Right well, as some of you know I swapped my yellow seat Leon fr tdi for a skoda octavia vRs estate.

When I first got it (pics from the advert)

So had it a week and something wasn't right with it, took it down to see ianm and borachris as I didn't really know much about 1.8t's. Got told the car should have been about 220bhp.

Found the old build thread for it on briskoda and found these pics

That was before these were fitted

When he put wheels on that shouldn't really be on a performance car in my eyes

Now the bits I was interested with

Then read this

consisting of front mount cooler and hoses

tip

008 valve,

they all went on a treat, exhaust is on looking nice and lovely but need to add another silencer as its a little loud, all was going fine until it was on the rollers, BANG... head gasket went, originally thought it was the turbo but after taking that off and taking it the specialist who said it was perfect we started to investigate but in the mean time i came across an engine that had intergrated engineering forge rods, fancy head gasket, bigger wrist pins and some other bits, got a deal on that and put that in instead, so at the minute im running that in ready to remap, 100 miles of 500 done ha, will update asap

So by the looks of it the engine is forged (haven't really looked in to it though)

So after having it a week or so I was driving back home with the fiancé and daughter in the car, driving normal no spirited driving (not while I have the family in the car), looked in my rear view mirror to see a cloud of whiteish bluish smoke and thought great what's wrong here.

Limped the car home (luckily was only 2 minutes away from home) and locked the car up for the night, next morning went out to check the oil to find out that there was no oil in the engine (WTF) noticed lots of oil had sprayed out the side of the block, thought great the engine has went, started poking about looking for a hole in the block and found a half moon gasket had failed under the vvt tensioner, which in turn took the turbo with it.

So on to the hunt to find a new turbo, found one on gumtree so bought that from some one up Scotland which took almost 2 weeks to send, so because of my trouble he sent me the injectors that he took off his Leon as well.

Bought a new half moon gasket ready to install to find out that the cam tensioner wasn't right for the engine that was in turned out to be a non vvt tensioner so replaced that thanks so Sam on here (thanks again mate).

So on to installing the standard ko3s turbo with uprated actuator, (doing this in my spare time and no expert at changing turbos in a cramped garage) took me almost 13 hours to install fired it up to find it was still smoking ah great so took the plunge and bought this

Which is …

Which turned up and I didn't want to install it

So installed that turned the key and no smoke and car back on the road GET IN :clap:

While I was installing the turbo I had to remove the exhaust so I had to re-install it so out came the ramps

So took some pics of the exhaust

So it's a custom exhaust with one connection 3" with welding done by what looks like stevie wonder. Then I found this …

Jesus what else has been bodged.

So now the car was back on the road it was time to tidy up some little bits like the faded badges

Removed the octavia badge off the rear as it didn't look right but I left the vRs badge. Wasn't really happy with how it drove as it was low and seemed to under steer ALOT, so went to adjust the coil overs to find that the helper springs weren't there, great no wonder the car bounced about so ordered these from dpm performance

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i197/xxlilxxlauraxx/2A0BBA5C-8D12-4309-82BE-97D733DF024D_zps2mp3bnuj.jpg

While I was there I noticed that there wasn't a front arb on the car so sourced an Audi tt front arb and set about installing them

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i197/xxlilxxlauraxx/0411E5E0-ED95-4D49-A065-AC525B4386C8_zpszwaashyr.jpg

So now it handled great in the corners and felt better on the ride side of it as I didn't slam it again. Now on to sorting out the horrible cream carpet that skoda put in the vRs SCRAP YARD TIME…

Took me almost a hour to remove from a scrap golf tdi, there was glass all over the place and I could only open the passenger front door and the drivers rear door as there was another car on top of it

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i197/xxlilxxlauraxx/6A457833-E481-4A76-96A1-D5B1D4546D1E_zpsgpam1gkx.jpg

Back home and time to clean the carpet

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i197/xxlilxxlauraxx/494D3206-A831-460C-9464-6A05FB6FA331_zpsufnvpd9l.jpg

Half way through cleaning and it's coming up great

So then onto ripping out the cream carpet

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i197/xxlilxxlauraxx/9603FC01-5610-4CF8-A4FD-375E4F163D9E_zps0ztvlf3g.jpg

And it's out

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i197/xxlilxxlauraxx/779950E8-3431-49FD-831E-013B951FB0FF_zpsctvb5oo2.jpg

Why they put a cream carpet in I don't know so time to put the black clean carpet in

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i197/xxlilxxlauraxx/123D8432-9276-4CBE-A228-A98E1EB8022F_zps2hat8yy6.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i197/xxlilxxlauraxx/DE010341-65E0-4B19-8B71-33FFC0014BA9_zpsr2fsympd.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i197/xxlilxxlauraxx/575927C3-02FF-4C15-9233-FDF953A5DA69_zpsxtmcxfhy.jpg

All back together now and looks better, now just time to tackle some reoccurring faults on the engine and see what else takes my fancy oh and I removed the roof bars as I will never use them

If you made it all the way to here you deserve a beer or a freddo ha ha cheers for reading

Ken

Edited 8 March, 201511 yr by Jimbling

nice start to an project and it looks like you have save the car 

Cheers mate yea was a bit of a nightmare but getting there slowly

Hi mate did you take the driveshaft out to do the turbo or can ya get away with just removing the shield? Looks tight under the back of the engine.

