ibizacupra said:
you need to get yourself a 4wd conversion 1st
make some use of the power then.
Intresting thought that, Bill - It had crossed my mind too but I am not sure if it is possible to use the 4WD hardware with the UK LCR FWD bodyshell
Funnily enough, when I first started to look at the Leon , four years ago,I read all the comics and decided that I would have the 4WD 1.8T Leon `when it became available in the UK` and then buy APR stage 3 - easy i thought, and all would be fine!! - OK don`t laugh
- I didn`t realise then that I had more chance of winning the Lottery than I had of ever getting my hands on either of these two products.
Sadly I have to say that now, fours years on, both these products are still not available to us in the UK - much to the detriment of both companies - I though, four years ago that the combination of those two products would have produced a bombshell to really rock `hot-hatch`market - It would have been a `must have` product which would have had tremendous spinoffs for both companies - unfortunately that was not to be.
APR stage 3 offered
290 bhp then, and that was though to be incredible - now,as the thread seeks to illustrate, we all seem to feel disadvantaged if we don`t have 400+bhp
- we all seem so fixated with the idea that Dyno readouts alone, are the sole measure of a car`s ability to please and entertain
Even now, I find myself getting caught up in a feeling of discontent with my paltry 367 bhp - then I take the car out for a drive, scare the living daylights out of myself
and always come back to the same question - not so much `do I need more power`, more `can I actually utilise it to any significant effect on the public road`
In the final analysis, whatever the merits/disadvantages of particular BT kits and their respective power outputs - IHI or Garret - fitted and set up correctly, either one of these kits will give you the `drive of your life in you humble Seat - the ultimate `Hot Hatch` experience without doubt.
I just hope to encourage more folks - should their budgets allow - to grasp the nettle, raid the piggy bank, go for it, and get one of these kits fitted, whlst the going`s good - we are now in ,`the Halcyon days` for all who love `modding` cars.
There are dark clouds on the horizon ahead guaranteed to spoil our fun bigtime
-is there no end to the talentsof this motor
singin for a shillin towards my petrol money
