Stage 2+ & LDN zoo

The Cupra gets a power boost and we visit London Zoo in a celbration of 3 months together

The weekend started early, and usually only for one reason… cars… I don’t get up for much else, unless you’re as cryptic as us and understand where im going with this you will know that I do… But anyway that’s another story… Basically what im saying is that Saturday mornings are made to be in bed and only important things will get me out of it, i.e. cars or Fran stuff of course…

We set off on our road trip to Gillingham, which was about 60 miles away, good job I got petrol the night before… My car hadn’t really felt like it was running right so I was going to fit a bigger fuel pump and get a new remap to see if it would improve things.

The trip down was nice and easy, sun was shining and we had our shades on we made it over the Dartford Bridge and headed to the A2 with no problems, our side was fine but the other direction was jammed for about 6 Miles! Eeeek.

We made it to our destination at about 45 mins after my expected arrival so it was straight down to business; I was swapping a fuel pump from one car to the next, my standard one for his modified one with larger pump internals.

After struggling loads to get my pump off we finally managed it and set upon fitting it to his, it was done in no time and the car started up with no issues… until it was time to start mine! It eventually went on ok but when the pump was primed it decided to squirt fuel everywhere… GREAT, just my luck…

So, off the pump came again, Fran getting VERY hungry and having read her Cosmo mag about 3 times through im sure she was getting board…I was going as quick as I can.. A quick call to some people and I was told there may be a washer needed… And by pure luck, deep in the engine bay there it was staring me in the face, a small copper washer… Could this be the cure of my problem?

The pump went back on and we tightened it up but it still pissed out with fuel. Not as much as before but it was definitely leaking… I didn’t want to waste any more of the day so we called time on it and decided to drive to AMD with it semi working.

Taking it slow, and eventually hitting the A2 traffic I just didn’t feel safe letting my car sit in stationary traffic, we had to get to the garage to fix the pump leak… So clever Fran gets out the iPhone (because TOM TOM is stupid and wants me to sit in a 6 mile tailback) and manages to find a nice country route around the A2 and back onto the M25. The drive was nice, through peaceful villages and greenery, just a shame we couldn’t stop and admire it, or stop and eat! All we had was a few dry biscuits lol