Done it all from the top mate, only thing I was under the car for was to take the exhaust off and losen the tip. Take the manifold off the engine and the top of the turbo it's easy to get access that way, if you weren't soooooo far away I could have lent a hand

Cheers Ken

Well I have a few reoccurring faults that I must sort…

17584/P1176/004470 - Bank1: O2 (Lambda) Correction Behind Catalyst: Control Limit Reached

16396/P0012/000018 - Bank 1: Camshaft A (Intake): Advance Setpoint not Reached (Over-Retarded)

17705/P1297/004759 - Pressure Drop between Turbo and Throttle Valve (check D.V.!)

17704/P1296/004758 - Error in Mapped Cooling System

17840/P1432/005170 - Secondary Air Injection Solenoid Valve (N112): Open Circuit (Think the resistor has gone)

So a few things to sort grrrrr

Done it all from the top mate, only thing I was under the car for was to take the exhaust off and losen the tip. Take the manifold off the engine and the top of the turbo it's easy to get access that way, if you weren't soooooo far away I could have lent a hand

Cheers Ken

Haha would have been good, my cars still on a ramp having had a mare of a day! Hardest part was getting the oil and water feed back on, took ages until I realised I needed to unbolt the hardlines! Anyway my turbo was proper shagged, loads of in and out movement.

What were the blades like ? Still in tact I hope if not you could have bits of the turbo in your engine

Blades are good, been very lucky in that sense. Drove her home today, need it setup as the forge actuators set for 240bhp and my ecu aint. Might have a water feed leak too which sucks

Ha ha don't ger me started with water leaks, there is the big spacer on the top water feed on these, yea well I forgot it filled up with my new coolant mixed with water to hear it **** out the water feed all over my dads garage floor a was sick

Did u put a washer under that spacer as my car didnt have one and thats what might be leaking? I was hoping the spacer worked as a washer too, probably not.

Yea there should be a crush washer that goes on top of the turbo then the big spacer then the water pipe then another crush washer then the bolt through it all and tighten quite tight as the washers have to crush a little bit

Crikey, this car has popped up on this forum a few times!

I think this is about the 3rd build thread I've seen for it.......

Used to live local ish to me.

Great thread and car , carpet looks like new! how come some are links rather than photos from your bucket ?

Crikey, this car has popped up on this forum a few times!

I think this is about the 3rd build thread I've seen for it.......

Used to live local ish to me.

Oh it gets about but it's in good hands now

Great thread and car , carpet looks like new! how come some are links rather than photos from your bucket ?

I havnt got a clue strange how though and my cut fingers and arms were worth getting the black carpet totally transforms the interior just need to give it a proper deep clean

Ah I've realised its because you made 27 photos on first post before it went to links , most forums only allow 5 large photos in each post as they take a lot of bandwidth

Ah I thought it was something like that but before I could split it in to two posts people had already commented oh well

So looks like my thermostat is broken and my temp sensor is too so that's on the never ending list of things to do before I die ha ha

List is that long Al have to live two lives here to finish it

Well new purchase

Not brand new but can't wait to fit them, both 25mm and a bargain so couldn't say no

Cheers Ken

Edited 9 May, 201511 yr by Jimbling

Well as some of you know I have a custom 3 inch exhaust on my car and I'm not happy with it it's too loud so today I picked this up 3 inch down pipe to a 2.5 inch outlet miltek sports cat

So now I have to buy the cat back resonated miltek now but I want the twin pipes out the back not a single oval but every where just seems to want to give me hidden tail pipes so found a miltek made for a Passat but not sure if the floor pans are the same (exhaust tunnel layout) so ATM I'm stuck with what to do as I don't like the sound of the Jetex system

Next thing after the exhaust, arbs, wheel bearing and track rod ends are to tackle these

Have all new centre caps to go on after the wheels are refurbed but not sure on the colour for them yet I was thinking candy red after the bump strips have been cour coded

Cheers Ken

Edited 22 May, 201511 yr by Jimbling

Pic of my old Leon

Well today this happened

Because today I bought these ready for tomorrow I just have to get some news papers

Still have the wheel bearings and track rod ends to do

Cheers Ken

So today I started painting the bump strips not 100% happy with it but it looks better than the black

First coat of silver going on

So while they were drying I started to do this

Then I primed it up

So while the primer was setting I clear lacquered the front and rear bump strips, gave them 30 minutes to dry between coats, made a brew and fitted them back on the car not a complete paint match but looks loads better

And then I fitted the rear one

So now they are back on time to paint the side strip

First coat going on

Second coat and clear lacquered and this is the result

Only managed to paint one side strip so will have to do the other side another day not bad for not being a painter I'm more of a mechanical guy

Wheel bearings and track rod ends fitted next weekend hopefully and then I can fit the arbs, then it's time to tackle the front grill where the paint is coming off, then the wheels. Not sure what colour to do them yet lets just see

Comments welcome

Cheers Ken

Looks good mate, hopefully the paint sticks! oh btw could you mesure the sports cat for me please? I bought one of those ebay sports cat, I tried to fit it to my milltek and it was too short! so I had to refit the decat( I don't like the smell of it).

It's a 3 inch downpipe to sports cat to a 2.5 outlet it fits the miltek cat back no problem