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Speed blue 2010 Leon Cupra stage 2+

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Orc:
Love these

big eck:

--- Quote from: Leonpettit on March 08, 2014, 08:21:37 am ---Looks good mate. any arse shots?

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big eck:
Thanks for the nice comments folks.

Anyways, on with the story. I had the car for around 3 weeks running the lowest Revo settings possible due to the standard fuel pump now being put back on and decided to find the autotech hpfp internals. I read all the horror stories about them but it was aparent that the failures were down to poor fitting and that they have to be kept super clean when installing them. So after a few days I found someone on here selling one for a very good price and made the trip down to Kelso to pick it up. That turned out to be a great drive down meeting a mk2 focus RS who wanted a play lol. So I met the guy and the deal was done and came away with this. A lot of cash for something so small lol. Excuse the WIFES nail polish lol.

big eck:
This next post will be a big one lol

So on the way home I phoned my mechanic and asked him when he could fit it, a week later it was done and the car was taken to Sitech Racing (Revo dealer) in fife to have it all set up properly. Once I got it back it was a complete animal. I didn't have time to get it in the rollers then so that was booked in for a later date.

All was well with the car for a few months when the trouble started. We drove to London from Scotland for a weekend away and all the way down the car ran faultlessly until the next day outside the Victoria theatre I pulled away from traffic lights to be met with bad misfiring under boost (no eml came on tho). I was a bit pissed about it as the car was only just over 3yrs old and I expected lots of hassle free motoring before a fault appeared especially on the newer model. (I had an Ibiza Cupra and mk1 LCR previous).

Anyways my first thought was coilpacks so took it easy the rest of the time I was there. On the way home we reached the M6 toll and I floored it a few times to check if it was still misfiring and strangely it didn't. For a few days it ran spot on so I put it down to a dirty bit of fuel until one day it misfired so bad that the eml & epc light came on and the car went to limp mode running on 3 cylinders. Gutted and pissed right off I phone my guy and explained what happened and was told to turn the engine off, sit for a min then re start to clear the lights off. It worked and the car went good again but the slightest bit of hard boost it all went tits up again and was getting worse.

After some digging to see what the possible faults were and a session on vagcom it came up that there was a misfire in cylinder 1. it was decided that we need to just change out everything until the fault was cured. All the basics were covered first, plugs changed to 7s, R8 coilpacks fitted, full service was due then so that was done at the same till. The car was even terra cleaned and the misfire was still there.

Here's a few pics of the car hooked up to the terra clean machine

Cupra_Jay:
FFS thats the colour I wanted in the cupra lol Im well jel. I didnt wanna fork out for the facelift cupra lol. Seeing this I wish I did :(  :grin: :drool:

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