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Speed blue 2010 Leon Cupra stage 2+

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big eck:
Once none of that worked the last thing to try was the injectors. So off came the inlet manifold and injector 1 was swapped over with number 3 and it was all re assembled. I was gutted I even had to do this as the car was still under warranty (which seat wouldn't honour do to the mods). Once the inlet was off we were met with this. All the valves were like this. Very dirty engines these.

big eck:
Soooooo

The car was all out back together and we were keeping our fingers crossed that the misfire moved to number 3 cylinder and we would finally have the fault. But no, the car ran amazing and did for a few months  :confused: we thought it must have been a bit of dirt in the injector but there was loads of carbon deposits on the ends of them which concerned us. The car ran at crail 1/4 mile day the day after it was put back together and ran spot on and then done a rolling road at Sitech racing a week later without a single issue so I bought I few more goodies. First one being a triple R splitter. I was determined to fit one of these ASAP as I think that the cupras all sit very nose high.




And finally on the car with my new plate thrown in for good measure

big eck:
This is the graph from the rolling road day. Was pretty chuffed with it and showed all was well.

big eck:
The car was running well so I got the wheels redone as the white was a nightmare to keep clean in the bad weather. Don't know whether to go back to white or not now lol.

big eck:
This is where things went back to problems. My wife was driving behind me when I noticed she stopped suddenly and I got the dreaded phone call that the eml & epc light came on and the car was in limp mode. I was gutted but kinda relieved that I 99% knew what the fault was. The car was taken over to the unit and put on vagcom and expecting cylinder 3 to come up it turned out 3 & 4 were to blame this time. It was then decided to take all the injectors out and have them sent away to be tested and cleaned. Whilst they were away the valves and everything else was cleaned of the carbon deposits. This was a nightmare of a job and took ages.

Just to give you all an idea on how manky these engines are. Bear in mind I was only on 36k miles here.

There are 4 of these flaps and they were like this front and back. It was like tar. 

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