Hey, I've had this car about 2 weeks and been doing some bits to it.

Rup had it advertised with a cream leather interior and steffan wheels but he sold those seperately and i got it with a drivers seat only and on g60 steels.

this is rups for sale advert and how it used to look

I'll be keeping it for another few weeks but will be up for sale early next month after its had its MOT.

I've decided after much careful consideration on something bigger and more practical, so my polo has to go.

I've put blood sweat and tears into this car and I'm literally going to cry when it gets sold.

Its a 1998 R reg 16v 6N polo in Pearl Black Magic.

Just gone over 100.000 miles but has been well looked after with NO expence spared.

Its had two resprays since I've owned it, with over 2k's worth of bodywork.

Front bumper smoothed

Bonnet smoothed, wiper jets deleted

arches rolled and flaired 30mm all round.

Boot emblam smoothed

Boot handle smoothed and solanoid kit fitted.

Sills smoothed

Airel deleted.

FK powerlook headlights (will include standard headlights for MOT purposes) with (unfitted as of yet) 6K HID kit.

Debadged grill.

Dewipered and blanked rear window.

Storm single wiper

The interior is retrimmed in cream leather, which includes:

Seats

Doorcards

Gear gaitor

Vinyl covered parcel shelf.

8 ball gearstick

Wolfsberg heater dials

Momo 280mm stearing wheel.

Wheels are Steffan BCW's

Mirror polished

8x14" (et15)up front

9x14" (et10)out back

all wrapped in 195/45.14 falken tyres. Rear have a tiny bit of camber wear to inside edge but all still got good tread otherwise.

Casino dice dustcaps.

Suspension:

Wietec GT Hicon coilovers.

My first mod, had these on over two years... Adjusted by hand yesterday to MOT height.

Zinc plated and kept clean and greased

Camber shims on rear.

4.5 deg camber rear

3 deg camber front

Audio consists of:

Mp3 / Ipod head unit

2x 12" JBL subs in boot.

Alpine door speakers and tweaters (currently not fitted)

This is how it looks now.....

On the longgg drive home

Once i finally got home

One with my mates smoothed 8v (learner ftw)

One with my mk3 coupe

Sprayed up a spare grille i had and put that on as i hate debadged grilles

Then here comes the bad bits...

The boot popper didnt work when i got it so since then iv ordered a new one and had to re-wire it all in. Now works sweet though!

It has a severe lack of power, plugged it into the vagcom and it came back that the injector to cylinder 1 was faulty so I'm on the look out for a new injector rail and injectors if anyone has some? cant find any for sale though.

then........going down the M56 towards chester on saturday this happened!

The passenger side rear wheel bearing had sheered off and caused the drum brake to split away from the stub axle causing the wheel to come flying off at 70mph!!!

The wheel hit another car and then stopped about a mile down the road on the hard shoulder.

So after waiting an hour for the recovery truck and sunbathing on the hard shoulder i got it taken back to my mates house and he set about the task of doing a rear disk brake conversion.

Old drum in pieces

Disks on

Calipers on

New brake lines

We used mk2 golf gti stub axles, mk2 golf gti disks and pads, mk3 golf gti calipers and carriers, and 6n2 gti hand brake cables.

Next on my lift of things to do is.....

1. get the injectors sorted.

2. get the passenger side rear panel resprayed.

3. Seat ibiza cupra interior.

4. more lows.

5. wheeeeels

Thats all for now but this is seeming like I'm gonna have to do alot of work on it so ill keep updating I'm sure.

dan

Edited 9 May, 201115 yr by robbodred

Fuckin ell, maybe the previous owner should've spent less on paintjobs and more on keeping it mechanically sweet

Sounds good though

tezmc has some injectors for sale!!!!

i would offer mine but gotta keep hold of them for now just in case

get some clear side repeaters to replace those gash orange ones he put in =S

love rear discs on these, shame you haven't got shiny wheels like mine

Mate i shit myself. still see the stains now ahaha.

