Around two years two months ago now I became the owner of a mk1 polo GLS. Some of you will know the car, others may not. I bought the car with the intention of modifying it in my own simple way. However I came to realise the car was way too, lets say concours to alter.

So I did what all polo lovers would do and a year later I purchased this beauty. A 1981 Polo N, in original un-molestered condition, begging to be modded!

I stuck with the standard car for just over a year, the 895cc engine in that time suffered the full abuse of my right foot and struggled to keep up with modern day traffic! There had to be a solution.....??

Over the Christmas period just gone me and a group of friends set about the transformation from polo N to well polo N phase 2.

It all started on a Friday evening with myself, dom604 and B-shaw making our way down to my house in Lboro where all the magic would happen.

Within the first night we managed to accomplish alot more than I thought we ever would. Here are some pictures to show the story so far!

The car ready to be ripped apart

Starting to dismantle that 30 year old 895 beast

Already coming out! mk1s are way too simple!!

Out

You can see here that we had some cleaning to do, that is all the water from when the waterpump gave up on me afew months back.

Mk1 with one Higgo power!

And now the replacement heart :)

So that concluded thursday nights work, and we decided to retire to the house for a GT5 session!! roll on the next morning!!

So along came friday, the day would bring more beer, laughts, engines and Tramp(Olly) turned up to lend a hand along with MoustacheG40(Brett)

So the days plan was to drop the AFH in ready to be plumbed and wired in on the saturday!

It is an extremely tight fit in the mk1 bay, so much so that I am going to have to get you all a picture at the weekend to show the bottom pully has a 2mm gap all the way round it, between itself and the chassis!! its shockingly tight!!

Engine in, to a certain extent!!

Then some pikey temporary bodging! like drilling fuel pipes out!!

So now its about time we stopped and retired to more PS3 take-aways and beer until the sunday!

To be honest I was shocked at how well we had managed to do everything with the limited tools and the fact we were all rather drunk the whole time!!

So alot of you are probably wondering where are my bike carbs and inlet manifold?? well heres the reason why there are no carbs to be seen:

McLovin (Guy)

We went a picked Guy up on the sunday morning for him to come back and help us understant how the feck you splice up a mk4 loom and some how make it work with my mk1 loom. To be honest without Guy this would never have happened so I am really greatful for all his help, true legend!!

He made a mess of the garage!!

Made a mess of the bay!!

but managed to do some crazy shit that managed to some how get the car to start!! it was a miracle!!

Right I will leave it at that for now, I still have hundreds more photos and alot more stages of the build to cover but I should be revising right now and I'm getting bored!! haha

I would like to leave you with afew things we found out at the weekend?!!!

Warning!!!!!! this mk1 has power!!

Olly and Dom must be gay, there are together in every picture!!

If toby ever says hes going indoors to warm up his hands, dont let him!!! and that I'm a happy chappy even though its still not complete! I've got about two days of work left to do on the car which I shall complete over the weekend and I shall update this thread with the final outcome.

Hope this threa can show how much of a laught it was for us doing my conversion and I hope to update you all with my plans and progression during the future.

sick! glad to see there still people helping each other out!!!

PORN.

Hopefully Max when its all neat and tidy and finished at the weekend I can update you with some pictures of it looking rather sexy

Saw these on Facebook, only tools I can pick out are hammers and drills

looks awesome mate !

you need a 'powered by pikeytech' sticker for it now dan

Nice work! It does look like a laugh! CP is not dead.

Fantastic work Guys

I'm currently performing the same conversion :-)

you need a 'powered by pikeytech' sticker for it now dan

On It!! haha. I will try and get it finished by sunday so I can pop over mate :)

Doesnt guy look fetching with that hat on?

Be interested in coming to have a look at this mate, Have never seen a mk1 in the flesh let alone a blue 16v lol

Any other mods then?

Youve not see my other one then Max? You will have to come see both, the difference is remarkable!!

Mods a plenty on the way my man!!

Brilliant!

When would be a good time to have a look? I'm in sheffield so cant justy pop round lol

Was an epic weekend tbf, glad its nearly sorted

Looked like real clean fun....

I will let you know maximus, I should be going out on the maiden voyage on sunday, cant wait :)

Rags, I'm off work Sunday

Sat after 2 also.

guy does look very striking in that hat i must say ! looking good mate !

why do i live up north?

my house in Lboro

Lovely work by all involved!

Are you based in Loughborough then?

Go to uni there mate

Cool, I'm local. Will have to pop over and see this beast at some point :-)

Thats fooking lovely! Nice work fellas

gonna be cool as feck when finnished