In 2003 i owned a imperial blue mk3 ibiza cupra brought it standard from the dealers with 1 owner from new loved the car told myself not to spend any money on it, i was wrong after finding seatcupra.net thats where it all started.
First of all i wanted new wheels didnt like the standard ones so i went out and brought a set of 17" Dare X1 in hyper silver, these were added to the car along with 20mm rear spacers and a 30mm drop on H&R springs done by AMD.
After sorting the wheels and suspension how i wanted it then, i went down the airfilter route, first of all i went for the a piper cross that was soon removed for a dynatwist kit brought from Badger 5 which was on there for ages, then i found myself wanting more power so few phone calls later and it was booked in at Jabbasport for a chip birthday present to myself, came out of there with 209bhp cant remember the torque figure few weeks after the remap my ecu died cause by water this was then replace by Seat at a cost of almost £750 which almost made me cry.
After leaving things for a while and being back to standard bhp figures i got bored, Next i knew i had purchased a KO3S from what was A&M motorsport and also paid out for one of there intercoolers, once these were all fitted the car was once again booked into jabbasport to be remapped this time i came away with 226 bhp and 343nm of torque all this with loose turbo mani bolts and a blowing down pipe.
Then then worst thing that could happen to someones pride and joy small engine fire but it was enough for the insurance company to write it off here are some of the pictures of its final end, mods for this car
A&M FMIC
KO3S
3" D/P 100 cell race cat
Scorpion cat back twin slashed cut exhaust
forge tip
17" alloys
seat sport strut brace
jabbasport induction kit
complete striped the car and sold everything i could and a rolling shell,
That was that for 2 years now i have another one a 2001 cupra with a JBS04 conversion on it currently running 242bhp and 281 ft lb torque,
Since owng the car i have changed all the brakes front are Brembo grooved discs and ferrodo racing pads and rears are grooved discs and uprated pads, changed all the vac lins over done the N249 bypass had fitted a pro alloy fmic, car came with a blue flame system, but im uprating to a 3" d/p and race cat, change the filter to a jetex open cone
future plans are boost and oil gauges, suspension, alloys, leon R front splitter and possibly a JBS stage 2 or 3 conversion, sorry for the essay just wanted to tell my story
Neil
First of all i wanted new wheels didnt like the standard ones so i went out and brought a set of 17" Dare X1 in hyper silver, these were added to the car along with 20mm rear spacers and a 30mm drop on H&R springs done by AMD.
After sorting the wheels and suspension how i wanted it then, i went down the airfilter route, first of all i went for the a piper cross that was soon removed for a dynatwist kit brought from Badger 5 which was on there for ages, then i found myself wanting more power so few phone calls later and it was booked in at Jabbasport for a chip birthday present to myself, came out of there with 209bhp cant remember the torque figure few weeks after the remap my ecu died cause by water this was then replace by Seat at a cost of almost £750 which almost made me cry.
After leaving things for a while and being back to standard bhp figures i got bored, Next i knew i had purchased a KO3S from what was A&M motorsport and also paid out for one of there intercoolers, once these were all fitted the car was once again booked into jabbasport to be remapped this time i came away with 226 bhp and 343nm of torque all this with loose turbo mani bolts and a blowing down pipe.
Then then worst thing that could happen to someones pride and joy small engine fire but it was enough for the insurance company to write it off here are some of the pictures of its final end, mods for this car
A&M FMIC
KO3S
3" D/P 100 cell race cat
Scorpion cat back twin slashed cut exhaust
forge tip
17" alloys
seat sport strut brace
jabbasport induction kit
complete striped the car and sold everything i could and a rolling shell,
That was that for 2 years now i have another one a 2001 cupra with a JBS04 conversion on it currently running 242bhp and 281 ft lb torque,
Since owng the car i have changed all the brakes front are Brembo grooved discs and ferrodo racing pads and rears are grooved discs and uprated pads, changed all the vac lins over done the N249 bypass had fitted a pro alloy fmic, car came with a blue flame system, but im uprating to a 3" d/p and race cat, change the filter to a jetex open cone
future plans are boost and oil gauges, suspension, alloys, leon R front splitter and possibly a JBS stage 2 or 3 conversion, sorry for the essay just wanted to tell my story
Neil
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were did you get the spacers and bolts??
