Leon - 29/08/13 Poly Resin, Adjustable top mounts, Canards....

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Determined to get my downpipe off ready for the 3" downpipe and decat....in the pouring bloody rain

Downpipe off, not too difficult but made harder laying on the drive way

Spot the restriction. 3" DP vs the restrictive supposed updated downpipe from Blueflame which is measuring in at just over 2.2"

 

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So I got the spark plugs changed, which had not been changed since the turbo went pop.....they were very oily

Old Vs New

This was the plug nearest the turbo

Next was to pull out the sensors from the existing exhaust, but first I had to get this bolt out of the decat which was a pig...ended up putting the spanner and standing on it, which released it

sensors out and then I put them in the 3" DP and decat....again standing on the spanner to undo the sensors!

Then my outside light went pop!

Inside of the old cat as well

Next will be getting the DP and decat on, and changing the fuel filter

 

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Time to replace the rocker cover gasket and the valve cover gasket

Valve cover off, came off nice and easy too

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This is the old valve cover gasket, the 4th one which was where the oiliest spark plug was....I couldn't notice any splits or particularly worn gasket

Fresh nuts also

Now just the exhaust to go and tracking. angle grinding the fecking nut on Monday!

 

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Stage one to losing some more weight out of the car, this turned up

Corbeau Pro Kevlar, weighing in at 8.6kg, compared a good 35kg+ for my leather electric seats. Only one at the moment as I couldn't afford two at the same time, so the second one will come later.

Other developments recently are my 3" Downpipe and decat are now on the car, and has made a big difference. You can really hear the turbo spooling even more now. Thanks to Nick.

Getting the seat fitted on the 10th March, then next up will be ordering my water meth kit

 

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Box steel arrived ready for the bucket seat being mounted

Relocating the battery

 

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Some very useful pics for me.... when I come to put mine back together! I'm so tempted to mod mine, but I bought it to save cash.... not spend more! Bah, this looks awesome.

 

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Bucket seat was installed. Started at 9 and finished at 18:00.....for one Seat. I did not realise the amount of work that went into this, but wow.

Nick is an absolute legend, and his technical skills amazed me today.

Today started off like this, at Prawn HQ

Seat out

Nick drilling out the welded OEM Seat rails

Mess around the car

Nick cutting out the 3mm steel for the box steel to be welded too

Nick Tack welding the steel to the sides

This was then removed, and sprayed up (to ensure this doesn't ever rust)

All done

Welding bolt eye into place

Half done

Lovely jubbly

More Welding

Seat rails in

Trial Mounting Seat

AND fitted, sorry for the poor pic, but this was late, we were frozen beyond belief!

 

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few better pics of the seat in daylight

 

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Ordered my water methanol kit, DVC30 progressive kit, with low level float warning and 4 quarts tank. This also comes with the sensor showing the pump is actually pumping to stop any issues with detonation etc which is pretty important!

 

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Removed the spoiler and wing mirrors which are being wrapped in carbon

Removed the front bumper also as the headlights are getting tinted in laminex also.

Passenger side mirror off and glass taken out. This was a pain in the ass as one of the bolts had corroded so had to be drilled out.

Spoiler removed

Ready to be sent off

Finally removed the passenger door speaker, and removed the drivers door speaker also

Cleaned up the area where the spoiler was, as it was minging

 

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Mirrorless

Despoilered

 

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Took the gauges out of the old Audi mounting brackets and trial fitted them

Perfect fit

Notice how the fittings are slanted also, so they point towards the driver

Got myself a Makita angle grinder as well, as I need to cut up some steel plates to hold the alloy battery cage in and start making my custom heat shield

Also sent off the spoiler, wing mirrors and headlights off to GStar wraps today to get wrapped http://www.gstarwraps.com/

 

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I bet your glad I sent you that for sale link all those years ago

 

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plan today was to get some more airflow to the FMIC

Bumper

Half cut out

Done

I tidied it up a little bit after this as well

hanging on after drilling the crash bar a bit as well, as you can see its quite a bit more flow to the FMIC with the number plate cut out

Bits cut out

Cut out.....actually looks wonky the holes cut but that's because parts of the bumper are sunken

Took it off and drilled the back with a larger hole saw to maximise flow

Naked again

 

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I bet your glad I sent you that for sale link all those years ago

I sure am, the missues isn't though!

 

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Tidied up the crash bar and finished off spraying it

Decided to clean up the points where the crash bar mounts to

Before

Sprayed

Dried and done

 

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3m carbon arrived to finally do the missing bumper cover

In yellow, but that doesn't matter

Carbon covered

Parts have arrived for the gauges today

oil pressure sender

Sump plug and sump plug oil temperature sensor

and my bits are ready from GStar wraps....SUPER excited about these

Massive thanks to them. They can be found by searching for GStar wraps or www.gstarwraps.com

 

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Few bits arrived for the car. Some of the cars performance issues is related to the stat and temp sensor as these are bringing the engine management light on, and this can really affect fueling etc.

This figures because the mpg I get is piss poor even when coasting off boost and is effecting power top end as I don't think it can work out fueling correctly. Either running lean or rich

Stat

Temp sensor

Boss to be welded into the metal intake pipe for my water methanol injection

More updates to follow this Friday when it gets put back together

 

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Supersize TIP arrived

MUCH bigger than my Forge one

 

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Battery relocation is a work in progress at the moment

cut the brackets to pin the battery cage down. The lips on the end of the battery cage were to narrow and too thin to put bolts put through them, so I cut my 3mm steel left over

cut and drilled the ends

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Started spraying them up, and the other black bracket is the top which goes over the top of the battery in the cage. The cage is too bling for my liking to its getting sprayed satin black also

Trial mounted in the boot. You can just see the ends of the battery cage where they are too thin, so the metal bars will be clamping this down.

I'm going to spray the white patch in the spare wheel well also at the weekend.

Then all I have to do is drill the foot well and bolt it down, fit the negative cable then that's job done and I can start on the supersize TIP.