W66RRY - Mk1 Leon Cupra R

[vroomtshh]

Where did you get this from mate?

I bought it second hand (and have since sold it on) but it's an INA part to let u fit an r32 throttle body

Chop Chop, get to the good bits!!

That's tomorrow's job ;-)

Were you at the crail revo day???

Yeh I was there. Don't think I got a chance to have a go against you. Clutch was feeling it later on so I stopped running

Such a shame when a nice car falls into the wrong hands but it's nice to see you've brought it back to how it should be

Wait til you see tomorrow's updates

 

[vroomtshh]

So while the car was off the road for winter, I thought it was time for a few upgrades. My car at stage 2 was good but never quite right (i.e. it was slower than Johnlindsay's identical spec car :-()

So start of with a relentless V3


Got a new cam cover as part of the deal. The relentless needs a bit of porting work


And this would be as well going on the relentless


Beach Buggy Turbos '7+7' hybrid turbo

So we'll need some more fuel

Bosch 550's

And the start of the underbonnet shininess

 

[vroomtshh]

I bought an AEB largeport head, and thought I would mock it up to see how it looked



Then I bought a nice new block

Complete with a couple more shiny bits

9.5:1 Pistons

Brute rods

New Rings




New oil pump and pickup

 

[vroomtshh]

Then a fairy brought this to my house




So a bit more mocking up




Some of you may notice the lovely purple garage rug

Now back to my own build - as unfortunately that GT30 is destined for another LCR

 

[vroomtshh]

A largeport head won;t be much use with a small port manifold.
So a huge thanks to Scott McMinn motorsport for knocking up a manifold in under 24 hours









And test fitted



This will be off for powdercoating soon, I need to get a wee bracket added to it first. Its a shame to hide that awesome welding but raw alloy looks too wrong in that position

 

[vroomtshh]

Started to strip out the old engine (need all the ancillaries off it, after they're painted, polished or powdercoated )


Looks like I was fairly lucky


All in all, 2 cracked valves, cracked mani and cracked mani to turbo gasket. None of that could have been helping power output. Thats the downside of tuning a high mileage engine I guess

 

[vroomtshh]

So I sent the AEB head off to ALD developments for a port and polish, plus fully rebuilt with new valve guides, seals etc





And a couple of new parts (thanks to David at Sere again)

 

[vroomtshh]

A few more new parts in preparation for building it back up






Forge Baffled sump


Coolant hoses


Breather fittings

 

[vroomtshh]

And the sump all powdercoated




Custom made M7 stainless bolts

 

[vroomtshh]

So now I have the majority of bits, It was time to get cracked on with building the engine



The observant will notice that I painted the block. What a horrible couple of days that was with a dremel to remove all the old paint and rust








The filter housing looks really bad in that photo. I assume its condensation. It was -3 or so that day

 

[vroomtshh]

New Head gasket. Couldn't get phots of installing the head bolts as it took one person to tighten, and one to hold the engine from moving




And timed up



Head drilled out to take K04 heatshield

 

[vroomtshh]

 

[vroomtshh]

So thats where I'm up to.
I'm currently waiting on a batch of brackets back from powdercoating, and a few other bits and pieces arriving.
Plans are to have the engine fully built up over the next two weeks, and installed back into the car over the Xmas holidays. I'll hopefully keep it updated in future

 

[Greavesy]

WOW! Mega impressed. You not head wrapping or ceramic coating the manifold?

 

[vroomtshh]

WOW! Mega impressed. You not head wrapping or ceramic coating the manifold?

I haven't really decided yet. I'm told wrapping them isn;t a great idea, and depending who you believe, neither is ceramic coating. The coating compaines suggest its a great idea. A lot of tuners don;t as it holds the heat in the manifold rather than letting it escape.

If I could have it black ceramic coated, I'd probably think about it, just for the looks if nothing else

 

[vroomtshh]

Small update for today.
All my bits are back from powdercoating. So new coolant hard pipe on



New s3 coolant temp housing (forge hoses won't work with the LCR one)


And all the coolant hoses connected.


Just waiting on a silicone blank for the hard pipe and I can start fitting the alternator etc back on

 

[Hartosh1]

Was just browsing the Ibiza thread there and saw you scrapped so I had to nosey for a new thread.

Always nice to see a car being looked after and in this case very spoiled! Love it mate

Ive had the craving to rebuild a 20v recently and find something to put it in this thread may have just done terrible things lol

 

[vroomtshh]

If your looking for one to build, there's a spare in my garage ;-)

 

[Hartosh1]

Don't tempt me!

Going away next tuesday for 4 months and will have some money to play with when I'm back so will see what happens lol.

How do you find the clio?

 

[big eck]

Very impressive stuff bud.