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Agreed. The car is due a service next month and I'm looking to get the geometry done by a specialist with the latest settings for these cars before I head out to the ring - though keeping it nice and balanced on the throttle and feeling how the car is responding goes a long way to preventing a...

A few months on and thought I'd post a little update on what's been happening. With Pedro off to his new home in Scotland I've had a couple of shots from the new owner with where he currently sits until the re-shell. Sounds like he has big plans with a full cage and BT setup which would be...

A couple of months on and now nearly every part of my Ibiza sold to a new home, ranging across the UK and Europe. I was glad to find a buyer for the shell who ended up coming down from Scotland to trailer it back up north with a plan to re-shell his own Cupra into mine so he lives on...

Thanks mate, appreciate everyone's comments. It will be definitely be missed but time to move onto something new :) A lot of the car has now been sold with a few random bits left - still to shift the engine, though in talks with a race driver abroad who may be interested so we'll see...

Cheers Joe - good to catch up yesterday. It's certainly looking a little sorry for itself now with a few body panels gone and the engine out, though it's been good talking to those who have come down for parts and meeting a few new faces. I've starting listing a few things on eBay now...

Cheers Josh. It's too modified to put back to standard so I'll try and break it down to a bare shell before scrapping whatever's left. A fair few things have gone already, with the engine coming out this weekend.

Thanks Lee - I remember you following my progress alomost right from the start. Tough decision but indeed onwards and upwards, times move on :) I'll keep the thread alive as and when I have my next toy to feed my adrenalin habit. All the best, Rob

Most recently however, after some long and serious thought I've made the final decision to break the Cupra for parts rather than persevere down the BT route. While it's true that the car is already mostly setup with a base of modifications that would be finished off nicely with BT for proper...

It's been a couple of months since I've shown my face on here but quite a lot has been happening in the background. In May I took delivery of my new company car: Eddie. It's an F30 318d M Sport in Estoril Blue with a few toys, including 19" alloys, M Sport brakes, xenons, adaptive lights...

Remember I'm looking at the supercharged Exige S if I were to get one, not NA

I'll have a word with Dale to remove the TIP and see if there's any signs of wear/play in the compressor as well as check my intake pipes for oil. I wouldn't expect the car to pull any CFs on a ~3 Deg cold night, that's what surprised me. My AEM LED suggests the WMI is working fine. I'm...

Thanks, I'll give you a shout when I'm back home and free to head over. The IDCs were noted when it was last mapped. Is there any link with the likely tired tubby and increased CFs? If its logging these numbers in 3 Deg ambient temps it concerns me what it'll do on a summers day

Care to elaborate on that diagnosis Bill...?

It's that time of year again where Pedro comes out from under his sheet and out of hibernation. I was amazed/mildly impressed to find that after checking all fluids and reconnecting the battery he fired straight back into life, before I took it out to get everything up to temperature and...

Cheers David. 15 hours and 680 miles later, we made it back home at 2pm Sat afteroon :) Absolutely exhausting but brilliant fun; it's fair to say I underestimated how much this was to tackle in one hit but that made it all the more of an experience.

Thanks for the comments, great to see people still following this thread. Yeah that's the Fosse Way by K, nice little road - I'll be doing it in the BM. 43,000 in 14 months and still looking good ;) Cheers Tom, glad to put them to use at last Josh - I've been doing odd bits of karting...

Last but not least, I'm planning on doing this little route with a couple of friends this coming Friday night, starting around 10pm and returning home early morning. This will take us along some of the best roads the UK has to offer, including - Black Mountain Pass - Llanberis Pass -...

One of the cars one the drift sessions didn't have the best day however, coming off in spectacular style at Quarry corner: Since Action Day the car has now been SORN'ed and tucked back into the garage for Winter so I can make a decision as to what I'm doing with it in the spring...

A few weekends ago I decided to take Pedro along with a few other Cupras to Castle Combe Action Day, with a few track sessions for good measure. This time I fitted my Compomotive wheels with Yoko Advan AD08s to see how they fared on track compared to the abysmal performance of my OE wheels...

Cheers David - you've really hit the nail on the head there. Performance wise, the car makes me smile everytime I drive it - but there's no getting away from the fact it's an 11 year old cheap hatchback, which became all the more apparent when I got the BMW last year. That said, I'm in a...