50+ laps sounds like a bunch of nonsense as even on a dedicated NR trackday weekend that kind of number of laps are rarely attainable (accounting for introductions, briefings, cooldown time, breaks, eating at noon and in the evening ect). On TF with all the closures? Forget about it lol.
Positively surprised by everything this thing did; well except the smoke and cooling. But suspension look extremely sorted (just lowering springs? amazing), and it put the power down surprisingly well. FWDs can handle a lot of power these days, thanks mostly to modern tires.
Fellow Cupra owner but mine is stock on stock suspension, amazing fun and I’m desperate to take it on the nurb. With good tyres and a couple of tiny mods it’s an absolute monster In the corners. Very underrated car 👌
@@phipo666 The rev limiter is there for a reason and he pretty much always asks where the "redline" is aka when the owner wants him to upshift. Also these kinds of big turbo builds usually make their peak power near the limiter and in almost every car the gearing disadvantage when upshifting is worse than the torque lost to higher revs, so it's usually better to rev it out anyway.
I think he said it was blow-by, in which case a good catch can system can help. Although if the blow by is from worn piston rings then maybe it is disconcerting :p
My car is doing the same thing from time to time during hard braking on the race track. Stock 280 ST. But not every 2nd corner like here :) Once per 2x25mins maybe.
I agree. Pops and bangs on these cars should be illegal! They just sound like the car is broken and they don't please anyone who has a brain more developed than a teenager's. This why people generally think the EA888's sounds like crap, when actually they sound pretty good for a 4 cylinder without the trash pops tunes and anything better than a ebay downpipe.
Best Cupra I’ve ever seen, good job man. Mine is 450ho stage 3 dsg albo 5f hatchback and your thing is as fast as dsg, gotta love this manual transmission
I don't understand people who get on a ride while holding their phone like an idiot when Misha already recorded the lap perfectly. Riders should just enjoy the ride. But no they need the awful shaky footage for whatever reason. Another annoying thing is that people tune their cars aggressively without improving the cooling performance. The oil temperature experienced thermal runaway within a few seconds of the lap. Yikes
It's just sad to see, any car could lap faster than that Seat because he has to slow down with those temps, baffles me why they don't build them properly instead
One of the fastest rides in recent times. But a little higher water temperature (at one point it reached a max of 130) and oil.. Excellent car, it lies well in curves..
This issue is very common on the 2.0 TSI, an oil catch can will fix it. This will prevent the oil going into the intake of the engine, which gets burned. That is the smoke on the video
@@Sumofallfears Nice one! Yeah, I have to admit that I still remember some of the early Audi S3 1.8T 4-cylinder turbos, which had about 220hp. It was mind-blowing when I drove one for the first time about 20 years ago. So, to see these small hatchback cars now with 400+ HP is mind-blowing for someone like me.🤩
@@optimusmaximus56 poh yeah I agree, that was awesome!! Back than it was a major achievement to get 220hp out of that 1.8T engine with the available technology of that time. The 200hp I achieved was easy, so much technology available. Software upgrade, few intake and exhaust system adjustments, bigger intercooler another turbo and minimal RON98. Done. But I wouldnt drive it on the Nürnburgring😂😂
I had no idea the ring got so HOT! In a weird way, it makes me happy because I started to detour from my dream of living there one day with how cold and cloudy and no sun it seemed like. I’m from CA and days without sun can be difficult. Thanks for the video Misha & Adrian, amazing shots in B-roll.
Good lap, really high temps, btw, you can add an oil cooler to manual and dsg, the oil cooler if you get Racingline for example just replaces your oil filter. So one end goes where your oil filter is and the other end is the little radiator which you just mount behind the front bumper, you're getting confused with the dsg gearbox cooler.
I can't quite understand why Misha actually turns down attack mode just by the entrance of the car park. Brakes are toasty, engine oil temps are high enough to be worried of staying on idle. Everything baking hot while you are stopped on traffic jam waiting to leave Nürburgring. As a mechanic, the lack of mechanical empathy shown on a lot of his videos kinda saddens me. Some vids appears to be a punishment instead of a lap you are applying on these people's cars. 140°c on oil is a lot on any application. The "cooldown" is made uphill, at 150km/h+ on heavy load. For context, revs are just part of the equation when comes to temps. The better way is to literally baby the car at partial or no load on the engine. He saw the blowby smoke on this video, and i'm pretty sure that have the knowledge that excess blowby would fuckup or even hydro lock the engine.
If the owner is trolling around here. few questions. Engine mods build summary? Turbo: Fuel: Front/rear rotor size: Brake pads: Car year model and weight (estimate): Car seems to have impressed Misha, great car.
The car is pretty amazing but was ruined by this vanity tunes with farts and shits. People simply do not realize how much heat these poops&farts tunes throw into the turbos, cats (who still has them), and so on. And as always amazing drive from Micha! Awesome stuff!
Micha, what is your opinion of people filming the race with their phone in their hand flopping around like that? I would probably find it somewhat disturbing knowing that a phone might come flying in to my face in a hi-g corner/bump.
