yellow cupra k1, polish testing

[cuprajake]

how to make your own 90mm custom intake

before I even got the k1 I had been looking at the tuning aspect, and realising these cars are bloody expensive, im not the type to pay £400 for an intake, no matter how nice it looks,

so heres your shopping list:

1x70>90mm silicone hose
2x90mm 90degree silicone hoses
1xmetre 90mm alloy pipe
5x80>100 jubilee clips
1x60>80 jubilee clips
Metal rod
Air filter of choice

Tools:
Air saw
Dremel/air grinder
Sanding wheel

Heres how to do it:

The scary bit is cutting your engine cover, once you have this in hand you’ll see how and were to cut, you basically need the maf pipe, don’t forget take the maf sensor out before doing any cutting as they are fragile!!!! You have been warned

You want to get the oval maf pipe to the stage were the coupler fits on,

Next you need a piece of alloy pipe 10.5” long, fit this into the coupler and then onto one of the elbows,

The next pipe is 6.5” long and has the other elbow and filter on it (I chose a ramair filter which can flow over 400bhp)

I then made a couple of brackets out of the steel bar, to hold everything in place, and cut my engine cover to suit,

Heres how it all looks now


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Jake

[cuprajake]

if i won the lottery maybe chris haha

got the car on the ramp at dinner to have a look at the caliper, it was seized, very seized :(

exchange unit ordered with pads :)

caliper taken off and cleaned the area, here you can see my tricky dent


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this shows you how hot the caliper has been, the paint is destroyed, the rest of the calipers look like new


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the pads on the good side did have alot of meat left, but the seized side were down quite a bit,

old vs new


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and the shiney new caliper


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job done

oh and a taster of the wheels, not orignal but i like them, i think


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[Kevscupra]

Nice car mate, its going to look even better with them wheels on. How are you finding the intake? Did you feel much power difference?

[Simon_2.0t]

Looking great Jake, always enjoyed your builds (followed since the white mk4 on ukmkivs.net) 

Good job on filter set up. How much did intake cost in end?

Si

[Biano44]

Great find! and awesome work so far!

[cuprajake]

I can feel a tiny bit of difference, feels a bit freer top end,  the total intake cost £112.00 with trade discount lol so not bad, it sounds like a dyson, totally different to the sound of say a leon cupra r

One thing I've noticed is I just get a normal dv whoosh were a lot of golfs I've heard have the compressor stall sound, maybe I need a revised dv not sure,

I've ordered the jacking point and the fuel cam thing for tomorrow,

Next choice is springs or coilovers.

[cuprajake]

next thing was maintenance

cam follower changing

tools


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and the parts note the wear


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jake

[cuprajake]

yonk


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at ats now having tyres changed over lol

[Simon_2.0t]

Love TDs. Spec?

Look forward to pics fitted.

[cuprajake]

18x8 et40

jake

[Hurdy]

 How come you went for ET40 and not the usual ET45?

[cuprajake]

sorry they are et45 lol 

[cuprajake]

wheels are on,


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deffo needs lowering, they do look tiny haha, id of loved 19" but just too costly

and how it can/will be


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jake

[cuprajake]

yeah been looking at so many pics over on scn re the sportlines, but decided on the coils, there both going to ride simular tbh, went for the joms on the recommendation the ride a little better, as the arb wont be getting changed im not too worried about that,

gave the car a wash, used up my last bit of snow foam, totally crap stuff but makes the car look epic, ummmm white


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jake

[cuprajake]

tried this today, and kind of failed,

the strut has to fix into the ball but its on too much of an angle for this to work so i modified the way its works and went the oem solution

i still used the plates, 20x50mm, welded the nut on the back,

how ever i went through the hinge

heres the hole


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after that to allow the strut to come down you have to trim this piece


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remove it


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cut in half


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install upside down


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i also trimmed the rubber 1/2"

this is it fitted up, no more bonnet stay :D


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the struts are off an audi a4 13" long, while they hold the bonnet they dont lift it, so i need something stronger which i can have made by a company :)