god it annoys me, its only a number plate! surely if you have one on the car and you can see it, it shouldnt mate where it is
 
Exactly it's daft :cry: the plate I have on be it smaller is more than visible and reflective. I assumed if be fine and like I said I've had it on a good 9 months[:@]
 
Fitted my new mirror polished inlet manifold and my 1cm thick phenolic inlet gasket

Gasket
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Everything off
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Gasket on
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Finished
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did you do a throttle body realignment with vagcom after?
looks like a nice clean bay really makes some space moving the battery looking at the pics above.
Erm no :confused:

I didn't know you had to :shrug: it seemed to drive better, think my inlet was a bit clogged and the injectors were a bit mucky

Lots of space when the battery and SAI is chucked out :D
 
It says to do I when the battery has been disconnected also :confused:

I have done that many many times and never realigned :doh:

Maybe I should give it a go :p
 
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It's no more restrictive than before I don't think :shrug:
Probably less actually as the plate sits lower.
Would you believe I'd come back off holiday 3 days earlier :rofl:

I like the Mk3 cupra r but my gf would've killed me buying a car 10 years old :rolleyes:

Looking into a tubular manifold and a k04 now :whistle:
 
Made up new pipework from the charge pipe to IC to get rid of the crappy standard pipework
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Cheaper than the forge kit for sure ;)
 
Had a trip down to ****** for a new map last Thursday. The map that was on my car wasnt doing it much good, putting lots of stress on the turbo which may have made it a poorly turbo :(

It can't be that bad as after a lot of good work from Niki and the guys it is now making 245 bhp and 299 ft/lb. The new map is amazing, night and day compared to the old one. Power delivery is rediculously smooth and pulls very very strong.
The graph
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Looks good. I need to pull my finger out and get a DP fitted then off to R tech. Nice colour car:)
 
I can't understand why they can not be named :wtf:

I don't think there's a better tuner for the 1.8 20vT. Especially anything with a K03s

The map is amazing, power is strong all the way through to 7.5k I couldn't honestly believe the change it made.

Niki believes he can achieve 250bhp purely by porting the exhaust manifold ;)

Thanks for all the comments chaps :D