hi polo coupe 1300, i bought an elbow from someone who was breaking a mk3 golf, but when i went to fit it, the 3 studs that go through the elbow aren't long enough!?!

how did u get you are one to fit?

cheers sam23

Hi mate, i used some various bolts and nuts lying in my dads shed to fit it, thats the only way u can really do it iirc.

lol, i dont suppose u know what width and length the bolts are????

would be much apprectiated, its soo annoying!!!! lol

cheers

Erm tbh i cant remember mate,

but i think they were 10mm's and the way i did it the first time on my old white CL was to put a few 10mm nuts on the studs in the SPi unit and the last one was on like half a thread but tight on the others so id didnt move, then using to 10mm nuts, bolt the elbow to the remianing thread of the nut.... was a bodge but made it fit!

hi polo coupe 1300, i bought an elbow from someone who was breaking a mk3 golf, but when i went to fit it, the 3 studs that go through the elbow aren't long enough!?!

how did u get you are one to fit?

cheers sam23

Hi mate, i used some various bolts and nuts lying in my dads shed to fit it, thats the only way u can really do it iirc.

lol, i dont suppose u know what width and length the bolts are????

would be much apprectiated, its soo annoying!!!! lol

cheers

could always use the bolts that held it in place on the golf

hi polo coupe 1300, i bought an elbow from someone who was breaking a mk3 golf, but when i went to fit it, the 3 studs that go through the elbow aren't long enough!?!

how did u get you are one to fit?

cheers sam23

Hi mate, i used some various bolts and nuts lying in my dads shed to fit it, thats the only way u can really do it iirc.

lol, i dont suppose u know what width and length the bolts are????

would be much apprectiated, its soo annoying!!!! lol

cheers

could always use the bolts that held it in place on the golf

i could of bu the golf is no more :(

Erm tbh i cant remember mate,

but i think they were 10mm's and the way i did it the first time on my old white CL was to put a few 10mm nuts on the studs in the SPi unit and the last one was on like half a thread but tight on the others so id didnt move, then using to 10mm nuts, bolt the elbow to the remianing thread of the nut.... was a bodge but made it fit!

how can that work lol, confusing lol

the studs arent long enough, so if i go to like B&Q or somewhere like that and buy 10mm wide bolts and 10mm nuts, its should work?!?

how do i get the old studs out?

how come you have a mrk 3 Polo when you have a cool Mini Cooper?

Erm tbh i cant remember mate,

but i think they were 10mm's and the way i did it the first time on my old white CL was to put a few 10mm nuts on the studs in the SPi unit and the last one was on like half a thread but tight on the others so id didnt move, then using to 10mm nuts, bolt the elbow to the remianing thread of the nut.... was a bodge but made it fit!

how can that work lol, confusing lol

the studs arent long enough, so if i go to like B&Q or somewhere like that and buy 10mm wide bolts and 10mm nuts, its should work?!?

how do i get the old studs out?

You dont need to take the old ones out. its confusing but yeah. I'm probly not the best person to be giving advice on this as mines bodge fit.. i dunno woh other people did it.

Try postin a help/how to in the tech forum as i really cant remember how i did it and dont wanna cause damage/expense by tellin u the wrong thing

and Ste-9n2:

The mini in the pic isnt my personal one but i do have jus a borin red/white 58' cooper petrol, but i like havin an old car to mess about with and a new car for posing lol

Cool sounds good top work fella

New update...

After a bit of work here n there this is how she looks now:

Fitted a GT arch kit, made a sort of fake floor, chequered the roof and also fitted a 1.6 ABU injector.. goes a bit better now.

Hope you like.

love it! i think you have the vynal door cards instead of fabric... if so take a spray can to them and do a few thin even coats! they will luk awsome!

Thanks.

nah, the doorcards are fabric.. i have some black leatherette to retrim them with but they're awkward to do without creases but it was my intentionto do the front doorcards.

was also gonna get some black carpet to retrim the fake floor in but that my have to wait til payday.

Decided to mess around with my doorcards again today.

Found some more chequered material i used for my old Mk3 golf so did a bit of trimming. I also have some black leatherette material which i started to do the top half in but i couldnt get it to sit right without creasing.

Its only a staple-gun job so its a bit ghetto but i like it.

And a quick picture of both my cars:

(the MINI and the polo)

Well its been a while since i last posted up some pics or updates so here goes:

It went from havin chequed roof to having glow in the dark wheels and rusty bonnet:

Then, next came the roof rack off of A$h off here:

I then converted it to a 3F after the gearbox was playing up so i bought a complete conversion off ebay

Next came some minilite wheels... and a few more little bits n pieces.

so now she looks like this:

And finally a few pics with G40Jon from here at our local dub meet:

as for future plans... not sure yet, maybe some lower profiles and a bit more lowerage, some seats and then start work on tuning the 3F lump up.

Peace!

I can't see the pics as i'm at work mate but it was looking good on Sunday!

Cheers mate...

You should defo buy your brothers mk2 and put your lump in it from the GT!!! would be awesome.

Cheers mate...

You should defo buy your brothers mk2 and put your lump in it from the GT!!! would be awesome.

You're not the only one that's said that! MK3 all the way for me I think. If I could find a mk3 square that's as mint as my brothers i'll be a jumping happy bean!

hmm true... well when you ready to start lookin, give me a shout and ill help

leccy windows? i want i want! what did you get them off?

To be honest i dont actually know what they're off.

I got them off some guy off here so dont know that much about them.

sorry for the lack of helpful reply

Dude! High 5 to the 8ball gearknob They rock don't they haha?

pics of the meet didnt come out too well! i'll try and bring the dslr along next time and we can have another go!

yeah, they're a bit blurry... but to be fair, was pretty damn cold at that time

the second one downs not tooooooo bad!

Shit.. Tom just relised who you are lol, just added you on facebook aswell, you used to ride wethepeople from sutton yeah?

I used to come up with jason a few times on a trials bike, was young then tho lol.

Ahh funny stuff haha.