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Author Platinum Grey Seat Leon Cupra R 225 project. ***MEGUIARS PICS***
thegsi
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11th Sep 10 at 09:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote


New centres for wheels
thegsi
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Update:

Had a few bits done to my car this week. The wheels were in a bad way with curbing and flaking from a previous paint job so it was time to give them a spruce:





Also, the front bumper had seen better days. The Laquer was peeling in various areas, the paint was flat and I also received a heafty chip from some sign which flew off a van on the motorway. This was on the way back from buying the car no less!





After much consideration, I decided to go darker with the wheels. The Farodo pads kick off some serious dust so even though I love light wheels, I went with Ford Magnum grey metallic and with an addition of these:



We have this:



I even had the inside of the wheels painted AND laquered (I'm that pedantic)



Front end looks better now:









Very happy with the results oh and here's a sneaky snap of me and my mates cleaning collection:





Cheers for looking!
thegsi
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Update:

COILOVERS!!! YES!!!

Got these AP coilovers big thanks to Damien at DPM Performance.
thegsi
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Fitted up! God what a ball ache to do these! Bring back the good old Corsa set up! could do that with my eyes closed now!
daymoon
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That looks great! Pics when lowered?
thegsi
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Yeh I've just gotta have a play with the ride height, give it a good clean and then find a decent spot for pics
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I didnt have helper springs for the AP's on my Ibiza. Either way its an awesome bit of kit and will make a big difference!
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I had bilstein coilovers, but also had eibach antiroll bar kit fitted on my old cupra R, made a crackin difference, stopped it nose diving under heavy braking and the handling was spot on. Very clean car chap
thegsi
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Finally got round to fitting my AP coilovers the other day. Fitted them up with brand new OEM top mounts and barings and had it all tracked at Chemix. Naturally, I had to get some pics at a prime spot! This is perfect height for me atm but I may go lower later on but it need to be used daily so cant go OTT. Comments welcome









Love this!
Simon_16v
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Looks good bud. They are a pain on these VAGs to fit suspension that push into the hub arent they!
Ian W
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Hubs are easy to seperate if you use a little VW splitter tool, mine cost me about £6 from VW

You need to get them inner arches cleaned up
thegsi
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Na separating the hub wasn't hard it was just positioning the shaft, strut and lower arm in position that was tricky. But at least I know for the future now. Yeh Ian they do need a clean!
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i would personally come down a little more on the front but its looking a lot better now

btw wheres that place you took the pictures? i may have to pop over in the mx5..
thegsi
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quote:
Originally posted by Minty_Fresh
i would personally come down a little more on the front but its looking a lot better now

btw wheres that place you took the pictures? i may have to pop over in the mx5..


Yeh I've dropped the back about 10mm and the front another 20mm now. Want it nose heavy

Its only in Kiddy mate, cracking spot for pics. My Corsa TV feature was also taken there.
thegsi
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Update:

Was in need of some new front tyres so I went for a pair of Toyo T1R Proxies. Decent tyre for the money so I'm happy
Ben J
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Looks great. Very clean. I love these. The shape is spot on imo.
thegsi
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Cheers Ben
thegsi
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I've decided to get a current spec list and future plans post for as regular as I need it to keep on track of everything so here goes:

Current mods/spec:

- AP Coilovers
- Brand new genuine top mount construction
- Standard LCR wheels refurbed in Ford Magnum Grey with carbon 'R' centers
- Audi TT front strut brace
- Hughes engineering rear strut brace
- Ferodo DS2500 323mm discs and pads
- Medium tints all round
- 6k HID kit
- Fabia rear wiper arm
- Private plate with 3/4 plates
- K1 Cupra rear badge
- Toyo T1R Proxies

Future plans:

- Neuspeed rear ARB
- Brembo refurb
- Custom cat back system
- Forge 007p
- Jetex air filter and Jabba heat shield
- Remap of some description? Advice on company?!
- Carbon wing mirror covers
- Liquid gauge

Any comments/ advice welcome
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[Edited on 14-11-2010 by thegsi]
Corsa_Scotty
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Very nice indeed mate Where about did you get them plates made? Thats about the size im wanting for mine
thegsi
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Cheers mate. I had them made by a mate who works at vinyl/ plate place.
Dione J
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Try P-Torque in West Mids, they are recommended for remaps on VAGs

Car looks clean
thegsi
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Yeh I've heard good things about them
Matt L
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mines been mapped by ptorque, couldnt fault ihim at all, mapped it to a higher power than it currently is but too much smoke so he lowered it for me.

a few months later after i was convinced seat had wiped my map after being in for some work he checked it free of charge (map was still on) but if it hadnt of been he'd of stuck it back on for me.

also has a lovely sounding z4m coupe.
Simon_16v
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Yeah there are loads of companys that deal in remaps. P-Torque, AMD, Awesome GTI etc

I have a custom-code which isn't the most power blowing map but i know it wont kill the clutch so i'm happy
flybikeslee
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Jabba for mapping

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