once its running right ill be happy. Just the lack of power is pissing me off, might aswell be running a 1.0l

Hows yours going man? aint spoke in timeeeee.

tezmc has some injectors for sale!!!!

i would offer mine but gotta keep hold of them for now just in case

get some clear side repeaters to replace those gash orange ones he put in =S

love rear discs on these, shame you haven't got shiny wheels like mine

Hes sold em man :(

Yeh i spyed some clear repeaters on a saloon at the scrappy the other day and I'm off to get them tomorrow.

mate the disks are sweet stopping power is immense now and it likes corners much more :)

yeah man wheels will be coming in time dont you worry haha. just need to save up again now after spending all my money on a rear disk conversion and new engine parts!

amazing how average it looks without the wheels and interior. Wouldnt bat an eyelid if that drove past me.

Incredible that the wheel came off. Would this be because it was ran with camber and oversized wheels?

Cant be sure, but driving the car round with an injector fault may cause more severe problems?

Looks like a very sweet base to start with and cant wait to see what you do with it!

there is much difference in the 1.0 - 1.4 6n's, only 5bhp i think

I'm pretty sure a 1.0l 6n isnt 95bhp ahaha

woops, missed it was a valver, and you mean 100bhp? 1-1

What wheels do you have in mind?

amazing how average it looks without the wheels and interior. Wouldnt bat an eyelid if that drove past me.

Incredible that the wheel came off. Would this be because it was ran with camber and oversized wheels?

Cant be sure, but driving the car round with an injector fault may cause more severe problems?

Looks like a very sweet base to start with and cant wait to see what you do with it!

I know mate, happened all of a sudden aswell

Yeah it doesnt look up to much at the moment but its all there. got a few things in the pipeline. I think the ride height doesnt help either.

not sure on driving with the dodgy injector? i only really take it on a 12 mile round trip a day atm so it cant be harming it too much.

there is much difference in the 1.0 - 1.4 6n's, only 5bhp i think

I'm pretty sure a 1.0l 6n isnt 95bhp ahaha

woops, missed it was a valver, and you mean 100bhp? 1-1

What wheels do you have in mind?

You stated that there was a 5bhp difference, so i knocked the 5bhp off the 100bhp of a valver to get 95bhp.

2-1!

Ahaha :p

i still have my red weller mattigs and I'm a powdercoater.............

we shall see on that one.

but if not then I'm looking at something a wee bit more expensive

1.0 8v - 55bhp

1.4 8v - 65 bhp

1.4 16v - 100bhp

1.6 8v - 75bhp

Fucking hell! you kept that quiet about the wheel comin off, when was that!!

The underside of the car alright?

And how much did it cost for the disk conversion?

Fucking hell! you kept that quiet about the wheel comin off, when was that!!

The underside of the car alright?

And how much did it cost for the disk conversion?

Saturday man, fucking shit myself, yeah the underside of the car is fine as it was grinding on what was left of the rear drum.

Disk conversion, cost enough.......

ill text you man.

Okey dokey doo!

Just bought these with no money......hello overdraft! nearly maxed the fucker out now

Wish i had as much money as you.

The not so funny thing though is that i was in the car with you the weekend before and we were doing a wee bit over a ton lol

Dont get it?

Dont get it?

stating on a public forum you were breaking the speed limit could fear badly for the new owner if someone like the bobbys were reading this.

Powdercoat your old mk3 wheels Silver and get them fitted, would look so much nicer.

My Mates Got Them Polished BCW's and there the tits like :) nice car btw

Powdercoat your old mk3 wheels Silver and get them fitted, would look so much nicer.

Yea man that was the plan but white once I can afford new tyres for them

My Mates Got Them Polished BCW's and there the tits like :) nice car btw

Yea man they're sick, and thankyou!

YOU RAISED IT

*facepalm*

Nah rup raised it for the mot. Gonna lower it again once I've powdercoated the g60s

Nah rup raised it for the mot. Gonna lower it again once I've powdercoated the g60s

*removes last post *

sounds like a plan !! woop !