Cupra things

[tonijov]

Well I'm the new owner of Phil's little red car and thought it was about time to make a thread for it.

Picked it up May 31st and while driving back to Melbourne the speedo and tacho randomly died.


Arrived home into the garage with 83,000kms on the dot!

Roadworthy was next and the main things needed to pass:
- New valve cover gasket
- New muffler
- Working instrument cluster.

Pulled cluster apart to replace both stepper motors


The muffler outer sheet had rusted away


In the quest for maintaining the stock sound I decided to cut out the lower sheet and expose fresh metal, it worked.


When it came time to replacing the valve cover gasket I took it a bit further.
Cleaned out the entire intake and gave it some red paint.


Up next was ECU chipping


Before putting it back together I cleaned out the raintray and replaced the cabin filter


SWWWatercooled


Then a great deal came up for a remus exhaust that I had to take


Next on the list is to repaint the spoiler


Meanwhile the black Ibiza has been parked outside and a hit and run right outside the house!
How they managed this I have no idea. Devastating.

[Water Boy]

Mate I think I need to come around and visit your Seat gang!

[tonijov]

Ha yeah we do have a few Seats including a parts one


Another update to the Ibiza after 16 years the remote fob is finally complete with a cut and coded key!

[Cupra]

Glad the old girl is getting some luv! Enjoy Toni, keep the photos coming

Phil

[tonijov]

Some updates:

Did the timing belt, tensioner and water pump along with some cleaning (the hardest part).





Stay tuned for repainted spoiler, led lighting, coilovers and some camber/caster top plates!!!!

[tonijov]

Spoiler done, thanks for the touch up paint Phil!

Before:




After:

[tonijov]

Replacement gear stick and hand brake leathers arrived today

[Water Boy]

Mmmmmm jealous.

I know of about 3 cupras here in Melbourne would be awesome to get them together!

[Cupra]

you are making me feel guilty now Toni with all this work you are doing to her. Great work keep it up.

I'm so glad she has gone to the right person

[tonijov]

Replaced the wishbone bushes tonight. It was something I just had to do after feeling the difference it made to the other car.

Powerflex black series front bush and Audi TT solid rubber rear bush.

The goods


Old rear


Before & after

[tonijov]

MORE UPDATES!

Replaced a whole bunch of halogen bulbs to LED's, man are these things bright!





New indicator relay to work with LED's



Then all this went on!


ST XA front coilover, new design with progressive spring and retains the stock spring top cap




I already had a set of 25mm rear spacers (thanks Phil!), which widens the rear track width from 1394mm to 1444mm.
Front track width is 1430mm, so with 7mm front spacers I now have a matching front track width of 1444mm.




Now with castor adjustment!


Thought this was a pretty neat place to keep the adjuster tool.



Wheel alignment,
First I did the castor which was way off from factory, got it to +2.2° left and +2.3° right.
I had the front wheels sitting on top of two tiles with salt in between to allow then to slide around easily, set the camber to -0.9° left/right.
For toe I had some fishing line setup around the car and with the now equal track widths it was more simple to do the measurements from the wheels, toe took up the most time remeasuring many times over! Got it to about 2mm of toe out.


Next is to drive the thing and see how it goes, play with the damping adjustments, maybe some ride height tweaks etc

[Water Boy]

Nice DIY wheel alignment there!

[tonijov]

Corner balanced the car today!
Making sure I had level ground was crucial for this to work. I used the bucket of water and clear hose taped to a stick trick to level out 16 points (each corner of each block).

With a full tank of fuel and 77kg of weights in the drivers seat, car weighed in at 1182kg (65.5% front, 34.5% rear)


Precision weight placement lol


After some time playing around with the ride height of each corner I finally arrived at 50% cross weight (Front Left + Rear Right = Front Right + Rear Left)


Tomorrow I'll do another wheel alignment and see how it goes

[tonijov]

Treated the cupra to its first wash in Victoria today.
Very very pleased with the way it behaves on the road with the new setup, over bumps and in the turns. Also loving the stock exhaust quietness inside the car, the remus muffler sits waiting for now.

Another big thing I've done to the car is install a front and rear dashcam (Thinkware F750) as some insurance after the previous hit and run.
It'll sense motion or vibrations when parked and make a recording file 10 seconds prior to the event!


Here's once such example already spotted:

And another of the cupra eating up a turn at 60km/hr:

[Cupra]

Looking great Toni, it's great to see the care you are giving her.

Phil