WHAT A CAR AND WHAT A DRIVER shame about oil temp I've had 4 SEAT LEON two CUPRA two FR DEISAL HYBRID turbo I just love the way they can be thrown around think there the strongest and they love being ragged SO YOU SHOULD BE PROUD
Living in a hot area, and tuning one of my vehicles, I always leave a little AFR to the rich side to help cool the engine a bit. While leaning it out for max HP might use 11.5/1 AFR, I usually run 12.x/1 to save the engine a bit. The few HP you lose is worth it for me to keep the engine alive.
I seem to have some kind of glitch in my car. Previously I had a 12 AFR with the gas pushed all the way down at high rpm. Currently I have around 10.9-11, and sometimes even 10.5. I am so wondering if the lambda probe is to blame? I rule out injectors because the car has very low mileage(87000 kilometers). Although who knows... The pressure on the injection rail is ok. In addition, I noticed that the long-term correction is on the very large downside(-25%).
@@MaximusHexon Sounds like an air leak. Start the engine and warm up. Take brake cleaner and spray around at leak prone areas of the intake and vacuum tubing. If the RPM spikes up, you found a leak in the induction system.
Catch CAn needed... Problem in Gen 888 engienes. maybe install oil cooler too &make the "overrun" switchable on cruise controle or AC, it also will drop some degrees ;)
This is the ChavTastic Tune. Car doesn't need to hold to 21kms of track, only to pop and bang from 5 blocks away. It is fast, no hate about that, but the valves and turbo are not happy.
Do these guys not know Misha literally records and uploads to youtube from every angle? Is a shaky camera angle from their Samsung’s really that much better?
When will people get that it is dangerous to record with their phone out… especially at those speeds and bumps. Could of flew straight in your face. Amazing lap btw :) as always!
@@steph_on_yt You too, apparently. I would think Misha knows what he's doing and even a phone to the face wouldn't made him crash Should he stop putting go pros in the car cuz they could be flying at his face too ?
@@Maaaaaax-07 ZERO comparison. That car is in a controlled environment with a good driver and good set up. The one safety issue is a possible loose item in the cabin and at one point he did almost let it fly! Misha should ban filming there are cameras in mounts all in the car is that not enough footage for anyone?
Smoke is due to bad design of the factory pcv system. It drinks oil through pcv breather on hard brake right turns. Can be solved with a good catch can, or an updated pcv valve.
Der Misha kann alles fahren, links wie rechts! Schalter, Automatk, einfach alles! 👍🏼👍🏼💪🏼💪🏼 Unglaublich der Kerl! Aber sind 140 Grad ÖL nicht etwas zu hoch? 🫣
Oil catch can solves this common issue on ea888. When the engine is run hard the crankcase ventilation (pcv) dumps the oil in the intake again. And it gets burned in the cylinders. Hence the smoke.
Car needs Oil Cooler & Oil Catch Can Kit ASAP. Waterpump surely having an issue has this engine handles water temp way better then the engine found in the GTI.
The smoke is some what normal for this engine. This smoke issue happens to the golf r mk7 which should have similar or same engine and it can be fixed with a good catch can. This definitely needs an oil cooler.
That looked like it was a pretty dialled car and even sounded good, but the cooling is obviously wildly inadequate for the power level. Oil temps in the high 130s? That's not going to last long.
In reality these high powered UK cars rarely get used on track, even absolutely kicking it's head in you'll struggle to get over 120⁰C on a street, 140⁰C for a one off lap isn't too much of a concern but i agree it needs better oil and an intercooler/oil cooler
So many movies and still so many morons TRYING TO HOLD their phones while driving instead of enjoying and maybe learning something from an expert behind the wheel. Respect Misha for your patience
I wouldn't know what Seat or the Cupra was , if it wasn't for Gran Turismo . If I remember correctly they actually had a race series called the Cupra Cup . And because I live in Canada , that game is the only experience I have with the Nurburgring to .
I did notice it and I think the system was probably running with too little water because the temps got lower so fast. If you have system full of water, the total energy in the water prevents that quick cooling but if your system is not pressurized, boiling water into steam could explain rapid temperature drop to 100 °C.
Awesome. Do your passengers know you're filming it anyway, so they don't need to!? (Probably in much better quality / less-shaking than they're getting on their cellphone)
Just EA888 things, unfortunately they do this sometimes under hard braking as oil stays in the cylinder head due to excessive force. I think Racing Line make a great PCV catch can system that fixes this
Ahhhhhh yes..... the rice burner, unburnt fuel into the exhaust to add "cracks and pops". I dont know who ever would have thought that sounded good. It sounds 10x better without that rice burning crap.
This car needs oil cooler and something to avoid slushing oil into the turbo + scan for error codes to figure out why it switched to limp mode during the lap. I'd guess overheating but definitely check the ECU data.
I can see water temp at 130 and oil 135! Oil rads needed, the temp is not real anyway but isn correct warming up so much. Install polar fis and read on cdb the engine parameter (ps I have cupra 300)
@@manuelparra6934 better than ? Do you know about dependency between Oil T and viscosity ? First of all he need to decrease oil temperature. Its main problem, Motul its not solution. Cleaning heater exchanger or replace it to more effective external radiator.
