Leon Cupra 300
Thought i'd check in as i still look at here as my 'home' site.
Had it since July now. In that time i've had 2 issues, siezed pump for the headlight washers. Fitted a £18 replacement on my drive in about half hour. Second was a bit worse, a broken front coil spring. The springs going is a very common problem on the 9-3. I took the oppertunity to fit some Hirsch springs (these are the factory approved upgrades), these lower it ever so slightly and firm it up nicely.
I've done a major service inc plugs. It's a pain to change the rear bank of plugs but the difference it's made was well worth it. I wanted to do these before i took it in for a map as they're pretty sensitive to gapping.
Took it into Paul at RS Tuning, and basically loaded a map onto it from a Vectra VXR... He knocked boost back slightly to keep it safe and it made 298hp from 4000 to 6000rpm and 390lbft at 2500rpm and holds around 380 till 4500. Overtaking is now stupidly quick as you'd expect!
Here's a quick pic looking a bit lower...
and a quick vid from an airfield day i went to.
Had it since July now. In that time i've had 2 issues, siezed pump for the headlight washers. Fitted a £18 replacement on my drive in about half hour. Second was a bit worse, a broken front coil spring. The springs going is a very common problem on the 9-3. I took the oppertunity to fit some Hirsch springs (these are the factory approved upgrades), these lower it ever so slightly and firm it up nicely.
I've done a major service inc plugs. It's a pain to change the rear bank of plugs but the difference it's made was well worth it. I wanted to do these before i took it in for a map as they're pretty sensitive to gapping.
Took it into Paul at RS Tuning, and basically loaded a map onto it from a Vectra VXR... He knocked boost back slightly to keep it safe and it made 298hp from 4000 to 6000rpm and 390lbft at 2500rpm and holds around 380 till 4500. Overtaking is now stupidly quick as you'd expect!
Here's a quick pic looking a bit lower...
and a quick vid from an airfield day i went to.
