rite then thought i may aswell start a wip thread on here.

sold my passat 20vt estate(costing me too much to run)to buy this for £600 so i could save some cash

as i brought it

can just see my pride and joy in the garage in this one

has 6 months tax and mot till july 2012

got toad alarm and immob

dvd player and screen(altho not wired up)

stainless exhaust system

and its a 1.6 8v

has the 16v bumpers

tints all round

smoothed boot

debadged grill

angeleyes(not for long tho)

coilovers

lenso rs5 alloys

drilled and grovved brakes

black roof

first thing i did was get a bra(£20 quid off ebay ftw)

then as the boot was smoothed but then a numberplate stuck back on(dont see the point in smoothing a boot if your putting a plate back there lol)so i decided to relocate the numberplate on the bottom of the bumper,re routed the wires for the number plate light and cut hole in the bumper etc

then i removed the plate off the boot to find this

the last owner had just filed the handle hole with filler and it had all cracked and come away so i dug it all out and got the maintance bloke at work to weld me in a plate the following day then smoothed over with fibreglass and filler

also the holes where the numberplate lights were to start with

then once i sprayed it

only rattle canned if for now as I'm doing my own mark on the car then it will have a respray ready for next year

parcel shelf was grey and the car has trimmed interior(roof lining in black,leather trimed dash and cupra leather seats)so i got a black rattle can and sprayed the parcel shef(seen it done on wheeler dealers lol

new tax disk holder

new valve caps

new plates as the current ones were manky,also swapped my gash angel eyes with a mate for his standard ones(just need some clear front indicators)

and some stickers on the back window

future plans are smooth the front bumper as much as possible

mk5 rear bumper

different wheels or do something mad with the current ones

and chequer the black roof with green squares(same colour as the car)

all comments welcome good nor bad

Edited 8 September, 201115 yr by martinwalker83

and a quick pic from trax the weekend

looks pretty nice at the mo matey!! Just out of interest what's so good about the clio in the garage to make it you are pride and joy??

i saw that at trax .. looks tidy

The clio is my road legal track car,fully stripped,turbo'd 1.8 16v engine and its also getting NOS for xmas lol

I'm a clio man at heart but needed a reliable daily ans this fit the bill lol,plus my missrs wants a polo once she has passed so she can have it then,altho I'm slowly falling in love with the polo

Cheers,think i saw yours at trax too not too sure tho

The clio is my road legal track car,fully stripped,turbo'd 1.8 16v engine and its also getting NOS for xmas lol

I'm a clio man at heart but needed a reliable daily ans this fit the bill lol,plus my missrs wants a polo once she has passed so she can have it then,altho I'm slowly falling in love with the polo

Cheers,think i saw yours at trax too not too sure tho

ahh sweet bet it goes like shit off a shovel!

Lol i wont know till 2nd of october as thats its first outing since the rebuild.just gota gind a trailer as i cant afford to get it on the road this side of xmas :(

quick pic of the motor at the streetrace.co.uk charity carwash today

altho not very clean all money raised is going to breast cancer,but i gota clean it all again and polish and wax it ready for midlands united tomorrow night lol

Edited 10 September, 201115 yr by martinwalker83

rite then just a small update,as i hated the wheels on the car i decided i wanted somethign oldskool and small so i went for these

but then one fell off a week later while i was driving

the wheel fell into the arch so disk landed on the inside of the wheel so it saved the bumper and wing etc only damage was the wheel bolts had ripped the thread out the hub and all came out :/

while the car was off the road for a week untill i got a new hub i decided a colour change was in ordr soooooo

and the car now sits this low underneeth lol

dont do too well onver the sleeping police stations down my road lol(massive speed humps lol)

comments welcome good or bad

car looks really kool man

dont like the wheels 2 much tho but thats just me

lol no one likes the wheels so your not the only one

new rear lights fitted

dammm i defo need to update this now

right then kind of done a lot since i last updated this,thought about selling the car but decided not to in the end

brought some clear front indicators so i could bin the crappy smoked ones

got these porsche front seats for a bargain of £70

stripped all the interior out so i could do the carpet black(here is a pic half done)

and so i could run the cables to the boot under the carpet properly for the amps etc in the boot(i have no pics of this tho)

refitted carpet and then porsche seats

clear indicators fitted along with hid kit and front bumper removed so i could start smoothing it

side vents in the front bumper started to be plastic welded up

numberplate recess heated up from the back and pushed forward so it wasnt recesses and then the vents and what left of the recess was fibreglassed

i also decided that i wanted my bonnet wrapped in something a little different so i spoke to a mate who does vinyl wrapping and come up with this

so bonnet was removed and dropped off at his unit and while it was away i set about fitting the screen in the dash properly(previous owner had removed the centre vents and bodged a 7" screen in there and a crappy dvd player in the glovebox that didnt work)

and here is the result with the new(well second hand £20 off my mate ripspeed dvd player and screen)relocated under the ashtray and the screen in the dash fitted properly then covered with black fleesy material to match the roof lining

next up is how far i am with the bumper so far :/

and the wheels i decided to go for it the end

but i dont like to be boring and decided the wheels needed a bit of colour and a re polish of the rims(second hand cost me £70 for the 4 wheels)

and i came up with this

got my bonnet back

and as far as i know i am quite possibly the first person to have that vinyl on a car,his the only person to have brought it off the supplier in the country I'm led to belive.

and trial fitted the wheels on the car today(minus rubber as not payday till 21st lol)going for 165/50/15s so ill have some stretch

just need some longer bolts so i can run my spacers on the front as the rim fouls the coilovers :(

all comments welcome good or bad,i dont modify to please everyone else i do it cus i like it lol,but all comments welcome all the same :)

Not a fan of the smoothed boot man. Never have been with 6n's

Not a fan of the smoothed boot man. Never have been with 6n's

+1. The centre console looks tacky with the way its been trimmed too.

Other than that, its looking pretty good.

Yeah centre console is the first time I've ever had a go at covering anything lol

Looks well nice any more plans

Yeah get tires on,finish smoothing front bumper,get new exhaust built an fitted,respray and eventually get the rood done the same as rhe bonnet

been sanding some more of my front bumper today

and a skim of filler after

just a couple of pics after sanding down the first layer of filler

starting to take shape now and dont look that far off now,have put another skim of filler on it now so ill sand that tomorrow and then see how it looks

dont you sometimes wish you had never started these things lol

well bumpers back on now :)

also now have bottom grill and numberplate back on but was too dark to get a pic then :(

tires getting fitted tomorrow to the wheels and pic the longer bolts up after work.

got the wheels fitted today,from my point of view I'm well happy with it.

had quite a bit of greif for it on the polo forum down to the wheels,bonnet and smooth boot but owell lol.i love it.

some pics of my mate fitting the tires last nyt.