, decat non res (obviously)![[B)]](/forums/styles/seatcupra/oldforumsmileys/shades.gif "Cool [B)]")
. A few people on here say they are too loud, a friend of mine had one on his leon and they were subtle at low speeds (hardly noticeable to be honest), but at full chat all hell breaks loose! 
So i bit the bullet and bought one, and to this day i do not regret it! On a few occassions it pops and bangs, i can't help but laugh. Its the small things in life.
Once that was fitted and my wallet had time to recover, i was a bit bored of the standard power, so a map at Big Fish Tuning was needed!:
On the first dyno run without the map, with the decat exhaust and induction kit it was running around 230-235bhp (can't remember exactly). Afterwards 278bhp, very impressed!
However, with such a hot summer John advised i fitted a FMIC asap to maintain those results. After a lot of research, me and a friend of mine decided to put aside a day and a half to fit an intercooler kit on each others leons:
Unfortunately we had to ditch the fogs, but i haven't needed them once in the the year i've had the car so they haven't been missed. As for the performance, there was always going to be an imporovement with such a massive cooler compared to the tiny SMIC's!
Anyway, after that i was satisfied with the performance of the car, so now it was to get it to how i wanted it to looks. So i booked her in to a friends bodyshop to get the wheels, calipers and bumper resprayed. While i was there i decided to change the lower boost hoses to black as they were too noticeable blue through the fog grills for me.
And this is how she has been since before christmas. Had tax, insurance, mot, full service and tyres to pay for since then so modding has been stalled for the past five months. I really should get some better pictures but didn't see the point over winter.
Next on the list are some AP coilovers and some BBS CH wheels. I have contemplated many times to put a big turbo on it, but to be honest its perfect how it is. In six months the only problem i had was a split TIP, and it would probably make it unreliable.
Anyway, thanks for reading.
After looking for a leon for nearly nine months, this one popped up not too far away on 21,000, 55 reg and only one previous owner so i put a deposit down the next day and snatched her up!
Here she was back then:
Then after about three months, had a little problem with it going into limp mode under boost, and after investigating i found this little problem:
So, Badger5 TIP fitted with a jetex cone filter, heat shield and Forge 008 dump valve:
After that i purchased my favourite mod of all time, 3" turbo back exhaust system from cobra, decat non res (obviously)
. A few people on here say they are too loud, a friend of mine had one on his leon and they were subtle at low speeds (hardly noticeable to be honest), but at full chat all hell breaks loose! So i bit the bullet and bought one, and to this day i do not regret it! On a few occassions it pops and bangs, i can't help but laugh. Its the small things in life.
Once that was fitted and my wallet had time to recover, i was a bit bored of the standard power, so a map at Big Fish Tuning was needed!:
On the first dyno run without the map, with the decat exhaust and induction kit it was running around 230-235bhp (can't remember exactly). Afterwards 278bhp, very impressed!
However, with such a hot summer John advised i fitted a FMIC asap to maintain those results. After a lot of research, me and a friend of mine decided to put aside a day and a half to fit an intercooler kit on each others leons:
Unfortunately we had to ditch the fogs, but i haven't needed them once in the the year i've had the car so they haven't been missed. As for the performance, there was always going to be an imporovement with such a massive cooler compared to the tiny SMIC's!
Anyway, after that i was satisfied with the performance of the car, so now it was to get it to how i wanted it to looks. So i booked her in to a friends bodyshop to get the wheels, calipers and bumper resprayed. While i was there i decided to change the lower boost hoses to black as they were too noticeable blue through the fog grills for me.
And this is how she has been since before christmas. Had tax, insurance, mot, full service and tyres to pay for since then so modding has been stalled for the past five months. I really should get some better pictures but didn't see the point over winter.
Next on the list are some AP coilovers and some BBS CH wheels. I have contemplated many times to put a big turbo on it, but to be honest its perfect how it is. In six months the only problem i had was a split TIP, and it would probably make it unreliable.
Anyway, thanks for reading.
. Time to get rid of the arch gap!
