Just been catching up - very well done on the award, Polo's an under-rated car, love mine and looking forward to my next event, when are you running the car next? What gearbox are you running?

Over the next few months the car is going to have a bit of a revamp with a fresh paint job.

the base colour will be yellow. come up with these colour schemes so far. what do you think? any other Ideas?

also i have manages to source spare parts from austria to build my straight cut gearbox.

Just been catching up - very well done on the award, Polo's an under-rated car, love mine and looking forward to my next event, when are you running the car next? What gearbox are you running?

cheers next event is hopefully xmas stages pembrey.

the gearbox at the mo is a 6n 1.0 1996 code DCD with a gripper diff. works vey well.

but straight cut challenge box will be in for the next event.

the second design but maybe with black side skirts

Glad the gripper diff works, been thinking of getting one for my car! Would like something sequential as well. What ratios does the straight cut kit offer?

Ratios of the straight cut box are:

1st 2.818

2nd 2.077

3rd 1.688

4th 1.412

5th 1.211

FD 4.0:1

there are other choices of FD a 3.8:1 or a 4.2:1

ye i thought the front end was like a nissan sunny of old. but it is a polo 6n from a sign writting program.

or this retro colour scheme?

same rev style wheels i use.

Oh, the retro scheme is getting my vote!

ye I'm leaning towards that option.

the proflex suspension is going to be rebuilt by proflex next week. will be nice to have some 3 way suspension under the car.

Just had the results for the 2011 Llanelli and District Stage Rally Championship.

The result.

1st Hywel Greves (me) Volkswagen Polo

2nd Marcus Mulins Volkswagen Polo

3rd Chris Jones Ford Escort

So I'm the 2011 Champion. good 1st year back in a Polo.

Great project mate, Loved reading though, Love this photo,

awesome stuff, congrats on the championship!

My straight cut gear parts turned up on saturday so set about building the straight cut gearbox.

New input shaft going together.

both shafts and freshly build gemini LSD all together ready to go in the casing

oooooh, tasty - wanting something like that for mine next!

oooooh, tasty - wanting something like that for mine next!

Well if your interested I now have a contact where I can get a complete new gearkit for the Polo 085 gearbox made by Hoer who made the challenge gear kits.

I can supply these at £3600 a kit. (does not include the LSD.)

Hmmm, a little out of my price range if I'm totally honest - I'm road rallying on a tight budget and that's a lot of moolah to splash out on (I want some cams first and that's going to cost the thick end of £2k by the time I've had a new ECU in there and a remap to make the most of it)

i managed in road rallying with a gripper diff and a polo 1.0 1996 gearbox code dcd. nice ratios with a 4.26:1 final drive. worked well fro me. thats the way i would go if i was you.

Christmas stages ran on wednesday just gone had a great day and it was a good chance to test the new gearbox. the car went really well. I'm over the moon with the difference the straight cut gear kit has made.

no awards this time as on stage two i hit a pothole hard and bent a rim which ended up in a deflated tyre so we had to stop on stage to change it which lost us 4 minutes.

here is a video from car 27 who caught and passed us on stage 5 a 2.0 group 4 escort. it has good coverage of me in the polo not bad for a 1400cc against a 2000cc. you can also see him checking his rear view mirror for a long time after the pass as I'm sticking with him.

some pictures

about to pass a micra on the outside

flat tyre rear wheel.

me want a gooooo looking good even with a flat !

Couldnt make it down :( first time in 4/5 years I've missed the event.

Shame about the pot hole. The Tarmac is terrible