Project 300 - Update 12/12/2005
April 2003. Tired of waiting for a Leon PD150, that the stealer promised within 2 months, I pick up the phone,
called another guy and 3 days after I was driving my brand new LCR.
Black with Recaro seats, just beeeeeeeeeautifull!!!!
At the time I didn’t had tuning on my mind. My previous car was an Ibiza PD 110 and with +100 HP, why mod it ?
Several months later the CD player started to malfunction and I swap it for a Clarion w/ CD changer (6 CDs).
A couple of years later, with warranty nearly finishing a new airfilter came into my mind.
After some research, BMC seemed the best so I ordered a CDA SP12.
Then I found seatcupra.net and the mod bug started to grow on me. Learned a lot about tuning, especially about the 1.8T.
Next, a Forge DV.
to replace the OE Bosch.
Together with the CDA I could ear the "woooshhyy” sound, but nothing like what was about to come.
Then the remap. Another research and REVO was chosen. Two words:
Bloooooooooooooody HEEEEEEEEELLLLL !!!
With the trial only 4th, 5th and 6th gears were more aggressive. All the torque came @ 3K rpms and holded till 5K,
time when the K04 runs out of “puff”.
World class service performed by Paulo (aka PRC) excellent professional, top man and made a good friend.
Now when I put my foot down that BMC screamed like there’s no tomorrow
and the "woooshhy" sound was louder.
Did some stupid things @ Drag Racing Show Estoril (drag racing) and ended up f*cking up the clutch and flywheel,
and had to change it.
Sachs Race Engineering had some nice clutchs and I kept the OE flywheel.
With a family to feed, the mod bug had to relax but not that much. To keep it happy
changed the gear knob to a Seat Sport one cause the OE one teared a part,
and got a red OMP upper strut bar,
painted in black afterwards with the Seat Sport logo, great work performed by some friends.
Also a Autometer boost gauge,
Nomad pillar
and a Samco TIP
but in black, and a EIP tuning SS
everything still uninstalled.
First I though about a Milltek exhaust but I made my mind after I saw the BlueFlame GB.
3“ Downpipe,
200 cel racecat,
center section
and back box with oval tip all 2.75”.
Only HALF the price compared with Milltek
4 bar FPR
and REVO stg 2 on it’s way.
For piece of mind, got some VF-Engineering engine mounts.
To better cool the intake ordered this from Bill:
and some disks too.
Ferodo Racing 5.1 for the brakes along with Ferodo DS2500 brake pads.
On the outside there’s not much to do. The LCR has a nice OE bodykit and I only changed the rear wiper (Skoda Fabia).
Also some black angel eyes have arrived.
The car was debagged and the wheels had their colour darkened.
A friend did the detailing work. More pics here .
In the near future I’m taking care of the handling section (coilovers and a diff) and also a FMIC before summer time.
April 2003. Tired of waiting for a Leon PD150, that the stealer promised within 2 months, I pick up the phone,
called another guy and 3 days after I was driving my brand new LCR.
Black with Recaro seats, just beeeeeeeeeautifull!!!!
At the time I didn’t had tuning on my mind. My previous car was an Ibiza PD 110 and with +100 HP, why mod it ?
Several months later the CD player started to malfunction and I swap it for a Clarion w/ CD changer (6 CDs).
A couple of years later, with warranty nearly finishing a new airfilter came into my mind.
After some research, BMC seemed the best so I ordered a CDA SP12.
Then I found seatcupra.net and the mod bug started to grow on me. Learned a lot about tuning, especially about the 1.8T.
Next, a Forge DV.
to replace the OE Bosch.
Together with the CDA I could ear the "woooshhyy” sound, but nothing like what was about to come.
Then the remap. Another research and REVO was chosen. Two words:
Bloooooooooooooody HEEEEEEEEELLLLL !!!
With the trial only 4th, 5th and 6th gears were more aggressive. All the torque came @ 3K rpms and holded till 5K,
time when the K04 runs out of “puff”.
World class service performed by Paulo (aka PRC) excellent professional, top man and made a good friend.
Now when I put my foot down that BMC screamed like there’s no tomorrow
and the "woooshhy" sound was louder.
Did some stupid things @ Drag Racing Show Estoril (drag racing) and ended up f*cking up the clutch and flywheel,
and had to change it.
Sachs Race Engineering had some nice clutchs and I kept the OE flywheel.
With a family to feed, the mod bug had to relax but not that much. To keep it happy
changed the gear knob to a Seat Sport one cause the OE one teared a part,
and got a red OMP upper strut bar,
painted in black afterwards with the Seat Sport logo, great work performed by some friends.
Also a Autometer boost gauge,
Nomad pillar
and a Samco TIP
but in black, and a EIP tuning SS
everything still uninstalled.
First I though about a Milltek exhaust but I made my mind after I saw the BlueFlame GB.
3“ Downpipe,
200 cel racecat,
center section
and back box with oval tip all 2.75”.
Only HALF the price compared with Milltek
4 bar FPR
and REVO stg 2 on it’s way.
For piece of mind, got some VF-Engineering engine mounts.
To better cool the intake ordered this from Bill:
and some disks too.
Ferodo Racing 5.1 for the brakes along with Ferodo DS2500 brake pads.
On the outside there’s not much to do. The LCR has a nice OE bodykit and I only changed the rear wiper (Skoda Fabia).
Also some black angel eyes have arrived.
The car was debagged and the wheels had their colour darkened.
A friend did the detailing work. More pics here .
In the near future I’m taking care of the handling section (coilovers and a diff) and also a FMIC before summer time.
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