Right Finaly back on the road in a Polo, after some Insurance hefty cars

Picked the up on the 17th from a top bloke.

1991 polo GT

1.3 mpi

standard engine

met green

120834 miles

lowered on 40mm springs

heater mod so it actually blows warm air

The drive home was ok, apart from the cutting out at junctions and running on 3 cylinders till you put your foot down.

Plus the dam thing whines like a G-lader, I\'m putting this down to an overtightened alternator belt, sounds epic for about 5 minutes

Later that night i smelt fuel, thought nothing of it untill i watched the fuel guage droping continuously (sp?), got out of the car and looked underneath...nothing.

Then started the engine and looked under agian, The fuel pumps outlet hose was firing a jet of fuel onto the exhuast Good job I spotted it early or the car would be history. I had one tool in the car, a flathead...awsomely enough the clamp holding the hose on was just lose, so while getting soaked by rain and fuel it was sorted in 5 minutes.

So dispite the bad points I\'m F*cking loving driving a GT agian!

Plans are:

Good clean and polish.

Get the engine running right, possibly just needs retiming or a set of new leads and plugs.

Get the alternator belt slackened.

Sort the horn out as it switches the CD player on when used.

Bit of red detialing here and there

Get searching for wheels that actualy fit under bready arches

Sort the seats out, mainly the adjustment part of the seats

Edited 20 September, 201114 yr by mattpolo5491

I was waiting for this after your offer. Nice buy and colour, how good is the paint job? Bit of a bargain eh,.

the paint jobs Good, but not factory good, some bubbling underneath the paint ect. Little rusty underneath aswell (noticed that sorting the fuel leak )

Not bargin of the century but good one non the less

Oh and HA!

Edited 18 September, 201114 yr by mattpolo5491

Remember seeing this a few years back on eBay.

Look after her!

Love that!

The color is amazing.

cleaning as we speak

How many GT breadys are left on the road? Think its 75 to what Howmanyleft says.

Make that 76 now

Martin Do the GT wheel trims fit ok under the arches of your bready ok? Thinking of getting some

Think around 90 GT Breadvans are taxed. I have the GT Coupe 5.5J wheels and trims and they fit fine dude. The GT Breadys were 4.5J as standard and the GT Coupe and Hatchback trims are different too!

Really like the colour ! Be nice on a coupe :)

all it neeeds now is some black bbs ra's with custom green center caps ! ( like the ones am selling ) get them on it !

is this the std gt was up for sale on ebay light green metalic and low miles ????? very nice coulor choice mmmm

Lovely mate!

Lovely car there Matt, you bought it off Scott didn't you? He is a sound chap :-)

yeah bought it off scott, hes sound.... but the cars doing my head in

Exhuast fell off, not serprised as its the orginal one (rusted to fook), so i got some big powerflow backbox (£25) on temperarly due to the noise it made, its hidden well though.

Need to PM scott about the tax, did it online so the disc will be going to him

New pictures will be up as soon as i find my dam camera cable!

Nay - doubt they wouldnt go under the arches, got polo 6n steels on at the moment and there close to the arches. And i dont want to start buchering the car for wheels. They look lush though!, I'm intrested in your roll cage though

Edited 19 September, 201114 yr by mattpolo5491

new pictures and more to come, cars dirty in the pics though , and i cannot find my camera cable so they where taken of a blackberry

If you think about selling this matty, give us a PM.

I'm looking for a GT at the moment.

dont be a gay there only 5.5j same as gt steels ! u seen how low my car is and they dont rub, go onnnnnnnn , and theres a guy may be having it this weekend if he fails to pick up al give you a pm lad and we will sort summit out !

btw looks smart !

Nay, just dont have the money mate, If i did i would have them stright away!, I'm looking out for a cheap set of Ra's next month as the steels are getting a bit tatty.

couple more piccies.

How it sits with 2 passangers.

Max, il be keeping it for atleast 6months, selling no sooner as thats when i can afford a g40, when it happes you'll get a pm.

Or I may G40 this bready, as it'd be a hell of alot cheaper than having a genuine one, and after watching adam fly past me in his blue g40 convertion it got me thinking

Thanks for all the comments lads makes fixing it worthwhile.

Did some things yesterday.

New sparkplugs - fitted

Painted rear GT badge red

although I had no timing light I had to advance the timing a few degress, done the world of good - bit more power too.

Fitted the seats correctly and put in some locking nuts to stop the seats falling out when adjusting them (they where missing)

Retightened Fuel lines just to make sure.

Edited 21 September, 201114 yr by mattpolo5491

This is a cool bready, saw it for sale. Paint looks funky fresh.

How good is the heater now it's had the modification? I've read up on how to do it, but wondered how worthwhile it is?!

Joe

the heater mods awsome, but you sacrifice the ice cool air that usualy comes out of the blowers, even when its dialed to cold. It more like luke warm air that comes out. Nothing that winding down the windows doesnt sort though

Replaced the engine mount earth today, as the old one was pritty grubby.

And my tax disc finaly arrived, Had a copper pull up next to me yesterday at a shell garage, started staring at my windscreen and spotted no tax disc, must have checked the database and pottled on his way I bet he thought, this is to easy..... Oh.

Gave herpy a good clean today, and used some spray on wax, got some awsome reflextion, will get some pics of them up later.

Edited 22 September, 201114 yr by mattpolo5491

the heater mods awsome, but you sacrifice the ice cool air that usualy comes out of the blowers, even when its dialed to cold. It more like luke warm air that comes out. Nothing that winding down the windows doesnt sort though

Coool. Being that i'm usually cold come rain or shine (or snow or wind for that matter) i dont think it'll bother me too much! Looking forward to having a decent warm heater in a polo for the first time in 7 years lol.

Cheers

Joe

Had such a great time at pod in the bready

Picked up a standard rear section exhaust from lupoluke on here (legend ) that will be chucking on this week sometime.

managed 17.0s down the strip which is about bang on for a stock GT, and came 2nd in the dizzy rascals track, missing out on 1st by 0.3 seconds

Edited 17 October, 201114 yr by mattpolo5491