Slicks for Mk I Leon Cupra Cup

[XLR Motorsport]

Does anyone know where I can get part worn Pirelli slicks that will fit a Seat Leon Cupra Cup car?

I phoned Special Tuning (UK) Ltd. and whoever answered the phone "'Ello!" was incredibly rude to me! So I won't be going anywhere near them.

And I've phoned JabbaSport in Cambridge twice now and they never return my calls.

Now I'm out of options. Can anyone help please?

[oliverbarnard]

Think you'll struggle on Pirellis, perhaps try Dunlops. I used to work for a Seat Team but running Mk2 Seats and we did end up using some pirellis but much wider than you are after.

[Olivera]

You tried touringcarspares.com? As an aside, any idea how the suspension on a Cupra Cup car differs from a road-going Cupra R? I'm tracking my Leon this year and interested if I could get my hands on any of the Cupra Cup parts.

[XLR Motorsport]

Thanks very much for your help.

Found Protyres Motorsport who were very helpful and inexpensive. The great thing is with the slicks, it doesn't matter if they're Pirelli, Dunlop or Michelin. And someone did mention that the new NGTC Tyres will fit...

[kimducati]

Olivera said:

You tried touringcarspares.com? As an aside, any idea how the suspension on a Cupra Cup car differs from a road-going Cupra R? I'm tracking my Leon this year and interested if I could get my hands on any of the Cupra Cup parts.

From what I remember the front end is pertty much std Cupra R in layout at least, but maybe use a different hub (like VW used to do for the Beetle Cup cars).
The rear looked to use the rear arms off of either an R32 Golf, or Audi TT, with the dampers (or possibly coilovers, cant remember exactly)inclined steeply towards the back of the car (didn't seem ideal to me at the time) and an arb again mounted in a rearward position.
edit: That whole set up replaces the std 'torsion beam', obviously.
HTH

Kim

Edited by kimducati on Wednesday 16th March 12:37

[hullbilly]

Try touring cars spares, they normally have loads of second hand tyres.


http://www.touringcarspares.com/

[mat205125]

kimducati said:

From what I remember the front end is pertty much std Cupra R in layout at least, but maybe use a different hub (like VW used to do for the Beetle Cup cars).
The rear looked to use the rear arms off of either an R32 Golf, or Audi TT, with the dampers (or possibly coilovers, cant remember exactly)inclined steeply towards the back of the car (didn't seem ideal to me at the time) and an arb again mounted in a rearward position.
edit: That whole set up replaces the std 'torsion beam', obviously.
HTH

Kim

Edited by kimducati on Wednesday 16th March 12:37

Parts to swap directly from the cup cars, to road cars will be relatively few.

[XLR Motorsport]

I'm gradually discovering how non-standard the Cupra Cup car is in certain areas.

Anyway, thanks to Ian @ Silverline Wheel & Tyre in Warwick I've sourced some good quality slicks. Slightly bigger than what's on the car now - 245/645 18's as opposed to 235/645 18's - and the are the medium compound as opposed to the hard compound Pirelli's. 6 x front qualifying tyres of Porsches, so should work nicely.

Thank you everyone once again for all your help.