Seat Leon FR 150 TDI Build

[jamespearson]

Righto I bought this FR about a month ago and part exchanged my golf 1.6 for it so it was a massive power and luxury difference for me Within 24 hrs of having the car a engine management light appeared on my dash which was not a great start. Having bought the car from a dealer and coming with 6 months warranty it went straight back to them to be sorted. After a week of having the FR I picked it up and boom brand new turbo The vains on the turbo had got a bit sticky so that was the cause of over boost and the throwing a light on.. So first mods I have done so far is turning the alarm beep on when I lock and unlock the car which I thought was a nice touch and only took 2 mins with vagcom. The second mod that I did was removing all the rear badges and replacing them with the mk3 leon badge and a small FR badge.
First pic:

First wash:

 

[LCsTed]

Nice... can't wait to see the pics bud

 

[jamespearson]

Dum question but how do you upload images I cant work it out lol!

 

[LCsTed]

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=239550

How to post images on the forum using IMG tags . you need to be a full member (over a certain no of posts) to

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[googujube]

Righto I bought this FR about a month ago and part exchanged my golf 1.6 for it so it was a massive power and luxury difference for me Within 24 hrs of having the car a engine management light appeared on my dash which was not a great start. Having bought the car from a dealer and coming with 6 months warranty it went straight back to them to be sorted. After a week of having the FR I picked it up and boom brand new turbo The vains on the turbo had got a bit sticky so that was the cause of over boost and the throwing a light on.. So first mods I have done so far is turning the alarm beep on when I lock and unlock the car which I thought was a nice touch and only took 2 mins with vagcom. The second mod that I did was removing all the rear badges and replacing them with the mk3 leon badge and a small FR badge.

Thats a RIGHT result!

I'd get yourself a scanner/vagcom if you don't already have one, it's a very very useful thing to have.

What other plans do you have for it mate?

 

[jamespearson]

sweet cheers Yeah my boss has vagcom and it proper handy Cant belive they put a brand new turbo on lol, as for plans I gonna take it nice and slow and just do suttle mods to it think I gonna work from out to in lol so starting with exterior mods like wind deflectors and lowering springs then inside with the cupra r headlining maybe a boost gauge and a arm rest then start adding performance mods when I saved up a bit more looking a remap soon, know of any good places? and do you know what the clutch can handle torque wise before it needs uprating? car has 80000 on clock if any help lol

 

[jamespearson]

Today has been a productive for the FR Gave her a good wash and polish and removed my mirror caps and began to sort them out from the flakey paint state. Sanded them all back down and gave them a good couple of coats of primer followed by the original silver come up quite nice and look better than what they started lol Got myself a set of pressed plates which look so much better than the standard ones...Fitted some team heko wind deflectors today which look the part just need some tinted windows now Hopefully I can work out how to upload photos soon!

 

[bruceR]

Easiest way is to join photobucket, upload your pics to library on there and then copy the

 

[jamespearson]

Primered:

Sprayed:

Mirror caps sprayed and wind deflectors on :

 

[jamespearson]

Wash and polish:

 

[jamespearson]

Rear badges fitted.. any opinions?

Getting a good pay check next month thanks to some hard work hopefully will have some new parts to fit soon

 

[jamespearson]

Ordered my hids, number plate lights and side lights, anyone got any ideas on a induction kit?

 

[dgjdrummer]

Ordered my hids, number plate lights and side lights, anyone got any ideas on a induction kit?

The TDIs have been shown to be fine on the standard airbox and filter set up, doesn't become restrictive until over 200hp. I have a cold air feed from the passenger's fog light in to the airbox, seems to have helped the car rev easier over 3.5krpm.

 

[jamespearson]

The TDIs have been shown to be fine on the standard airbox and filter set up, doesn't become restrictive until over 200hp. I have a cold air feed from the passenger's fog light in to the airbox, seems to have helped the car rev easier over 3.5krpm.

oh fair one mate I thought they were restricted.. a filter wouldn't harm though? just would add noise right?

 

[majesty78]

"High Flow" filters like K&N and so on always have reduced filter capacity.
Keep the stock paper panel, it is no restriction even at over 280bhp ;-)

 

[aymen_a22]

Apparently it's the same airbox that is used on the rs4 so if that can manage I would think any Leon would.
Just a thought.

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[jamespearson]

Update on the fr fitted some 6000k hids at the weekend which look much better than the standard bulbs and gave her a good wash and polish