Welcome to the Upgrades page
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This page contains pictures
and details of all the various upgrades that I have done (outside of the main
Engine / Suspension / Braking) to my car.
Body Work Upgrades
Current bodywork is designed
by LenzDesign out of Israel and the Rear bottom
spoiler is from Maxton Design.
Dressed in Red
Dressed in Black (ready for
the track)
Prior to this it was a
complete Maxton Design spoiler / splitter setup
Cadwell Park track day
Blyton Park Track day
All clean after a wash with
Fairy Liquid
After a good run out through
the back lanes in the Lincolnshire Wolds just what this car is designed for
Cooling down after a track
run at Bedford GT Circuit
Air Intakes
I have changed air box’s
several times to improve both engine bay looks and power but with the exception
of the Revo carbon series I have always bought
this kit second hand on ebay, remember that the EA888 Engine is used in the Golf,
Skoda and Audi so there are always bargains to be found.
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Seat Cupra 280 Stock airbox It does the job and is supposed to support up to 500 bhp but the
turbo inlet pipe is ribbed to allow for movement but also impacts smooth flow
of air. The front airbox also can be modified check out this link
for full details of the changes you need to make. |
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Racingline R600 Arguably the best air intake on the market and from memory used by
Volkswagen Racing Germany as you can see in the picture the setup has a huge
airbox but inside it is the Cup Edition air filter, the main advantage is
avoiding heat soak but the downside is its does not make much noise (which
may be advantage to you). Personally
I had to get rid of it because they could map my car to stage one fully,
fitting a better turbo inlet pipe helped but did not cure the knocking issue
but feedback from various forums is these are the best. |
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Revo original open cone setup Had this fitted with the stage one map and never found the need to
change the exhaust for more noise as this setup gave great feedback under
power but in normal conditions was very quiet. The difference between this
and my current setup is the turbo inlet pipe is solid, smaller and requires
an elbow. However
I had a lot of fun with this setup, bought second hand and cleaned and re
oiled the revo filter along with wrapping the front
airbox in Red. |
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Revo Carbon Series This is the recommended setup for the Revo Stage 3, in essence it is
a replacement carbon top (which creates a bigger air box by its design) for
the stock air box, complete with Revo Filter, Carbon Front section, 90mm
turbo inlet hose and machined inlet. This setup gave me great performance on
both road and track but for me was lacking in noise feedback so in the end I
went for the upgraded open cone filter (see below). I know of several guys who have this kit fitted and very happy with
it. What I will say is if you want to fit a 034 carbon
battery box cover this setup makes it very tight and had I not of already
been changing to open cone would have required some modification to enable
the battery cover to fit. |
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Revo Stage 3 Open cone filter Very happy with this, as you can see I was
able to fit my Carbon Battery box cover, get some nice noise from the open
cone filter and so far not suffered any issues with heat soake. This kit is the same as the Carbon Series
but the air box has been replaced with an extension pipe, heat shield and
open cone filter. Makes a great sound. |
Battery Cover
The stock car (like the VW’s)
comes with a cloth cover for the battery that does not make the engine bay
shine. My first upgrade was to buy a MK2 Battery box from china and modify it
to fit
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My first upgrade was to buy
a MK2 Battery box from china and modify it to fit. Looks better than stock but
did not fit in with the Carbon look I was going for at the time. I did try to
wrap it but in the end decided it was better to buy
a proper Carbon item. In this picture I have
wrapped the ECU box and the Fuse Box and the engine
cover has one of the EBAY Kits from online seller. |
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034 Carbon Battery box and
Fuse box cover fitted. The battery box cover also
hides the red cable hence it jutting out at the front, it actually sits on
the old felt cover and uses a magnet to hold it in place (you attach a metal
strip in the middle of the battery and the magnet is embedded in the carbon cover. The Fuse box cover actually
sits on top of the stock cover. |
Wheels
I have had the stock Diamond
cut wheels.
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Swapped them for a set of
powder coated ones which lasted much longer than the Diamond Cut ones and did
not suffer with the dreaded white worm. Please note the Diamond cut
wheels look great new but you can only resurface them properly on a lathe
twice if you are lucky. |
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Second set of wheels I purchased were the 8.0x19 5x112 ET45 OZ RACING ULTRALEGGERA HLT
(RED) As you can see these are much lighter than
the stock wheels and the spoke design is perfect for the big break kit. Rubber on these wheels is
: 235/35/19 YR MICHELIN PILOT SPORT 4S (91Y)
XL These wheels / tyres are for road use, they
were used for track work but now only get used for road use.
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Track Wheels. FOX FX004 I9690B 8X19 FX004 5X112 ET45 73.1
BLACK Rubber on these wheels is
: 235/35/19 YR MICHELIN PILOT SPORT CUP 2
(91Y) XL – These tyres have a much stronger side wall and different compound
rubber that makes them better suited to track work, This set came off a Cupra
R Estate where the owner changed the to the PS4S Tyres so I got a great set
of rubber for cheap.
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Debadged the rear and added some dripping blood along with the
Skull
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On a track day I did had a
guy come up to me telling me my lights were melting, I have also had several
older people in garden centres telling me there was blood on the back of my
car In this picture the car is
sporting the full Maxton Design rear splitter with the cross members wrapped
in Red along with the side wings. |
Upgraded radio station logo
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If you just want to add the station logo then go
here https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/owners/how-to-guides/sat-nav
and go down to Download
Great Britain radio station logos.zip→
If you want to build your own (as I did) then just make
a picture at
the correct size and upload |
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And as we have a Revo tune it
made sense to have the Revo blade set
Two more additions.
Firstly top right you can see a simple head up display.
Mobile phone running Torque Pro in reverse mode and it works very
Well, there are also a few
Navigation apps that do the same but not google at this time. You can also
replace the pop up screen
With a reflective sticker
that sits on the windscreen but not found a need for it so far. I did look at
getting a VW head up display
Unit but it looked like a lot
of work to fit it and would require major surgery to the dashboard that just
meant it was not worth it.
Second mod is the great red
flappy paddles, this set screw on the original small ones and work very well
and give a much greater
Surface area to actually be
able to change the gear, found it very useful on the track.
Stop Start Memory module.
Great and very simple bit of
kit which you cant see as
it’s hidden behind the dashboard.
In simple terms all this
module does is remember where you had the Stop Start button when the engine is
turned off.
So if like me you have it turned off then when you re
start the car, its still turned off, however unlike
the OBD11 Coding options
You are able to just click
the switch and turn it back on, also if you hold the SS Switch it will turn the
module off so it goes back to stock mode.
I know the Cupra R has this
feature but on the 280 your only choices are leave it and turn it off each time
you start the car. Code if off or use one of these
The advantage of this is you
can turn it off when you get stuck in heavy traffic.
Carbon Fibre Engine Cover
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Stock Engine Cover |
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Carbon edging from ebay seller |
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Full Carbon Fibre engine
cover. Sadly (yes
I am joking) you can’t put the VW/SEAT Badge on it. |
And of
course having all that power and big downpipe you need a decent exhaust
system, which makes a very nice noise
Track wheels need better rubber
And then we need some bling
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Original fitting |
Nice and bright |
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