Model: Polo g40

Engine: 1341 with accralite pistons, 1341 psd cam, gt inlet, fmic, 65mm pulleys, full blend charger, larger inlet collar and ported outlet, custom piping, modified philj 4 branch, custom 2.5" exhaust, 250cc injectors, map to suit, green cotton induction kit, brv mod, triple plated chrome rocker cover, nimbus grey powdercoating, uprated g60 and poly engine mounts, helix ceramic/organic clutch

Suspension: 80mm philj fronts, 50mm spax adjustable rears

Brakes: Standard 239mm with audi 80 callipers and carriers with grooved discs and mintex pads, 22mm master cylinder

Wheels and Tyres: Winter steels atm

Exterior Styling: Colour coding, clear indicators, side indicators deleted, late spec rears, pressed plates, mk2 mirrors

Interior Styling: Astralli 280mm wheel, stripped out interior, luke harnesses

ICE and Security: Mp3 player and and earphones

Plans: atv will be rebuilt with a quaife lsd, stage 3 subframe, transfer everything onto a mint shell when everything is complete

The car when i brought it:

Edited 2 March, 201016 yr by shaun_89

didnt know this was yours, last time i saw this it was for sale in scotland I'm sure...

Cant remember where i got it from but it has been in Scotland at some point, its in the history.

Some more recent pics:

Started off just getting stuff off the engine ready to remove

Trail fitted my new wheels before stripping them down ready for a colour change

Got the engine out and drove it down to philj for an internal inspection, heres what resulted

Got the first wheel primered up, then the others followed suit

Spent ages cleaning crap from around the engine bay, ruined all my cloths! Nasty stuff that was stuck everywere! The chassis legs are actually blue again

Got the new discs in the post, thanks to polo3 who did the group buy

Also got my steering wheel out to clean the dust off

Philj refurbed and painted my cylinder head for me

Nimbus grey gearbox

1341 block

fmic

new pulley set

Thats all for now

Edited 29 June, 200917 yr by shaun_89

I've gotta see this when it's done!

Makes a change to see it not dumped on the floor (the engine that is!)

wheres the slot for the woodruf in the 3rd pulley on the toothies? lol

Got some more pics from phil, really pleased with the quality of work and the powdercoating

looking good man!! can't wait to see this, its the same colour as my gt :)

Looking good. That aint powder coating if thats what you asked for. You can see the overspray from the solvent based paint with the gearbox sat on the cardboard. Its even all over the rubber end plate gasket on the gearbox too!

The gearbox has just been painted...

Yeah the gerabox has been painted as phil has said, its only a temporary gearbox anyway, but the atv will be done in the same colour.

Thanks for the positive feedback

I'm in the process of re-furbing the atiwee's to go on the car.

Never done a set before and I've got the first wheel done.

I did the 1st step of sanding them down completely

Then i did several layers of filler primer to smooth away any rough surfaces

Then i flatted down the filler primer layer to 1500 grit with micromesh

Next i did several layers of grey primer

Then i flatted it down again with 1500 grit micromesh

I then did several layers of supposed 'nimbus grey' (halfords colour match ) I actually like the colour its came out as, so I'm calling it nimbus blue.

Then i did the centre - front and rear, in royal blue mettalic to match the car (The masking took forver!)

Then the whole front was flatted down with 1500 grit micromesh then 3200 grit micromesh

Then i did around 8 layers of halfords general purpose laquer for a harder finish.

The rest of the wheel is finished in matt black because it saved time.

This is what it came out like, I'm pretty pleased with it considering it was done with rattle cans

B-e-a-utiful mate.

Thanks :-) I'm slowly getting all the wheels done. Hope to have the car ready for edition

in that case bring on edition cus i would love to have a mooch round this car. great stuff

in that case bring on edition cus i would love to have a mooch round this car. great stuff

Yeh, by all means come and have a look, wont be fully completed but then when is a project car

I've never yet got to a point where a car has not been classed as a project, will you have the wheels on for edition?

I've never yet got to a point where a car has not been classed as a project, will you have the wheels on for edition?

Yeah should do, they wont all be the colour they are in the above pic though. I couldnt get a match on the colour of the dish again so i went into the paint shop and picked a different colour for each dish :-)

what are those wheels called? , love em

engine lookign sweet mate, any pics of the charger?

what are those wheels called? , love em

engine lookign sweet mate, any pics of the charger?

They are borbet atiwee's 13x7. Ill get some more pics 2morrow when i go down to work on the car at phil's

nice, do they have the borbet pricetag? lol

I got mine cheap from a friend, bt they are usually around 400 a set with tyres

Got some more pics, cars coming together now. Still cant get over that 3 rocker bolts for the g40 are just over £50!

Found out the car is using girling 54 calipers (mk2 16v), not sure on what carriers tho as its still got 239 discs

Edited 30 August, 200916 yr by shaun_89

They could be early VWII Golf GTI item but I'm not sure, they are vented so don't worry about stopping power, they were probably fitted so that the Awites clear the brakes without the use of spacers.

They could be early VWII Golf GTI item but I'm not sure, they are vented so don't worry about stopping power, they were probably fitted so that the Awites clear the brakes without the use of spacers.

I bought the atiwee's the car came on standard ra's. I still need 7mm spacers to clear the brakes and have had to file the end of the calipers aswell. I need pads for them, thats why i need to find out what they are.