went out and baught all required parts and fluids for the engine today XD so once its in i can be started right away awsomeeeeeee

also, started stripng out my polo to! hopefully the scrap car will be going away tomorrow as i had a guy at my door today offering me money for it...

so my car will be in the garden tomorrow and i will start striping it oot!!!

so far the aount of money spent on the conversion is a sub total of £674.55

still to get:

driver side door loom

2x door cards

lecky window bar

pass looking system

heater dial saround

cubby hole under the cd player

cheers,

Andy

you're gonna enjoy this>_=

you're gonna enjoy this>_=

haha i totally agree already

the doner car got taken away today! and I've started on my wee olop! its got the whole front end off and the engines pretty much ready to come out already also XD might have it in a running for tomorrow... time will tell

cheers,

Andy

NOOOOOOO! i wanted the boot off the doner PISS I've only seen this update because you mentioned in my thread

well when you come to fit the mk5 dash can you do me and others a HUUUUGE favour and take HUNDREDS of piccies please :p i know it will be harder if we dont fit the engine and we will have to mate the mk5 dash loom and std mk4 polo loom but damn it would be soooo cool :-)

besta' luck with it dude, your stickied now so i aint loosin this thread

oooooooooooooooh sorry to say tho dude i took the tailgate off for my polo lol think it looks better XD

but yeah if i can take loads of pics i will do but my camera likes to die lol so i will seewhat i can do!

heres hoping the engine will be in tmorrow and possibley running muhaha

cheers again man

Andy

cheers dude, and you do know what you have to build up the bottom corners below th elights and swop to mk5 lights without the trimming, I'm just making sure you know before its too late and its fitted

cheers dude, and you do know what you have to build up the bottom corners below th elights and swop to mk5 lights without the trimming, I'm just making sure you know before its too late and its fitted

that confused me dearly? lol what do u mean buddy? front lights or rear lights? =S ah I'm soooooo confused lol

right to fit a mk5 bootlid, you have to fit STD mk5 rear lights, do not trim them around the edges to fit a mk4 !!!where you usually trim at the bottom so its fits with the shell you then have to build that part of the shell up flush with the lights. weld sections in e.t.c

its quite involved but its definatly worth it, hope that makes more sense

ahhh i get u know man! thought u ment somethng about the front end haha my bad!

wont be doing it any time soon tho as I'm gettin the boot handle smoothed and leaving the biiig v-dub badge XD

gonna look gooooood! trying to be abit differnt with the things i do...

hopefully it works =]

Andy

ahhh i get u know man! thought u ment somethng about the front end haha my bad!

wont be doing it any time soon tho as I'm gettin the boot handle smoothed and leaving the biiig v-dub badge XD

gonna look gooooood! trying to be abit differnt with the things i do...

hopefully it works =]

Andy

Thats what i like to hear mate, best way for it! I'm tryin too, runnin out of ideas but I'm sure we can share ideas get something on the go

damn i seeem to of taken over this page, sorry dude

nahhhh man its good to see some people are interested in this tbh its all good duuuuuude XD

but yeah i agree with u there! first off keep te 8v bumpers

sleeper = win

gti and turbo awsomnesssss

nahhhh man its good to see some people are interested in this tbh its all good duuuuuude XD

but yeah i agree with u there! first off keep te 8v bumpers

sleeper = win

gti and turbo awsomnesssss

uww I've got one up on you there... I've got 8v foooogggggs ner ner

i was thinking about it as the gti loom has wires for fogs XD

hmmm thought!!!

lol

now try to find mk4 8v fogs, i wish you look young squire :lol:

8v out

16v in

not hooked up just yet tho

tell me, what do us lot covert the most black thorn,

pictures, many many pictures, est essst esst est ess est

get em up

i know i know =[ my camea's a gay bear!

i will nip upto the esso tomorrow and get me some decent lasting batterys and will get pics posted up for u all

cheers,

Andy

does the gti sit on the 8v engine mounts? Anything you found being a tight squeeze? If you had to do it again would you change the way you done it etc?

well u have to use the gti mount but it sits perfectly on the actul car mount itself! looks sex!

haha after the front end was on... offt manifold is like 3-4inchs fom the rad :L awsome!!

well firstly, i would find out all the wiring i dont need and get it all takin out as theres so many damn cables there I'm not using! like all the abs ones and so forth! 2ndly i would of had an engine lift from day one lol 3rdly i'd check the god damn manifol fitted the 8v straight through lol instead it swallows it haha ah well but in all the way i done it.... I'm fair chuffed with myself for never doing an engine conversion before and being a righ noob at it learn by doing.

oh oh omg pedal boxis a feckin night mare! i cant get it onto the steering colum? duno if thats what its called but I'm sure u all know what i mean? its so fidgity and a pain in the mother fookin arse!

apart from that... bring on the fun

cheers,

Andy

p.s 8v gear box btw stupidly fast now me thinks...

ok my day started like this:

looks awsomeeee now =] how ever i got everything hooked up... tryed to start it... nothing! found out the starter motor dint hve any leads going to it lol, sorted that! then tryed again... it was wanting to start... but the fuel pump isnt pumping fuel, think its a fuse... bloody hope so =[ so anyways, just finisdhed off the engine bay for now! need to get a differnt intake hose!

moved on inside the car:

carpet down, interior loom in, heater matrix and tubes and some other bits and bobs, startedto put the dash in but didnt get very far for now... but heres how it looks so far...

hopefully get the car started tomorrow and dash in!

cheers,

Andy

UUUUUUUUWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!

how did the dash swoppage go :-)

i would do it as ist only a streight swop afterall but you used GTi engine loom too i HATE wiring :(

ah it aint swaed over yet as its no where near a straight swapage lol its all weird n shit! annoying to say the least... having a another bash at it again tomorrow! aw and dude totally the gti loom is hella annoying sooo much wires its crazyyyyyy

hopefully i will get the car started tomorrow to... hopefully its jsut fuses...

i wantto here it running!!!!

shit... there goes my plans of a dash swop whats so wrong about it then :p seen as mr didnt take any during pics :p

i get to carryed away to take pics lol but basiclly i cant say fully jsut yet what makes it so hard but i will post that up tomorrow!

but atleast i did take some pics

also, if u do a gti swap and this is to anyone... getting the pedal box onto the steering wheel bit is abit of a coont lol

the dash is jsut sitting up there anyways not attached to anything lmao!

i get to carryed away to take pics lol but basiclly i cant say fully jsut yet what makes it so hard but i will post that up tomorrow!

but atleast i did take some pics

also, if u do a gti swap and this is to anyone... getting the pedal box onto the steering wheel bit is abit of a coont lol

the dash is jsut sitting up there anyways not attached to anything lmao!

i woudl love to do the swop but.. i have a diesel it means new fuel lines, new tank, new filtering system.... the engine conversion is out of the question for me really, a whoel lot cheaper buyin a mk5 GTI and a new gearbox every month :p

and ye atleast you took some :-D p.s. check you msn added list thing